Performing in cinema, theater, cabaret, television, and music, vedettes excelled in many modalities, including (but not limited to) revue, music hall, cabaret, vaudeville, burlesque, mambo, belly dancing, and even circus. Adorned with over-the-top feathers and crystals that didn’t leave much to the imagination, vedettes were the entertainment of the time, essentially defined by how their talents transcended the stage and admired by audiences across the continent for their versatility. Helped by the birth of cinema in the 1940s and 1950s, vedettes earned even more attention and fame through the big screen as their performances started reaching places where there were no clubs or cabaret venues. Up to the mid-1980s, vedettes were the girls everyone aspired to be, figures that embodied local cultures and invented their own spaces in entertainment.
