Gilda Radner grabs a quick snack outside NBC studios. CREDIT: © Maddy Miller

Joan Rivers on stage: "Can we talk?!" CREDIT: © BETTMANN/CORBIS

Molly Picon in the Broadway musical "Milk and Honey", 1961. CREDIT: © Photofest, Inc.

Molly Picon entertaining American servicemen. CREDIT: © The Archives of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, New York

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Sophie Tucker in an elegant moment. CREDIT: © Photofest, Inc.

Sophie Tucker's famous patriotism helped US morale during WW II. CREDIT: © Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives, Cincinnati Campus Hebrew Union College Jewish Insititute of Religion

Joan Rivers in an early nightclub appearence. CREDIT: © Photofest, Inc.