July 15th is "Jackie Washington Day" in her hometown of "Kinloch, Missouri".
Jackie's husbands: Milkman Summers (number one), "no comment" (number two), "gay" (number three), and "annulled" (number four).
Whoopi Goldberg filmed all of her scenes in costume for Girl, Interrupted (1999) while in her trailer on set for that same movie.
Jenifer Lewis sang backup for Bette Midler as a Harlette, which led to her film debut (also singing backup for Midler in character) in Beaches (1988). This film was only their second on-screen collaboration outside of Midler's HBO specials.
Some of Jackie's hits include: "Yield (Before You Hit Me With Your Love)"; "Eye on the Motherland ...or Cleveland"; "Wednesday Night Fever"; "Take Your Jheri Curl and Go!"; "Love Goddess (from the movie "Stacked Sister")"; "Coco's Theme (from the movie "Whipped Creme: Coco's Revenge")"; and "Look at Me".