Billie Burke
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Mary William Ethelbert Appleton "Billie" Burke was an American character actress who was famous on Broadway and radio, and in silent and sound films. She is perhaps best known to modern audiences as G
Burke in 1933
Burke in the Broadway production of Arthur Wing Pinero's The "Mind the Paint" Girl (1912)
Burke with daughter Patricia (1917)
Burke as Glinda with Judy Garland as Dorothy Gale in The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Patricia Ziegfeld Stephenson
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Patricia Burke Ziegfeld Stephenson was an American author. She was known for her 1963 autobiography The Ziegfelds' Girl: Confessions of an Abnormally Happy Childhood. Born in New York City, she spent
Billie Burke
…Sir Arthur Wing Pinero's The Amazons. There she met producer Florenz Ziegfeld Jr., marrying him in 1914. Two years later they had a daughter, author Patricia Ziegfeld Stephenson (1916–2008). Burke was signed for the movies and made her cinematic debut in the title role of Peggy (1915). Her success was phenomenal, and she was…
Patricia Ziegfeld (center) with her parents in 1930
Portrait photograph of Patricia Ziegfeld, 1919