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Billie Burke was an American stage and screen actress. She is best remembered in the role of Glinda, the Good Witch of the North, from the 1939 movie "The Wizard of Oz".
Background
Billie Burke was born on August 7, 1886 and her born name was Mary William Ethelbert Appleton Burke in Washington, D. C. , the daughter of William E. ("Billy") Burke, a circus entertainer, and Blanche Hedkinson. Soon after Billie's birth her father left the Barnum and Bailey Circus to form his own small traveling circus. After that venture failed, William Burke did vaudeville in New York. When Billie was eight, her father moved the family to London, where he launched a new troupe--Billy Burke's Barnum and Great London Circus Songsters.
Education
In London, Billie Burke attended Mrs. Bailie's school. Despite her father's profession, Billie was not a stagestruck child. But Blanche Burke, who had no theatrical background herself, decided that her daughter should become an actress. To further her plan, she arranged for Billie to have singing, elocution, and ballet lessons. Billie's father objected to his wife's campaign, but she persisted. Billie herself was too young and retiring to have theatrical ambitions.
Career
When Billie Burke was fourteen, she debuted as a vaudeville singer at Berkhampstead. At Sheffield she appeared briefly in a pantomime, The Sleeping Beauty and the Yellow Dwarf, and then sang at the London Pavilion for £10 a week.
In 1902 the composer Leslie Stuart offered her a small part in his new show, The School Girl. Billie's musical number was the hit of the show, which ran for eleven months in London and established the young actress as one of the great beauties of the day.
Later she had supporting roles in several productions, such as Duchess of Danzic (1903) and Blue Moon (1905), before the London showman Sir Charles Hawtrey gave her the female lead in Mr. George (1907), a hit comedy.
In 1907 the impresario Charles Frohman brought Burke to New York to be John Drew's leading lady in My Wife. Next, Frohman, who was to guide Burke's stage career for many years, starred her in Love Watches (1908). She subsequently appeared in Mrs. Dot (1910), Suzanne (1910), A Marriage of Convenience (1918), Caesar's Wife (1919), Intimate Strangers (1921), Rose Briar (1922), Annie Dear (1924), The Marquise (1927), The Happy Husband (1928), Truth Game (1930), and The Vinegar Tree (1931), in which she portrayed the first of those scatterbrained ladies for which she became noted in her later films.
Burke cast herself in the role of the long-suffering but steadfast wife. She granted interviews about her husband's peccadilloes and even wrote articles advising wives on how to hold on to straying husbands. "Don't react in hurt anger and dismay, " she cautioned. "Act as if you don't know what's going on. . Your gambit is to be so good to come home to. "
Shortly after marrying Ziegfeld, Burke signed a movie contract with Triangle for $10, 000 per week, reputedly the highest salary yet paid to a film star. Her first picture, Peggy (1915), was made in Hollywood. She declined a five-year deal with the producer Thomas Ince because she wanted to be with her husband in New York. Eventually she signed with Famous Players-Lasky, which had a New York studio.
She was busy in silent films from 1917 until 1921, when she turned her attention exclusively to the stage. The Ziegfelds lost heavily in the 1929 stock market crash, and with the onset of the Great Depression the producer's outdated shows no longer enjoyed their former success. Despite these setbacks, Ziegfeld did not curb his extravagance.
Shortly before her husband's death, Burke returned to Hollywood, hoping that a renewed film career would enable her to pay Ziegfeld's debts. She credited Will Rogers and Sam Goldwyn, old family friends, with getting her reestablished in movies, which by then had become "talkies. "
Her first important sound film was A Bill of Divorcement (1932), with John Barrymore and Katharine Hepburn. Burke made more than sixty feature films between 1933 and 1960, including Dinner at Eight (1933), Topper (1937) and its sequels (1938, 1941), The Wizard of Oz (1939), The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942), Father of the Bride (1950), Father's Little Dividend (1951), and Sergeant Rutledge (1960).
In addition to her film work, the actress did occasional stage and television dramas. She starred on "The Billie Burke Show" on radio in 1944-1946 and hosted "At Home with Billie Burke" on television in Los Angeles during the early 1950's. Burke thought her best role was Glinda, the Good Witch of the North, in The Wizard of Oz.
She was also known for the daffy, fluttery, but always well-intentioned characters she played in so many films. She was typecast in these roles, but the results were inspired.
Burke spent her later years in the Brentwood section of Los Angeles, where she lived next door to her daughter and grandchildren. Her home was filled with theatrical mementos, and she retained connections with the Ziegfeld Club, a group of former Follies performers.
She made her final movie appearance at age 75, in the film "Sergeant Rutledge" (1960), after which she retired again, and spent the remainder of her life in Los Angeles, California. She died there of natural causes in May 1970, at the age of 85. She was interred at Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla, Westchester County, New York.
Quotations:
As she later put it, "I was a shy, wistful sort of moppet who never in this world would have got ahead if it had not been for my mother. "
She noted in her memoirs that at the pinnacle of her stage career, "I was earning more than $50, 000 a season, a fine fortune in those days, had an estate at Hastings-on-the-Hudson, a Rolls-Royce, a nice Packard for my mummy, and went to Europe every season for my clothes. "
Membership
She was a member of the Ziegfeld Club.
Personality
Quotes from others about the person
The film scholar David Shipman has observed that "Billie Burke's bird-witted lady was one of the perfect things in an imperfect world. "
Interests
Always an animal lover, she kept many pets and was an active antivivisectionist.
Connections
At a costume party on New Year's Eve 1913, Burke met Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr. , the great Broadway showman. They were married on April 11, 1914; they had one child.
The Ziegfelds lived lavishly at their Westchester County, New York, estate, complete with a collection of exotic animals that might have stocked a small zoo. But their domestic life was often troubled, for Ziegfeld, well known for his womanizing, did not change his habits after marrying Burke. His affairs with showgirls made headlines and generated much public speculation about the Ziegfeld-Burke marriage. When he died in July 1932, Burke was left with a debt-ridden estate.