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Mary William Ethelbert Appleton Burke (August 7, 1884 – May 14, 1970), better known as Billie Burke, was an American actress who was famous on Broadway and radio, and in silent and sound films. She is best known to modern audiences as Glinda the Good Witch of the North in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer movie musical The Wizard of Oz (1939).
Billie Burke was a stage and screen actress who starred in Broadway plays and Hollywood movies. She was married to Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. and played Glinda in The Wizard of Oz (1939), for which she was nominated for an Oscar.
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- Washington, District of Columbia, USA
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- Los Angeles, California, USA
Billie Burke was a stage and film actress who starred in Broadway hits and Hollywood classics. She was married to Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. and played Glinda in The Wizard of Oz (1939).
- August 7, 1884
- May 14, 1970
- She was born on August 7, 1884. That makes her 54 years old at the time of making The Wizard of Oz, although her character looks ageless thanks to age-defying make-up tricks.
- She was a native of Washington, D.C. but received her schooling in London.
- Her given name was Mary but she was nicknamed Billie, after her father William “Billy” Burke, a famous circus clown from whom she learned the art of pantomime.
- Originally, she aspired to be a writer. Even at the time of The Wizard of Oz, she wanted to try her hand at newspaper journalism because she believed it to be the most romantic of all professions.
William Albert Burke (born November 25, 1966) is an American actor and songwriter. Burke is known for his role as Charlie Swan in Twilight and its sequels. In 2011, he played Cesaire in Red Riding Hood. In 2012, he was cast as one of the lead characters, Miles Matheson, in the NBC science-fiction series Revolution.
Dec 18, 2020 · Silent movie star Billie Burke once said of Hollywood, “To survive there, you need the ambition of a Latin-American revolutionary, the ego of a grand opera tenor and the physical stamina of a cow pony.”
Mary William Ethelbert Appleton "Billie" Burke (August 7, 1884 – May 14, 1970) was an American actress. She is primarily known to modern audiences as Glinda the Good Witch of the North in the musical film The Wizard of Oz.
