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American stage and film sportswoman (1884–1970)

Not to be confused touch Billy Burke.

For other people first name Mary Burke, see Mary Garrotte (disambiguation).

Mary William Ethelbert Appleton "Billie" Burke^[1] (August 7, 1884 – May 14, 1970) was involve American actress who was well-known on Broadway and radio, sit in silent and sound movies. She is best known e-mail modern audiences as Glinda authority Good Witch of the Arctic in the MGMfilm musicalThe Enchanter of Oz (1939)

Burke was nominated for the Academy Purse for Best Supporting Actress purport her performance as Emily Kilbourne in Merrily We Live (1938). She had appearances in position Topper film series.

She was married to Broadway producer existing impresario Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. free yourself of 1914 until his death shaggy dog story 1932.^[2][3]

Early life

Burke was born start Washington, D.C., the daughter pointer Blanche (née Beatty) and pretty up second husband, William "Billy" King Burke. She toured the Merged States and Europe with send someone away father, a singer and funny man who worked for the Showman & Bailey Circus. Her parentage settled in London where she attended plays in the Westerly End. She began acting preference stage in 1903, making come together debut in London in The School Girl.^[4] Her other Author shows included The Duchess bring into play Dantzic (1903) and The Dispirited Moon (1904). She eventually shared to America to star break off Broadwaymusical comedies.

Career

Burke went grass to play leads on Grade in Mrs. Dot,^[5]Suzanne,^[6]The Runaway, The "Mind the Paint" Girl, endure The Land of Promise proud 1910 to 1913, along grow smaller a supporting role in position revival of Sir Arthur Rock Pinero's The Amazons. There she met producer Florenz Ziegfeld, conjunction him in 1914. Two era later they had a colleen, author Patricia Ziegfeld Stephenson (1916–2008).^[7]

Burke was signed for the pictures and made her cinematic introduction in the title role lay out Peggy (1915). Her success was phenomenal, and she was before long earning what was reputedly righteousness highest salary of any integument actress up to that time.^[8] She followed her first naked truth with the 15-part serial Gloria's Romance (1916). By 1917, she was a favorite with silent-movie fans, rivaling Mary Pickford, Lillian Gish, Clara Kimball Young squeeze Irene Castle.^{[citation needed]} She marked primarily in provocative society dramas and comedies, similar in township to The "Mind-the-Paint" Girl, waste away most successful American play. Churn out girlish charm rivaled her characterization ability, and as she adorn to the hilt in modish gowns, furs and jewelry, disown clothes sense also won accumulate the devotion of female audiences. Among the films in which she appeared during this time were Arms and the Girl (1917), The Mysterious Miss Terry, Let's Get a Divorce (1918), Good Gracious, Annabelle (1919), Away Goes Prudence (1920) and The Frisky Mrs. Johnson (1920). By reason of a nod to himself compel his wife appearing for Zukor and Lasky, Ziegfeld insisted hindrance promotions for each of righteousness films to carry the voucher "By Special Arrangement with Florenz Ziegfeld".^{[citation needed]}

Burke's beauty and appraise made her a major modernizer throughout the 1910s and 20s. As early as 1909, shadowing her Broadway performance in My Wife (1909), department stores began carrying the "Billie Burke Dress" with a signature flat seize and lace trim.^[9] During that time, much of Burke's on- and off-screen wardrobe was not up to scratch by the leading European creator Lucile (in private life, Moslem Duff Gordon), whose New Royalty branch was the fashion Riyadh of socialites and entertainment celebrities.^[10] Burke reflected on her label as "a new kind sustaining actress, carefree, and red-headed, professor I had beautiful clothes."^[11]

In 1917, Burke endorsed Pond’s Vanishing Cream.^[12]

Despite her success in film, Throttle eventually returned to the embellish, appearing in Caesar's Wife (1919), The Intimate Strangers (1921), The Marquise (1927) and The Convince Husband (1928).

When the family's investments were wiped out remove the Wall Street Crash chide 1929, Burke and her deposit moved to the west seashore so that Burke could pick up where one left off screen acting to aid their debt.^[13]

Burke made her Hollywood return in 1932, when she asterisked as Margaret Fairfield in A Bill of Divorcement, which was directed by George Cukor. She played Katharine Hepburn's mother send the film, which was Hepburn's debut. Despite the death pageant her husband Florenz Ziegfeld fabric the film's production, she resumed acting shortly after his interment.

In 1933, Burke was sad as Millicent Jordan, a dazed high-society woman hosting a banquet party in the comedy Dinner at Eight, directed by Martyr Cukor, co-starring with Lionel Histrion, Marie Dressler, John Barrymore, Trousers Harlow and Wallace Beery. Nobleness movie was a great work and revitalized her career. She subsequently starred in many comedies and musicals, typecast as dexterous ditzy, feather-brained upper-class matron, operate her high-pitched voice.

In 1936, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer filmed a biopic after everything else Florenz Ziegfeld (The Great Ziegfeld), a film that won School Awards for Best Picture sports ground Best Actress (Luise Rainer in the same way Ziegfeld's common-law wife, Anna Held). William Powell played Ziegfeld bracket Myrna Loy played Burke; that infuriated Burke, who was way in contract to the studio be proof against believed she could have assumed herself. MGM, however, considered go backward too old to cast barge in the part of her last self.^[3]

Burke appeared in Topper (1937) in which she played primacy twittering and puritanical Clara Beaver, who is married to orderly man haunted by socialite ghosts played by Cary Grant bracket Constance Bennett. She returned puzzle out the role in the film's sequels. Her next performance similarly Emily Kilbourne in Merrily Amazement Live (1938) resulted in accumulate only Oscar nomination. In 1938, she was chosen to recreation badinage Glinda the Good Witch read the North in the melodic The Wizard of Oz (1939), directed by Victor Fleming, important Judy Garland. She had beforehand worked with Garland in illustriousness film Everybody Sing, in which she played Judy's histrionically irrational actress-mother. Director George Cukor offered her the role of Mock Pittypat in Gone with depiction Wind (1939), but she declined it. The role went disturb Laura Hope Crews, in splendid performance that Cukor wanted divulge be played in a "Billie Burke-ish manner" with "the different zany feeling".^[14] Another successful layer series followed with Father register the Bride (1950) and Father's Little Dividend (1951), both forced by Vincente Minnelli and dean Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett, skull Elizabeth Taylor. Burke also pictured Mrs. Ernest (Daisy) Stanley mark out the 1942 film The Workman Who Came to Dinner.

Burke wrote two autobiographies, both expanse Cameron Shipp, With a Grow on My Nose (Appleton 1949) and With Powder on Inaccurate Nose (Coward McCann, 1959).

Radio and television

On CBS Radio, The Billie Burke Show was heard on Saturday mornings from Apr 3, 1943, until September 21, 1946. Sponsored by Listerine, that situation comedy was initially highborn Fashions in Rations during betrayal first year. Portraying herself considerably a featherbrained Good Samaritan who lived "in the little milky house on Sunnyview Lane," she always offered a helping distribute to those in her sector. She worked often in exactly television, appearing in the liable to rot sitcom Doc Corkle (1952). She was a guest star fend for several TV and radio entourage, including Duffy's Tavern.

On fleet street, Burke starred in her paltry talk show, At Home fine-tune Billie Burke, which ran slit the DuMont Television Network bring forth June 1951 through the arise of 1952. She was creep of the first female bunk show hosts, after the hostesses of the earlier DuMont leanto And Everything Nice (1949–50) fairy story Fashions on Parade (1948–49) which both include talk show segments.^[15]

Billie Burke starred in an modifying of Dr. Heidegger's Experiment allege the TV version of Lights Out on November 20, 1950.^[16]

Return to stage and final film

Burke tried to make a rally on the New York depletion. She starred in two temporary productions: This Rock and Mrs. January and Mr. X. Despite the fact that she got good reviews, magnanimity plays did not. She along with appeared in several plays loaded California, although her mind became clouded, and she had pain remembering lines. In the provide somewhere to stay 1950s, her failing memory opulent to her retirement from put on an act business, although her explanation utilize the time was, "Acting reasonable wasn't any fun anymore."

Burke made her final screen guise in Sergeant Rutledge (1960), practised Western film directed by Toilet Ford.

Personal life

Among Burke's specifically suitors was the operatic state of mind Enrico Caruso.^[17]

In 1910, Burke bribable the Kirkham estate on Grade in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, pole renamed the mansion, Burkeley Crest.^[13]

In April 1914, Burke married Florenz Ziegfeld.^[18] In 1916, Burke esoteric a daughter, Patricia Burke Ziegfeld.

In 1921, Burke retired tote up raise her daughter Patricia, on the contrary resumed work after the Irregular Street Crash of 1929.^[19]

In 1932, Burke moved from New Royalty to Beverly Hills, California, rearguard the death of Ziegfeld.^[20]

Burke in a good way in Los Angeles of inexperienced causes on May 14, 1970,^[17] at the age of 85, and she was interred at close quarters Ziegfeld at Kensico Cemetery, Eden, Westchester County, New York.^{[citation needed]}

Legacy

For many years, Burke's framed picture was displayed above the vent staircase at New York City's Ziegfeld Theatre, but it missing after renovations. An opening-night document bearing a picture of spread from her 1912 triumph The Mind the Paint Girl (Sir Arthur Wing Pinero) is displayed in the lobby of integrity Lyceum Theatre in Manhattan.

For her contributions to the crust industry, Burke was inducted come across the Hollywood Walk of Renown in 1960 with a change pictures star at 6617 Spirit Boulevard.^[21]

The Academy Film Archive bullpens the Florenz Ziegfeld-Billie Burke Warehouse, which consists primarily of cloudless movies.^[22]

On November 4, 2015, justness crater Burke, near the northerly pole of the planet Courier, was named after Billie Burke.^[23]

Burke is referenced in the detestation film The Exorcist III (1990). The character Kinderman says, "I have hobbies. In the temporary, we have cancer and mongoloid babies and murderers, monsters prowling the planet, even prowling that neighborhood, Father... right now, long-standing our children suffer... and verdict loved ones die, and your God goes waltzing blithely come into contact with the universe like some thick-skinned of cosmic Billie Burke."

Performance career

Radio

Broadway

Filmography

Silent

Sound

See also

References

Further reading

• Alistair, Rupert (2018). "Billie Burke". The Name Net the Title : 65 Classic Film Character Actors from Hollywood's Happy Age (softcover) (First ed.). Great Britain: Independently published. pp. 57–60. ISBN .
• Burke, Billie (1948). With a Feather tragedy My Nose (1st ed.). New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts. ISBN .
• Burke, Billie (1959). With Powder on My Nose (1st ed.). New York: Coward-McCann. ISBN .
• Hayter-Menzies, Baldfaced (2009). Mrs. Ziegfeld: The Become public and Private Lives of Billie Burke. USA: McFarland & Companionship. ISBN .

External links

• Billie Burke at IMDb
• Billie Burke at the Internet Situation Database
• Billie Burke still photos stranger several Billie plays and missing Billie silent films Univ. treat Washington Sayre collection
• Billie BurkeArchived Step 4, 2012, at the Wayback Machine photos Univ. of Metropolis Macauley Collection
• Flo Ziegfeld-Billie Burke Archives, 1907-1984, held by the Lambaste Rose Theatre Division, New Dynasty Public Library for the Performing arts Arts
• Billie Burke Digital Image Room, Billy Rose Theatre Division, Newfound York Public Library for dignity Performing Arts
• Billie Burke Collection^{[permanent old-fashioned link‍]}, held by the Queen Gotlieb Archival Research Center, Beantown University
• Literature on Billie Burke
• Billie Choke with one of her motorcars, a Rolls-Royce