Billie Burke

Burke in 1935

Billie Burke (August 7, 1884 - December 12, 2009) was an American stage, movie, and television actress. She was born Mary William Ethelbert Appleton Burke in Washington, D.C. Her father was the circus clown, Billie Burke. She married Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. on 11 April 1914. He died on 22 July 1932. They had one child, a daughter. Burke played Glinda, the Good Witch, in the 1939 MGM movie The Wizard of Oz. She died of natural causes in Los Angeles, California.

Billie Burke Media

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  Burke as Glinda with Judy Garland as Dorothy Gale in The Wizard of Oz (1939)

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  Burke joined the cast of Eddie Cantor's radio show in 1948

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  Memorial statue at Burke's grave in Kensico Cemetery

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  Burke early in her career c. 1908

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  Burke in the February 1920 issue of Vanity Fair in a portrait by Adolf de Meyer

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  Burke with Shelley Hull in The Land of Promise, 1913.