Profile
Billie Burke
Stage and Film Actress
Female
Born
Aug 7, 1884
Hometown
Washington, D.C.
Died
May 14, 1970
Death Place
U.S.
Other Names
Burke, Mary Willi...
Mary William Ethelbert Appleton "Billie" Burke 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. She was nominated for an Academy Award for her performance as… Read More
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CHILDHOOD
1884
Birth
Born on August 7, 1884.
TEENAGE
1903
18 Years Old
In 1903, she began acting on stage, making her debut in London in The School Girl.
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TWENTIES
1910
25 Years Old
Burke went on to play leads on Broadway in Mrs. Dot, Suzanne, The Runaway, The "Mind-the-Paint" Girl, and The Land of Promise from 1910 to 1913, along with a supporting role in the revival of Sir Arthur Wing Pinero's The Amazons.
1914
29 Years Old
There she caught the eye of producer Florenz Ziegfeld, marrying him in 1914.
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FORTIES
1929
44 Years Old
But when the family's savings were wiped out in the Crash of 1929, she had no choice but to return to the screen.
1932
47 Years Old
In 1932, Burke made her Hollywood comeback, starring as Margaret Fairfield in A Bill of Divorcement, directed by George Cukor. (Burke played Katharine Hepburn's mother in the film, which was Hepburn's debut).
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1933
48 Years Old
In 1933, Burke was cast as Mrs. Millicent Jordan, a scatterbrained high-society woman hosting a dinner party in the comedy Dinner at Eight, directed by George Cukor, co-starring with Lionel Barrymore, Marie Dressler, John Barrymore, Jean Harlow and Wallace Beery.
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FIFTIES
1937
52 Years Old
In 1937 she appeared in the first of the Topper films, about a man haunted by two socialite ghosts (played by Cary Grant and Constance Bennett), in which she played the tremulous and daffy Clara Topper.
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1938
53 Years Old
In 1938 she was chosen to play Glinda, "the Good Witch of the North", in the Oscar-winning seminal 1939 musical film The Wizard of Oz, directed by Victor Fleming, with Judy Garland.
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1943
58 Years Old
On CBS Radio, The Billie Burke Show was heard on Saturday mornings from April 3, 1943 until September 21, 1946.
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LATE ADULTHOOD
1951
66 Years Old
On television, Burke starred in her own talk show, At Home With Billie Burke, which ran on The Dumont Network from June 1951 through the spring of 1952.
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1960
75 Years Old
Her last screen appearance was in Sergeant Rutledge, a Western directed by John Ford in 1960.
1970
86 Years Old
Billie Burke died in Los Angeles of natural causes, aged 85, in 1970 and was interred at Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla, Westchester County, New York, survived by her daughter, Patricia, and four grandchildren.
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