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Lillian Lorraine
Silent Film Actress
Female
Born
Jan 1, 1892
Hometown
United States
Died
Apr 17, 1955
Death Place
New York City
Lillian Lorraine was an American stage and screen actress of the 1910s and 1920s, best known for her beauty and for being perhaps the most famous Ziegfeld Girl in the Broadway revues Ziegfeld Follies during the 1910s.
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CHILDHOOD
1892
Birth
Born on January 1, 1892.
TEENAGE
1906
14 Years Old
Lorraine began her career on stage in 1906.
1907
15 Years Old
An entertainer of limited talent but charismatic stage presence and beauty, in 1907 she was fifteen years old and a minor performer in a Shubert production, The Tourists, when she was discovered by Florenz Ziegfeld.
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1909
17 Years Old
In 1909, Ziegfeld pulled Lorraine out of the chorus line in that year’s production of “Miss Innocence,” spotlighting her as a solo performer who became celebrated for introducing the song, "By the Light of the Silvery Moon".
1911
19 Years Old
Author Lee Davis in his book, Scandals and Follies, writes that: “By 1911, Ziegfeld was insanely in love with Lillian Lorraine and would remain so, to one degree or another, for the rest of his life, despite her erratic, irresponsible, often senseless behavior, her multiple marriages to other men, his own two marriages and his need for all his adult life to sleep with the best of the beauties he hired.”
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TWENTIES
Lorraine starred in many annual productions of The Ziegfeld Follies as well as the 1912 Broadway musical Over The River.
FORTIES
1941
49 Years Old
Lorraine disappeared from public view in 1941, sometimes going by her mother's maiden name, Mary Ann Brennan.
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LATE ADULTHOOD
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