WIZARD OF OZ & ZIEGFELD BILLIE BURKE AMAZING 1905 MAMMOTH 3-D COLOR POSTCARD

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WIZARD OF OZ & ZIEGFELD BILLIE BURKE AMAZING 1905 MAMMOTH 3-D COLOR POSTCARD:
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She co-starred with Judy Garland, Bert Lahr, Ray Bolger, Jack Haley, and Frank Morgan in the classic 1939 Wizard of Oz and in private life was Mrs. Florenz Ziegfeld.A magnificent 3-D hand tinseled color mammoth postcard circa 1905 of Billie Burke. Dimensions an impressive ten and a half by five and a half inches. Light wear and light silvering otherwise good. An extraordinary large theatrical image. See biography below.

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From Wikipedia:

Mary William Ethelbert Appleton \"Billie\" Burke(August 7, 1884 – May 14, 1970)[1]was an American actress.[2]She is primarily known to modern audiences asGlinda the Good Witchof the North in the musical filmThe Wizard of Oz. She was nominated for anAcademy Awardfor her performance as Emily Kilbourne inMerrily We Live. Burke was also the wife ofFlorenz Ziegfeld, Jr., ofZiegfeld Folliesfame, from 1914 until his death.

Known asBillie Burke, she toured the United States and Europe with her father, William (Billy) Burke, a singer and clown, who worked for theBarnum & Bailey Circus. Her family ultimately settled in London where she attended plays in theWest End. In 1903 she began acting on stage, making her debut in London inThe School Girl.[3]Other London shows includedThe Duchess of Dantzic(1903) andThe Blue Moon(1904). She eventually returned to America to star inBroadwaymusical comedies.

Career

Burke went on to play leads onBroadwayinMrs. Dot,[4]Suzanne,[5]The Runaway,The \"Mind-the-Paint\" Girl, andThe Land of Promisefrom 1910 to 1913, along with a supporting role in the revival of SirArthur Wing Pinero\'sThe Amazons. There she caught the eye of producerFlorenz Ziegfeld, marrying him in 1914. In 1916, they had one daughter,Patricia Ziegfeld Stephenson(1916–2008).[6]Burke was quickly signed for the movies, making her film debut in the title role ofPeggy(1916). She continued to appear on the stage, and sometimes she starred on the screen. She loved the stage more than movie-business, not only because it was her first love, but also because it allowed her to have speaking parts (impossible in silent movies). But when the family\'s savings were wiped out in theCrash of 1929, she had no choice but to return to the screen.

In 1932, Burke made herHollywoodcomeback, starring as Margaret Fairfield inA Bill of Divorcement, directed byGeorge Cukor. (Burke playedKatharine Hepburn\'s mother in the film, which was Hepburn\'s debut). Despite the death ofFlorenz Ziegfeldduring the film\'s production, Burke resumed filming shortly after his funeral.

In 1933, Burke was cast as Mrs. Millicent Jordan, a scatterbrained high-society woman hosting a dinner party in the comedyDinner at Eight, directed byGeorge Cukor, co-starring withLionel Barrymore,Marie Dressler,John Barrymore,Jean HarlowandWallace Beery. The movie was a great success, and revived Burke\'s career. She subsequently starred in many comedies and musicals, typecast as a ditzy, fluffy and feather-brained upper-class matron with her high-pitched voice.

In 1936, MGM filmed a sanitized biopic of Florenz Ziegfeld (The Great Ziegfeld), a film that wonAcademy AwardsforBest PictureandBest Actress(Luise Raineras Ziegfeld\'s common-law wife,Anna Held).William Powellplayed Flo Ziegfeld andMyrna Loyplayed Burke.

In 1937 she appeared in the first of theTopperfilms, about a man haunted by two socialite ghosts (played byCary GrantandConstance Bennett), in which she played the tremulous and daffy Clara Topper. Her performance as Emily Kilbourne inMerrily We Live(1938) resulted in her onlyOscarnomination. In 1938 she was chosen to playGlinda, \"the Good Witch of the North\", in the musicalThe Wizard of Oz(1939), directed byVictor Fleming, withJudy Garland. Burke had worked on a Garland film,Everybody Sing, in which she played Judy\'s histrionically hysterical actress-mother. Another successful film series followed withFather of the Bride(1950) andFather\'s Little Dividend(1951), both directed byVincente Minnelliand starringSpencer Tracy,Joan Bennett, andElizabeth Taylor.

Burke wrote two autobiographies, both with Cameron Van Shippe,With a Feather on My Nose(Appleton 1949) andWith Powder on My Nose(Coward McCann, 1959).