page_title: Billie Burke
section_title: Broadway
hierarchical_section_title: Billie Burke / Performance career / Broadway
caption_attribution_description: English: Still from the 1913 Broadway production of The Land of Promise with Billie Burke and Shelley Hull, facing page 220 of the 1914 novelization of the play. Caption: I'll shoot you, I'll shoot you!
context_page_description: Mary William Ethelbert Appleton Burke, better known as Billie Burke was an American actress who was famous on Broadway, on radio, early silent film, and subsequently in sound film. She is best known to modern audiences as Glinda the Good Witch of the North in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer movie musical The Wizard of Oz.
  Burke was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1938 for her performance as Emily Kilbourne in Merrily We Live and is also remembered for her appearances in the Topper film series. Her high-pitched, wavering, aristocratic voice was her trademark, which made her a frequent choice to play dim-witted, spoiled society types.
  She was married to Broadway producer and impresario Florenz Ziegfeld Jr., the founder of the Ziegfeld Follies dance troupe and theatrical revue, which operated from 1914 until 1932, and of The Ziegfeld Follies of the Air radio program that ran from 1932 to 1936.
context_section_description: My Wife – 1907
  Love Watches – 1908
  Mrs. Dot – 1910
  Suzanne – 1910
  The Philosopher in the Apple Orchard – 1911
  The Runaway – 1911
  The Amazons – 1913
  The Land of Promise – 1913
  Jerry – 1914
  The Rescuing Angel – 1917
  A Marriage of Convenience – 1918
  Caesar's Wife – 1919
  The Intimate Strangers – 1921
  Rose Briar – 1922
  Annie Dear – 1924
  The Marquise – 1927
  The Happy Husband – 1928
  Family Affairs – 1929
  The Truth Game – 1930
  Ziegfeld Follies of 1934 – 1934
  Ziegfeld Follies of 1936 – 1936
  This Rock – 1943
  Ziegfeld Follies of 1943 – 1943
caption: Burke with Shelley Hull in The Land of Promise, 1913.
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