Billie Burke

Mary William Ethelbert Appleton "Billie" Burke  foi una actriz d'Estaos Xuníos. Ye conocida sobremanera pol so papel de Glinda (la bruxa bona del norte) na película ganadora del Óscar El magu de Oz (The Wizard of Oz, 1939).

 Biografía 
Provenía del vodevil, y de neña acompañó al so padre, payasu d'oficiu, nuna xira europea del so circu "Barnum y Bailey".

El mundu del circu averar más al mundu del espectáculu y vodevil, faciendo'l so debú teatral en Londres a los 18 años y convirtiéndose na reina de Broadway na ventena. 
El so primer debú cinematográficu foi Peggy(1916). Dos años enantes fugárase col productor y empresariu Florenz Ziegfield, col que se casó n'Hoboken (New Jersey).
Tres la muerte del so home convirtióse nuna de les actrices de repartu más solicitaes collaborando en distintes películes.

Billie Burke morrió en Los Angeles por causes naturales a la edá de 85 años, en 1970.

 Programes de Radio 
 The Ziegfeld Follies of the Air - 1932
 Good News of 1939 - 1938
 The Rudy Vallee Hour - 1939
 The Gulf Screen Guild Theater - 1939
 The Rudy Vallee Sealtest Show - 1940-41
 The Pepsodent Show - 1941
 The Billie Burke Show - 1943-1946
 Duffy's Tavern - 1944
 The Sealtest Village Store - 1944
 Mail Call - 1944
 The Charlie McCarthy Show - 1944-47
 Tribute to Ethel Barrymore - 1945
 The Rudy Vallee Show - 1945
 Show Stoppers - 1946
 The Danny Kaye Show - 1946
 WOR 25th Anniversary - 1947
 Your Movietown Radio Theatre - 1948
 The Eddie Cantor Pabst Blue Ribbon Show - 1948
 Family Theater - 1948-52
 This Is Show Business - 1949
 The Martin and Lewis Show - 1949
 The Bill Stern Colgate Sports Newsreel - 1949
 Stagestruck -1954
 Biography in Sound - 1955-56

 Broadway 
 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
 Mrs. January and Mr. X - 1944

 Filmografía 

 Peggy (1916)
 Gloria's Romance (1916)
 The Mysterious Miss Terry (1917)
 Arms and the Girl (1917)
 The Land of Promise (1917)
 Eve's Daughter (1918)
 Let's Get a Divorce (1918)
 In Pursuit of Polly (1918)
 The Make-Believe Wife (1918)
 Good Gracious, Annabelle (1919)
 The Misleading Widow (1919)
 Sadie Love (1919)
 Wanted: A Husband (1919)
 Away Goes Prudence (1920)
 The Frisky Mrs. Johnson (1920)
 The Education of Elizabeth (1921)
 Doble sacrificiu (1932)
 Christopher Strong (1933)
 Dinner at Eight (1933)
 Only Yesterday (1933)
 Where Sinners Meet (1934)
 Finishing School (1934)
 We're Rich Again (1934)
 Forsaking All Others (1934)
 Society Doctor (1935)
 After Office Hours (1935)
 Becky Sharp (1935)
 Doubting Thomas (1935)
 She Couldn't Take It (1935)
 A Feather in Her Hat (1935)
 Splendor (1935)
 My American Wife (1936)
 Piccadilly Jim (1936)
 Craig's Wife (1936)
 Parnell (1937)
 Topper (1937)
 The Bride Wore Rede (1937)
 Navy Blue and Gold (1937)
 Everybody Sing (1938)

 Merrily We Live (1938)
 The Young in Heart (1938)
 Topper Takes a Trip (1939)
 Zenobia (1939)
 Bridal Suite (1939)
 El Magu de Oz (1939)
 Eternally Yours (1939)
 Remember? (1939)
 The Ghost Comes Home (1940)
 Irene (1940)
 The Captain Is a Lady (1940)
 Dulcy (1940)
 Hullabaloo (1940)
 And One Was Beautiful (1940)
 The Wild Man of Borneo (1941)
 Topper Returns (1941)
 One Night in Lisbon (1941)
 The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942)
 What's Cookin'? (1942)
 In This Our Life (1942)
 They All Kissed the Bride (1942)
 Girl Trouble (1942)
 Hi Diddle Diddle (1943)
 So's Your Uncle (1943)
 You're a Lucky Fellow, Mr. Smith (1943)
 Gildersleeve on Broadway (1943)
 The Laramie Trail (1944)
 Swing Out, Sister (1945)
 The Cheaters (1945)
 Breakfast in Hollywood (1946)
 The Bachelor's Daughters (1946)
 Billie Gets Her Man (1948)
 The Barkleys of Broadway (1949)
 El padre de la novia (1950)
 Father's Little Dividend (1951)
 Small Town Girl (1953)
 The Young Philadelphians (1959)
 Sergeant Rutledge (1960)
 Pepe (película de 1960) (1960)

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