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Billie Burke

Billie Burke

Highest Rated: 100% Craig's Wife (1936)

Lowest Rated: 40% One Night in Lisbon (1941)

Birthday: Aug 7, 1884

Birthplace: Washington, D.C., USA

Glamorous light comedienne who, in the midst of a successful Broadway career, entered films at the behest of Thomas Ince in 1916. After a period away from films, Burke returned to features in the early 1930s in character roles. She is perhaps best known as Glinda, the Good Witch of the East, in the timeless "The Wizard of Oz" (1939). Burke enjoyed great popularity as a featured player over the next two decades, often playing dithery, aristocratic types. Married to impresario Florenz Ziegfeld from 1914 until his death in 1932.

Highest rated movies

100% Father's Little Dividend
100% Craig's Wife
100% Only Yesterday
98% The Wizard of Oz
91% Sergeant Rutledge
91% Dinner at Eight
90% Father of the Bride
89% Topper Returns

Photos

DOUBTING THOMAS, Billie Burke, TM and Copyright ©20th Century Fox Film Corp. All rights reserved. GIRL TROUBLE, Billie Burke, 1942, TM and Copyright (c) 20th Century-Fox Film Corp. All Rights Reserved GLORIA'S ROMANCE, Billie Burke, 1916 GLORIA'S ROMANCE, David Powell, Billie Burke, 1916 THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER, Billie Burke, 1942 TOPPER RETURNS, Billie Burke, Roland Young, Joan Blondell, 1941 WIZARD OF OZ, Billie Burke, Judy Garland, Dorothy meets Glinda the Good Witch, 1939 DINNER AT EIGHT, Lee Tracy, Billie Burke, Edmund Lowe, 1933 DINNER AT EIGHT, Lionel Barrymore, Billie Burke, 1933 AND BABY MAKES THREE, Billie Burke, 1949 THEY ALL KISSED THE BRIDE, Billie Burke, Roland Young, Joan Crawford, 1942 TOPPER, Billie Burke, 1937 THE YOUNG PHILADELPHIANS, Billie Burke, 1959 THE YOUNG IN HEART, Roland Young, Janet Gaynor, Billie Burke, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Minnie Dupree, 1938 DINNER AT EIGHT, Louise Closser Hale, Billie Burke, 1933 BILL OF DIVORCEMENT, Katharine Hepburn, Billie Burke, John Barrymore, 1932 IN THIS OUR LIFE, George Brent, Olivia De Havilland, Frank Craven, Billie Burke, Bette Davis, 1942 BRIDAL SUITE, from left, Annabella, Robert Young, Walter Connolly, Billie Burke, 1939 THEY ALL KISSED THE BRIDE, from left, Roland Young, Joan Crawford, Billie Burke, 942 TOPPER RETURNS, Joan Blondell, Roland Young, Billie Burke, 1941
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
91% 90% Sergeant Rutledge Mrs. Cordelia Fosgate (Character) - 1960
71% 81% The Young Philadelphians Mrs. J. Arthur Allen (Character) - 1959
No Score Yet 13% Small Town Girl Mrs. Livingston (Character) - 1953
No Score Yet No Score Yet Darling, How Could You! Rosie (Character) - 1951
100% 61% Father's Little Dividend Doris Dunstan (Character) - 1951
No Score Yet 71% Three Husbands Mrs. Jenny Bard Whittaker (Character) - 1950
90% 74% Father of the Bride Doris Dunstan (Character) - 1950
No Score Yet No Score Yet Boy From Indiana Zelda Bagley (Character) - 1950
55% 70% The Barkleys of Broadway Mrs. Livingston Belney (Character) - 1949
No Score Yet 40% Breakfast in Hollywood Mrs Frances Cartwright (Character) - 1946
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Bachelor's Daughters Molly Burns (Character) - 1946
No Score Yet 50% The Cheaters Mrs. Pidgeon (Character) - 1945
No Score Yet No Score Yet Diamonds and Crime Liza Prescott (Character) - 1943
No Score Yet 45% Hi Diddle Diddle Liza Prescott (Character) - 1943
No Score Yet No Score Yet Gildersleeve on Broadway Mrs. Laura Chandler (Character) - 1943
No Score Yet 40% They All Kissed the Bride Mrs. Drew (Character) - 1942
No Score Yet 77% In This Our Life Lavinia Timberlake (Character) - 1942
No Score Yet No Score Yet Girl Trouble Mrs. Rowland (Character) - 1942
86% 81% The Man Who Came to Dinner Daisy Stanley (Character) - 1941
89% 81% Topper Returns Mrs. Clara Topper (Character) - 1941
40% No Score Yet One Night in Lisbon Catherine Enfilden (Character) - 1941
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Wild Man of Borneo Bernice Marshall (Character) - 1941
No Score Yet No Score Yet Hullabaloo Penny Merriweather (Character) - 1940
No Score Yet 40% Irene Mrs. Herman Vincent (Character) - 1940
No Score Yet 56% And One Was Beautiful Mrs. Julia Lattimer (Character) - 1940
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Ghost Comes Home Cora Adams (Character) - 1940
No Score Yet No Score Yet Dulcy Eleanor Forbes (Character) - 1940
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Captain Is a Lady Blossy Stort (Character) - 1940
No Score Yet No Score Yet Remember? Mrs. Bronson (Character) - 1939
No Score Yet 28% Eternally Yours Aunt Abby (Character) - 1939
98% 89% The Wizard of Oz Glinda (Character) $5.5M 1939
No Score Yet 64% Topper Takes a Trip Mrs. Clara Topper (Character) - 1939
No Score Yet No Score Yet Bridal Suite Mrs. McGill (Character) - 1939
No Score Yet 58% Zenobia Mrs. Bessie Tibbett (Character) - 1939
No Score Yet 50% Everybody Sing Diana Bellaire (Character) - 1938
No Score Yet 80% Merrily We Live Mrs. Emily Kilbourne (Character) - 1938
No Score Yet 78% The Young in Heart Marmy Carleton (Character) - 1938
No Score Yet 33% Parnell Miss Clara Wood (Character) - 1937
No Score Yet 57% Navy Blue and Gold Mrs. Alyce Gates (Character) - 1937
No Score Yet 68% The Bride Wore Red Contessa di Meina (Character) - 1937
89% 80% Topper Mrs. Topper (Character) - 1937
No Score Yet 40% Piccadilly Jim Eugenia Willis (Character) - 1936
100% 56% Craig's Wife Mrs. Frazier (Character) - 1936
No Score Yet 57% After Office Hours Mrs. Norwood (Character) - 1935
No Score Yet 20% Doubting Thomas Paula Brown (Character) - 1935
40% 28% Becky Sharp Lady Bareacres (Character) - 1935
No Score Yet No Score Yet She Couldn't Take It Mrs. Daniel Van Dyke (Character) - 1935
No Score Yet 33% Splendor Clarissa (Character) - 1935
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Feather in Her Hat Julia Anders (Character) - 1935
No Score Yet 49% Forsaking All Others Aunt Paula (Character) - 1934
No Score Yet No Score Yet We're Rich Again Mrs. Linda Page (Character) - 1934
No Score Yet 33% Finishing School Mrs. Helen Crawford Radcliff (Character) - 1934
No Score Yet No Score Yet Where Sinners Meet Eustasia (Character) - 1934
83% 39% Christopher Strong Lady Elaine Strong (Character) - 1933
91% 74% Dinner at Eight Millicent Jordan (Character) - 1933
100% 71% Only Yesterday Julia Warren (Character) - 1933
60% 57% A Bill of Divorcement Meg Fairfield (Character) - 1932
No Score Yet No Score Yet Away Goes Prudence Prudence Thorne (Character) - 1920
No Score Yet No Score Yet Eve's Daughter Irene Simpson-Bates (Character) - 1918
No Score Yet No Score Yet Gloria's Romance Gloria Stafford (Character) - 1916

TV

Credit
95% No Score Yet Karen Sisco Unknown (Guest Star) 2003
No Score Yet No Score Yet 77 Sunset Strip Mavis Matthews Conway (Guest Star) 1960