With a Feather on My Nose

by Billie Burke, Cameron Shipp

This is the life story of an actress, a beautiful redheaded actress who lived and played in a glittering era now gone but fondly remembered. Although she attained moments of great fame and happiness, she never knew security. Like her father, the well-known clown, she went through life with a feather on her nose.

272 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1949

About the author

Born Mary William Ethelbert Appleton Burke), generally 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 (1939).

Married to impresario Flo Ziegfeld until his death in 1932. They had one daughter, Patricia.

Miss Burke died of natural causes in Los Angeles in 1970.

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