Colors, Critters, Cats, and my Journey with MS: Billie Burke

Billie Burke

Actress

August 7, 1884 – May 14, 1970

Credits:

Radio:

Biography in Sound (1955–1956); Doubting Thomas (1935); Duffy's Tavern (1944); Family Theater (1948–1952); Good News of 1939 (1938); Mail Call (1944); Show Stoppers (1946); Stagestruck (1954); The Bill Stern Colgate Sports Newsreel (1949); The Billie Burke Show (1943–1946); The Charlie McCarthy Show (1944–1947); The Danny Kaye Show (1946); The Eddie Cantor Pabst Blue Ribbon Show (1948); The Gulf Screen Guild Theater (1939); The Martin and Lewis Show (1949); The Pepsodent Show (1941); The Rudy Vallee Hour (1939); The Rudy Vallee Sealtest Show (1940–1941); The Rudy Vallee Show (1945); The Sealtest Village Store (1944); The Ziegfeld Follies of the Air (1932); This Is Show Business – CBS-TV (1949); Tribute to Ethel Barrymore (1945); WOR 25th Anniversary (1947); Your Movietown Radio Theatre (1948).

Stage:

Annie Dear (1924); A Marriage of Convenience (1918); Caesar's Wife (1919); Family Affairs (1929); Jerry (1914); Love Watches (1908); Mrs. Dot (1910); Mrs. January and Mr. X (1944); My Wife (1907); Rose Briar (1922); Suzanne (1910); The Amazons (1913); The Happy Husband (1928); The Intimate Strangers (1921); The Land of Promise (1913); The Marquise (1927); The Philosopher in the Apple Orchard (1911); The Rescuing Angel (1917); The Runaway (1911); The Truth Game (1930); This Rock (1943); Ziegfeld Follies of 1934 – 1934; Ziegfeld Follies of 1936 – 1936; Ziegfeld Follies of 1943 – 1943.

Movies and television:

77 Sunset Strip (1960); A Feather in Her Hat (1935); ABC News Breakfast (2024); After Office Hours (1935); All Star Revue (1951); And Baby Makes Three (1949); And One Was Beautiful (1940); Arms and the Girl (1917); At Home with Billie Burke (1951–1952); Away Goes Prudence (1920); A Bill of Divorcement (1932); Because of the Wonderful Things It Does: The Legacy of Oz (2005); Becky Sharp (1935); Billie Gets Her Man (1948); Biograph Beauty Postcard (1905); Blow up: Le web magazine cinéma d'Arte (2020); Bob Hope's World of Comedy (1976); Breakfast in Hollywood (1946); Bridal Suite (1939); Britain's Most Dangerous Songs: Listen to the Banned (2014); Broadway: The American Musical (2004); CBS News Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley (2020); Christopher Strong (1933); Columbia Laff Hour (1956); Craig's Wife (1936); Delta Kappa Alpha Silver Anniversary Banquet (1963); Dinner at Eight (1933); Doc Corkle (1952); Doubting Thomas (1935); Dulcy (1940); Eternally Yours (1939); Everybody Sing (1938); Eve's Daughter (1918); Father of the Bride (1950); Father's Little Dividend (1951); Finishing School (1934); Footlights Theater (1952); Ford Star Jubilee (1956); Forsaking All Others (1934); Gildersleeve on Broadway (1943); Girl Trouble (1942); Gloria's Romance (1916); Glorifying the American Girl (1929); Good Gracious, Annabelle (1919); Hal Roach: Hollywood's King of Laughter (1994); Hi Diddle Diddle (1943); Hollywood: The Dream Factory (1972); Hollywood: The Selznick Years (1969); Hullabaloo (1940); In Pursuit of Polly (1918); Inside Edition Weekend (2022); Irene (1940); I've Got a Secret (1954); Let's Get a Divorce (1918); Lights Out (1950); Matinee Theatre (1956); Merrily We Live (1938); My American Wife (1936); Navy Blue and Gold (1937); One Night in Lisbon (1941); Only Yesterday (1933); Our Mutual Girl, No. 4 (1914); Parnell (1937); Peggy (1916); Pepe (1960); Piccadilly Jim (1936); Picture People No. 2: Hollywood Sports (1941); Playhouse 90 (1957–1958); Remember? (1939); Sadie Love (1919); Screen Snapshots Series 9, No. 20 (1930); Sergeant Rutledge (1960); She Couldn't Take It (1935); Sid & Judy (2019); Silly Billy (1948); Small Town Girl (1953); Society Doctor (1935); So's Your Uncle (1943); Splendor (1935); Swing Out, Sister (1945); That's Entertainment! III (1994); The Bachelor's Daughters (1946); The Barkleys of Broadway (1949); The Best of Broadway (1955); The Bigelow Theatre (1951); The Boy from Indiana (1950); The Bride Wore Red (1937); The Captain Is a Lady (1940); The Cheaters (1945); The Dark Side of the Rainbow (2000); The Ed Wynn Show (1950); The Eddie Cantor Comedy Theater (1955); The Education of Elizabeth (1921); The Frisky Mrs. Johnson (1920); The Ghost Comes Home (1940); The Golden Twenties (1950); The House That Shadows Built (1931); The Land of Promise (1917); The Laurel and Hardy Show (1986); The Make-Believe Wife (1918); The Man Who Came to Dinner (1941); The Milton Berle Show (1949); The Misleading Widow (1919); The Mysterious Miss Terry (1917); The Name's the Same (1954); The Project (2024); The Red Rowe Show (1960); The Wild Man of Borneo (1941); The Wizard of Oz (1939); The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: 50 Years of Magic (1990); The Young in Heart (1938); The Young Philadelphians (1959); These Amazing Shadows (2011); They All Kissed the Bride (1942); This Is Your Life (1952–1957); This Our Life (1942); Three Husbands (1950); To Oz! The Making of a Classic (2009); Today Tonight (2009); Topper (1937); Topper Returns (1941); Topper Takes a Trip (1938); TV Club (1951); Unit Tapes (2020); Vito (2011); Walt Disney World 4th of July Spectacular (1988); Wanted: A Husband (1919); We Haven't Really Met Properly...: Billie Burke as Glinda, Good Witch of the North (2005); We're Rich Again (1934); What's Cookin' (1942); Where Sinners Meet (1934); You're a Lucky Fellow, Mr. Smith (1943); Zenobia (1939); Ziegfeld on Film (2004).