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| | Billie Burke Encyclopedia Article, Description, History and Biography @ MatronOfTheArts.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | Mary William Ethelbert Appleton Burke (born August 7, 1884 in Washington D.C. ; died May 14, 1970 in Los Angeles, California) was an actress primarily known to modern audiences for her role as Glinda, the Good Witch of the North in the musical The Wizard of Oz. |
 | | Known as Billie Burke, she toured the US and Europe with a circus because her father, Billy Burke, was employed with them as a singing clown. |
 | | Billie Burke died in Los Angeles, California of natural causes at the age of 85 in 1970 and was interred at Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla, New York, survived by her daughter, Patricia, four grandchildren and nine great grandchildren. |
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