Billie Burke

Billie Burke

Mary William Ethelbert Appleton "Billie" Burke (August 7, 1884 – May 14, 1970) was an American actress. She is primarily known to modern audiences as Glinda the Good Witch of the North in the musical film The Wizard of Oz. She was nominated for an Academy Award for her performance as Emily Kilbourne in Merrily We Live. Description above from the Wikipedia article Billie Burke,  licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Title : Billie Burke
  • Popularity : 4.989
  • Known For : Acting
  • Birthday : 1884-08-05
  • Place of Birth : Washington, District of Columbia, USA
  • Homepage :
  • Also Known As : Mary William Ethelbert Appleton Burke, Miss Billie Burke
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Billie Burke Movies

  • 1939
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    The Wizard of Oz

    The Wizard of Oz

    7.587 1939 HD

    Young Dorothy finds herself in a magical world where she makes friends with a lion, a scarecrow and a tin man as they make their way along the yellow...

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  • 1950
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    Father of the Bride

    Father of the Bride

    6.975 1950 HD

    Proud father Stanley Banks remembers the day his daughter, Kay, got married. Starting when she announces her engagement through to the wedding...

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  • 1951
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    Father's Little Dividend

    Father's Little Dividend

    6.422 1951 HD

    Newly married Kay Dunstan announces that she and her husband are having a baby, leaving her father to come to grips with the fact that he will soon...

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  • 1937
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    Topper

    Topper

    6.7 1937 HD

    Madcap couple George and Marion Kerby are killed in an automobile accident. They return as ghosts to try and liven up the regimented lifestyle of...

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  • 1941
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    The Man Who Came to Dinner

    The Man Who Came to Dinner

    6.9 1941 HD

    An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in indefinitely with a Midwestern family.

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  • 1917
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    The Mysterious Miss Terry

    The Mysterious Miss Terry

    1 1917 HD

    In her first Paramount film, Billie Burke plays Helen Wentworth, an heiress who's bored with the high life and decides to enjoy a bit of the low life.

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  • 1917
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    The Land of Promise

    The Land of Promise

    1 1917 HD

    Based on the 1913 play The Land of Promise by W. Somerset Maugham about Nora Marsh and her life which ends in a farm.

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  • 1918
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    The Make-Believe Wife

    The Make-Believe Wife

    1 1918 HD

    Several young couples have gathered at a vacation home in the mountains. The group of friends go climbing, but Phyllis Ashbrook and John Manning...

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  • 1918
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    Eve's Daughter

    Eve's Daughter

    1 1918 HD

    Eve's Daughter was the fourth and final screen teaming of Billie Burke and Thomas Meighan. This time out, Burke is cast as Irene Simpson-Bates, who...

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  • 1918
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    In Pursuit of Polly

    In Pursuit of Polly

    7.5 1918 HD

    Pretty Polly Marsden is ardently pursued by three different Romeos, but she coyly refuses to choose between them. When they insist that she give them...

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  • 1919
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    Sadie Love

    Sadie Love

    1 1919 HD

    Society miss Sadie Love has just wed Prince Luigi Pallavincini when she gets a phone call from Jimmie Wakely, a suitor she has not seen in a year....

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  • 1919
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    Good Gracious, Annabelle

    Good Gracious, Annabelle

    1 1919 HD

    When the father of sixteen-year-old Annabelle Leigh (Billie Burke) is killed in a fight, miner John Rawson (Herbert Rawlinson) snatches her away from...

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  • 1921
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    The Education of Elizabeth

    The Education of Elizabeth

    1 1921 HD

    Billie Burke, the real-life wife of Flo Ziegfeld, plays Ziegfeld Follies dancer Elizabeth Banks who falls for a wealthy young man. His parents are...

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  • 1920
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    Away Goes Prudence

    Away Goes Prudence

    1 1920 HD

    Prudence, a young society woman and aviatrix, is forbidden to continue flying by her fiancé Hewitt and her father. In defiance, she stages her...

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  • 1949
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    The Barkleys of Broadway

    The Barkleys of Broadway

    6.9 1949 HD

    Josh and Dinah Barkley are a successful musical-comedy team, known for their stormy but passionate relationship. Dinah feels overshadowed by Josh and...

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  • 1960
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    Sergeant Rutledge

    Sergeant Rutledge

    7.1 1960 HD

    Respected black cavalry Sergeant Brax Rutledge stands court-martial for raping and killing a white woman and murdering her father, his superior...

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  • 1959
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    The Young Philadelphians

    The Young Philadelphians

    7.5 1959 HD

    Up and coming young lawyer Anthony Lawrence faces several ethical and emotional dilemmas as he climbs the Philadelphia social ladder. His personal...

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  • 1938
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    Everybody Sing

    Everybody Sing

    4.7 1938 HD

    Boisterous teen Judy Bellaire is expelled from her all-female boarding school for convincing her fellow school chorus members to sing a classical...

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  • 1942
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    In This Our Life

    In This Our Life

    6.7 1942 HD

    An unhappy, self-centered woman runs off with her sister's husband, wreaking havoc and ruining the lives of those around her.

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  • 1942
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    They All Kissed the Bride

    They All Kissed the Bride

    5.8 1942 HD

    Margaret Drew runs her trucking company single-mindedly, if not ruthlessly. The only thorn in her side is writer Michael Holmes who is writing a book...

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  • 1933
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    Christopher Strong

    Christopher Strong

    5.9 1933 HD

    A romance develops between a happily married middle-aged British politician and an adventurous young aviatrix.

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  • 1938
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    The Young in Heart

    The Young in Heart

    6.6 1938 HD

    A family of confidence tricksters sets their sights on a very rich, very lonely old lady named Miss Fortune.

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  • 1935
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    Becky Sharp

    Becky Sharp

    5.6 1935 HD

    The first feature length film to use three-strip Technicolor film. Adapted from a play that was adapted from William Makepeace Thackeray's book...

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  • 1941
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    Topper Returns

    Topper Returns

    6.4 1941 HD

    Topper is once again tormented by a fun-loving spirit. This time, it's Gail Richards, accidentally murdered while vacationing at the home of her...

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  • 1933
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    Dinner at Eight

    Dinner at Eight

    6.7 1933 HD

    An ambitious New York socialite plans an extravagant dinner party as her businessman husband, Oliver, contends with financial woes, causing a lot of...

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  • 1935
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    After Office Hours

    After Office Hours

    6.4 1935 HD

    A managing editor sends a socialite reporter to spy on her boyfriend, mixed up in murder.

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  • 1932
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    A Bill of Divorcement

    A Bill of Divorcement

    6.227 1932 HD

    A World War I veteran returns home after fifteen years in an asylum and finds that everything has changed — his daughter is grown and about to...

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  • 1960
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    Pepe

    Pepe

    6.1 1960 HD

    Mario "Cantinflas" Moreno is a hired hand, Pepe, employed on a ranch. A boozing Hollywood director buys a white stallion that belongs to Pepe's boss....

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  • 1943
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    Gildersleeve on Broadway

    Gildersleeve on Broadway

    5.8 1943 HD

    On a trip to New York, a small-town blowhard gets caught between a wealthy widow and a gold digger.

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  • 1938
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    Topper Takes a Trip

    Topper Takes a Trip

    6.409 1938 HD

    Mrs. Topper's friend Mrs. Parkhurst has convinced Mrs Topper to file for a divorce from Cosmo due to the strange circumstances of his trip with ghost...

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  • 1943
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    Hi Diddle Diddle

    Hi Diddle Diddle

    6.8 1943 HD

    When the bride's mother is supposedly swindled out of her money by a spurned suitor, the groom's father orchestrates a scheme of his own to set...

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  • 1939
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    Eternally Yours

    Eternally Yours

    5.6 1939 HD

    Anita, engaged to solid Don Barnes, is swept off her feet by magician Arturo. Before you can say presto, she's his wife and stage assistant on a...

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  • 1972
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    Hollywood: The Dream Factory

    Hollywood: The Dream Factory

    6 1972 HD

    A documentary about the glorious history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and its decline leading to the sale of its back lot and props. By extension...

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  • 1936
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    Craig's Wife

    Craig's Wife

    6.3 1936 HD

    Harriet, Walter Craig's wife, is an upper-class woman obsessed with control, material possessions and social status whose behavior makes difficult...

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  • 1934
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    Forsaking All Others

    Forsaking All Others

    6.4 1934 HD

    A socialite only realises that her friend is in love with her when she falls for the wrong man.

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  • 1940
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    The Ghost Comes Home

    The Ghost Comes Home

    5 1940 HD

    Comic mayhem results when a small town pet store owner, mistakenly believed killed during a sea voyage, turns up very much alive.

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  • 1940
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    Irene

    Irene

    6 1940 HD

    Upholsterer's assistant Irene O'Dare meets wealthy Don Marshall while she is measuring chairs for Mrs. Herman Vincent at her Long Island estate....

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  • 1939
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    Zenobia

    Zenobia

    4.6 1939 HD

    A modest country doctor in the antebellum South has to contend with his daughter's upcoming marriage and an affectionate medicine show elephant.

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  • 1938
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    Merrily We Live

    Merrily We Live

    7.118 1938 HD

    Society matron Emily Kilbourne has a habit of hiring ex-cons and hobos as servants. Her latest find is a handsome tramp who shows up at her doorstep...

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  • 1953
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    Small Town Girl

    Small Town Girl

    5.7 1953 HD

    Rick Belrow Livingston, in love with Broadway star Lisa, is sentenced to 30 days in jail for speeding through a small town. He persuades the judge's...

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  • 1937
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    The Bride Wore Red

    The Bride Wore Red

    6.7 1937 HD

    A poor singer in a bar masquerades as a rich society woman thanks to a rich benefactor.

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  • 1933
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    Only Yesterday

    Only Yesterday

    6.8 1933 HD

    On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young business man is about to commit suicide. With the note to his wife scribbled down and a gun in...

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  • 1935
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    Society Doctor

    Society Doctor

    6.3 1935 HD

    Two surgeons (Chester Morris, Robert Taylor) in love with a nurse (Virginia Bruce) end their rivalry in the operating room.

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  • 1937
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    Navy Blue and Gold

    Navy Blue and Gold

    5.9 1937 HD

    Three Navy Cadets become friends, support each other and struggle to survive the rigorous training.

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  • 1936
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    Piccadilly Jim

    Piccadilly Jim

    6.5 1936 HD

    Jim's father wants to marry Eugenia, but her sister Netta refuses to allow it. When Jim sees Ann at a club, he falls for her even though she is with...

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  • 1941
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    The Wild Man of Borneo

    The Wild Man of Borneo

    6.5 1941 HD

    A medicine show man tries to con people into believing he's a legitimate stage actor.

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  • 1940
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    Dulcy

    Dulcy

    5.8 1940 HD

    A dizzy young woman aranges to turn her inventor-boyfriend's vacation into a chance meeting with a possible investor who happens to be her brother's...

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  • 1940
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    And One Was Beautiful

    And One Was Beautiful

    6.2 1940 HD

    A teenager falls hard for an irresponsible playboy.

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  • 1945
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    The Cheaters

    The Cheaters

    6 1945 HD

    An eccentric wealthy family facing bankruptcy schemes to steal an inheritance, but an alcoholic ex-actor they take in for Christmas charity...

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  • 1949
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    And Baby Makes Three

    And Baby Makes Three

    4.875 1949 HD

    A recently divorced couple see things differently after learning they are going to be parents.

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  • 1936
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    My American Wife

    My American Wife

    1 1936 HD

    Ann Sothern essays the title role in My American Wife. The story opens in Smelter City, Arizona, where the richest man in town is grizzled old Indian...

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  • 1934
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    Finishing School

    Finishing School

    6.2 1934 HD

    Virginia, who studies at a boarding school for upper-class girls, falls in love with a medical intern who works as a waiter for a living. Both the...

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  • 1935
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    Doubting Thomas

    Doubting Thomas

    7 1935 HD

    A husband makes fun of his wife's theatrical aspirations when she agrees to appear in a local production. When she begins to neglect him, he decides...

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  • 1940
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    Hullabaloo

    Hullabaloo

    4 1940 HD

    A radio actor faces trouble when a science-fiction story causes the audience to panic.

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  • 1939
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    Remember?

    Remember?

    5.8 1939 HD

    Sky and Linda meet on vacation and become engaged. When Sky introduces Linda to his best friend, Jeff, Linda and Jeff fall in love and marry. But...

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  • 1934
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    We're Rich Again

    We're Rich Again

    4 1934 HD

    A polo-playing grandmother and her broke brood get back in the money with a Wall Street bet.

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  • 1945
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    Swing Out, Sister

    Swing Out, Sister

    4 1945 HD

    Universal cowboy star Rod Cameron plays Geoffrey, conductor of a high-toned symphony orchestra. Secretly harboring the desire to become a swingin'...

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  • 1946
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    The Bachelor's Daughters

    The Bachelor's Daughters

    6.5 1946 HD

    A department store floor walker is persuaded by four husband-seeking salesgirls to pose as their father in a Long Island mansion which they have...

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  • 1935
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    A Feather in Her Hat

    A Feather in Her Hat

    6.8 1935 HD

    After the woman who raised him claims he's not her son, Richard searches for clues about his identity. Urged on by his mentor, Capt. Randolph...

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  • 1937
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    Parnell

    Parnell

    4.6 1937 HD

    Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell struggles to free his country from English rule, but his relationship with married Katie O'Shea threatens to...

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  • 1935
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    She Couldn't Take It

    She Couldn't Take It

    4.5 1935 HD

    The wealthy Van Dyke family are constantly in the media for outrageous behavior, much to the frustration of the patriarch, Dan Van Dyke. His...

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  • 1961
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    Hollywood: The Selznick Years

    Hollywood: The Selznick Years

    3.3 1961 HD

    Henry Fonda hosts this retrospective on the career and films of iconic filmmaker David O. Selznick, who epitomized the era of the auteur producer in...

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  • 1939
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    Bridal Suite

    Bridal Suite

    5.1 1939 HD

    A carefree playboy with an aversion to marriage falls for a lass he meets in the French Alps.

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  • 1935
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    Splendor

    Splendor

    6.3 1935 HD

    When Brighton Lorrimore returns home with his new bride, Phyllis, his family makes their disappointment in his choice obvious. Facing bankruptcy and...

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  • 1950
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    The Golden Twenties

    The Golden Twenties

    1 1950 HD

    Feature-length compilation of 1920s newsreel footage, with commentary about news, sports, lifestyles, and historical figures.

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  • 1942
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    Girl Trouble

    Girl Trouble

    6.5 1942 HD

    A South American in New York rents the apartment of a socialite who pretends to be his maid.

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  • 1934
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    Where Sinners Meet

    Where Sinners Meet

    2.5 1934 HD

    A pair of lovers are secreting away to Paris for a quick divorce and marriage when they find themselves trapped in a "hotel" where they are forced to...

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  • 2004
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    Ziegfeld on Film

    Ziegfeld on Film

    5.7 2004 HD

    This short documentary includes interviews with Florenz Ziegfeld's daughter Patricia and actress Luise Rainer. Ziegfeld's life and the making of the...

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  • 1946
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    Breakfast in Hollywood

    Breakfast in Hollywood

    5 1946 HD

    The goings on of a few members of a radio show's audience is the premise for this feature film derived from the popular ABC radio show of the 1940s....

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  • 1942
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    What's Cookin'?

    What's Cookin'?

    5.5 1942 HD

    J. P. Courtney wants to update the music on the radio program he sponsors, but his wife, Agatha Courtney, is the final authority and addicted to the...

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  • 1941
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    One Night In Lisbon

    One Night In Lisbon

    1 1941 HD

    Saucy screwball comedy wherein lovely Madeleine falls in love with flier Fred despite interference from her fiancee and his ex.

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  • 1940
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    The Captain Is a Lady

    The Captain Is a Lady

    6 1940 HD

    Because of a bad investment, Captain and Mrs. Peabody are evicted from their home. Mrs. Peabody finds lodging at a retirement home, but as only...

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  • 2000
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    The Dark Side of the Rainbow

    The Dark Side of the Rainbow

    8 2000 HD

    The movie The Wizard of Oz (1939) with the soundtrack replaced by Pink Floyd's album The Dark Side of the Moon (1973); several uncanny moments of...

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  • 1994
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    That's Entertainment! III

    That's Entertainment! III

    6.943 1994 HD

    Some of MGM'S musical stars review the studios history of musicals. From The Hollywood Revue of 1929 to Brigadoon, from the first musical talkies to...

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  • 1950
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    The Boy From Indiana

    The Boy From Indiana

    1 1950 HD

    Happy-go-lucky aspiring sportswriter Lon Decker from Indiana who has aspirations of becoming a sportswriter meets the shrewd and larcenous old man,...

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  • 1920
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    The Frisky Mrs. Johnson

    The Frisky Mrs. Johnson

    1 1920 HD

    The Frisky Mrs. Johnson is a 1920 silent film comedy starring Billie Burke. It was produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed through Paramount...

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  • 1943
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    So's Your Uncle

    So's Your Uncle

    5 1943 HD

    Circumstances arise that result in a man impersonating his uncle. As the "uncle", he finds himself pursued by his girlfriend's aunt, who does not...

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  • 1943
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    You're a Lucky Fellow, Mr. Smith

    You're a Lucky Fellow, Mr. Smith

    3.5 1943 HD

    A young woman marries a soldier to fulfill the conditions of a will. However, when she gets ready to divorce him, she realizes that she actually...

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  • 1917
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    Arms and the Girl

    Arms and the Girl

    1 1917 HD

    Ziegfeld Follies headliner Billie Burke starred in a handful of silent films, of which Arms and the Girl was the second. Burke plays an American lass...

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  • 1918
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    Let's Get a Divorce

    Let's Get a Divorce

    1 1918 HD

    A bit too immature for marriage, Cyprienne allows her pretty head to be turned by an egotistical fop. The girl demands that her husband Prunelles...

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  • 1950
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    Three Husbands

    Three Husbands

    5 1950 HD

    When a recently deceased playboy gets to heaven and is granted one wish--granted to all newcomers--he requests that he be able to see the reactions...

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  • 1916
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    Peggy

    Peggy

    1 1916 HD

    The heroine, Peggy Cameron, is a high-society debutante with a mind of her own. After making a public spectacle of herself once too often, Peggy is...

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  • 1990
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    The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: 50 Years of Magic

    The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: 50 Years of Magic

    8.3 1990 HD

    Documentary about the making of the 1939 MGM classic film The Wizard of Oz. Includes interviews of cast and crew members, their families and fans of...

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  • 1916
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    Gloria's Romance

    Gloria's Romance

    6 1916 HD

    An adventurous young girl in Florida gets herself lost in the Everglades and finds terror and excitement, as well as the rivalry of two men in love...

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  • 1929
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    Glorifying the American Girl

    Glorifying the American Girl

    5.5 1929 HD

    A young woman, who wants to be in the Follies, is making ends meet by working at a department store's sheet music department, where she sings the...

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  • 1919
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    The Misleading Widow

    The Misleading Widow

    1 1919 HD

    The Misleading Widow is a 1919 silent film comedy starring Billie Burke as Betty Taradine. It was based on the 1917 stage play Billeted by F....

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  • 1948
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    Billie Gets Her Man

    Billie Gets Her Man

    1 1948 HD

    Billie has the mistaken impression that her only daughter is pregnant and must rush to the hospital. At the same time, her old boyfriend, now...

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  • 1995
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    The Dark Side of Oz

    The Dark Side of Oz

    1 1995 HD

    Pink Floyd Meets The Wizard of Oz

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  • 1958
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    77 Sunset Strip

    77 Sunset Strip

    6.7 1958 HD

    Stu Bailey and Jeff Spencer are the wisecracking, womanizing private-detective heroes of this Warner Brothers drama. They work out of an office...

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  • 1955
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    Matinee Theater

    Matinee Theater

    4.6 1955 HD

    Matinee Theater is an American anthology series that aired on NBC during the Golden Age of Television, from 1955 to 1958. The series, which ran daily...

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  • 1949
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    Lights Out

    Lights Out

    5.3 1949 HD

    Lights Out was an extremely popular American old-time radio program, an early example of a network series devoted mostly to horror and the...

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  • 1952
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    Doc Corkle

    Doc Corkle

    1 1952 HD

    Doc Corkle is an American Television sitcom that was broadcast on NBC on Sunday nights for three weeks from October 5 to October 19, 1952. The show's...

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