"Are you a good witch, or a bad witch?"
Billie Burke as Glinda, the Good Witch of the North in The Wizard of Oz (1939)
I say this line quite often as a bad Billie Burke impression in an attempt to amuse/annoy my dad, for whom this movie ranks up there with his top three.
"Are you a good weetch? Orrr a bed weetch?"
As a little girl I loved Glinda's puffy pink dress with all the sparkles: the height of glamour as far as I was concerned. I would have never believed then - and still find it hard to believe - that she was 54 at the time. Billie Burke had married Florenz Ziegfeld of the famous Follies and had retired from acting, but - with the Wall Street crash of 1929 and the loss of their wealth - was forced to return to her career, to the delight and relief of munchkins everywhere.
Billie Burke as Glinda, the Good Witch of the North in The Wizard of Oz (1939)
I say this line quite often as a bad Billie Burke impression in an attempt to amuse/annoy my dad, for whom this movie ranks up there with his top three.
"Are you a good weetch? Orrr a bed weetch?"
As a little girl I loved Glinda's puffy pink dress with all the sparkles: the height of glamour as far as I was concerned. I would have never believed then - and still find it hard to believe - that she was 54 at the time. Billie Burke had married Florenz Ziegfeld of the famous Follies and had retired from acting, but - with the Wall Street crash of 1929 and the loss of their wealth - was forced to return to her career, to the delight and relief of munchkins everywhere.
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