Billie Burke
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Oct 16, 2026
ChrisHOST
And he also portrayed Hugo Machek, the shop owner in the Jimmy Stewart movie, The Shop Around the Corner, another one of our mascot Robin's favorite movies.
ChrisHOST
We had Billie Burke as Glinda, the Good Witch of the North.
ChrisHOST
Burke was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, and another film for her performance as Emily Kilbourne in Merrily We Live in 1938.
ChrisHOST
She also appeared in the Topper film series.
Philip D. GibbonsHOST
Another production challenge was the preparation and choreography of the Munchkinland scenes, frequently involving over a hundred individuals.
Philip D. GibbonsHOST
One blessing was that besides Judy Garland and Billy Burke, who played Glinda, all of the other voices were lip synced and ultimately recorded by several voiceover artists associated with Disney productions.
Philip D. GibbonsHOST
Their voices were then sped up to varying degrees to get the appropriate sound for a tiny person.
Philip D. GibbonsHOST
Although the Munchkinland numbers are among the most impressive musical and dance songs ever filmed in Hollywood, it was the alleged off-screen antics of these unique actors that eventually added to the Oz legend.
Tara TagliaferroHOST
... feeling Hi Dreadfulton at all today.
Tara TagliaferroHOST
[laughs] Because we have just completed 54 chapters, just like the 54 years of Madame Billie Burke, when she played-
Emily Kay ShraderHOST
Ooh
Tara TagliaferroHOST
... a certain Good Witch of the North, of the newest Ozlet that is hot off the presses, Galinda.
Gregory MaguireGUEST
Ah, thank you for having me, and thank you for that little numerical mysteriousness, about 54-
Tara TagliaferroHOST
Yes
Gregory MaguireGUEST
... and 54 Billie Burkes in a row, one year after another.
Emily Kay ShraderHOST
[laughs]
Harry MarksHOST
She kept traveling, performing in productions all across the country.
Harry MarksHOST
Then, in 1932, she was cast opposite Billy Burke and Humphrey Bogart in a Los Angeles production of the play The Mad Hopes.
Harry MarksHOST
Her arrival was announced in the newspapers, and her performance was lauded by theater critics who attended the premiere.
Harry MarksHOST
Bogart got a particularly chuckle-worthy review from Robert Garland at the World Telegram.
Harry MarksHOST
He said that Bogart was, quote, constantly content to play himself over and over again, end quote.
Harry MarksHOST
Which is true, but that doesn't mean I love him any less.
Harry MarksHOST
The show was going to move to Broadway with most of the original cast retaining their roles, but Billy Burke was whisked away to RKO to appear in an upcoming film called A Bill of Divorcement, and Peg Entwistle was right behind her.
Harry MarksHOST
David O. Selznick cast her in the pre-code thriller Thirteen Women opposite Myrna Loy and Irene Dunne.
Patti L.GUEST
And here comes this bubble out of the sky.
Patti L.GUEST
And the bubble pops, and here's Billy Burke.
Patti L.GUEST
And when I saw that movie, I was a little girl, and I thought, oh, that's the prettiest woman I've ever seen.
Patti L.GUEST
She was just white all over.
Patti L.GUEST
You know, Florence Ziegfeld's last wife.
Patti L.GUEST
The only reason she was the last wife, because she outlived the son of a bitch.
Patti L.GUEST
And here... here right behind old dog here comes this bubble see and pop there's billy burke and i'm drinking my sixth beer in here oh billy burke is what having the magic wand and she's waving and she says darling i give you a precious gift you now have the ability to read minds and she disappeared and i looked at old dog and he was grinning like an old cat getting ready to eat the mouth And I read his mind.
Patti L.GUEST
Want to know what he was thinking? He was sitting there and he was rubbing his hands thinking, it's only going to take one more beer.
speaker_4HOST
The book had two good witches.
speaker_4HOST
The film collapses them into just one, Glinda, played by the incredibly maternal Billie Burke.
speaker_4HOST
Why does that matter structurally?
AC WilsonHOST
It makes it cleaner.
Gregory MaguireGUEST
And so I like to think that while Elfie is the magic one, there always was something, and the word I use in that dedication is scintillant.
Gregory MaguireGUEST
There was always something sparkly about Glinda long before Billy Burke at the age of 54 got herself off the bar stool and put on that big dress and came into the soundstage and played her with that high fluting voice in 1939.
Gregory MaguireGUEST
Yeah.
Jared BowenHOST
We love the floating, too.
Francesca BindiHOST
That's right.
Abbie MeadHOST
The cast included Judy Garland as Dorothy Gale, Frank Morgan as the Wizard of Oz and his Kansas counterpoint, Professor Marvel, Ray Bolger as Hank and the Scarecrow, Bert Lahr as Zeke and the Cowardly Lion, Jack Haley as Hickory and the Tin Man, Billie Burke as Glinda, the Good Witch of the North, and of course, Margaret Hamilton as Almira Gulch and the Wicked Witch of the West.
Abbie MeadHOST
That is a bit of a tongue twister.
Abbie MeadHOST
[laughs]
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Francesca BindiHOST
Yes
Abbie MeadHOST
...
Abbie MeadHOST
Billie Burke.
Francesca BindiHOST
Excellent.
speaker_2HOST
This is the complete opposite of the strict fidelity we just discussed.
speaker_2HOST
Kramer notes that the witches, for instance, were described quite differently in Baum's original text, but the actors, Billie Burke and Margaret Hamilton, gave their respective characters completely new lives.
speaker_1HOST
Which brings us right back to our hook at the start of the steep dive.
speaker_2HOST
It does.
AndyHOST
Start with a quote.
AndyHOST
"The Roaring '20s were very pleasant if you did not stop to think." That's from, uh, Billy Burke, a Broadway star from around that time period.
JamesHOST
That's kinda true about the '20s now as well.
AndyHOST
Yeah.
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