Quote of the day
Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs of human hearts with balm and anodyne. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
Billie Burke
Born: August 7, 1884
Died: May 14, 1970 (aged 85)
Bio: Mary William Ethelbert Appleton "Billie" Burke was an American actress, famous on Broadway and in early silent film, best known to modern audiences as Glinda the Good Witch of the North in the movie musical The Wizard of Oz.
Known for:
- The Wizard of Oz (1939)
- Dinner at Eight (1933)
- Topper (1937)
- Father of the Bride (1950)
- Merrily We Live (1938)