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2 unusual facts about Billie Burke


Minnie Dupree

She also made a handful of films, the most notable being The Young in Heart (1938), co-starring with Janet Gaynor, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Paulette Goddard, Roland Young, and Billie Burke.

Winifred Watson

A musical film version was planned, starring Billie Burke as Miss Pettigrew, but Pearl Harbor put paid to that.


Forsaking All Others

Mary knows she should not go, but the two go up to Aunt Paula's (Billie Burke) country house in Phoenicia, New York.

Natalie Schafer

Originally written as a humorless grande dame, Schafer worked with the writers to create a character not unlike the scatterbrain roles played in 1930s films by Mary Boland and Billie Burke.


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