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    Florenz Edward Ziegfeld Jr. (/ˈzɪɡfɛld/; March 21, 1867 – July 22, 1932) was an American Broadway impresario, notable for his series of theatrical revues...
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    The Ziegfeld Follies were a series of elaborate theatrical revue productions on Broadway in New York City from 1907 to 1931, with renewals in 1934, 1936...
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    The Great Ziegfeld is a 1936 American musical drama film directed by Robert Z. Leonard and produced by Hunt Stromberg. It stars William Powell as the theatrical...
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    The Ziegfeld Theatre was a single-screen movie theater located at 141 West 54th Street in midtown Manhattan in New York City. It opened in 1969 and closed...
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    The term "Ziegfeld Girl" (or "Ziegfeld Follies Girl") is used broadly to describe the "singers, showgirls, comediennes, [and] dancers" who appeared in...
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    Patricia Burke Ziegfeld Stephenson (October 23, 1916 – April 11, 2008) was an American author. She was known for her 1963 autobiography The Ziegfelds' Girl: Confessions...
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    Ziegfeld's/Secrets was a dual-themed nightclub in Washington, D.C., with Ziegfeld's featuring drag queens, and Secrets featuring male strippers. The entertainment...
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  • Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. (1867–1932) was an American theatre impresario, famous for the Ziegfeld Follies revues. Ziegfeld may also refer to: Ziegfeld: The Man...
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    Doris Eaton Travis (category Ziegfeld girls)
    last surviving Ziegfeld Girl, a troupe of acclaimed chorus girls who performed as members in the Broadway theatrical revues of the Ziegfeld Follies. She...
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    film series. She was married to Broadway producer and impresario Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. from 1914 until his death in 1932. Burke was born in Washington, D...
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    Ziegfeld Girl is a 1941 American musical film directed by Robert Z. Leonard and starring James Stewart, Judy Garland, Hedy Lamarr, Lana Turner, Tony Martin...
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  • Ziegfeld Follies is a 1945 American musical comedy film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, primarily directed by Vincente Minnelli, with segments directed...
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    The Ziegfeld Theatre was a Broadway theatre located at 1341 Sixth Avenue, corner of 54th Street in Manhattan, New York City. It was built in 1927 and despite...
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  • Ziegfeld Theatre could refer to: Ziegfeld Theatre (1927), a legitimate Broadway theater built on Sixth Ave. in New York City in 1927. Ziegfeld Theatre...
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    Anna Held (category Ziegfeld girls)
    Broadway. While appearing in London, she was spotted by impresario Florenz Ziegfeld, who brought her to America as his common-law wife. From 1896 through 1910...
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  • major star with the Ziegfeld Follies ("Rat-Tat-Tat-Tat"). Nick asks Ziegfeld to invest in a gambling casino, but although Ziegfeld passes, Fanny insists...
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    buildings throughout the world from Esterhazy Castle in Hungary to the Ziegfeld Theatre in New York. Urban studied architecture at the Academy of Fine...
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  • films—Orson Welles in The Night That Panicked America and Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr., in Ziegfeld: The Man and His Women. He portrayed the character John Carrington...
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    policies, which added the violence and regimentation of the organization." Ziegfeld 2016. PRC 2011. Nee 2013. Wasti 2009. Schuurmans 2023, p. 63. Fischer-Tahir...
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    singer who starred on Broadway in the 1910s and 1920s, notably in the Ziegfeld Follies and George White's Scandals. Pennington was born in Wilmington...
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    Gold Diggers in 1919. Hopwood first heard the term in a conversation with Ziegfeld performer Kay Laurell. As an indication on how new the slang term was,...
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    That Up? In 1930, she appeared on Broadway in the musical Smiles at the Ziegfeld Theatre, followed by the Broadway production America's Sweetheart in 1931...
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    the behest of Flo Ziegfeld for the showman's personal enjoyment. Showgirls (c. 1920) Virginia Biddle, by Alfred Cheney Johnston Ziegfeld Follies showgirl...
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  • career of humorist and performer Will Rogers, using as a backdrop the Ziegfeld Follies, which he often headlined, and describes episodes in his life in...
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    The Ziegfeld Follies of the Air was a program broadcast on CBS Radio during the 1930s which attempted to bring the success of Florenz Ziegfeld's stage...
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    Fanny Brice (category Ziegfeld Follies)
    Harriet Hoctor were the only original Ziegfeld performers to portray themselves in The Great Ziegfeld (1936) and Ziegfeld Follies (1946). Brice's first radio...
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    feats of strength. Florenz Ziegfeld wanted to display Sandow at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, but Ziegfeld knew that Maurice Grau had...
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    theatre productions and silent films. They had a special connection to the Ziegfeld Follies: between 1918 and 1922, at least one Eaton was a member of the...
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    1913 to 1927, the New Amsterdam was the home of the Ziegfeld Follies, whose producer, Florenz Ziegfeld Jr., maintained an office in the building and operated...
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    Lillian Lorraine (category Ziegfeld girls)
    screen actress of the 1910s and 1920s, and a prominent Ziegfeld Girl in the Broadway revues Ziegfeld Follies during the 1910s. Lorraine was born in Utah...
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