Billie Burke
(Glinda the Good Witch of the North)

Born in 1886, remarkably, actress Billie Burke was 53 years old when she landed the role of Glinda. "Age is something that doesn't matter," the comedienne once quipped, "unless you are a cheese." A star of stage and vaudeville, Burke made her debut on the silver screen in 1915. Although she preferred the stage, after the death of her husband, Florenz Ziegfeld in 1932, Burke returned to Hollywood in order to offset the debt she inherited. From 1915 to 1960, she appeared in more than 80 films. She died in 1970 at the age of 84.