Behind The Scenes Secrets: The Wizard Of Oz
Billie Burke: Glinda The Good Witch

Billie Burke was the actress who played the role of Glinda the Good Witch. Billie had been working in movies since the day of silent film. She had previously worked on another film with Judy Garland called Everybody Sing, in which she played Judy’s mother. While The Wizard of Oz was being filmed, Billie was fifty four years old, which was eighteen years old than Margaret Hamilton her Wicked Witch counterpart and “sister”. Billie continued working for the remainder of her life and her last film was shot in 1960. Billie died in 1970 at the age of eighty-five.