Entertainment & Arts
Patricia Ziegfeld Stephenson, the daughter of legendary Broadway impresario Florenz Ziegfeld, died of congestive heart failure April 11 at her home in Los Angeles.
April 26, 2008
Dorothy Wegman Raphaelson, 100, one of the last surviving Ziegfeld Girls who performed in Florenz Ziegfeld’s “Follies,” died Nov. 7 at her home in New York City of natural causes of aging.
Nov. 16, 2005
Broadway veteran Len Cariou will make his London stage debut this April as the star of “Ziegfeld,” a new musical about legendary impresario Florenz Ziegfeld.
Feb. 8, 1988
Corona Paynter, who made a professional pilgrimage from a beauty contest in her native Canada to a luncheon at New York’s Waldorf Astoria Hotel, where she was discovered by the legendary Florenz Ziegfeld, died Tuesday at St.
Aug. 2, 1986
Florenz Ziegfeld did two things for Matilda Clough when she first began working in his office at age 21.
April 12, 1989
Milton Pickman, 83, veteran Hollywood executive and agent who once represented Ethel Merman, Michael Caine and Van Heflin.
Jan. 16, 1993
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In regard to Outtakes (Aug. 25) and Imperfections (Sept. 8), Anna Held, the turn-of-the-century Broadway star and the wife of Florenz Ziegfeld, received loads of publicity, not to mention the admiration of dairymen from coast to coast, by taking highly touted daily baths in milk long before Claudette Colbert was even nursed with the stuff.
Sept. 15, 1985
Glorifying the American Girl (AMC Thursday at 10 a.m.)
Aug. 4, 1996
A Nov. 27 letter from Dick Sheppard concerning the New Amsterdam Theater on New York’s 42nd Street reminded me of that great theater.
Jan. 1, 1995
Charles LeMaire, who wrapped beautiful women in elegant gowns for entertainment impresarios ranging from Florenz Ziegfeld to Daryl F.
June 11, 1985