Patricia Ziegfeld Stephenson

Patricia Burke Ziegfeld Stephenson (October 23, 1916 – April 11, 2008) was an American author.

Patricia Ziegfeld was born in New York City in 1916 to Florenz Ziegfeld, a Broadway impresario, and Billie Burke, an actress best known for playing Glinda the Good Witch in The Wizard of Oz.

[3][4][5] She met Stephenson while he was working as a dance instructor at the Beverly Hills Hotel.

[1][2] In 1963, she published an autobiography, The Ziegfelds' Girl: Confessions of an Abnormally Happy Childhood.

[1] She died of congestive heart failure at her home in Los Angeles at the age of 91.

Portrait photograph of Patricia Ziegfeld, 1919