Florenz returned with the Von Bulow Military Band — and Eugene Sandow, “the world’s strongest man.” The actress Anna Held, with whom Ziegfeld went through a form of marriage in 1897 (they ...

Had he not then met Eugene Sandow, The World’s Strongest Man, it is not inconceivable that Florenz Ziegfeld might have stayed in Chicago all his days. Eugene Sandow was pretty strong ...

Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. broke into show business at just the right moment. Born in 1867 in Chicago, he produced his first Broadway show in 1896, at a time when the national theater framework was ...

Not really, not when you consider that Florenz Ziegfeld Crossley’s grandfather was Florenz Ziegfeld, possibly the greatest showman in Broadway history, the man whose “Ziegfeld Follies ...

Although many future stars started out as Ziegfeld girls, many more were turned down by Florenz Ziegfeld: Norma Shearer (twice), Alice Faye, Joan Crawford, Gypsy Rose Lee, Lucille Ball (twice ...

The ballroom’s art deco design will also pay homage to the Ziefeld’s predecessor on Seventh Avenue, which was opened by showman Florenz Ziegfeld, which was torn down for the office building ...

“Show Boat” was a testament to the courage of composer Jerome Kern, lyricist and librettist Oscar Hammerstein II, and producer Florenz Ziegfeld. In an era of “willful nonsense,” they ...

American Broadway impresario Florenz Ziegfeld Jr., in his office in New York in 1927. Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. was clearly the sort of person around whom legends will form. Put him up there with P.T ...

The cryptic heading to a newspaper story of late July 1922, related to actress Billie Burke and her husband, Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. Burke is best known for her portrayal of Glenda, the Good Witch of ...