Anna Held and Florenz Ziegfeld Digital Art COLORIZED (Download)

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10.503 inches x 13.333 inches @ 600 pixels/inch resolution
photograph digital enhancement copyright Van Sverigen Technologies
      
c. 1900
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Anna Held, 03 Mar 1877 - 12 Aug 1918
Florenz Ziegfeld, 21 Mar 1867 - 22 Jul 1932
      
Anna Held c. 1877–1918
Born Warsaw, Poland
Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. 1867–1932
Born Chicago, Illinois

Master showman Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. brought a razzle-dazzle to live performance that signaled a new era of mass entertainment at the turn of the twentieth century. Glittering grand-scale extravaganzas, the Ziegfeld Follies “glorified the American girl” with glamour, glitz, and elegance. The Follies featured statuesque showgirls swathed in feathers and sequins, the greatest vaudeville stars of the era, and the music of such new American composers as Irving Berlin. Ziegfeld wooed Folies Bergère star Anna Held to New York City and, beginning in 1907, starred her in his lavish revues. He flooded newspapers with her photographs and with titillating stories about her daily milk baths. Ziegfeld called his shows “spectacles,” and their enormous success made him the towering impresario of a uniquely American style of entertainment.