Brigid Berlin

Brigid still suffers with obsessive-compulsive disorder, a theme that she often explores in her artwork. She died in Los Angeles, California, and was interred at Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla, New York. Brigid Berlin is also famous for her 'Tit Paintings' (1969) (artworks executed using the painter's bare breasts) and off-Broadway one-woman shows. Another successful series followed with Father of the Bride and Father's Little Dividend. In 1975, Brigid Berlin began work for Andy Warhol's Interview magazine, a position that she held until well after Andy's death. This was shortly thereafter followed by the Topper series of films and The Wizard of Oz. The question of authorship looms large in valuing Warhol's paintings to this day. That same year, she starred in Dinner at Eight.

Brigid enthuisastically followed this line when interviewed by Time. The prank led to a drop in the value of Warhol's work and both parties eventually retracted their statements. Ziegfeld died in 1932, worsening her financial situation. Berlin was complicit in one of Warhol's most infamous pranks when, in 1969, Warhol announced that all of his paintings were the work of Berlin. She continued to appear on both stage and screen, but when the family's savings were wiped out in the Crash of 1929, she began to concentrate on the movies. Selections from these tapes were later compiled to form the play Andy Warhol's Pork. She was quickly signed for the movies, with her first movie, in the starring role, in Peggy in 1916. Brigid was known for her obsessive taping and photographing of every day life. According to some sources, Burke reportedly had an affair with the silent-film director Dorothy Arzner.

She also appears in the Edie Sedgwick film Ciao! Manhattan and has recently been the subject of a documentary Pie in the Sky. In 1916, they had one daughter, Patricia Ziegfeld. Berlin appeared in many Andy Warhol films including The Chelsea Girls in which she famously injects herself while performing a monologue. There she caught the eye of theatre producer Florenz Ziegfeld, marrying him in 1914. These injections were readily available through the many 'Doctor Feelgood's'in New York and perfectly legal. In 1903 she began acting on stage, making her debut in London, and eventually returning to America to become the toast of Broadway as a musical comedy star. After several years as a reluctant debutante and a failed marriage, Brigid Berlin met Andy Warhol in 1964 and quickly became a central member of his entourage. After moving to Hotel Chelsea, she took on the nickname Brigid Polk because of her habit of giving out 'pokes', injections of Vitamin B and amphetamines. She spent much of her youth travelling with her family as her father played Europe in Barnum and Bailey's Circus.

Her socialite mother, Honey Berlin, frequently worried about Brigid's weight and had amphetamines prescribed to faciltate weight control. Known as Billie Burke, she was born in Washington, D.C. to the famous English clown Billy Burke. As a child she regularly mixed with celebrities and the powerful. Bernard. Brigid was born to socialite parents and a world of Manhattan privilige. To earlier audiences she was the feather-brained Clara Topper in a series of popular movies about a man haunted by two alcoholic ghosts and their pet St. Brigid Berlin (also known as Brigid Polk, born September 6, 1939) is an artist and former Warhol superstar. Mary William Ethelbert Appleton Burke (7 August 1885 - 14 May 1970) was an actress primarily known to modern audiences for her role as Glinda, the Good Witch of the North in The Wizard of Oz.

Pie in the Sky: The Brigid Berlin Story (2000). Pepe - 1960. Pecker (1998). Sergeant Rutledge - 1960. Serial Mom (1994). The Young Philadelphians - 1959. Critical Years, The (1987). Small Town Girl - 1953.

Bad (1977). Father's Little Dividend - 1951. Ciao! Manhattan (1972). Father of the Bride - 1950. Women in Revolt (1971). The Barkleys of Broadway - 1949. Loves of Ondine, The (1968). Billie Gets Her Man - 1948.

Four Stars (1967) aka 24 Hour Movie. The Bachelor's Daughters - 1946. Imitation of Christ (1967). Breakfast in Hollywood - 1946. Nude Restaurant, The (1967). The Cheaters - 1945. Bike Boy (1967). Swing Out, Sister - 1945.

Chelsea Girls (1966). The Laramie Trail - 1944. Gildersleeve on Broadway - 1943. Smith - 1943. You're a Lucky Fellow, Mr.

Johnson - 1920. The Frisky Mrs. Away Goes Prudence - 1920. Wanted: A Husband - 1919.

X - 1944. Mrs. January and Mr. Ziegfeld Follies of 1943 - 1943. This Rock - 1943.

The Philosopher in the Apple Orchard - 1911. Suzanne - 1910. Dot - 1910. Mrs.