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Anna Held

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No one could possibly look all the time like my photographs. It is dreadfully hard to live up to them. They stare at me everywhere.


— Anna Held


#dreadfully #everywhere #hard #like #live

No one ever tells us the truth, even those we love.


— Anna Held


#ever #love #tells #those #truth

One does not re-light a dead cigarette.


— Anna Held


#dead #does

People look at me and look, but I do not care.


— Anna Held


#i #i do #look #me #people

Please do not ask me to talk about my divorce. Mr. Ziegfeld and I are such very good friends. It is only a little matter quite between ourselves.


— Anna Held


#ask #between #divorce #friends #good

The more they applaud, the bigger your salary will be.


— Anna Held


#bigger #more #salary #will #your

There is no disgrace in working. There was no silver spoon around at the time I was born.


— Anna Held


#born #disgrace #i #i was born #silver

To put on a corset properly is as much of an art as to make a corset properly.


— Anna Held


#corset #make #much #properly #put

We must go fast, because the race is against time.


— Anna Held


#because #fast #go #must #race

Whatever success I may have attained is due to the fact that since I was old enough to work at all, my ambition has never deserted me.


— Anna Held


#attained #deserted #due #enough #fact






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first telecast on NBC. Around this time Anna Held became the wife of a much-older Uruguayan playboy Maximo Carrera with whom Anna Held had a daughter Liane (1895–1988) shortly after their 1894 marriage and who became an actress and producer sometimes billed as Anna Held Jr. Held began working in the garment industry then found work as a singer in Jewish theatres in Paris and later after her father's death London where her roles included the title role in a production by Jacob Adler of Abraham Goldfaden's Shulamith; Anna Held was also in Goldfaden's ill-fated Paris troupe whose cashier stole their money before they ever played publicly.

Helene Anna Held (19 March 1872 - 12 August 1918) was a Polish-born stage performer most often associated with impresario Florenz Ziegfeld her common-law husband.

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