Nils Hanson is a retired vice president for the international division of Thomas Cook. He is also a Marine Corps veteran who served in the South Pacific during World War II. A graduate of Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois, he lives in New York City.

“by interviewing some of the last survivors of the Ziegfeld days and carefully combing through secondary sources with a critical eye, Hanson has created an excellent biography that not only examines a fascinating subject but also explores an era a century past.”—Library Journal.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments      Foreword by Richard Ziegfeld      Preface      1. The Trunk      2. The Early Years      3. Coast to Coast      4. Broadway Bound      5. The Promoter      6. Ill- Fated Triangle      7. The Breakthrough: Up, Up and Away—with Sophie      8. Affair of the Necklace      9. Enter Bert Williams, Fanny Brice and the Blonde Venus      10. The Ziegfeld Follies of 1910—Atlantic City and Beyond      11. Enter Nanny Johnson, My Mother      12. PR Woes and the Denver Caper      13. Anna-Liane-Flo: The Ansonia      14. Canadian Getaway      15. A Split and Trouble in Paradise      16. Ziegfeld vs. Gresheimer      17. Catch- Up Time on the Rumor Mill      18. Live Reflections      19. Enter Billie Burke and the Ghost of the New Amsterdam      20. Lillian, on Her Own      21. Ziegfeldian Potpourri      22. Hollywood Beckons      23. The Broadway Fast Track and Ziegfeld’s Frolic      24. The Follies of 1918      25. Ziegfeld’s Roof Garden and Lillian’s Blue Devil      26. Detour and Scandal on the Fast Track      27. Marilyn Miller and Frank Carter—Broadway’s Golden Couple      28. Lillian Faces Financial Ruin and a Fleeting Comeback      29. Dimming Footlights and the Bessie Poole Affair      30. End of an Era and Beyond      31. Frazzled Silver Lining      32. Lillian Hits the Skids—Ziegfeld Redux      33. Excommunication      34. Final Curtain—Oblivion      35. Coda to Lillian and Her Times      Epilogue      Lillian Lorraine Stage Credits and Filmography      Bibliography      Index