Anna Held
Anna Held
Helene Anna Held, known professionally as Anna Held, was a Polish-born French stage performer and singer, most often associated with impresario Florenz Ziegfeld, her common-law husband...
NationalityPolish
ProfessionStage Actress
Date of Birth19 March 1872
CountryPoland
years engagement want
I don't want to get married, and I don't want to work after I'm 30, so I must manage my fortune somehow in the next seven years.
host audience
You instinctively discover how to entertain an audience.
being-single lovely
It is quite lovely being single, and I much prefer it.
costumes scenery audience
Costumes and scenery alone will not attract audiences.
paper anna papers
I read the papers every day just to discover if one mentions Anna Held.
thinking married millionaire
If I get married, I think I'd pick out a newspaperman rather than a millionaire. A newspaperman is a regular fellow.
congratulations ambition may
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.
flirty flirting married
For a married woman to flirt is a sin.
vaudeville likes
I do not like vaudeville, but what can I do? It likes me.
morning ice water
How many women have the courage to start properly with a cold, cold bath early in the morning? I jump in, throw the water, cold as ice, and after the first plunge I am happy.
jealousy say-anything
I do not say anything from jealousy.
language adept
I was very adept at acquiring languages.
married fortune
A woman must make her fortune before she is 30; or work after she is 30; or get married.
trying use given
I have given up trying to be happy. It is no use an leads to nothing.