An example.

When Billie Burke portrayed Glinda, the Good Witch in The Wizard of Oz, she was fifty-four years old.

She was in her 36th year as a professional actress.

Billie’s career had begun on the London stage in 1903, when she was nineteen.

By 1916, she was the highest paid actor in Hollywood.

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