Billie Dove
Billie Dove she worked as a model to help support her family and was hired at the age of 15, in 1918, by Florenz Ziegfeld to appear in his Ziegfeld Follies
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Billie Dove sitting in chair holding a pearl necklace photographed by Alfred Cheney Johnston
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Billie Dove
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by Alfred Cheney Johnston