1897.Anna Held.Helene Anna Held (19.03.1872-12.08.1918), known professionally as Anna Held,was a Polish-born French and later Broadway stage performer and singer,most often associated with impresario Florenz Ziegfeld,her common-law husband. Sources of her year of birth range from 1865 -73,but 1872 has been accepted in general.In 1881,antisemitic pogroms forced the family to flee to Paris, France.When her father's glovemaking business failed,he found work as a janitor,
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