HELD, ANNA. Early, famed Broadway beauty; b. Warsaw, Poland, ; d. New York, New York, .
Anna Held was the first and most famous of the performers in what was called the Broadway Beauty Trust. The Beauty Trust referred to all the beautiful women employed on the stages of the Great White Way. Anna Held was the first great star who owed her fame as much to publicity as to talent.
Debate raged as to whether she...