My Mother the Ziegfeld Girl
What was a Ziegfeld girl about? Taking a hard life and turning it into a world of fun and glamour, John Lahr wrote about his mother, a former Broadway chorus dancer, in 1996.
On his mother Millie: "'I had fun,' she'd say, reviewing her life, and she did. El Morocco, the Stork Club, the Colony Club." And on her discipline of beauty: "'The Ziegfeld strut,' as it was called, was a way of behaving in the proximity of the paying customers to create a sense of aloofness and decorum—to appear at once unattainable and irresistible."