{{Short description|American showgirl and actress}} {{Infobox person | name = Annette Bade | image = Annette Bade (Jul 1921).png | alt = A young white woman wearing a showgirl costume, from 1921. | caption = Annette Bade, of the Ziegfeld Midnight Frolic, from a 1921 publication. | birth_name = <!-- only use if different from name --> | birth_date = March 22, 1900 | birth_place = New York City, U.S. | death_date = September 2, 1975 (aged 75) | death_place = Broward, Florida, U.S. | occupation = Showgirl, actress | years_active = 1916–1924 | known_for = | notable_works = | spouse = {{plainlist| * {{marriage|Alfred Clarence Mace Jr.|1924|1934|end=his death}} * {{marriage|Irving Rose|1944}} }} | children = 1 | other_names = Annette Mace<br />Annette Rose }} '''Annette Margaret Bade''' (March 22, 1900 – September 2, 1975)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?dbid=7338&h=2046250&indiv=try&o_vc=Record:OtherRecord&rhSource=2704&requr=2550866976735232&ur=0&gsfn=&gsln=&h=2046250|title=Join Ancestry®|website=www.ancestry.com}}</ref> was an American stage performer, best known as a Ziegfeld girl.

== Early life == Annette Margaret Bade was born in New York City, the daughter of William Bade and Lillian C. Bade (née Dittman). Her parents were in show business, as were her grandparents.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/34475498/annette_bade_1956/|title=Annette Bade|date=May 6, 1956|work=Daily News|access-date=August 1, 2019|page=9|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> She left school after completing 8th grade.<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/3442026:2442&nreg=1|title=Ancestry – Sign Up|website=www.ancestry.com}}</ref>

== Career == Annette Bade was a milliner's model as a young woman.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Mantle|first=Burns|date=April 1919|title=What's What on Broadway|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QYHNAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Annette+Bade%22&pg=PA505|journal=The Green Book Magazine|volume=21|pages=505}}</ref> Her Broadway credits included roles in ''The Century Girl'' (1916–1917), ''Words and Music'' (1917–1918), ''Aphrodite'' (1919), ''Morris Gest's Midnight Whirl'' (1919–1920),<ref name=":1">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/34475772/the_century_midnight_whirl_1920/|title=The Century Midnight Whirl|last=Hammond|first=Percy|date=June 8, 1920|work=Chicago Tribune|access-date=August 1, 2019|page=21|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> ''Ziegfeld Midnight Frolic'' (1921), ''Ziegfeld 9 O'Clock Frolic'' (1921), ''Ziegfeld Frolic'' (1922),<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/34480352/annette_bade_1922/|title=Now We Know the Reason Why|date=January 1, 1922|work=The Philadelphia Inquirer|access-date=August 1, 2019|page=55|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> ''Cold Feet'' (1923),<ref>{{Cite journal|date=July 1923|title=Cold Feet|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dwlEAQAAIAAJ&q=Annette+Bade&pg=RA7-PA16|journal=Theatre Magazine|volume=38|pages=16|last1=Thorold|first1=W. J.|first2=Arthur |last2=Hornblow (Jr)|last3=Maxwell|first3=Perriton|last4=Beach|first4=Stewart}}</ref> and ''Vogues of 1924'' (1924).<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RySwdc151ZoC&q=Annette+Bade&pg=PA242|title=George Gershwin: His Life and Work|last=Pollack|first=Howard|date=2007-01-15|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=9780520933149|pages=242–243|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D1LzCAAAQBAJ&q=Annette+Bade&pg=PA452|title=Ziegfeld and His Follies: A Biography of Broadway's Greatest Producer|last1=Brideson|first1=Cynthia|last2=Brideson|first2=Sara|date=2015-05-06|publisher=University Press of Kentucky|isbn=9780813160900|pages=452|language=en}}</ref> She was also in one silent film, ''A Woman's Business'' (1920). She appeared as a fashion model,<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Bonwit Teller|date=August 1921|title=Forerunners of Fall Fashions|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9Y8hAQAAMAAJ&q=Annette+Bade&pg=PA232|journal=Arts & Decoration|volume=15|pages=232}}</ref> and was one of the actress clients of British designer Lucy, Lady Duff Gordon.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6tyrzFf27usC&q=Annette+Bade&pg=PT54|title=Hollywood Before Glamour: Fashion in American Silent Film|last=Finamore|first=M. Tolini|date=2013-01-28|publisher=Springer|isbn=9780230389496|language=en}}</ref> Critic George Jean Nathan quipped, "I venerate Molière, and Annette Bade's legs."<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4_DfsduEJMAC&q=%22Annette+Bade%22&pg=PA566|title=The Latest Books|last=Hanemann|first=Henry William|date=April 1921|magazine=Life|access-date=August 1, 2019|page=567}}</ref> Another critic described her as "slim, fair, youthful, and possessing a voice somewhere between a whine and a whisper."<ref name=":1" />

== Personal life == Annette Bade married advertising executive Alfred Clarence Mace Jr. He died in 1934.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/34480455/alfred_c_mace_jr_1934/|title=Mace|date=July 7, 1934|work=Chicago Tribune|access-date=August 1, 2019|page=18|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/34481983/tall_blonde_bride_1943/|title=Tall, Blonde Bride|date=May 9, 1943|work=The Philadelphia Inquirer|access-date=August 1, 2019|page=148|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/34482150/alfred_c_mace_1934/|title=Alfred C. Mace|date=July 7, 1934|work=Daily News|access-date=August 1, 2019|page=273|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> Bade, who was always described as petite in stature,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/34481728/anette_bade_1923/|title=Annette Bade|date=May 20, 1923|work=Daily News|access-date=August 1, 2019|page=42|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> had a daughter, Anne Catherine Mace (1925–1980), who was over six feet tall; she also became a showgirl.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/34475303/annette_bade_mace_1941/|title=New York's Favorite Show Girl is Six Feet Three|date=July 27, 1941|work=St. Louis Post-Dispatch|access-date=August 1, 2019|page=67|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/34481869/showgirls_scrapbook_1941/|title=Showgirl's Scrapbook|last=Bade Mace|first=Annette|date=December 7, 1941|work=The Philadelphia Inquirer|access-date=August 1, 2019|page=136|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> Bade applied for a marriage license with Irving Rose on May 6, 1944, in Manhattan.<ref> {{cite web | url = https://archive.org/details/irving-rose-and-annette-mace-marriage-2 | title = Irving Rose And Annette Mace Marriage License | website = Internet Archive | access-date = April 17, 2024 }} </ref> In the 1940 census, Bade listed her occupation as saleslady.<ref name="auto"/>

She died on September 2, 1975, in Florida.

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== External links ==

* {{IBDB name|id=66790}} * {{IMDb name|id=0045981}} * [https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2014712424/ A photograph of Annette Bade] from the Bain News Service, in the George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress. * {{authority control}}

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