the relationship, both professional and romantic, between ziegfeld and lorraine, led to the demise of his marriage to actress anna held. (a fictitious character, audrey dane, clearly based on lorraine was portrayed by virginia bruce in the 1936 motion picture "the great ziegfeld".) lorraine and ziegfeld's relationship was turbulent and emotionally complex, but their passion was such that ziegfeld's second wife, actress billie burke, confessed that lorraine was the only one of ziegfeld's past sexual entanglements that aroused her jealousy.