Annette Bade

Annette Bade (March 22, 1900 – September 1975) was an American stage performer, best known as a Ziegfeld girl.

Bade was born in New York City, the daughter of William Bade and Lillian C. Bade. Her parents were in show business, as were her grandparents.

Annette Bade was a milliner's model as a young woman. 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), Ziegfeld Midnight Frolic (1921), Ziegfeld 9 O'Clock Frolic (1921), Ziegfeld Frolic (1922), Cold Feet (1923), and Vogues of 1924 (1924). She was also in one silent film, A Woman's Business (1920). She appeared as a fashion model, and was one of the actress clients of British designer Lucy, Lady Duff Gordon. Critic George Jean Nathan quipped, "I venerate Molière, and Annette Bade's legs." Another critic described her as "slim, fair, youthful, and possessing a voice somewhere between a whine and a whisper."

Annette Bade married advertising executive Alfred C. Mace Jr. He died in 1934.Bade, who was always described as petite in stature, had a daughter, Anne Mace, who was over six feet tall; she also became a showgirl. Annette Bade died in 1975, in Florida.