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Donna Reed Net Worth
Donna Reed's Net Worth as of 2024
$10 Million
Donna Reed was born on the 27th January 1921 in Denison, Iowa USA, and was an actress. Films like “The Picture of Dorian Gray” (1945), “It’s a Wonderful Life” (1946) and “From Here to Eternity” (1953) made her famous. Reed was active in the entertainment industry from 1941 to 1985. She passed away in 1986.
How rich was the actress? It has been estimated by authoritative sources that the overall size of Donna Reed’s net worth was as much as $10 million, converted to the present day. Films and television were the main sources of Reed’s wealth.
Donna Reed Net Worth $10 Million
To begin with, the girl was raised in Denison, the eldest of five children. Her election as Queen of the Campus at the high school made the headlines of the Los Angeles Times. Her beauty attracted the attention of many agents and studio managers, and soon, the beautiful actress started her career.
The agency Feldman Blum hired the young Donna Reed and signed her to a contract. She made a remarkable debut in cinema in 1941 with supporting roles in the thriller “Shadow of the Thin Man” with William Powell and Myrna Loy, and in the musical “Babes” on Broadway featuring Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland. Shortly after, she landed important roles in mainstream films, such as “Calling Dr. Gillespie” (1942) and “See Here, Private Hargrove” (1944). In 1945, she portrayed Gladys Hallward in the film adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s novel “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, which was a box office success despite mixed reviews. After several years at MGM Studios, Reed starred in Frank Capra’s “It’s a Wonderful Life” (1946), which became one of the favourites on American television at Christmas, and was also a box office hit. The actress kept quiet for several years, however, she made a starring comeback when she was chosen for the important role of Alma, the prostitute in the film “From Here to Eternity” (1953). Featuring talented actors such as Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr and Frank Sinatra, the film won 8 Oscars, including for the Best Supporting Actress – Donna Reed. Afterwards, the actress starred with Elizabeth Taylor in the film “The Last Time I Saw Paris” (1954) directed by Richard Brooks, then appeared in the blockbuster “Far Horizons” (1955). From 1958 to 1966, she played the leading role in the popular family series “The Donna Reed Show”, and in 1963 she won the Golden Globe Award as the Best Female TV Star. She was also nominated four times for an Emmy Award, but could never win. In 1984, she took on her last role of Miss Ellie in the popular soap opera “Dallas”, but was replaced by Barbara Bel Geddes the next season, and settled for a payment of $1 million in recompense.
Finally, in the personal life of the actress, Reed married William Tuttle in 1943 and they divorced two years later. In 1945, she married Tony Owen and had four children with him – the oldest two were adopted. After 26 years of marriage, the couple broke up in 1971. Three years later, she married retired US Army Colonel Grover W. Asmus, and they were together until she died of pancreatic cancer on the 14th January 1986, in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles – the cancer was diagnosed three months before her death. Reed is buried in the cemetery of Westwood Village Memorial Park in Los Angeles.
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Ben Stein Net Worth
Benjamin Jeremy Stein is an American lawyer, speechwriter, actor, writer and commentator on economic and political issues, but he is also known for participating in many other activities. For example, Ben Stein has even tried himself as a game show host. This famous person in American economics and politics was born on November 25 in 1944 in Washington, D.C., United States during World War II. He attended Columbia College and later Yale Law School. After graduation Ben Stein started to write columns and articles for different US magazines such as Newsmax, Los Angeles Magazine, Penthouse, The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s Magazine, The American Spectator and even for The New York Times.
Ben Stein Net Worth $20 Million
In his writings Stein usually speaks about the economic situation and political issues, and even gives financial advices to individual investors. However, in the mid-60s he also got the job of a poverty lawyer and later continued as a lawyer for the Federal Trade Comission. After few years of hard work, Ben Stein decided to try himself in acting too, but before starting to get roles he became a Hollywood consultant. Stein got his first comedy role and had to play a boring and monotonous economics teacher in the movie called Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, which was released in 1986. As an actor Ben Stein has since appeared in many other movies, such as The Mask, No Intelligence Allowed, Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters II, The Emperor’s New School, Full House, Casper: A Spirited Beginning, The O’Reilly Factor, Maried… with Children, Duckman, The Emperor’s New Schol, Earthworm Jim, Casper Meets Wendy, Family Guy and Richie Rich.
The famous actor and commentator is also recognized thanks to the Comedy Central channel where he was the main face of the show called “Win Ben Stein’s Money” for which he has even received an Emmy award. Ben Stein was earning $5,000 per episode, but money that contestants won was subtracted from actor’s salary. However, these earnings are just nothing if we compare them with Stein’s net worth, which reached $20 million in 2012.
Ben Stein is well known thanks to his ability to harmonize all his activities and show himself as a talented person in every job he does. But maybe one of his most successful, but not so well-known activities is writing speeches for American presidents. Ben Stein was a speechwriter for Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. Until now Ben Stein has published 15 books, the first written together with Herbert Stein and released in 1978. In 2012 his last book appeared in stores – “How To Really Ruin Your Financial Life and Portfolio”.
Nowadays Ben Stein lives with his wife Alexandra Denman in Beverly Hills and Malibu, California. The couple married in 1968 and divorced after 6 years, but in 1977 they got back together again. With his wife Ben Stein adopted their son Tom in 1987. As well as his property in Beverly Hills, Ben Stein also owns a summer home in Sandpoint, Idaho and an apartment in the Watergate complex in Washingtton, D.C., which was inherited from his parents.
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Mikey Teutul Net Worth
Michael Joseph was born 26 November 1978, in Montgomery, New York State USA, and widely known as Mikey Teutul, is a reality television personality, the youngest son of Orange County Choppers founder Paul Teutul, Sr. Mikey began his working life at 14, in the family business.
So just how rich is Mikey Teutul, as of late 2017? Authoritative sources estimate that Mikey has a net worth of over $3 million dollars, largely earned by working at his father’s and older brother Paul Jr,’s company Orange County Choppers (OCC), and Orange County Iron Works, and through his TV appearances.
Mikey Teutul Net Worth $3 Million
Little is known of Mikey’s early life or education – it seems to have always revolved around the family business. Helping out his family in his teens, theoretically he worked as Assistant General Manager. but his main duties were to answer ‘phones, and clear-up and take out the trash. He was on rare occasions given the chance to build bikes, until he was competent to build his own. He also attended events for promoting OCC.
In 2002, the family was invited to take part in a reality show, Discovery Channel’s “American Chopper”, and subsequently “American Chopper: Senior vs. Junior”, in the course of which the youngest son was thrown out of the business – the middle son is Daniel, and younger sister Cristin. The reason for Mikey’s exclusion was that Mikey tried to be a mediator between his father and his brother, but his father seemed to be offended that his younger son did not take his side, and so threw him out of the business. During the filming of the show, Mikey was somethoing of a comedy relief to his father’s workers, and that comedy streak helped gain him popularity in TV shows. Mikey then joined his brother’s post-OCC venture, -Paul Jr Designs – along with most of their father’s employees; obviously the work atmosphere with Paul Teutul, Sr. was not a particularly happy one. Mikey’s eldest brother Paul Jr. was the former chief fabricator of OCC.
So actually the main source of Mikey Teutul’s wealth is not his father’s business, but the shows he eventually took part in. These have included ‘The Late Show with David Letterman”, “Late Night with Conan O’Brien”, and also “The Tonight Show” with Jay Leno. The shows became very popular and Mikey’s appearances earned him a significant amount of money. To say the least, the family drama did not go without consequences – according to rumours, Mikey Teutul was suffering from an addiction problem, and consequently admitted himself to rehab, and managed to overcome the bad habits which were apparently hindering his progress in life, obviously including business.
In his life away from the businesses already referred to and the limelight of TV, Michael loves to paint, and is apparently respected for his productions, as he opened “The Wolfgang Gallery” gallery in Montgomery, New York, where he has sold or auctioned his paintings, adding somewhat to is net worth, although rumours suggest that the gallery may now be closed. Most recently, Mikey is now trying to enter the market under the moniker LLC FarQueue Products with his line of gourmet pasta sauces. Good luck, Mikey!
In his less-than-private personal life, Mikey is apparently still single – there aren’t even any rumours of romantic liaisons.
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