BIG MONEY
FILM PLAYERS’ FORTUNES Will Rogers and Charlie Chaplin, multi-millionaires, live frugally, and are not lavish entertainers. Norma Shearer and Irving Thalberg own £BOO,OOO between them, and would have moro were it not for the amounts set aside for “keeping up appearances.” _ . , Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford have £2,000,000 between them. Harold Lloyd owns £1,400,000. Greta Garbo is worth £200,000, but most of it is invested. She lives cheaply and frugally. .... . Mary Pickford is careful of her fortune. In one year she earned £112,000: she invested £84,000. William Powell is worth about £40,000; Ronald Colman about 50,000; Evelyn Brent £40,000. Joan Crawford and Douglas Fairbanks, Junr., earn £BOO a week between their. Their joint fortune is £60,000. . Marion Davies, said to be worth more than £1,000,000, manages all her own investments and contributes to many worthly charities, generally anonymously. Mario Dressier gave so prodigally to charity that the studio officials became alarmed and a trust fund was created for her. Marie was nearly “broke” two years ago, but is now worth over £40,000..
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Evening Star, Issue 20980, 19 December 1931, Page 6
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174BIG MONEY Evening Star, Issue 20980, 19 December 1931, Page 6
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