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Doris Day Net Worth

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1 year ago

April 10, 2023

Daniel Wanburg

Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff's Net Worth as of 2024
$20 Million

Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff, born on the 3rd of April, 1922, is an American actress and singer who became a family name in the ‘50s and ‘60s, and whose career has now expanded for over five decades. She became known particularly for her songs “Sentimental Journey” and “My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time”, and for her films “Calamity Jane” and “The Man Who Knew Too Much.”

So how much is Day’s net worth? As of early 2018, based on authoritative sources it is reported to be over $20 million, acquired from her years as a singer and actress which began in the late 1930s.

Doris Day Net Worth $20 Million

Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Day is the daughter of Alma Sophia, a housewife, and William Joseph Kappelhoff, a choir master and music teacher; she has two siblings, Richard and Paul. Growing up, she always had a passion for dancing, and even formed a duo with Jerry Doherty during the mid-1930s, and together they performed around Cincinnati. Unfortunately, Day was in a car accident and damaged her right leg, preventing her from pursuing a career in dancing.

While taking a rest due to her accident, Day discovered another talent. While humming songs heard on the radio, her mother realized that she had the potential to become a singer, and had her take singing lessons with voice coach Grace Raine, who also recognized her talent, and even offered her a discount for their lessons. At the age 15, Day was able to get professional work as a singer for radio programs, and eventually local bandleader Barney Rapp asked her to audition for his band, and she got the job. It was also Rapp who suggested that she changed her name to something shorter, since Kappelhoff was too long to be put on a marquee. Her rendition of the song “Day After Day” became the inspiration for her new last name.

Day eventually parted ways with Rapp, but was able to work with other bandleaders, including Les Brown and Bob Crosby. In was in 1945 when her song entitled “Sentimental Journey” became her first major hit, followed in 1947 by another songs which became a hit entitled “My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time”, and led her to sign a contract with Columbia Records. Her early years as a singer certainly established her career, and laid the basis of her net worth.

In 1948, while singing “Embraceable You”, songwriter Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn saw Day and recommended her for a role in “Romance on the High Seas”, which saw her open another door for her career in the form of acting. Day’s career in movies started with period musicals including “By the Light of the Silvery Moon” and “Tea For Two”, but eventually she did more mainstream films including “I’ll See You in My Dreams” and “Calamity Jane”, that became huge successes at the box office. Her love for music also helped, as she was able to sing songs in several movies that she did. One in particular was in Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Man Who Knew Too Much”, with “Que Sera, Sera, (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)” that won an Academy Award for Best Original Song.

Day also became a pioneer for what is called bedroom comedies in films, which was evident in her movies “Pillow Talk” and “Move Over, Darling”. Over a span of 20 years from 1948 to 1968 she appeared in 39 feature films, until she transitioned to television. Her career in movies also established her as one of the most successful actresses of all time, and tremendously increased her net worth.

After a successful career in movies Day moved to television, and starred in “The Doris Day Show” from 1968 to 1973. Although she only did it to honor her contracts that her late husband, Martin Melcher, entered her into without her knowing, the show still won a Golden Globe award in 1969.

Today, Day may not be active in show business, but is now a well-known animal welfare activist, and has several foundations under her name, continuing to fight for the rights of various animals.

In terms of her personal life, Day has been married four times, firstly to Al Jorden (1941 to 1943) with whom she had her only son Terry, secondly was Georg William Weidler (1946 to 1949), and third was Martin Melcher (1951 to 1968). Her last husband was Barry Comden (1976 to 1981), since when she has officially been single.

Doris Day also wrote her autobiography in 1976, entitled “Doris Day – Her Own Story.”

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Actresses

Aarti Mann Net Worth, Wiki, Married, Husband, Suits, Heroes, Photos, Interview

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1 week ago

April 8, 2024

Tom Ford

Born Aarti Majmudar on the 3rd March 1978, in Connecticut USA, she is an actress, best known to the world as Priya Koothrappali in the TV series “The Big Bang Theory”, and as Henna in the film “Today’s Special”, among many other differing roles she has secured so far in her career.

Have you ever wondered how rich Aarti Mann is, as of early 2018? According to authoritative sources, it has been estimated that Mann’s net worth is as high as $400,000, an amount earned through her successful career, active since the mid- 2000s.

Aarti Mann Net Worth $400,000

Of Indian ancestry, Aarti alongside her brother Nishad, and sister Kruti moved a lot within Pennsylvania with her family when she was still a toddler, including living in Pittsburgh, Mt. Lebanon, Wexford and Fox Chapel. She went to Shady Side Academy located in Point Breeze, and after matriculation enrolled at New York University, from which she earned a degree in film writing and directing.

Aarti made her professional acting debut in 2006, in the film “The Memsahib”, directed by her sister Kruti, who is a filmmaker, who was mainly responsible for luring Aarti towards the performing arts, since their parents are doctors and wanted all their children to follow in their footsteps. After her debut, Aarti appeared in a commercial for Volvo, and started auditioning for new film and television roles. However, she secured only minor roles in such TV series as “Quarterlife” (2008), and “Heroes” (2009), until in 2010 luck smiled upon her as she was chosen for the part of Priya Koothrappali in the TV comedy series “The Big Bang Theory” (2010-2011), which increased her net worth to a large degree. Her career now got underway, and in 2012 she featured in the comedy-drama film “The Monogamy Experiment”, starring Amy Rider, Edgar Morais and Tohory Masamune, while in 2015 she made a notable appearance in the romantic comedy film “I’ll See You in My Dreams”, with Blythe Danner, Martin Starr and Sam Elliott in the lead roles, which further increased her net worth.

She is now working on the drama film “Love Sonia”, starring Demi Moore, Freida Pinto and Mark Duplass, scheduled for release later this year, so her net worth is certainly still rising.

When it comes to her personal life, Aarti is married to Purvesh Mankad, with whom she has a daughter. She now resides in Los Angeles with her family.

Actresses

Milla Jovovich Net Worth

Published

4 weeks ago

March 24, 2024

Daniel Wanburg

Milla Natasha Jovovich was born on 17 December 1975, in Kiev, Ukraine (then in the USSR), and is a model, actress and singer, perhaps best known for her breakthrough role in the film “The Fifth Element” in 1997, with Bruce Willis and Gary Oldman.

So just how rich is Milla Jovovich, as of late 2017? Authoritative sources estimate that Milla has a net worth of over $45 million, accumulated from her various career elements spanning almost 30 years since she began modelling in 1987.

Milla Jovovich Net Worth $45 Million

Milla had a really unusual childhood, maybe that’s one of the reasons for her multi-million dollar net worth. Jovovich started her carrier in modeling from the early age of nine, a few years after she and her parents moved from Ukraine, which at that time belonged to the Soviet Union, to Los Angeles, California, in 1980. She even dropped out of school at the age of 12, when Gene Lemuel discovered her, and she signed a contract with Prima Modeling Agency. Milla Jovovich was covered by magazines including Vogue, Glamour, Madmoiselle, Cosmopolitan, Seventeen, and has been advertising brands including L’oreal, Christian Dior, Calvin Klein, Donna Koran, Revlon for many years.

However, exclusive looks and beauty was not the only value she had: Milla Jovovich has a great voice, a talent to write songs, design fashion and find herself in acting as well. Milla started her acting career in 1988 in the film “Two Moon Junction”, but the roles that gave this girl much more attention were in “Dazed and Confused” in 1993 and “The Fifth Element” in 1997 directed by Luc Besson, in which she worked with Bruce Willis. Of course, subsequently all five films based on “Resident Evil” made Milla Jovovich’s popularity and net worth go through the roof. The original movie was so successful that it was even turned into a video game.

Between her acting in those two movies, Milla tried the shoes of a singer and a song writer, and released her debut album – “The Divine Comedy – which was really appreciated by the audience and critics and even received positive feedback from Rolling Stone magazine’s, John McAlley; in his opinion the album was remarkable. In 1999 Milla Jovovich became a member of the band named Plastic Has Memory, and performed some gigs in New York and Las Vegas, but unfortunately not with her new band, and Milla has never released a second album.

As for her career in fashion, Milla launched her first line in 2003, and her brand was successful until 2008 when she decided to close her business because of lack of time, which is perhaps no surprise, assuming that all of her free time was taken-up by her daughter Ever Gabo Anderson, who was born in 2007.

As for other details of Milla’s personal life, aside from several well-known relationships, she has married three times, all husbands met when taking some part in films in which she was acting. She first married Shawn Andrews in 1992, which was apparently quickly annulled by her mother; ironically, he and Milla were starring in “Dazed and Confused”! The second was with the director of “The Fifth Element” – Luc Besson (1997-99), and she has been married to Paul W. S. Anderson, who worked with Jovovich on the set of “Resident Evil”, since 2009, and he is the father of her two daughters. The family is based in Los Angeles.

Milla is something of a philanthropist too, and often participates in and supports various charities including UNICEF, World Education, Ovarian Cancer Research Fund and many more.