Barbara Barondess Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Barbara Barondess was born on July 4, 1907 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. She is known for her work on Hold Your Man (1933), Unknown Blonde (1934) and Easy Money (1936). She was married to Nathaniel Ruvell, MacLean, Douglas, Irving Jacobs and Leonard Knaster. She died on May 31, 2000 in New York City, New York.
[on Greta Garbo]: I think she was the dullest woman I ever met.
2
[After purchasing two Renoir paintings for Greta Garbo at auction]: She was the tightest, most miserly figure who ever lived. She paid for the paintings that day, but never paid me my commission. I never asked for it. I knew she was a tightwad. She used people and rarely gave anything back.
#
Fact
1
Studied art and design at UCLA. She became a successful interior decorator, designing homes for celebrities like Garbo, Norma Shearer, Errol Flynn, Gary Cooper, Jane Wyman, and Ronald Reagan. Her business eventually expanded to the East Coast by the mid-40s. Barondess later branched out into fashion, designing and manufacturing clothing, and later added cosmetics to her growing empire.
2
Won a Miss New York contest at Coney Island which paved the way for a career on Broadway and a subsequent move to Hollywood.
3
Stylist and close acquaintance of Greta Garbo; close friend of Marilyn Monroe.
4
Founded and funded the Barbara Barondess Theatre Lab in New York City to support nonprofit theater.
5
Came from a wealthy Russian Jewish family. Although she was born in New York, she and her family moved to Russia in 1908. During the 1917 Russian revolution, they fled to Poland. Both she and her father were injured by bullets during the flight. In Poland the family was jailed for a while as suspected Russian spies. Because she was an American citizen by birth, they were allowed to travel to the US.
$14 Million
