Walter Winchell Net Worth

Walter Winchell Net Worth is
$1.6 Million

Walter Winchell Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018

Walter Winchell was born on April 7, 1897 in New York City, New York, USA as Walter Winchel. He was an actor and writer, known for The Untouchables (1959), The Walter Winchell File (1957) and Wake Up and Live (1937). He was married to Rita Greene. He died on February 20, 1972 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

Date Of Birth	April 7, 1897
Died	1972-02-20
Place Of Birth	New York City, New York, U.S.
Height	5' 7" (1.7 m)
Profession	Actor, Writer
Spouse	Rita Greene
Star Sign	Aries

#	Trademark
1	Stacatto speaking voice
2	Fedora hat

Title	Salary
The Untouchables (1959)	$25,000 per episode
Broadway Thru a Keyhole (1933)	$25,000

#	Quote
1	A man who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery is an optimist.
2	We found that we were citizens of a kingdom more beautiful than Camelot. Not a never-never land, but a very real and magic place called Broadway.
3	Broadway's mountain. Tough sledding on the way up - a toboggan on the way down.
4	What if I lose my column? Then I'm no different than the loudmouth in the bar. The man who sells papers on the corner may have a more secure future.
5	America would be a better place to live in if all the people who didn't like it would leave it to the rest of us - who love it!
6	I think it's important for anyone on a newspaper, particularly one who is doing a column, to "build his fences." . . . Of course I mean make as many friends as you can. You never know from where the next line or paragraph is coming. One of your best stories may come from a fellow whose face you never liked, but whom you were nice to -- and he appreciated your being civil to him, which is why he gave you the break.
7	... And so - with lotions of love - this is your New York correspondent, Walter Winchell, who knows that all the lights on Broadway are never as bright as the candle in the window when you come home.
8	Hollywood's a place where they shoot too many pictures and not enough actors.
9	Hollywood is a place that must be seen to be disbelieved.
10	"Winchell was a good newspaperman but a vain man, convinced he could change the course of world events -- slightly deluded, but never mind. He also fancied himself a ladies' man." - Lauren Bacall.

#	Fact
1	Winchell carried on a long-standing feud with actress Ethel Barrymore who said, " It is a sad commentary that Walter Winchell is allowed to exist, and the worst of it is, not that he is published here [New York], but his stuff appears all over the country.
2	Caricatured in "The Woods are Full of Cuckoos" as Walter Finchell, and in "Speaking of the Weather" as Walter Snitchall.
3	In song, Winchell was often a cynical lyric reference. In the Mel Brooks Broadway musical "The Producers", later adapted to film as The Producers (2005), Leo Bloom (played by Matthew Broderick) sings, "I want to read my name in Winchell's column" during the song "I Want to Be A Producer"; the Cole Porter composition "Let's Fly Away," include the lines, "Let's fly away/ And find a land that's so provincial/ We'll never hear what Walter Winchell/ Might be forced to say." Pianist Buddy Greco's version of "The Lady Is A Tramp" features the lyric "why she reads Walter Winchell and understands every line." Winchell is also mentioned in Billy Joel's history-themed song "We Didn't Start the Fire".
4	Robert A. Heinlein coined the term "winchell" as a generic description for a politically active gossip columnist.
5	Winchell's final two years were spent as a recluse at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California. He died of prostate cancer at the age of 74.
6	Winchell announced his retirement on February 5, 1969, citing the tragedy of his son Walter Jr.'s suicide as a major factor, while also noting the delicate health of his wife. Exactly one year later, she died at a Phoenix hospital while undergoing treatment for a heart condition.
7	Wife Rita was a former vaudeville partner. They separated within a few years, not divorcing until 1928. By this time he had been living for years with June Magee who had given birth to his child Walda. The couple had three children in all, and each marked by tragedy.
8	His wife's sister was the first wife of comic/writer Joey Adams, later the husband of NYPost Columnist Cindy Adams. (Source: Cindy Adams column, NYPost 9/17/06).
9	Coined the phrase, "America - love it or leave it."
10	Is portrayed by Stanley Tucci in Winchell (1998), by Joseph Bologna in Citizen Cohn (1992), by Joey Forman in The Scarlett O'Hara War (1980), by Craig T. Nelson in The Josephine Baker Story (1991), by Michael Townsend Wright in The Rat Pack (1998) and by Mark Zimmerman in Dash and Lilly (1999)
11	His son died at the age of 33 after shooting himself in the mouth. It was 36 years to the day after his daughter Gloria died.
12	Daughter Gloria died from pneumonia when she was nine. Winchell called it "the only tragedy in my life."
13	Daughter Gloria born and adopted c. 1924. Daughter Eileen Joan "Walda" Winchell born March 21, 1927. Son Walt, Jr. born July 26, 1935.
14	He was to star in Okay America! (1932) as himself in his own biopic, but he dropped out due to a busy schedule. Lew Ayres played him.
15	He never legally married June Magee, the mother of his children, because he had been introducing her as his wife for some time before the birth of their first child, Walda, and he did want anyone to know that Walda was illegitimate. He and June kept the secret successfully all their lives.
16	For years, Bob Hope wanted to produce and star in a biopic about Winchell, but he never got the project off the ground.
17	The columnist played by Burt Lancaster in the movie Sweet Smell of Success (1957) is somewhat loosely based on Winchell.
18	He was the most powerful and feared gossip columnist and radio commentator in America in the 1930s and 1940s. He briefly attempted a movie career in the 1930s. (In his youth he had been a minor Vaudeville singer.)
19	Walter Winchell's grave is located at Greenwood Memory Lawn Cemetery, Phoenix, Arizona.
20	His daughter, Walda, was mentally unbalanced and was the only person at his graveside when he died.
21	His adopted daughter died of pneumonia.
22	His son committed suicide.
23	Born at 7:30am-EST

Actor

Title	Year	Status	Character
Wild in the Streets	1968		Walter Winchell (uncredited)
The Kraft Music Hall	1967	TV Series	Walter Winchell
The Lucy Show	1966	TV Series	Narrator
Single Room Furnished	1966		Walter Winchell (uncredited)
Valentine's Day	1964	TV Series	Radio Announcer
The Untouchables	1959-1963	TV Series	Narrator
Wild Harvest	1962		Narrator (voice)
Dondi	1961		Walter Winchell
College Confidential	1960		Walter Winchell
The Bellboy	1960		Narrator (voice, uncredited)
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse	1959	TV Series	Narrator
Telephone Time	1957	TV Series	Walter Winchell
Beau James	1957		Narrator (voice, uncredited)
A Face in the Crowd	1957		Walter Winchell (uncredited)
The Walter Winchell Show	1956	TV Series	Walter Winchell
There's No Business Like Show Business	1954		Walter Winchell (voice, uncredited)
Sorrowful Jones	1949		Walter Winchell (voice, uncredited)
Daisy Kenyon	1947		Walter Winchell (uncredited)
Love and Hisses	1937		Walter Winchell
Wake Up and Live	1937		Walter Winchell
Broadway Thru a Keyhole	1933		Walter Winchell - Newscaster (uncredited)
Beauty on Broadway	1933	Short	Walter Winchell
I Know Everybody and Everybody's Racket	1933	Short	Walter Winchell
The Bard of Broadway	1930	Short	Walter Winchell

Writer

Title	Year	Status	Character
The Walter Winchell Show	1956	TV Series 1 episode
Broadway Thru a Keyhole	1933	story

Self

Title	Year	Status	Character
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson	1967	TV Series	Himself - Guest
The Ed Sullivan Show	1967	TV Series	Himself - Audience Bow
Danny Thomas Special: 40th Anniversary of the Coconut Grove	1964	TV Special	Himself
The Walter Winchell Show	1960	TV Series	Himself
This Is Your Life	1958	TV Series	Himself
The Walter Winchell File	1957	TV Series	Himself
The Helen Morgan Story	1957		Himself
Screen Snapshots: The Walter Winchell Party	1957	Documentary short	Himself - Honoree
The Walter Winchell Show	1956	TV Series	Himself - Host
The Walter Winchell Show	1953	TV Series	Walter Winchell
What's My Line?	1952	TV Series	Himself - Mystery Guest
Sugar Ray Robinson vs. Charley Fusari	1950		Himself - Ring Announcer
Is Everybody Listening?	1947	Documentary short	Walter Winchell
The Hollywood Gad-About	1934	Documentary short	Walter Winchell

Archive Footage

Title	Year	Status	Character
America's Book of Secrets	2013	TV Series documentary	Himself
Joe Louis: America's Hero... Betrayed	2008	TV Movie documentary	Walter Winchell
Woodward and Bernstein: Lighting the Fire	2006	Video documentary short	Himself (uncredited)
Broadway: The American Musical	2004	TV Mini-Series documentary	Walter Winchell
The 20th Century: A Moving Visual History	1999	TV Mini-Series documentary	Himself
Winchell	1998	TV Movie	Himself (uncredited)
American Masters	1997	TV Series documentary	Walter Winchell
Contact	1997		Himself - Voice Through Space (uncredited)
The Fifties	1997	TV Mini-Series documentary	Walter Winchell
Biography	1995	TV Series documentary	Himself / Walter Winchell
American Justice: Target - Mafia	1993	TV Mini-Series documentary	Himself
Brother Can You Spare a Dime	1975	Documentary	Walter Winchell
The Gun of Zangara	1960	TV Movie	Narrator (uncredited)
The Scarface Mob	1959	TV Movie	Narration
The Joe Louis Story	1953		Himself (uncredited)
The Great American Broadcast	1941		Himself - Opening Montage (uncredited)
Broadway Highlights No. 1	1935	Short	Walter Winchell

Won Awards

Year	Award	Ceremony	Nomination	Movie
1960	Star on the Walk of Fame	Walk of Fame	Television	On 8 February 1960. At 1645 Vine Street.
1960	Star on the Walk of Fame	Walk of Fame	Radio	On 8 February 1960. At 6714 Hollywood Blvd.

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Walter Winchell Net Worth

Walter Winchell Net Worth is
$1.6 Million