Charles MacArthur Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
"Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers out there are starving!" When Patrick Dennis's fictional Auntie Mame uttered this pithy observation, she could have been speaking of Charles MacArthur. Charlie never shied away from the feast, and he certainly never went hungry. Arriving in November 1895 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, Charlie was the second ...
(About Irving Thalberg) He's too good to last. The lamb doesn't lie down with the lion for long.
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He and wife Helen Hayes were close friends with Norma Shearer and her husband, MGM production chief Irving Thalberg. When news of Thalberg's sudden death was announced in September of 1936, Hayes sought out her husband to tell him the tragic news, only to find him alone outside playing tennis on the same court where he and Thalberg had shared many a match. According to Hayes he didn't come inside until many hours later and then broke down sobbing.
Established with wife Helen Hayes, the Mary MacArthur Fund with The March of Dimes to assist children who are dying of polio, named after their daughter, Mary, who died of the disease in 1949.
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Assistant to the chief of the Chemical Warfare Service in Washington D.C. during World War II.
$1.1 Million
