Josephine Lawrance Goddard Net Worth is $6 Million
Josephine Lawrance Goddard Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
The entrancing and exotic-eyed "B"-level leading lady Jody Lawrance, whose 1950's career was spotty at best, provided lovely diversion from the manly adventure movies she helped bring to the screen. Personal turmoil and studio conflicts, however, ultimately hurt her career and the remainder of her life was spent out of the limelight. She was born ...
Victoria P. Tilton, Robert Wolf Herre, Jr., Chrissy A Herre
Star Sign
Libra
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[on why she wound up a waitress at an ice-cream parlor in Los Angeles at one point in her career] I see now that I was temperamental. I didn't cooperate with publicity. I didn't want to do cheesecake, not because my legs were bad, because they aren't. My entire training was as an actress and I didn't want to submit to the starlet routine. If I had it to do over again, I would do it differently. I realize now that cheesecake and publicity are an important part of the movie business.
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Asked Columbia Pictures execs to recast her role of Nancy Flynn in the musical All Ashore (1953) because she felt her singing and dancing skills were not up to par. The studio refused and Jody wound up performing the role. The studio later released her from her contract due to this "difficulty". The irony of it all is that her singing and dancing abilities (as well as that of Barbara Bates) were barely utilized in the film other than a brief bit in the film's closing song "Boy Meets Girl / Catalina". Mickey Rooney, Dick Haymes, Peggy Ryan and Ray McDonald handled almost all of the musical chores.
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A young Norma Jeane Baker (later sex goddess Marilyn Monroe) lived in a foster home situation with Jody's stepmother, Grace McKee, a good friend of her mother Gladys Baker and a film librarian for Columbia Studios, on and off for several years (1935-1942). It was supposedly Grace who paid for Norma Jeane's singing, dancing and piano lessons and she became Norma Jeane's legal guardian when her mother Gladys Baker was institutionalized. Grace McKee Goddard married Jody's father, Erwin Goddard, in 1937 and together they lived in their modest Van Nuys, California bungalow. 11-year-old Jody eventually moved in with her father in California and met her 15-year-old foster sister Norma Jeane during the 1941-1942 period. Jody later described Norma Jeane as a "shy and introverted girl," somewhat neurotic who clammed up and was very sensitive toward her surroundings. At one point, Jody's father volunteered to serve as Marilyn's business manager when the star started to make money. Marilyn, however, eventually phased Erwin out of her dealings. In 1953, Jody's stepmother, Grace, who set Norma Jeane up with her first husband, James Daugherty, committed suicide in 1953 from a barbiturate overdose. Interestingly, it was Marilyn who made all the funeral arrangements for Grace and it was Marilyn who killed herself in the very same manner nine years later in 1962.
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From her first marriage, daughter Victoria Tilton on October 6, 1957. She had two children from her second marriage, Robert Wolf Herre, Jr. and Abigail Christian "Chrissy" Herre (October 10, 1963).
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Made ends meet by working as a waitress in an ice cream parlour near the UCLA campus in 1955.
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Co-founded Screen Tests Inc. with Benno Schneider in February 1953.
$6 Million
