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Post by pimpinainteasy on Sept 4, 2017 14:52:31 GMT
do with their lives? it could be forced or voluntary retirement. but how do these people pay bills? so many people take the big risk. how many of them make it? what do actors do when nobody calls them?
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Post by mattgarth on Sept 4, 2017 15:04:05 GMT
Some of them give it up for marriage and family raising.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Sept 4, 2017 15:08:13 GMT
They can get other jobs in other industries or non-acting jobs in the movie industry.
Cary Grant enjoyed giving lectures about his career.
They can enjoy their retirement and live off of their savings.
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Post by Terrapin Station on Sept 4, 2017 15:15:43 GMT
Repeating my answer from the other thread:
A lot of folks in arts & entertainment businesses who weren't huge successes in those businesses and who retire from them wind up having second careers. It just depends on how much money they made, how wisely they managed their money, and their family situation.
If you did well enough that something you worked in is periodically broadcast, licensed, etc., you can continue to live off of royalties, or points, residuals, etc. You don't have to be particularly famous to be in that situation. It doesn't mean that you'd be rich--you might have to live very modestly, or supplement your royalties with other work, but that's kind of like getting a pension or receiving social security checks, as long as the work is still periodically used.
Of course, if you made even a million dollars or so at one point (net let's say), if you were smart, and you live modestly, you can live off that money for a long time.
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Post by Richard Kimble on Sept 4, 2017 15:44:22 GMT
do with their lives? it could be forced or voluntary retirement. but how do these people pay bills? so many people take the big risk. how many of them make it? what do actors do when nobody calls them? That's enough questions for several threads. For people who were never stars they find other work. Some teach acting, others get involved in casting, others in other areas of industry service (catering, renting out trailers, etc...). Many actresses become restaurant hostesses -- which can be surprisingly lucrative. Lana Clarkson was working as one when she had her fatal rendezvous with Phil Spector. Many go into teaching high school (such as the rich boy bad guy in Billy Jack). Michael Burns ("Blueboy" on Dragnet) actually became an college professor at (IIRC) Mount Holyoke, specializing in the Dreyfus case. John Kerr, Latin sexpot Louisa Moritz, and Denny from Sha Na Na became lawyers. Bernard Punsley of the Dead End Kids actually became a doctor. Beautiful ingenues have a handicap as the business often throws on the garbage heap as soon as they're 30. But they have an advantage as well -- they often end up marrying wealthy businessmen, especially real estate investors. Some ex-ingenues become realtors, a profession where beauty and friendliness do not hurt. Southern California is full of show biz vets who went into the real estate business. Many are agents/realtors, while Fess Parker supposedly amassed a 9 figure fortune from hotels and wineries. Middlingly successful Francis Lederer went into, yes, real estate and by the '80s was worth at least $12M. Hell, the guy who kidnapped Frank Sinatra Jr got out after 5 years and went into real estate -- by 1983 he was worth $17M.
There are sad stories of stars who fell on hard times (Charles Ray, Barbara Payton, Aldo Ray, Tom Conway...) but also success stories. Most stars who leave the business do so b/c they no longer need it to support themselves. Thanks to the Jackie Coogan Law, Russ Tamblyn had 35% of his childhood earnings salted away, and he was able to live on that. Silent star Corrine Griffith was a very shrewd investor and eventually took on the IRS when they tried to tax her tax-free bonds -- she really deserves a thread of her own. |
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Post by teleadm on Sept 4, 2017 17:45:13 GMT
 John Boles, carved out a new career in the oil business.  John Howard, moved into academia. He taught English at Highland Hall Waldorf School for more than twenty years and helped to start the high school program at the institution. he later became headmaster there. He also gave private lessons in celestial navigation.  Robert Montgomery: Served on the board of directors of several major corporations in the 1960s, including R.H. Macy and Co. and the Milwaukee Telephone Company. |
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Post by mattgarth on Sept 4, 2017 17:47:19 GMT
And Montgomery also worked in the White House in the 1950s as Eisenhower's consultant on communications.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Sept 4, 2017 17:57:15 GMT
ROBINSON STONE Under the name Robert Stone, he taught classes at Fordham University's College at Lincoln Center in New York City during the 1970s and 1980s. One of his students was Denzel Washington. Who the heck is he ? you might well ask : www.imdb.com/name/nm0832139/referenceThat's him on the right - Joey - in STALAG 17 - his only big screen feature film appearance (with Robert Strauss)  |
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Post by politicidal on Sept 4, 2017 22:21:46 GMT
Run for public office.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Sept 4, 2017 22:24:48 GMT
You mean like for President or Governor ? Don't talk such silly talk !  |
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Post by mikef6 on Sept 5, 2017 0:39:40 GMT
do with their lives? it could be forced or voluntary retirement. but how do these people pay bills? so many people take the big risk. how many of them make it? what do actors do when nobody calls them? Beautiful ingenues have a handicap as the business often throws on the garbage heap as soon as they're 30. But they have an advantage as well -- they often end up marrying wealthy businessmen, especially real estate investors.
In 1949, British born star Greer Garson married millionaire cattleman E.E. (Buddy) Brooks. When she retired in 1967, she lived full-time with her husband at ranch homes in Texas and New Mexico. She and her husband are buried in Dallas – a long way geographically and culturally from her birthplace in London just after the turn of the 20th century. Claire Trevor’s third and last husband was Milton Bren, real estate developer and occasional movie producer. After her retirement, she and her husband donated so many millions to the U of California-Irvine that they named their theatre department the Claire Trevor School of the Arts. Joan Perry, 1930s B-movie actress, retired in 1941 when she married The Most Hated Man In Hollywood – Harry Cohn, head of Columbia Studios. Well, maybe he was a pussycat at home. They were married until Cohn’s death in 1958. |
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Sept 5, 2017 15:29:42 GMT
Some of them sell insurance.
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