Ruth Warrick Net Worth

#Fact1Comedian Carol Burnett was said to be one of her fans, by watching All My Children (1970), and later co-starred opposite Warrick.2Ruth Warrick's character, Phoebe Tyler Wallingford, ranked #22 on the All-Time list of longest-serving soap opera actors in the United States.3She received a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and was on hand to receive her Daytime Emmy Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2004.4Best friend of former All My Children (1970) co-star, Susan Lucci, for 35 years.5In 1971, she published a single with the song, "41,000 Plus 4 The Ballad of the Kent State Massacre," as an homage to Sandra Lee Scheuer, William Knox Schroeder, Jeffrey Glenn Miller and Allison Beth Krause, the four students killed at Kent State University during a demonstration against the Vietnam war.6Her one-bedroom Park Avenue apartment was an explosion of greens and purples, dominated by a huge still life by artist/jeans queen Gloria Vanderbilt.7In school, to please her parents, Warrick pushed herself to become a straight A student.8Had idolized her optimistic, flamboyant father, but was never close to her stern, proper mother.9Mother of Jon, Karen and Tim.10At Central High School, she was not allowed to participate in the school play.11Both she and her mother lived on her grandparent's farm, Quiet Glen.12For 9 years, she lived in Los Angeles, California, to star in movies.13One time, when Warrick appeared in Irene, with Debbie Reynolds on Broadway but wasn't seated at the head table for the opening-night party. She threw a tantrum, that started in the ladies' room and carried into the hall.14While having lunch with Rosemary Prinz, Warrick was amongst the first of the actresses to take on the lead role on All My Children (1970). She played that character for 35 years, until her death in 2005.15She celebrated her 80th birthday by attending a special screening of Citizen Kane to a packed, standing-room-only audience, to which she spoke afterward [29 June 1996].16Had appeared in nearly 20 films.17Her family donated her 2004 Lifetime Achievement Emmy Award, to a museum in her hometown of Saint Joseph, Missouri.18When Warrick auditioned for the part in Citizen Kane (1941), she read with Welles. She said that because she was so new to the acting business, she was not aware that it was very rare to actually read with the star.19When she starred in All My Children (1970) for the first season, she received a lesser salary.20She was the second to last actor appearing in Citizen Kane (1941) who remained alive. The actor Sonny Bupp who played Warrick's young son, Kane III, outlived her by another 2 years and was the final remaining living cast member from Warrick's death in 2005 until his death in 2007.21A movie buff.22Received the role of Hannah Cord in Peyton Place (1964), through a friend who knew the casting director of 20th Century Fox.23Warrick's father, Fred R. Warrick, had a 5 ft. Harvard bookshelf of literature.24According to her ex-All My Children (1970) co-star, Susan Lucci, she said in an interview Warrick would frequently finish a day's work, fly to a charity event and then be back on the set the next day.25A houseguest of Rosemary Prinz.26Her ex-All My Children (1970) co-star, Susan Lucci, was her caregiver, during Warrick's last days.27Had actually asked Agnes Nixon for the lead role of Phoebe Tyler Wallingford on All My Children (1970), after relocating herself from Malibu to New York City.28Every summer, when Warrick was with her grandparents, they would have an ice cream social in the park.29When Warrick was only 4, she used to sing in front of 500 elderly people.30Had a photographic memory.31When Warrick was attending Southwest High School, she participated in the school play and took writing class.32Often had lunch with Henry Jaglom.33Met Agnes Moorehead at the Mercy Theater, and they became friends until her death in 1974.34When Warrick starred on both soap operas, Guiding Light (1952) and As the World Turns (1956), Procter and Gamble put her children through college.35Created the role of Phoebe Tyler Wallingford on All My Children (1970).36Lifelong friend of Agnes Nixon. Warrick met the unfamiliar writer on Guiding Light (1952), before Nixon hired her for Phoebe Tyler Wallingford on All My Children (1970).37Was one of the people to attend the 1939 New York's World Fair, in fact, she went to see the RCA exhibit.38Before she was a successful actress, she set up bathing beauty contests, in various small towns.39Left her role on Guiding Light (1952), for one season, to spend more time with her family.40Once owned a house in Malibu.41Was pregnant while doing Citizen Kane (1941).42Met Orson Welles when she was doing CBS Radio, in 1938.43Was featured as the regular on the radio show 'The Voice of America.'.44Before she was a successful actress, she starred in a radio show in Kansas City, Missouri, for CBS.45When Warrick was asked to make any contributions, during World War II. She did everything including hospital tours, singing, a few camp shows, speaking and memorizing words to songs.46Moved to New York City and had lived there, -off and -on, between 1937 to 2005.47Her twice ex-husband, Carl Neubert, died in 1998, at the age of 90.48As a young girl, Warrick had been spellbound at her church by the stories of returning foreign missionaries, and for some time she considered becoming one.49Survived by three children, a grandson and six great-grandchildren.50Warrick relocated to Santa Monica, California, from St. Joseph, Missouri, in 1925, aged 9 through 12 - in 1928 - when she moved back to St. Joseph, she would go to the matinée movies, on a Saturday.51Her acting mentor was the late Una Merkel.52Began her career as a contract player for RKO in 1941.53By writing an essay in high school called 'Prevention and Cure of Tuberculosis,' Warrick won a contest to be Miss Jubilesta, Missouri's paid ambassador to New York City.54Her mother, Annie L. Warrick, had rented the little house in St. Joseph, Missouri, when Ruth was age 7. The house didn't have a furnace, no heat in the bedrooms, and had only one potbelly stove in the dining room.55Attended a summer school to take a typing class, because Warrick didn't want to waste time where she wasn't learning something.56Within a year, her father had 23 jobs, during World War I.57She worked as a writer/producer and director of the play 'The Follies,' when she was in high school.58Met new soap star Helen Wagner, on the set of As the World Turns (1956). Warrick played Wagner's television sister, for 4 years, where the lifelong friendship began, for almost 50 years, until Warrick's passing on January 15, 2005.59Because of her father's work, Warrick's family moved to Kansas City, Missouri, in 1932.60When her father returned home, after World War I, at that time, he lost his job, her grandfather (on her father's side) at the time was working in the grain elevator business, who was also working with her father. This was one of the reasons why her family moved to St. Joseph, Missouri, just before Warrick was born.61Before she was a successful actress, she once wrote a song for Greta Garbo.62Attended Southwest High School in Kansas City, Missouri, for Warrick's last 2 years, and she graduated there in 1934.63A radio soap opera buff.64The reason her mother named her Ruth was because her mother didn't want her to have any other nicknames.65A theater enthusiast, since she was 16 years old.66Ruth Warrick died on January 15, 2005. After her death, her family put much of her estate in an auction.67Ruth Warrick died on January 15, 2005. After Warrick's death, the day after the 2005 Academy Award ceremony, ex-All My Children (1970) co-star, Kelly Ripa, expressed her outrage on Live with Kelly and Michael (1988), that Warrick had not been included in this annual memorial tribute.68Attended Central High School in St. Joseph, Missouri, for Warrick's first 2 years, from 1930 to 1932.69Lived in St. Joseph, Missouri, with her family, until she was 16. At that time, her family moved to Kansas City, Missouri, which is 55 miles South of St. Joseph.70Her first soap opera was not Guiding Light (1952). She had been performing in soap operas, on radio, since she was a little girl.71Friends with: Louis Edmonds, Frances Heflin, Eileen Herlie, Jane Wyman, Buddy Ebsen, Agnes Moorehead, Eve Arden, Joseph Cotten, Pat O'Brien, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Claude Akins, Irna Phillips, Dorothy Malone, Ed Nelson, Alice Faye, Charita Bauer, Jeanne Cooper, Helen Wagner, Rachel Ames, Frances Reid, Agnes Nixon, Ted Corday, Carol Burnett, Jimmy Carter, Jackie Gleason and Henry Fonda.72Was born and raised in the same city as Jane Wyman.73Was very good friends with Buddy Ebsen.74Attended Buddy Ebsen's 84th Birthday Party in 1992.75Acting mentor and friend of Peter White, Kathleen Noone, Susan Lucci, Mark La Mura, Julia Barr, Candice Earley, Debbi Morgan, Kelly Ripa, Bill Timoney, Michael E. Knight, Darnell Williams and Matthew Cowles.76Best remembered by the public for her starring role as Phoebe Tyler Wallingford on All My Children (1970).77Warrick was a member of the Democratic Party, working with the administrations of Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and Jimmy Carter on labor and education issues. Upon Carter's 1980 defeat, she sent him a long letter thanking him for his efforts. He replied, telling her that if he had hired her as a speech-writer, he would have been reelected. Warrick had generally liberal political views. In her first years at All My Children (1970), Warrick was flustered by her character's strong right wing politics and support of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, which Warrick personally adamantly opposed.78Upon her death, her remains were interred at the Church of the Transfiguration in New York City.79The January 24, 2005, episode of All My Children (1970) was dedicated "In Loving Memory of Ruth Warrick." With Phoebe's passing, the show finally addressed her husband's Langley's death as Phoebe's last words were reportedly, "Langley is waiting for me." Phoebe's funeral was aired May 12, 2005. The episode featured many of Warrick's most notable performances as flashbacks and included the return of many of the characters who had been heavily involved in her story lines over the years.80Had three children from two of her five marriages.81Warrick broke her hip while on vacation in Greece in 2001 and was thereafter confined to a wheelchair.82Became close friends with her All My Children (1970) co-star Louis Edmonds who played husband Langley Wallingford, to the point where he confided to her the real-life secret that he was gay.83In 1991, Warrick was honored with a caricature on the wall of the famous New York restaurant Sardi's in honor of the 50th anniversary of her performance in Citizen Kane (1941).84In the 1980s, she admitted to have had a "torrid romance" with Anthony Quinn while making the film China Sky (1945).85She was a licensed teacher of the Unity School of Christianity.86She was an enormous fan of The Beatles.87Her favorite musical was The King and I (1956), from which came her favorite song, "Getting to Know You."88Graduated from the University of Missouri-Kansas City.89Known for her tireless work to promote education, she was active in the League School in Walpole, Massachusetts for autistic children. She also taught in Operation Bootstrap, a Los Angeles program that provided teachers to poor neighborhoods, and was a active participant in Jimmy Carter's Cities in Schools program.90Appeared in the Broadway musicals "Take Me Along" with Jackie Gleason in 1959, and "Irene" with Debbie Reynolds in 1973.91In 1937, she won a contest to serve as Kansas City's paid ambassador and ended up in New York presenting a live turkey to Mayor Fiorello La Guardia at City Hall. She decided to stay in the big city and found work on radio and with the Mercury Theatre troupe headed by Orson Welles.92Appeared very briefly on All My Children (1970) in early January of 2005, shortly before her death, to commemorate the soap opera's 35th anniversary.93In July 2000, she refused to accept a lifetime achievement award from the South Carolina Arts Commission because she was offended by legislators' decision to move the Confederate flag from the state Capitol dome to another spot on the grounds in response to a boycott of the state by flag opponents. A life-long supporter of African-American rights, she felt the flag should be removed completely, and commented, "In my view, this was no compromise. It was a deliberate affront to the African-Americans who see it as a sign of oppression and hate.".94Fell and broke her hip in early 2001 while vacationing in Italy. The fall was incorporated into the All My Children (1970) script, and she continued to play her Phoebe Tyler Wallingford character on a limited basis from a wheelchair.95Children with Rolf: Karen Elizabeth (b. 13 March 1941) and Jon (c. September 1942) Child with McNamara: son Timothy96Cousin of actress Mimi Kennedy.