Elaine Stritch Net Worth

Elaine Stritch's Quotes

• [on friend and actress Vivien Leigh] Everything about that girl was sad. Except her talent. Nothing sad about that.
• [on Judy Garland] I honestly believe that she was the most talented female performer of the twentieth century.
• I was twelve, and my dad and sisters were downstairs in the living room having cocktails. My dad made what must have been a strong whiskey sour, and he gave me half. And a star was born!
• Honestly, this is a big thing to say, but I don't think I've ever been bored. If I even get an inkling of it, I split. I love that lyric in "Thanks for the Memory": You might've been a headache/But you never were a bore. I think being boring is just the worst sin of all time.
• On Haila Stoddard: She was a rare piece of work in show business, I'll tell you that. She was as fair as fair can be, and she had the taste and class to hire Noël Coward, and I hasten to add, me.

Interesting Facts about Elaine Stritch

1. Created the role of Joanne in the Broadway musical, "Company", the show in which she made famous the song "Ladies Who Lunch".
2. Once was the legendary actress Alla Nazimova's understudy.
3. Niece of the late Samuel Cardinal Stritch, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Chicago from 1940 to 1958.
4. She died at her home in Birmingham, MI.
5. Wins Tony Award for Best Special Theatrical Event and Drama Desk Award for best solo performance for her one-woman memoir Broadway show "Elaine Stritch at Liberty". Show also won Drama Desk award for best book of a musical (May/June 2002).
6. Once nearly married late actor Gig Young. After their broken engagement he married pre-Bewitched (1964) star Elizabeth Montgomery.
7. Made a "Living Landmark" of New York City in 2003 for her contributions to Broadway.
8. She was nominated for a 2003 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for her performance as Best Actress in a Musical or Entertainment in "Elaine Stritch at Liberty" at The Old Vic Theatre of 2002.
9. Studied theatre at the Drama Workshop of the New School in Manhattan.
10. Lived with Ben Gazzara for two years.
11. Won Broadway's 2002 Special Theatrical Event Tony Award for her one-woman show, "Elaine Stritch at Liberty", recreated for television and on video as Elaine Stritch at Liberty (2002). She had four previous Tony nominations: as Best Supporting or Featured Actress (Dramatic) in 1956, for William Inge's "Bus Stop;" as Best Actress (Musical) in 1962, for "Sail Away," and in 1971, for "Company;" and as Best Actress (Play), in 1996 for a revival of Edward Albee's "A Delicate Balance".
12. Close friends with Noël Coward. He later wrote the role of Mimi Paragon in the musical "Sail Away" for her.
13. Spoofed by Forbidden Broadway (an ongoing collection of parodies of Broadway shows and performers) in the song "Stritch", itself a humorous send-up of the song "Zip" from the musical "Pal Joey".
14. Inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1995.
15. Performed her cabaret act at the Carlysle in New York City through the fall. [September 2006]
16. Parents were George Joseph (1892-1987) and Mildred Stritch (1893-1987).
17. Cousin of the late character actor Ed Lauter.
18. Struggled with alcoholism throughout her adult life. Stritch quit drinking in 1987 following a severe diabetic attack and remained sober for 24 years. Into her mid 80s, Stritch began to allow herself a single drink a day which lead to further health problems including a series of strokes, as documented in Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me (2013). The actress sobered up again, and remained alcohol free for the rest of her life.
19. The Broadway musical "The Grass Harp", based upon the Truman Capote novella, composed by Claibe Richardson, book and lyrics by Kenward Elmslie, had the first staging in 1967. Elaine Stritch did "Baby Love" in Providence for a month's run, and is considered by many the best to take the role.
20. Elaine Stritch appeared on the Broadway stage in productions of "Goldilocks", "Sail-A-Way", "Company" and the Lincoln Center Philharmonic concert version of "Company". In "Sail-A-Way", she had a minor role, but in the out-of-town previews, Joe Layton talked Noel Coward into dropping the lead singer, combining Elaine's minor part with the leading role, turning it into Stritch's vehicle.