Mariette Hartley Net Worth

Mariette Hartley's Quotes

• I believe in the expression "Many of us get to heaven by backing away from hell.".
• I have learned that one's deepest wounds, integrated, become one's greatest power. Helping other survivors [of suicide] is my mission.
• I know I am associated with television and I can't seem to break that. It seems to be my lot. You could do worse. I could be not working at all!
• [on acting in the Polaroid television commercials] I absolutely wasn't going to do them. I said I was tired of doing scale commercials. I had done 75 commercials by then and I had nine wardrobe changes in my car -- the Ali MacGraw look, the Candice Bergen look, the housewife look, the person who feeds the dogs dog food look, the shopper look. I was ready to change at a drop of a hat.
• I wasn't even going to do commercials. I thought they were demeaning. I used to sit in front of the television set with my little glass of whatever and say "That poor sucker, look at what he's doing." He was making a living, that's what he's doing. I finally broke down and said to myself "Hartley, you have a thousand bucks in the bank; you better get your tush out there and see if there's any commercial interest in you.".

Interesting Facts about Mariette Hartley

1. Attended and graduated from Staples High School in Westport, Connecticut (1957), where she was the head of the school's drama department.
2. She was not allowed to show her belly button in the third season episode Star Trek: All Our Yesterdays (1969) due to censors. But Gene Roddenberry got even: he had her show TWO belly buttons in the television movie Genesis II (1973).
3. Is the grandniece of FDR's famous Secretary of the Interior, Harold L. Ickes.
4. She won an Emmy Award for her role in the memorable television movie The Incredible Hulk: Married (1978) which co-starred the late Bill Bixby. Hartley and Bixby worked together on the pilot episode for Diagnosis Murder (1993) and the sitcom Goodnight, Beantown (1983). She was also the first actress to win an Emmy Award for a sci-fi television series.
5. Is the granddaughter of trailblazing psychologist John Broadus Watson.
6. In 2006, she performed her one-woman show "If You Get to Bethlehem, You've Gone Too Far", which is based on her bestselling biography "Breaking the Silence" (1990). Mariette enacts eleven characters from her memories as a child living in a home beset by acute depression and alcoholism.
7. Her celebrity was increased significantly due to a notable, much praised, and much parodied very large series of television commercials and print ads for Polaroid cameras and film, with James Garner, running from 1977-1984. She and Garner were so naturally convincing as husband and wife that Mariette had a variety of T-shirts made, proclaiming "I am not James Garner's wife!" or "I am not Jim Rockford's wife!" or "I am not James Garner's son!" (worn by her teenage son at that time). More than 300 commercials were produced.
8. She was a founder and longtime national spokesperson for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, which she continues to be involved with as an honorary member of the board of directors (through 2013), and works assertively with many organizations that deal with mental illness. Her father, uncle and cousin all committed suicide.
9. Former actress-turned-nun Dolores Hart is Mariette's spiritual advisor, and by happenstance gave Mariette the inspired title of her one-woman show "If You Get to Bethlehem, You've Gone Too Far". It seems those are the driving directions Sister Dolores gives when describing how to get to her convent in Woodbury, Connecticut.
10. (2001-2006) She was spokesperson (with her son) for the See Clearly Method (a VHS/DVD tutorial by Vision Improvement Technologies purported to naturally correct impaired vision through an eye exercise program, for which sales were ultimately halted by a court, finding that this had been marketed dishonestly).
11. Received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Theatre from the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University) (1965).
12. Received an honorary degree (Doctor of Fine Arts) from Rider College (now Rider University) in Lawrenceville, New Jersey (1993).
13. Has starred in three different television productions with the late Bill Bixby: The Incredible Hulk (1977) (for which she won an Emmy Award), A Diagnosis of Murder (1992), and the sitcom Goodnight, Beantown (1983).
14. Received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7020 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on June 11, 1987.
15. Cousin of Bill Clinton adviser and White House Deputy Chief of Staff, Harold Ickes.
16. In her teens, she was coached and mentored by legendary acting teacher (and later Oscar nominee) Eva Le Gallienne.
17. Mother, with Patrick Boyriven, of daughter Justine E. Boyriven and son Sean Boyriven.
18. Stepmother of Ash Sroka and Warren Sroka.
19. Has discussed her father's suicide at a suicide and violence prevention forum.
20. Has publicly discussed her personal experience with bipolar disorder.