Rhonda Fleming Net Worth

Rhonda Fleming's Quotes

• What I didn't care for was everything made in those days was black and white, very hard black and white too, there was nothing really pretty about it, even my auburn hair became jet black.
• Mine was a very rare and wonderful Cinderella story, a complete Cinderella story that could have only happened during the studio system era.
• [on her break into movies] I had hoped to do some singing, but at the time I got into show business, musicals were not being made quite as often. I wound up playing a patient at a mental institution.
• [on Bing Crosby and Bob Hope] Bing was so easy-going and very relaxed and Bob would rehearse and rehearse. I wondered, "How did they make all those Road pictures together because their styles were so different?".
• [on filming The Redhead and the Cowboy (1951)] They wanted to get a close-up of me rearing a horse without using a stunt girl. So in the scene, I was riding uphill and I reared the horse up and it fell back on top of me. By the Grace of God I was not squashed like a bug. I was knocked unconscious. How I got up and walked away and finished that film was a miracle.

Interesting Facts about Rhonda Fleming

1. Mother of Kent Lane.
2. A member of the Westwood Presbyterian Church, Fleming received the Women's International Center (WIC) Living Legacy Award in 1995.
3. Attended and graduated from Beverly Hills High School in Beverly Hills, California (class of 1941). This is the same school attended by, among others, Angelina Jolie, Michael Klesic, Nicolas Cage, Lenny Kravitz, David Schwimmer, Jonathan Silverman, Gina Gershon, Jackie Cooper, Rob Reiner, Antonio Sabato Jr., Pauly Shore, Michael Tolkin, Betty White, Corbin Bernsen, Elizabeth Daily, Albert Brooks and Crispin Glover.
4. In Italy, almost all her films were dubbed by Dhia Cristiani. She was dubbed on occasion by Lydia Simoneschi, Rosetta Calavetta and Tina Lattanzi.
5. She, Jane Russell, Connie Haines and Beryl Davis were once part of a traveling gospel quartet at their church called "The Four Girls" and made an album called "Make a Joyful Noise" that sold over a million copies.
6. A one-time Las Vegas showroom singing act at the Tropicana, she also performed at the Hollywood Bowl in a one-woman concert of Cole Porter and Irving Berlin songs. Also did a ten-week tour with Skitch Henderson that focused on the music of George Gershwin. She recorded an album in 1958 for Columbia Records.
7. Was "discovered" by talent agent Henry Willson while a student at Beverly Hills High School.
8. A lyric soprano, She took lessons in light opera for ten years as a child and was trained in voice by an aunt and entered singing contests.
9. Fleming's mother was a famous Swedish blonde model in New York who made the cover of Harper's and other major magazines, and later appeared in the Al Jolson show "Dancing Around" at the Wintergarden Theater for two years and progressed from understudy to leading role. Her father worked in insurance. Her parents divorced when Rhonda was ten years old, and her elder sister, Beverly Louis (1918-1990), was fifteen years old. Young Rhonda took lessons in light opera for ten years as a child.
10. According to an interview with Ms. Fleming which was featured in an issue of "Films of the Golden Age", writer Paul Phaneuf states that Rhonda's very first taste of Hollywood came when she was 15 years old. Her mother took some pictures of her in their backyard and sent them to big-time Hollywood producer Jesse Lasky for an upcoming show of his. She lost out in the final audition.
11. She was a strong supporter of the Republican Party and was an honored speaker at the National Federal of Republican Women (2007).
12. She supported Mitt Romney during the 2012 presidential election.
13. She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6660 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on February 8, 1960.
14. She was awarded a Golden Palm Star on the Palm Springs Walk of Stars in Palm Springs, California on December 9, 2007.
15. Established Rhonda Fleming Mann Clinic for Women Comprehensive Care at the UCLA Medical Center (1993).
16. Signed her first contract for 20th Century-Fox under the professional name of Marilyn Lane but it was later changed to Rhonda at the suggestion of David O. Selznick.
17. She turned down Yul Brynner's offer of the role of Anna for a year in the road company of "The King and I".
18. Has appeared with John Payne in four films: The Eagle and the Hawk (1950), Crosswinds (1951), Tennessee's Partner (1955) and Slightly Scarlet (1956).
19. Has appeared with Ronald Reagan in four films: The Last Outpost (1951), Hong Kong (1952) Tropic Zone (1953) and Tennessee's Partner (1955).
20. Had one older sister: Beverly Louis (1918-1990).