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Gilda Gray (Marianna Michalska) was born on 24 October, 1901 in Krakau, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Kraków, Malopolskie, Poland], is an actress,soundtrack. Discover Gilda Gray's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 58 years old?

Popular As Marianna Michalska
Occupation actress,soundtrack
Age 58 years old
Zodiac Sign Scorpio
Born 24 October 1901
Birthday 24 October
Birthplace Krakau, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Kraków, Malopolskie, Poland]
Date of death 22 December, 1959
Died Place Hollywood, California, USA
Nationality Poland

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Gilda Gray Height, Weight & Measurements

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Who Is Gilda Gray's Husband?

Her husband is Hector Briceno de Saa (May 1933 - 1935) ( divorced), Gaillard T. Boag (April 1923 - 1929) ( divorced), John Gorecki (? - ?) ( divorced)

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Husband Hector Briceno de Saa (May 1933 - 1935) ( divorced), Gaillard T. Boag (April 1923 - 1929) ( divorced), John Gorecki (? - ?) ( divorced)
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Gilda Gray Net Worth

Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Gilda Gray worth at the age of 58 years old? Gilda Gray’s income source is mostly from being a successful Actress. She is from Poland. We have estimated Gilda Gray's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.

Net Worth in 2024 $1 Million - $5 Million
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Net Worth in 2023 Pending
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Source of Income Actress

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1909

The creator of 'the Shimmy' was a voluptuous blonde dancer with mischievous eyes, born Marianna Michalska in Kracow, Poland. Her parents died tragically and she was eventually adopted from an orphanage. Her foster-parents took her to the U. S. in 1909, where she commenced her career singing in her father-in-law's Chicago saloon. She then worked as a cabaret dancer in New York, and, so the story goes, discovered 'shimmying' (by 'shaking her chemise') out of sheer nervousness during a performance. Whether this is true or not, she managed to attract the attention of pianist and band leader Frank Westphal. Westphal introduced her to his wife, the vaudeville singer Sophie Tucker (whose suggestion, based on a character she had read about in a ten-cent magazine, prompted her change of stage name from 'May Gray' to the decidedly more glamorous 'Gilda').

1919

The year in which Gilda performed on stage in "The Gaieties of 1919" also saw her first 'scandalising' larger audiences with her hips and shoulders-undulating 'shimmy' (a follow-up to this was her 'Voodoo Dance' of 1923). The illusion of respectability was maintained by keeping her facial expression passive and innocent. Attempts by moral purists to outlaw the 'shimmy' largely failed. For a time, it remained the most popular exhibition dance for café society sophisticates and a 'must-have' requirement in the repertoire of any aspiring show girl.

1922

The roaring twenties offered a talented, extrovert gal many opportunities and Gilda soon graduated to the big league, appearing in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1922. Her signature dance, being ideally suited to cabaret and the revue stage, guaranteed her a profitable run on the Orpheum Circuit. However, what Gilda really craved was to be a movie actress. Hollywood in the 20's regularly recruited from the East Coast stage. This was especially true of producer Jesse L. Lasky who had built his company, Famous Players Lasky, on the box office credo of established theatrical stars.

1923

Gilda was signed up in 1923. It soon became clear, that her dancing attributes, rather than acting abilities, were to be emphasised.

To be sure, her first part was a forgettable bit as a nightclub dancer in Lawful Larceny (1923).

1925

Based on a 1925 hit Broadway play, the picture grossed 3 million dollars in the U. S. alone and became the most successful movie of its year.

1926

Three years later, though, Gilda did find herself climbing the slippery pole of Hollywood stardom as the grass-skirted heroine of Aloma of the South Seas (1926), filmed not in the South Pacific but in the Caribbean.

1927

Gilda was to star again, this time for Samuel Goldwyn, in the exotic role of Takla, The Devil Dancer (1927). Sadly, both of these famous films are now considered lost.

1929

However, a survivor of Gilda's work is Piccadilly (1929), directed by Ewald André Dupont, a stylish silent melodrama in which Gilda stars as half of a dancing duo in a London nightclub on Piccadilly Circus.

Commented the New York Times: "For a long time she has been docketed as an exponent of 'shimmy,' but in 'Piccadilly' she appears to show that acting is not above her" (July 14, 1929). Nonetheless, it must have been vexing for Gilda that co-star Anna May Wong had gathered the majority of critical plaudits.

Having lost most of her savings in the 1929 stock market crash, Gilda fell on hard times.

1931

In 1931, she suffered a heart attack. Her three marriages had all ended in divorce.

1936

Henceforth, Gilda was glimpsed on screen teaching the hootchie-kootchie to Jeanette MacDonald in Rose-Marie (1936). She was not seen in films again thereafter.

1941

In 1941, she filed for bankruptcy.

1946

She briefly returned to the headlines, having launched a million dollar lawsuit against Columbia, bizarrely claiming that the Rita Hayworth blockbuster Gilda (1946) was actually based on her life.

1950

and providing for their education was highlighted by NBC's This Is Your Life (1950).

1953

Gilda entered the public consciousness again in 1953, when her philanthropic efforts in bringing six Polish youngsters into the U. S.

1954

The suit was dropped in 1954, resulting in what the papers claimed to be a 'substantial settlement'.

1959

After a bout of food poisoning, Gilda died in December 1959 at the untimely age of 58.