Wallace Beery

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Wallace Fitzgerald Beery (April 1, 1885 – April 15, 1949) was an American film and stage actor.

He is best known for his portrayal of Bill in Min and Bill (1930), opposite Marie Dressler in Treasure Island (1934), as Pancho Villa in Viva Villa. (1934), and his illustrious role in The Champ (1931), for which he received the Academy Award for Best Actor.

Over a 36-year career, Beery appeared in over 250 films.

In 1932, he was guaranteed $1 more than any other studio employee.

Beery has been dubbed the world's highest-paid actor.

Beery, brother of actor Noah Beery Jr. and uncle of actor Noah Beery Jr., was inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame as a motion picture star in 1960.

His actor is located at 7001 Hollywood Boulevard.

Early life

In 1885, Beery was born in Clay County, Missouri, near Smithville, and was the youngest of three boys. In the 1890s, the Beery family sold the farm and moved to Kansas City, Missouri, where the father was a police officer.

Beery attended the Chase School in Kansas City and took piano lessons as well, but showed no enthusiasm for academic subjects. He ran away from home twice, the first time he returned from school and working in the Kansas City train yards as an engine wiper. Beery took time out of home for the second time at age 16, and she appeared on the Ringling Brothers Circus as an assistant elephant trainer. After being clawed by a leopard, he died two years later.

Personal life

Beery married Gloria Swanson, a 17-year-old actress from Los Angeles, on March 27, 1916, at the age of 30. Both actors appeared in Sweedie Goes to College together. Although Beery had a blast with his Sweedie shorts, his career had taken a downturn, and he rely on her as a breadwinner during her marriage to Swanson. Beery assaulted her on their wedding night and then tricked her into swallowing an abortifacient, causing her to lose her child, according to Swanson's autobiography. In 1917, Swanson applied for divorce, but it was finally decided in 1918.

Rita Gilman, née Mary Areta Gilman; 1898-1986) in Los Angeles, died on August 4, 1924. Carol Ann Priester (1930–2013), daughter of Rita Beery's half-sister, Juanita Priester (née Caplinger, 1899–1931), and her husband, Erwin William Priester (1897–1969). Rita filed for divorce in Carson City, Ormsby County, Nevada, on May 1, 1939. She was 14 years married. She received the court within 20 minutes of filing. Rita remarried 15 days later to Jessen Albert D. Foyt (1939–1945), filing her marriage license with the same county clerk in Carson City.

Ted Healy, a comedic actor and three Stooges founder, was involved in a drunken altercation at Cafe Trocadero on the Sunset Strip in December 1937. E. J. Fleming, a 2005 book entitled The Fixers, Eddie Mannix, Howard Strickling, and the MGM Publicity Machine, Healy was assaulted by three men:

Healy's death was due to the beating, according to Fleming.

Phyllis Ann Beery, a 1939 girl who recently divorced, took on a seven-month-old baby. Phyllis was in MGM publicity photos when adopted but was never mentioned again. Beery told the world he had taken the baby from a single mother who recently divorced, but he did not have to provide any official adoption papers.

Beery was regarded as misanthropic and difficult to work with by many of his subordinates. Beery was described by Robert Young as a "shitty person." On set, he never bothered to learn his lines but instead chose to borrow from other actors' characters and then resent it when it was pointed out. When preparing for another actor's close-up, Beery would read the wrong lines, making it impossible for his co-stars to reach their goals. "All beer is loathed by some, but obliviously oblivious."

Mickey Rooney was one of Beery's few co-stars to regularly speak highly of him in subsequent decades. Rooney's book portrayed Beery as "a lovable, shambling sort of guy who never seemed to worry that his shirttail was hanging inside his pants," Rooney said, but he'll still remember when a little boy actor needed a smile and a wink or a word of encouragement. He did admit that "not everybody loved [Beery] as much as I did." Howard Strickling, MGM's head of public relations, screamed that Beery was stealing props from the studio's sets, according to Rooney. Rooney continued, "And that wasn't all." "He went on for a few minutes about the commotion that Beery was always causing," Mayer replied, "Yes, Howard, Beery's adolescent son of a bitch." However, he's our son of a bitch.' Strickling got the point. A family must be tolerant of its black sheep, particularly if they contributed a lot of money to the family's household, as Beery did."

Particularly, child actors recalled painful experiences with Beery. Jackie Cooper, who appeared in several films with him early in his career, called him "a big disappointment." Cooper accused Beery of upstaging and other attempts to undermine his results due to Cooper's jealousy. He recalled hurlingly throwing his arms around Beery after one particularly moving scene only to be brushed away a few times. Margaret O'Brien, a child actor, claimed that she was required to be shielded by crew members from Beery's insistence on constantly pinching her.

Beery retorted Darryl Hickman's thanks on another occasion by saying, "You owe me 7 cents, kid." Beery also refused to leave tips at the MGM commissary because he outlined that the MGM commissary was for a unique service, and that leaving a tip would be a waste of money.

Beery appeared in only his match against co-star Marie Dressler. Dressler refused to take "nonsense" from this baby, despite being up the long and hard road to her fame. She responded to one of Beery's insults by announcing that her head would be delivered on a platter to MGM CEO Louis B. Mayer. Although everyone was expecting Beery to explode, instead, he cowered and acted like "a little boy" who was extremely careful that Mommy didn't catch him with his hand in the cookie jar.

Ray Bradbury recalled being a young boy on a Hollywood street and that his autograph request resulted in Beery cursing and spitting on him.

Beery owned and flew his own planes, one of which was a Howard DGA-11. He was appointed a lieutenant commander in the United States Navy Reserve at NRAB Long Beach on April 15, 1933. One of his proudest achievements was landing the world's biggest black sea bass — 515 pounds (234 kg) — off the coast of Santa Catalina Island in 1916, a record that stood for 35 years.

In the fifth episode of Ken Burns' documentary The National Parks in America's Best Idea: In 1943, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an executive order to protect the land bordering the Grand Tetons in Wyoming. Local ranchers were furious over the loss of grazing land, compared to Hitler's invasion of Austria. They marched 500 cattle across the monument lands without a license, owing to an ageing beer.

Gloria Schumm (or Gloria Smith Beery, née Florence W. Smith; 1916–1989) filed a paternity complaint against Beery on February 13, 1948. Beery, through his advocate Norman Ronald Tyre (1910–2002), first offered $6,000 as a settlement, but denied being the father. Gloria was born on February 7, 1948, to Johan Richard Schumm. Gloria, a divorced Stuttgart-born Hollywood actor who died in 1944, married Hans Schumm (né Johann Schumm; 1896–1990), but remarried him in 1947 after realizing she was pregnant. Gloria Schumm, the granddaughter of remarrying Schumm, met with Beery at his house on August 4, 1947, where he gave her the name and address of a doctor to submit an examination. Shebey begged Beery to "legitimize the newborn" (her words), which Beery refused.

Gloria said she was intimate with Wallace Beery at his Beverly Hills home on or about May 1, 1947 (although she denied being intimate with Beery on May 17, 1947). Beery admitted that he had known Gloria for about 15 years, and that under the pseudonym "Gloria Whitney," she had appeared in six films in which he appeared. On April 15, 1948, she was officially seperated from Hans Schumm.

In the 1944 United States presidential election, Beery endorsed Thomas Dewey.

Beery died of a heart attack on April 15, 1949 (14 months, 1 week, and 1 day after Johan Schumm's birth) although the lawsuit was pending. When he died, Beery was reading a newspaper at his Beverly Hills home. His body was laid to rest at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California. "No man is indispensable, but some are irreplaceable," the inscription on his grave reads.

Beery died ofintestate. Gloria Schumm's lawyers filed a $104,135 lawsuit against Beery's $2,220,000 estate. Judge Newcomb Condee approved a $26,750 settlement from the estate in February 1952. Gloria Schumm accepted the deal, but Johan Schumm's paternity was not revealed.

Rooney planned to have Mickey Rooney's father buried next to his old friend when he died less than a year ago. "I thought it was fitting" that these two comedians rest in peace, instead of side by side."

The paternity suit and subsequent litigation, as well as appeals, dated back to about 1952 and were widely distributed, especially in gossip columns and tabloids. The case has lasted as a result of a case law that, among other things, treats the rights of legitimate heirs against legitimate heirs in races for inheritance.

Schumm's paternity lawsuit against Beery's estate put promising-betheirs and other potential legatees, including a new-be uncle, Noah Beery, Sr., in the position of de facto defendants. Phyllis Ann Riley was not listed in Beery's will. Parts of the plaintiff's argument depended on whether an oral deal was binding. Although living, Gloria said that Beery would have agreed to care for the baby. However, Gloria's assertion was dismissed by Judge William B. McKesson (1895-1977) on November 17, 1949. Any oral deal between the two parties, particularly one that was supposed to provide for the care of a minor, was not binding because the amount allegedly agreed to was in excess of $500, which must be stated in writing.

Another issue in the case was hinged on a "peppercorn" rule. That is, for any deal between Wallace and Gloria that may be oral or written, consideration must exist. The court found that Beery decided to an oral deal in which Gloria will (i) include the word "Wallace" in the child's name, or "Went" if a female, and (ii) refrain from filing a paternity lawsuit, affecting Beery's "social and professional reputation as a well-known motion picture actor.

A father who neither marries the mother nor admits paternity does not have the right to name the child under California state law at the time. That right belongs to the mother. Wallace Beery decided to arrange for the payment of $100 per week to the child (as a third-party beneficiary under the program), as well as the customary charge to pay for the "maintenance, care, and education of Wallace Beery.

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Career

Wallace Beery joined Noah in 1904, becoming a baritone and appearing on Broadway and in summer stock theatres. In 1905, he appeared in The Belle of the West. He made his first appearance in 1907 when he appeared in The Yankee Tourist to good reviews.

In 1913, he moved to Chicago to work for Essanay Studios. His first film, His Athletic Wife (1913), was most likely a comedies short.

Beery appeared in a sequence of short comedies from 1914 to 1916 as Sweedie, a Swedish maid character he played in drag. Ben Turpin co-starred Sweedie Learns to Swim (1914). Gloria Swanson, who Beery married the following year, appeared in Sweedie Goes to College (1915).

Other Beery films from this period (mainly shorts) include In and Out (1914), Cheering a Husband (1914), Two Hearts That Beat (1915), and The Fable of the Roistering Blades (1915).

The Slim Princess (1915), starring Francis X. Bushman, was one of his first feature-length films. Beery also did The Broken Pledge (1915) and A Dash of Courage (1916), both with Swanson.

Beery appeared as a German soldier in The Little American (1917) with Mary Pickford, directed by Cecil B. De Mille: The de Mille family. He appeared in some comedies for Mack Sennett, Maggie's First False Step (1917) and Teddy at the Throttle (1917), but he gradually moved away from this genre and concentrated in villain portrayals prior to becoming a leading man in the sound period.

Beery portrayed Pancho Villa in Patria in 1917, a period when Villa was still present in Mexico. (Beery appeared in Viva Villa 17 years ago)

In The Unpardonable Sin (1919) with Blanche Sweet, Beery was a villainous German. Wallace Reid's The Love Burglar (1919) with Wallace Reid (1919), as another villainous German; and The Life Line (1919) with Holt.

Beery was the villain in five major releases in 1920: 813; The Virgin of Stamboul for director Tod Browning; The Mollycoddle with Douglas Fairbanks, in which Fairbanks and Beery fist struggled as they crashed down a steep mountain (see the photo in the gallery); and in the noncomedic Western The Round-Up starring Roscoe Arbuckle as an obese cowboy. Beery continued his bad boyhood with The Last of the Mohicans, his third year in the Mohicans, when he appeared in Magua.

Beery appeared in The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1920) with Rudolph Valentino. In A Tale of Two Worlds (1921), He was the villainous Tong chief, and he was the bad guy again in Sleeping Acres (1922), Wild Honey (1922), and I Am the Law (1922), which also included Noah Beery Sr.

In Robin Hood (1922), Beery appeared in a large then-rare role as King Richard I (Richard the Lion-Hearted) as Robin Hood, starring Douglas Fairbanks as Robin Hood. The lavish film was a hit and spawned a sequel the following year starring Beery in the title role of Richard the Lion-Hearted.

Beery was starring Lon Chaney in A Blind Bargain (1922) (Beery is seen crouching, sporting complete ape-Man make-up in the background of some of the film's posters), as well as a supporting role in The Flame of Life (1923). In King Philip IV of Spain (1923), he played another legendary king, with Pola Negri as his king.

Beery appeared in an action melodrama, Stormswept (1923) for FBO Films alongside his elder brother, Noah Beery Sr. The movie's tagline was "Wallace and Noah Beery: The Two Greatest Character Actors on Film" was the movie's slogan.

In Ashes of Vengeance (1923), Beery was the Duc de Tours' third royal, then Drifting (1923) with Priscilla Dean for director Browning.

Beery played a prominent part in Bavu (1923), about Bolsheviks and the Russian Revolution. He co-starred with Buster Keaton in the comedy Three Ages (1923), Keaton's first feature, produced, edited, and starred in.

In The Eternal Struggle (1923), a Mountie romance starring Louis B. Mayer, who would later become a key to Beery's career, Beery was a villain. He was reunited with Dean and Browning in White Tiger (1923), and then appeared in Richard the Lion-Hearted (1923), a sequel to Robin Hood based on Sir Walter Scott's The Talisman, a print of Richard the Lion-Hearted (1923), a print of Richard the Lion-Hearted (1923) at the Archives du Film du CNC in Bois d'Arcy.

Beery was in The Drums of Jeopardy (1923) and played a supporting role in the film The Sea Hawk (1924) for director Frank Lloyd. He appeared in a supporting role in Clarence Brown's The Signal Tower (1925), starring Virginia Valli and Rockliffe Fellowes.

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He was given the role of Professor Challenger in Arthur Conan Doyle's dinosaur epic The Lost World (1925), arguably his silent performance in the modern era. Victor Fleming's The Devil's Cargo (1925) and The Wanderer (1925) for Raoul Walsh were top billed in In The Night Club (1925) for Barry Cruze (1925) and The Wanderer (1925) for Raoul Walsh.

Beery appeared in Behind the Front (1926), and he was a villain in Volcano! (1926) A.K.A. (1926). In Old Ironsides (1926), he was a boss'n, with Charles Farrell in the romantic lead.

In the baseball movie Casey at the Bat (1927), Beery had the title role. In Fireman, Save My Child (1927), and Now We're in the Air (1927). Louise Brooks, who was Beery's costar in Beggars of Life (1928), directed by William Wellman, was The latter was It was It was The former was It was also Louise Brooks, It was also Louise Brooks, the first part-talkie film "Begrowne Brooks, who was also appeared in Beggar in Beggars of Life (1928), Paraphrasedescrow, which was Paraphrased's first part starring William Wellman's first part-talkie's first part-talkie's first part-talkie's first part-talkie's.

Hatton, Wife Savers (1929), then Beery appeared in Chinatown Nights (1929) for Wellman, directed by a young David O. Selznick. This film was shot in a slumsy voice by the actors afterward, but it was not used again during Beery's resonant voice during another full length film in the silent period. Beery appeared in Stairs of Sand (1929), a Western film starring Jean Arthur (who appeared in the Western film Shane 24 years ago) before being dismissed by

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