Mary Castle
Actress

Mary Castle Net Worth

Mary Castle was an American actress and soundtrack born in Pampa, Texas on January 22, 1931. She was best known for her roles in The Lawless Breed (1953), Stories of the Century (1954) and Prairie Roundup (1951). She was married to Edward Frezza, Wayne Cote and William Grant. Mary Castle passed away on April 29, 1998 in Palm Springs, California.
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Age, Biography and Wiki

Who is it? Actress, Soundtrack
Birth Day January 22, 1931
Birth Place  Pampa, Texas, United States
Age 89 YEARS OLD
Died On April 29, 1998(1998-04-29) (aged 67)\nPalm Springs, California, U.S.
Birth Sign Aquarius
Occupation Actress
Years active 1948–1962
Spouse(s) William France Minchen (m. 1957–1958) Wayne Cote (m. 1960–1961) Erwin A. Frezza (m. 1971–1972)
Children Judy Ferguson (b. 1946)

💰 Net worth

Mary Castle, a renowned Actress and Soundtrack artist in the United States, is expected to have a net worth ranging from $100,000 to $1 million in 2024. With her incredible talent and dedication to the entertainment industry, Mary Castle has achieved significant success both as an actress and a soundtrack contributor. Her exceptional performances and contributions to the world of art have enabled her to accumulate a considerable amount of wealth, placing her among the elites of the entertainment industry. Mary Castle continues to captivate audiences with her talent and is set to soar to even greater heights in the coming years.

Biography/Timeline

1927

Castle was born to Erby G. Noblett, Sr. and Myrtle A. Noblett (née Brown) in Pampa, Texas. Her mother was one-sixteenth Quapaw Indian. The Nobletts moved to Fort Worth, Texas, then Phillips, subsequently a ghost town in Hutchinson County, Texas, prior to relocating to Long Beach, California. At the age of nine, Castle contracted pneumonia. Her brother, Erby Noblett, Jr. (1927–1992), taught her trick riding and later became a police officer in Long Beach.

1946

Castle gave birth to an out-of-wedlock daughter in Los Angeles in 1946.

1950

Castle's first credited role was as Flo in the 1950 film The Tougher They Come. Columbia plotted Castle's career as it had for Rita Hayworth when she had first signed with Columbia: frequent exposure and seasoning in the studio's low-budget films. Most of Mary Castle's early Columbias were Westerns: Prairie Roundup, Texans Never Cry (with Gene Autry), and When the Redskins Rode. With an obvious resemblance to Hayworth, she was seen as the object of soldiers' dreams in Columbia's 1952 war film Eight Iron Men.

1952

Mary Castle's first television appearance occurred in 1952 as Marcia Thorne in the episode "One Angle Too Many" of the detective series Racket Squad. She appeared with Jim Davis in 26 of the 39 episodes of Stories of the Century, the first western to win an Emmy Award. The series focuses upon the capture of such western outlaws as Billy the Kid, the Dalton Brothers, the Younger Brothers, and Sam Bass. When Castle left the series, she was replaced for the final thirteen episodes by Kristine Miller.

1953

Her appearance in Criminal Lawyer didn't free Castle from the Western mold; In 1953, she appeared in the Western features The Lawless Breed and Gunsmoke. The most frequently revived Mary Castle feature is probably her least prestigious: she played a gold-digging femme fatale opposite Huntz Hall and The Bowery Boys in the low-budget comedy Crashing Las Vegas (1956). She was only 24 when it was filmed, but looked years older; a new blonde hairstyle didn't disguise her now-hardened features from alcohol abuse.

1956

In 1956, she appeared on The Bob Cummings Show in the episode "The Trouble with Henry". In 1957, she guest starred on ABC's The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, in "The Case of the Baited Hook" on CBS's Perry Mason, and in "Test of Courage" of ABC's Cheyenne, starring Clint Walker. She appeared too in Frank Lovejoy's detective series, Meet McGraw.

1957

Castle was involved romantically with several men, including actor Richard Long. She ultimately had three short-lived marriages. From 1957 to 1958 she was married to william France Minchen, who used the stage name william Grant; they divorced, and he remarried. From 1960 to 1961 Castle was married from to Wayne Cote. Castle and her third husband, Erwin A. Frezza, were married from 1971 to 1972.

1959

Castle was arrested for public intoxication in December 1957 after she allegedly attempted to kick and bite two deputy sheriffs, John Aiken and K. H. Smiley, in Hollywood. The officers said that they found Castle fighting with her husband in a parked car while her ten-year-old daughter cried in the back seat. On September 14, 1959, Castle was revived by artificial respiration and taken to Malibu Emergency Hospital after being found seemingly lifeless and wearing little clothing on the beach in Malibu. On October 28, 1959, she was arrested again and fined for drunkenness. A month later on November 26, she tried to hang herself upon being placed in a Beverly Hills jail.

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