Tuesday Weld Net Worth

Tuesday Weld's Quotes

• I do not ever want to be a huge star. Do you think I want a success? I refused Bonnie and Clyde (1967) because I was nursing at the time but also because deep down I knew that it was going to be a huge success. The same was true of "Bob and Carol and Fred and Sue" or whatever it was called [Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969)]. It reeked of success.
• [about Elvis Presley] He walked into a room and everything stopped. Elvis was just so physically beautiful that even if he didn't have any talent . . . just his face, just his presence. And he was funny, charming, and complicated, but he didn't wear it on his sleeve. You didn't see that he was complicated. You saw great needs.
• It seems the brighter you are, the deeper the hole you get into.
• [on her reputation as a "wild child"] As a teenager, I was a wreck. I drank so much I can't remember anything.
• [on Sue Lyon] I don't think of her as an actress or otherwise. She just doesn't occupy that much of my mind. I don't know her.

Interesting Facts about Tuesday Weld

1. Featured on the cover of the album "Girlfriend" by Matthew Sweet. [1991]
2. Was considered for the title roles in Lolita (1962) and Norma Rae (1979).
3. Turned down the role of Bonnie in Bonnie and Clyde (1967).
4. She was director Roman Polanski's first choice for the title role in Rosemary's Baby (1968) because he thought her pure American looks would contrast well with the film's dark undertones. The studio preferred Mia Farrow, however, who had become a star on the enormously popular nighttime soap opera Peyton Place (1964). A few years later Polanski wanted her to star in his film version of Macbeth (1971). She lost the part when she refused to do a nude sleepwalking scene. The role was eventually played by Francesca Annis.
5. When asked by a reporter what drove her into seclusion after having such a public adolescence, she answered, "I think it was a Buick.".
6. Turned down the films Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969), Cactus Flower (1969), True Grit (1969) and Paint Your Wagon (1969).
7. Son, Patrick Moore (with Dudley Moore), born in 1976.
8. Has a daughter, Natasha Harz, born in 1966, with screenwriter Claude Harz.
9. Graduated from Hollywood Professional School in 1960 and was the class valedictorian.
10. Singer Walter Egan recorded "Tuesday Weld", his self-penned tribute to the actress, on his 1980 album "The Last Stroll".
11. Donald Fagen mentions her in his song "New Frontier" on the album "The Nightfly": "Introduce me to that big blonde/She's got a touch of Tuesday Weld.".
12. Refused to screen test (as did Natalie Wood) for the part of Daisy Buchanan in The Great Gatsby (1974).
13. 1958 Deb Star.
14. The first year she was on the set of The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (1959) she was mobbed so much by the press that she finally cut them off entirely. After that her name was seldom mentioned when the show was written about.
15. In Tiny Tim's recording of George M. Cohan's song "Then I'd be Satisfied with Life" (on his 1968 album "God Bless Tiny Tim"), he changes the line "If Hettie Green would only be my wife" to "If Tuesday Weld would only be my wife".
16. Born at 01:34 AM (EWT).
17. Was considered to play Mrs. Lovett in a film version of the musical "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street", but she passed on the role as time went on. When it was finally made in the 2000s, the role went to Helena Bonham Carter.
18. Sold her homes in Manhattan and beach house in Montauk (Long Island, NY) and moved to Colorado, near Aspen.
19. Fourth cousin of ex-Gov. Bill Weld of Massachussetts and both their lineages precede the Founding Fathers. The Weld name is on buildings at Harvard in honor of her family establishing the University and is one of the most important family lineages in America.
20. As of June 2010 she was living in the Aspen (CO) area and has turned down work for over ten years. Her major agents still send her scripts weekly, but she is writing and close to her daughter and granddaughter. She is offered "mother roles" on hit series, but looks better than her years.