Milton Berle

Work : None | New Career 29 March 1920 (Stage debut, Atlantic City, age 11) | Work : None | New Job 1931 (Stand-up comedy, N.Y. Palace Theater) | Work : None | New Job 1936 (Ziegfeld Follies) | Work : None | New Job 1937 (Film debut) | Work : None | New Job 1939 (Nine years as stand-up comedian in night club performances) | Relationship : None | Marriage 1941 (Joyce Matthews) | Work : None | Published/ Exhibited/ Released 1945 (Out of My Trunk) | Relationship : None | Marriage 1947 (Remarried Joyce Matthews) | Financial : None | Gain significant money March 1947 (Highest paid salary for time period for night club act) | Work : None | Begin Major Project September 1948 (Introduction of Texaco Star Theater) | Work : None | Contracts, agreements 1951 (NBC signs to 30-year contract) | Relationship : None | Marriage 1953 (Final long-term marriage to Ruth) | Work : None | Published/ Exhibited/ Released 1959 (Earthquake) | Work : None | Published/ Exhibited/ Released 1974 (An autobiography released, written by son) | Health : None | Medical procedure 1985 (Heart by-pass surgery) | Work : None | Published/ Exhibited/ Released January 1986 ("Milton Berle, Second Time Around," show) | Financial : None | Buy/Sell Property 1989 (Sold house of 19 years for $3 million) | : None | Death of Mate April 1989 (Ruth, married 36 years) | Health : None | Medical diagnosis 5 December 1998 (Mild stroke) | Health : None | Medical diagnosis 3 April 2001 (Colon cancer diagnosed) | : None | Death by Disease 27 March 2002 (Cancer, age 93) | Traits : Personality | Charismatic | Traits : Personality | Humorous, Witty | Diagnoses : Body Part Problems | Heart (By-pass surgery) | Family : Childhood | Family supportive (Mom was always in audience) | Family : Childhood | Order of birth (Fourth of five kids) | Family : Relationship | Marriage more than 15 Yrs (36 years, Ruth) | Family : Relationship | Marriage - Very happy (With Ruth) | Family : Relationship | Number of Marriages (Three, twice to Joyce Matthews) | Family : Relationship | Widowed (Ruth) | Family : Parenting | Foster, Step, or Adopted Kids (Adopted one son and one daughter) | Family : Parenting | Kids - Noted (Son Billy became a free-lance writer) | Lifestyle : Work | Loves job | Lifestyle : Financial | Philanthropist (Many charitable contributions of time and money) | Lifestyle : Financial | Wealthy | Personal : Death | Long life more than 80 yrs (Age 93) | Vocation : Business | Entrepreneur (Diversified investments) | Vocation : Entertainment | Actor/ Actress | Vocation : Entertainment | Child performer (Street entertainer, age five) | Vocation : Entertainment | Comedy (Stand-up comic, night club acts) | Vocation : Entertainment | Night Club/ Vaudeville (Vaudeville and off-Broadway) | Vocation : Entertainment | Radio/ D.J./ Announcer | Vocation : Entertainment | TV host/ Personality (Texaco Star Theater) | Vocation : Military | Military service (Entertained troups during WW I as civilian) | Vocation : Politics | Candidate and lost | Notable : Famous | Notable extremes (Dominated TV from 1948-56) | Notable : Famous | Top 5% of Profession