How Much Did Actors and Actresses In The Golden Age Of Hollywood Make?

Hey i'm doing some research on the golden age of hollywood (20's-50's) and am trying to find what a typical salary was for a person in that era but can't find much. I know today they get paid million and millions of dollars to do movies but I know back in the earlier times it was much different...so how much did someone like Rita Hayworth, or Fred Astaire, etc get paid to do a film?How Much Did Actors and Actresses In The Golden Age Of Hollywood Make?I read somewhere that top actors like Hope and Crosby made as much as 5000.00 a week, but they had to work on a picture a week.How Much Did Actors and Actresses In The Golden Age Of Hollywood Make?Ronald Reagan was paid 200.00 a week when he signed on for a 7 year acting contract.



The so-called Golden Age of Hollywood lasted from the end of the silent era in American cinema in the late 1920's to the early 1960's.