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Paulette Goddard
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3 June 1910 - 23 April 1990
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Paulette Godard is an American film actress. Paulette's professional career began early. At the age of fifteen she became a dancer. Godard first appeared on stage in the musical Rio Rita in 1926. A year later, she was offered a role in the production of The Unconquerable Male.
In her early thirties, she starred in films such as The Mouthpiece, The Girl Habit and Pack Up Your Troubles. In 1932, there was an event that seriously changed the life of Godard – she met with a friend. Charlie Chaplin
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Paulette Godard is an American film actress.
Paulette's professional career began early. At the age of fifteen she became a dancer. Godard first appeared on stage in the musical Rio Rita in 1926. A year later, she was offered a role in the production of The Unconquerable Male.
In her early thirties, she starred in films such as The Mouthpiece, The Girl Habit and Pack Up Your Troubles. In 1932, there was an event that seriously changed the life of Godard – she met with a friend.
Charlie Chaplin . Very soon they managed to find a common language and shoot a picture of Modern Times, where Paulette played the main role.
Over the next few years, she was a frequent contributor to Samuel Goldwyn Productions. In the thirties, Godard entered into an agreement with one of the popular Hollywood producers - David Selznick. One was the main contender for the role in the film.
Gone with the Wind The choice was in favor of Vivien Leigh.
Critics were sure that the producer chose Lee only because of fears of a scandal that could arise in connection with the rather strange relationship between the actress and Charlie Chaplin. In the forties, Godard played roles in such films as “Delay the Dawn”, “Northwest Mounted Police” and “Exorcists of Ghosts”, gaining great fame.
Very soon came the decline of her career, and even participation in the films The Snoop Sisters and Time of Indifference did not allow her to rehabilitate. From 1944 to 1950, she was married to actor Burgess Meredith. In 1958, she became the wife of writer Erich Remarque, with whom she moved to Switzerland and lived until her death in 1970.
During the last years of her life, Paulette lived in New York City, where she tried to cure breast cancer and spoke at various public gatherings. After Godard's death, twenty million dollars went to New York University.