Paulette Goddard

Paulette Goddard (born Pauline Marion Levy on June 3, unknown -April 23, 1990) was an American actress. A former child model and Ziegfield Girl, she was a major star of the Paramount Studio in the 1940s. Her exceptional beauty and fame led to several marriages to notable men, including Charlie Chaplin, Burgess Meredith, and Erich Maria Remarque, although she never had any children.

Paramount pictures

She starred with Chaplin again in his 1940 film The Great Dictator . She also made three comedies with Bob Hope: The Cat And The Canary, The Ghost Breakers, and Nothing But The Truth. She also starred in Hold Back the Dawn, three Cecil B. DeMille epics, North West Mounted Police, Reap the Wild Wind and Unconquered, and The Diary of a Chambermaid with Burgess Meredith, whom she eventually married and divorced. She was often paired with leading men at Paramount such as Ray Milland (in Reap the Wild Wind, Kitty, The Lady Has Plans and The Crystal Ball) and Fred MacMurray (in Standing Room Only, Suddenly It's Spring, and The Forest Rangers.)

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Cecil B. DeMille - Burgess Meredith - Ray Milland - Fred MacMurray

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She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1944 for So Proudly We Hail!, and had some successful roles after that, but her career faded in the late 1940s. In 1949 she formed Monterey pictures with John Steinbeck. Her last starring roles were the English production A Stranger Came Home (known as The Unholy Four in the USA), and Charge of the Lancers in 1954. In 1964 she made a comeback attempt in films with a supporting role in the Italian film Time of Indifference.

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Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress - 1944 - John Steinbeck

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