Paulette Goddard

Paulette Goddard (born Marion Levy; June 3, 1910 – April 23, 1990) was an American actress, a child fashion model and a performer in several Broadway productions as a Ziegfeld Girl; she became a major star of Paramount Pictures in the 1940s. Her most notable films were her first major role, as Charlie Chaplin's leading lady in Modern Times, and Chaplin's subsequent film The Great Dictator. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in So Proudly We Hail! (1943). Her husbands included Charlie Chaplin, Burgess Meredith, and Erich Maria Remarque.

Paulette Goddard
Studio publicity portrait for Charles Chaplin's Modern Times (1936), in which Goddard had her first substantial film role.
Born	Marion Levy[lower-alpha 1] June 3, 1911[lower-alpha 2] Whitestone Landing, Queens, New York, U.S.
Died	April 23, 1990 (aged 78) Ronco sopra Ascona, Ticino, Switzerland
Resting place	Ronco Village Cemetery, Ticino, Switzerland
Nationality	American
Occupation	Actress, film producer, dancer, model
Years active	1926–1972
Spouse(s)	Edgar James ​ ​ (m. 1927; div. 1932)​ Charlie Chaplin ​ ​ (m. 1936; div. 1942)​ Burgess Meredith ​ ​ (m. 1944; div. 1949)​ Erich Maria Remarque ​ ​ (m. 1958; died 1970)​

Early life

Goddard was the daughter of Joseph Russell Levy (1881–1954), the son of a prosperous cigar manufacturer from Salt Lake City, and Alta Mae Goddard (1887–1983).[11][12] Her father was Jewish of Russian Heritage, her mother Episcopalian of English ancestry. They married in 1908 and separated while their daughter was very young, although the divorce did not become final until 1926. According to Goddard, her father left them, but according to J. R. Levy, Alta absconded with the child.[11] Goddard was raised by her mother, and did not meet her father again until the late 1930s, after she had become famous.[13]

In a 1938 interview published in Collier's, Goddard claimed Levy was not her biological father.[13] In response, Levy filed a suit against his daughter, claiming that the interview had ruined his reputation and cost him his job, and demanded financial support from her. In a December 17, 1945, article written by Oliver Jensen in Life, Goddard admitted to having lost the case and being forced to pay her father $35 a week.

To avoid a custody battle, she and her mother moved often during her childhood, even relocating to Canada at one point.[11] Goddard began modeling at an early age to support her mother and herself, working for Saks Fifth Avenue, Hattie Carnegie, and others. An important figure in her childhood was her great uncle, Charles Goddard, the owner of the American Druggists Syndicate. He played a central role in Goddard's career, introducing her to Broadway impresario Florenz Ziegfeld.[11]

In 1926, she made her stage debut as a dancer in Ziegfeld's summer revue, No Foolin', which was also the first time that she used the stage name Paulette Goddard.[14] Ziegfeld hired her for another musical, Rio Rita, which opened in February 1927, but she left the show after only three weeks to appear in the play The Unconquerable Male, produced by Archie Selwyn.[15] It was, however, a flop and closed after only three days following its premiere in Atlantic City.[15]

Soon after the play closed, Goddard was introduced to Edgar James, president of the Southern Lumber Company, located in Asheville, North Carolina, by Charles Goddard.[16] Aged 17, considerably younger than James, she married him on June 28, 1927, in Rye, New York. It was a short marriage, and Goddard was granted a divorce in Reno, Nevada, in 1929, receiving a divorce settlement of $375,000.[16]

Film career

Early films

Goddard first visited Hollywood in 1929, when she appeared as an uncredited extra in two films, the Laurel and Hardy short film Berth Marks (1929), and George Fitzmaurice's drama The Locked Door (1929).[17]

Following her divorce, she briefly visited Europe before returning to Hollywood in late 1930 with her mother. Her second attempt at acting was no more successful than the first, as she landed work only as an extra.

Sam Goldwyn

In 1930, she signed her first film contract with producer Samuel Goldwyn to appear as a Goldwyn Girl in Whoopee! (1930). She also appeared in City Streets (1931), Ladies of the Big House (1931), and The Girl Habit (1931) for Paramount, Palmy Days (1931) for Goldwyn, and The Mouthpiece (1932) for Warners.

Goldwyn and she did not get along, and she began working for Hal Roach Studios, appearing in a string of uncredited supporting roles for the next four years, including Show Business (1932), Young Ironsides (1932), Pack Up Your Troubles (1932) (with Laurel and Hardy), and Girl Grief with Charley Chase.[17]

Goldwyn used Goddard in The Kid from Spain (1932), The Bowery (1933), Roman Scandals (1933), and Kid Millions (1934).

Charlie Chaplin

Goddard in 1947.

The year she signed with Goldwyn, Goddard began dating Charlie Chaplin, a relationship that received substantial attention from the press.[17][18] It marked a turning point in Goddard's career when Chaplin cast her as his leading lady in his next box office hit, Modern Times, in 1936. Her role as "The Gamin", an orphan girl who runs away from the authorities and becomes The Tramp's companion, was her first credited film appearance and garnered her mainly positive reviews, Frank S. Nugent of The New York Times describing her as "the fitting recipient of the great Charlot's championship".[17]

David O. Selznick & MGM

Following the success of Modern Times, Chaplin planned other projects with Goddard in mind as a co-star, but he worked slowly, and Goddard worried that the public might forget about her if she did not continue to make regular film appearances. She signed a contract with David O. Selznick and appeared with Janet Gaynor in the comedy The Young in Heart (1938) before Selznick lent her to MGM to appear in two films.

The first of these, Dramatic School (1938), co-starred Luise Rainer, but the film received mediocre reviews and failed to attract an audience.[19]

Her next film, The Women (1939), was a success. With an all-female cast headed by Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, and Rosalind Russell, the film's supporting role of Miriam Aarons was played by Goddard. Pauline Kael later wrote of Goddard, "she is a stand-out. Fun."[20]

Scarlett O'Hara

Selznick was pleased with Goddard's performances, particularly her work in The Young in Heart, and considered her for the role of Scarlett O'Hara. Initial screen tests convinced Selznick and director George Cukor that Goddard would require coaching to be effective in the role, but that she showed promise,[21] and she was the first actress given a Technicolor screen test.[21]

Russell Birdwell, the head of Selznick's publicity department, had strong misgivings about Goddard. He warned Selznick of the "tremendous avalanche of criticism that will befall us and the picture should Paulette be given this part...I have never known a woman, intent on a career dependent upon her popularity with the masses, to hold and live such an insane and absurd attitude towards the press and her fellow man as does Paulette Goddard...Briefly, I think she is dynamite that will explode in our very faces if she is given the part."

Selznick remained interested in Goddard for the role of Scarlett. After he was introduced to Vivien Leigh, he wrote to his wife that Leigh was a "dark horse" and that his choice had "narrowed down to Paulette, Jean Arthur, Joan Bennett, and Vivien Leigh".[21]

After a series of tests with Leigh that pleased both Selznick and Cukor, Selznick cancelled the further tests that had been scheduled for Goddard, and the part was given to Leigh.[21] It has been suggested that Goddard lost the part because Selznick feared that questions surrounding her marital status with Charlie Chaplin would result in scandal. However, Selznick was aware that Leigh and Laurence Olivier lived together, as their respective spouses had refused to divorce them,[22] and in addition to offering Leigh a contract, he engaged Olivier as the leading man in his next production Rebecca (1940).[23] Chaplin's biographer Joyce Milton wrote that Selznick was worried about legal issues by signing her to a contract that might conflict with her pre-existing contracts with the Chaplin studio.[24]

Paramount

Douglass Montgomery, Bob Hope, Goddard and John Beal in The Cat and the Canary

Goddard signed a contract with Paramount Pictures and her next film, The Cat and the Canary (1939) with Bob Hope, was a turning point in the careers of both actors. They promptly were re-teamed in The Ghost Breakers (1940).

Goddard starred with Chaplin again in his 1940 film The Great Dictator. The couple split amicably soon afterward, and Goddard allegedly obtained a divorce in Mexico in 1942, with Chaplin agreeing to a generous settlement.

At Paramount, Goddard was used by Cecil B. De Mille in the action epic North West Mounted Police (1940), playing the second female lead.

She was Fred Astaire's leading lady in Second Chorus (1940), where she met actor Burgess Meredith, her third husband,.

Goddard made Pot o' Gold (1941), a comedy with James Stewart, then supported Charles Boyer and Olivia de Havilland in Hold Back the Dawn (1941), from a script by Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett, directed by Mitchell Leisen.

Goddard was teamed with Hope for a third time in Nothing But the Truth (1942), then made The Lady Has Plans (1942), a comedy with Ray Milland.

She did Reap the Wild Wind (1942), playing the lead, a Scarlett O'Hara type character. Co-starring Milland and John Wayne, it was a huge hit.

Goddard did The Forest Rangers (1942). One of her better-remembered film appearances was in the variety musical Star Spangled Rhythm (1943), in which she sang "A Sweater, a Sarong, and a Peekaboo Bang" with Dorothy Lamour and Veronica Lake. She and Milland did The Crystal Ball (1943).

Oscar nomination

Goddard received one Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress for the 1943 film So Proudly We Hail!.

Goddard was teamed with Fred MacMurray in Standing Room Only (1944) and Sonny Tufts in I Love a Soldier (1944). She was one of many Paramount stars in Duffy's Tavern (1945).

Goddard's most successful film was Kitty (1945), in which she played the title role.

Producer

In The Diary of a Chambermaid (1946), Goddard starred with Burgess Meredith, to whom she was married at the time, under the direction of Jean Renoir. It was made for United Artists.

At Paramount she did Suddenly It's Spring (1947) and De Mille's Unconquered (1947).[25] During the Hollywood Blacklist, when she and blacklisted husband Meredith were mobbed by a baying crowd screaming "Communists!" on their way to a premiere, Goddard is said to have turned to her husband and said, "Shall I roll down the window and hit them with my diamonds, Bugsy?"

In 1947, she made An Ideal Husband in Britain for Alexander Korda, and was accompanied on a publicity trip to Brussels by Clarissa Spencer-Churchill, niece of Sir Winston Churchill and future wife of future Prime Minister Anthony Eden.

Goddard and her husband were among several stars in On Our Merry Way (1948).

At Paramount, she did two movies with MacDonald Carey: Hazard (1948) and Bride of Vengeance (1949). She then left the studio.

Freelance

Paulette Goddard in a publicity shot for A Stranger Came Home (1954)

In 1949, she formed Monterey Pictures with John Steinbeck. Goddard starred in Anna Lucasta (1949), then went to Mexico for The Torch (1950). In England, she was in Babes in Bagdad (1952); then she went to Hollywood for Vice Squad (1953), Sins of Jezebel (1953), Paris Model (1953), and Charge of the Lancers (1954). Her last starring role was in the English production A Stranger Came Home (known as The Unholy Four in the United States).

Television

Goddard began appearing in summer stock and on television, guest starring on episodes of Sherlock Holmes, an adaptation of The Women, this time playing the role of Sylvia Fowler,[18] The Errol Flynn Theatre, The Joseph Cotten Show, and The Ford Television Theatre.

She was in an episode of Adventures in Paradise and a TV version of The Phantom.

Later life

After her marriage in 1958 to Erich Maria Remarque, Goddard largely retired from acting and moved to Ronco sopra Ascona, Switzerland.

In 1964, she attempted a comeback in films with a supporting role in the Italian film Time of Indifference, which was her last feature film.

After Remarque's death in 1970, she made one last attempt at acting, when she accepted a small role in an episode of The Snoop Sisters (1972) for television.[25]

Upon Remarque's death, Goddard inherited much of his money and several important properties across Europe, including a wealth of contemporary art, which augmented her own long-standing collection. During this period, her talent at accumulating wealth became a byword among the old Hollywood élite. During the 1980s, she became a fairly well known (and highly visible) socialite in New York City, appearing covered with jewels at many high-profile cultural functions with several well-known men, including Andy Warhol, with whom she sustained a friendship for many years until his death in 1987.[26]

Death

Goddard underwent invasive treatment for breast cancer in 1975, successfully by all accounts.[27] On April 23, 1990, aged 79,[28] she died at her home in Switzerland[26] from heart failure while under respiratory support due to emphysema. She is buried in Ronco Village Cemetery, next to Remarque and her mother.

Personal life

With Phillip Reed in 1957

Goddard married the much older lumber tycoon Edgar James on June 28, 1927, when she was 17 years old; the couple moved to North Carolina. They separated two years later and divorced in 1932.[29]

In 1932, Goddard began a relationship with Charlie Chaplin. She later moved into his home in Beverly Hills. They were reportedly married in secret in Canton, China, in June 1936. Years later Chaplin privately told relatives that they were married only in common law. Aside from referring to Goddard as "my wife" at the October 1940 premiere of The Great Dictator, neither Goddard nor Chaplin publicly commented on their marital status. On June 4, 1942, Goddard was granted a Mexican divorce from Chaplin.[30]

In May 1944, she married Burgess Meredith at David O. Selznick's home in Beverly Hills.[31] They divorced in June 1949.[32]

In 1958, Goddard married author Erich Maria Remarque. They remained married until Remarque's death in 1970.[33]

Goddard had no children. In October 1944, she suffered the miscarriage of a son with Burgess Meredith.[34]

Legacy

With Chaplin in The Great Dictator

Arguably, Goddard's foremost legacies remain her two feature films with Charles Chaplin, Modern Times and The Great Dictator, and a large donation to a prominent American educational institution. Goddard, whose own formal education did not go beyond high school, bequeathed US$20 million to New York University (NYU) in New York City.

This contribution was also in recognition of her friendship with the Indiana-born politician and former NYU President John Brademas. Goddard Hall, a residence hall for NYU freshmen in Greenwich Village, is named in her honor. Efforts to raise CHF 6.2M ($7M) to purchase and save Remarque and Goddard's villa from demolition are underway, proposing to transform the Casa Monte Tabor into a museum and home to an artist-in-residence program, focused on creativity, freedom, and peace.[35]

Fictional portrayals

Goddard was portrayed by Gwen Humble in the made-for-TV movie Moviola: The Scarlett O'Hara War (1980), by Diane Lane in the 1992 film Chaplin, and by actress Natalie Wilder in the 2011 play Puma, written by Julie Gilbert, who also wrote Opposite Attraction: The Lives of Erich Maria Remarque and Paulette Goddard.[36]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1929	Berth Marks	Train passenger	Short, Uncredited
1929	The Locked Door	Girl on rum boat	Uncredited
1930	Whoopee!	Goldwyn Girl	Uncredited
1931	City Streets	Dance extra	Uncredited
1931	The Girl Habit	Lingerie salesgirl
1931	Palmy Days	Goldwyn Girl	Uncredited
1931	Ladies of the Big House	Inmate in midst of crowd	Uncredited
1932	The Mouthpiece	Blonde at party	Uncredited
1932	Show Business	Blonde train passenger	Short, Uncredited
1932	Young Ironsides	Herself, Miss Hollywood	Short, Uncredited
1932	Pack Up Your Troubles	Bridesmaid	Uncredited
1932	Girl Grief	Student	Short, Uncredited
1932	The Kid from Spain	Goldwyn Girl	Uncredited
1933	Hollywood on Parade No. B-1	Herself	Short
1933	The Bowery	Blonde who announces Brodie's jump	Uncredited
1933	Hollywood on Parade No. B-5	Herself	Short
1933	Roman Scandals	Goldwyn Girl	Uncredited
1934	Kid Millions	Goldwyn Girl	Uncredited
1936	Modern Times	Ellen Peterson – A Gamine
1936	The Bohemian Girl	Gypsy vagabond	Uncredited
1938	The Young in Heart	Leslie Saunders
1938	Dramatic School	Nana
1939	The Women	Miriam Aarons
1939	The Cat and the Canary	Joyce Norman
1940	The Ghost Breakers	Mary Carter
1940	The Great Dictator	Hannah
1940	Screen Snapshots: Sports in Hollywood	Herself	Short
1940	North West Mounted Police	Louvette Corbeau	Alternative titles: Northwest Mounted Police The Scarlet Riders
1940	Second Chorus	Ellen Miller
1941	Pot o' Gold	Molly McCorkle	Alternative titles: The Golden Hour Jimmy Steps Out
1941	Hold Back the Dawn	Anita Dixon
1941	Nothing But the Truth	Gwen Saunders
1942	The Lady Has Plans	Sidney Royce
1942	Reap the Wild Wind	Loxi Claiborne	Alternative title: Cecil B. DeMille's Reap the Wild Wind
1942	The Forest Rangers	Celia Huston Stuart
1942	Star Spangled Rhythm	Herself
1943	The Crystal Ball	Toni Gerard
1943	So Proudly We Hail!	Lt. Joan O'Doul	Nominated — Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
1944	Standing Room Only	Jane Rogers / Suzanne
1944	I Love a Soldier	Evelyn Connors
1945	Duffy's Tavern	Herself
1945	Kitty	Kitty
1946	The Diary of a Chambermaid	Célestine	Producer, Uncredited
1947	Suddenly, It's Spring	Mary Morely
1947	Variety Girl	Herself
1947	Unconquered	Abigail "Abby" Martha Hale
1947	An Ideal Husband	Mrs. Laura Cheveley	Alternative title: Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband
1948	On Our Merry Way	Martha Pease
1948	Screen Snapshots: Smiles and Styles	Herself	Short
1948	Hazard	Ellen Crane
1949	Bride of Vengeance	Lucretia Borgia
1949	Anna Lucasta	Anna Lucasta
1949	A Yank Comes Back	Herself	Short, Uncredited
1950	The Torch	María Dolores Penafiel	Associate producer Alternative title: Bandit General
1952	Babes in Bagdad	Kyra
1953	Vice Squad	Mona Ross	Alternative title: The Girl in Room 17
1953	Sins of Jezebel	Jezebel
1953	Paris Model	Betty Barnes	Alternative title: Nude at Midnight
1954	Charge of the Lancers	Tanya
1954	A Stranger Came Home	Angie	Alternative title: The Unholy Four
1964	Time of Indifference	Mariagrazia	Alternative titles: Les Deux Rivales Gli Indifferenti

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1951	Four Star Revue	Guest actress	Episode #1.41
1952	The Ed Sullivan Show	Herself	2 episodes
1953	Ford Theatre	Nancy Whiting	Episode: "The Doctor's Downfall"
1954	Sherlock Holmes	Lady Beryl	Episode: "The Case of Lady Beryl"
1955	Producers' Showcase	Sylvia Fowler	Episode: "The Women"
1957	The Errol Flynn Theatre	Rachel	Episode: "Mademoiselle Fifi"
1957	The Joseph Cotten Show: On Trial	Dolly	Episode: "The Ghost of Devil's Island"
1957	Ford Theatre	Holly March	Episode: "Singapore"
1959	Adventures in Paradise	Mme. Victorine Reynard	Episode: "The Lady from South Chicago"
1959	What's My Line?	Guest panelist	November 29, 1959 episode[37]
1961	The Phantom	Mrs. Harris	TV movie
1972	The Snoop Sisters	Norma Treet	TV movie Alternative title: Female Instinct (last acting role and last live appearance on celluloid)

Radio

Year	Title	Role	Notes (Source:[38] unless otherwise noted.)
1939	Lux Radio Theatre		Episode: "Front Page Woman"
1939	The Campbell Playhouse		Episode: "Algiers"[39]
1940	The Gulf Screen Guild Theatre		Episode: "The Firebrand"
1941	The Gulf Screen Guild Theatre		Episode: "Destry Rides Again"
1941	Lux Radio Theatre		Episode: "Hold Back the Dawn"
1941	Cavalcade of America		Episode: "The Gorgeous Hussy"
1941	Screen Guild Players	Frenchy	Episode: "Destry Rides Again"[40]
1942	Philip Morris Playhouse		Episode: "They All Kissed the Bride"[41]
1942	The Screen Guild Theater		Episode: "Parent by Proxy"[42]
1942	The Screen Guild Theater	The night club queen	Episode: "Ball of Fire"[43]
1942	The Screen Guild Theater		Episode: "Torrid Zone"
1942	Lux Radio Theatre		Episode: "North West Mounted Police"
1942	The Screen Guild Theater		Episode: "Ball of Fire"
1943	Lux Radio Theatre		Episode: "Reap the Wild Wind"
1943	Lux Radio Theatre		Episode: "So Proudly We Hail!"
1944	The Screen Guild Theater		Episode: 'I Love You Again"
1944	Lux Radio Theatre		Episode: "Standing Room Only"
1944	The Screen Guild Theater		Episode: "You Belong to Me"[44]
1945	Harold Lloyd Comedy Theatre		Episode: "Standing Room Only"
1945	Theatre Guild on the Air		Episode: "At Mrs. Beam's"
1947	Lux Radio Theatre		Episode: "Kitty"
1947	Hollywood Players		Episode: "5th Ave. Girl"[45]
1948	The Screen Guild Theater		Episode: "Suddenly It's Spring"[46]
1952	Philip Morris Playhouse		Episode: "The Romantic Years"[47]
1952	Broadway Playhouse		Standing Room Only[48]

Notes

1. Birth names also cited include: Marion Levy;[1][2][3][4] Pauline Marion Levy;[5] Marion Goddard Levy[6][7][8]
2. There are discrepancies regarding her year of birth. According to biographer Julie Gilbert, she was born in 1911.[9] Legal documents and a passport listed her birth year as 1905 and 1915.[9] In a 1945 interview with Life, Goddard claimed she was born in 1915.[9][10]

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• Walker, Alexander (1987). Vivien, The Life of Vivien Leigh. Grove Press. ISBN 0-8021-3259-6.

External links

• Paulette Goddard at IMDb
• Paulette Goddard at the Internet Broadway Database
• Paulette Goddard at the TCM Movie Database
• Paulette Goddard at AllMovie
• Photographs and literature
• Paulette Goddard portrait gallery NY Public Library (Billy Rose collection)
• Paulette Goddard's site (English)
• Photos of Paulette Goddard in 'Pot O Gold' by Ned Scott