Paulette Goddard

PAULETTE GODDARD d1990. American actress and socialite. Her career spanned six decades from the 1920s to the early 1970s. She was a prominent leading actress during the Golden Age of Hollywood. In the early 1930s, she moved to Hollywood and gained notice as the romantic partner of actor and comedian Charlie Chaplin, appearing as his leading lady in Modern Times (1936) and The Great Dictator (1940). After signing with Paramount Pictures, she became one of the studio's biggest stars with roles in ; The Cat and the Canary (1939) with Bob Hope / The Women (1939) with Joan Crawford / North West Mounted Police (1940) with Gary Cooper / Reap the Wild Wind (1942) with John Wayne and Susan Hayward / So Proudly We Hail! (1943) (for which she received a nomination for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress) / Kitty (1945) with Ray Milland and Unconquered (1947) with Gary Cooper. She was noted as a fiercely independent woman for her time, being described by one executive as "dynamite". Her marriages to Charles Chaplin, the actor Burgess Meredith and the writer Erich Maria Remarque received substantial media attention. She died in Switzerland aged 79 on April 23rd 1990.