The Tragic Real Life Story of Paulette Goddard: Charlie Chaplin's wife

The Tragic Real Life Story of Paulette Goddard: Charlie Chaplin's wife.
Paulette Goddard was an American actress, known for her work in both classic Hollywood films and later stage productions. She began her career as a model before transitioning to acting in the 1920s, and went on to star in a number of successful films throughout the 1930s and 1940s, including "Modern Times" with Charlie Chaplin and "The Great Dictator". Goddard received an Academy Award nomination for her role in "So Proudly We Hail!" in 1943. In addition to her film career, she was also known for her romantic relationships with several high-profile men, including Charlie Chaplin and Erich Maria Remarque. After retiring from acting in the 1950s, Goddard continued to work in the theater and devoted much of her time and wealth to philanthropic causes.
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[@susancooper8712]

What a star she was... liked all of her films!

[@JimmyOgilvie52]

So what the Hell was so tragic about her life? I should have had such a tragic life after all I grew up on the same street that she did!

[@eoin9909]

Well you may have had such a life only you probabily weren't Charlie's type jimmy.🤷

[@sandrakenney567]

I only remembered paullette from Charlie Chaplin movies.She was beautiful. Rest in peace Paulette Godbless You Amen 🕊🕊🕊🕊🦋🦋🦋🦋🌷🌷🌷🌹🌹🌹🕊

[@Ourladyrules]

Mme. Paulette Goddard was an absolute goddess of the silver screen. a brilliant 💎 🎥❤️

[@eshaibraheem4218]

Not a tragic life.

[@edshoaff3055]

In a PBS documentary about Paulette they said that she had a jeweler make a necklace out of the 142 engagement rings that she received……how creative !

[@m.j.c.6969]

She was joking FFS!

[@MyDarkmarc]

Paulette Goddard was a keen individualist with striking good looks, she progressed from Ziegfeld girl to cinema leading lady with amazing agility and success. She is best remembered for a saucy insouciance on screen which highlighted her flair as a light comedienne and as a decorative addition to costume dramas. Off screen she employed her wit and looks to dazzle and marry an assortment of twentieth-century's men of genius, ranging from Charles Chaplin to Burgess Meredith to Erich Maria Remarque, proving that cinema fame could be parlayed nicely into social prominence and financial security. Paulette's initial years in Hollywood (1929-1932) as a walk-on, Goldwyn chorus girl, and Hal Roach cheesecake contractee, afforded little indication of her future glory. When Paulette Goddard married Chaplin she was something of a match for him - strong willed, independent, a lover of life - her very personality was an influence itself on the characters Charlie wrote for her in their two films. She became his third wife, but unlike the previous two, was strong enough to survive the experience and part company without bitterness or sensationalism. While under Chaplin's tutelage she refined her acting techniques and personality to make a successful comeback as the gamin leading lady in Modern Times. One of Paulette’s powers was fending off men’s advances without alienating them. As Anita Loos said, “Many ladies know how to say no, but to do so without offending or making an enemy was a definite talent.” She was also known for her wit, charm and intelligence which attracted intellectuals and straight-up geniuses that included: Diego Rivera, John Steinbeck, H.G. Wells, Mervyn LeRoy, Artie Shaw, James Hilton, Jean Cocteau, Jean Renoir, William Saroyan, Igor Stravinsky, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Andy Warhol and Aldous Huxley. Paulette Goddard was well known for her jewelry collection in which she kept her favorite pieces in a jewelry box which she carried to all of her movie sets. She would show them off to fellow actors and the production crew in between takes. Like many actresses in those days, she wore most of her own jewels in the films in which she starred. She claimed that she never once purchased a piece of her extensive jewelry collection for herself. Every gem was given to her by a friend or husband. When Charles Chaplin, Jr. published his memoir, My Father, Charlie Chaplin, in 1960, Paulette Goddard found her self the heroine. The author wrote that he and his brother, "looked into that friendly face with its mischievous, conspiratorial smile and we lost our hearts at once," later he added,"She was pretty, she was warm and enthusiastic about everything." Broadway actor Sydney Chaplin would stay in touch with his one-time step mother he would always invite her to see the show that he was appearing in. Whenever she came, her infectious laugh was heard by the audience, and made many of his shows a hit. For one premiere, she arrived every inch the movie queen, with a long evening gown and tiara, and sat on the front row. Where she found Charlie and wife Oona sitting on the left side, and Charlie’s second wife [and Sydney’s mother], Lita Grey, on the right side. Never before had three of Chaplin's wives been in one room together. Chaplin took it all in his stride. Born Pauline Marion Goddard Levy on June 3, 1910 in Whitestone Landing, New York. She 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 would eventually help start her career, introducing her to Broadway impresario Florenz Ziegfeld. In 1926, she made her stage debut as a dancer in Ziegfeld's summer revue, No Foolin' which was the first time that she used the stage name Paulette Goddard. Her first marriage was to industrialist Edgar James, president of the Southern States Lumber Company of Asheville, North Carolina, while supposedly still in her teens but went to Reno in 1931 to divorce him and received a large settlement, and continued West to Hollywood where she was cast as a "Goldwyn Girl" in The Kid From Spain starring Eddie Cantor. When she was cast as Miriam Aarons in The Woman (1939, MGM) her performance was a standout that was praised by all which got Paramount interested and soon she signed a contract with that studio. Throughout most of the 1940's she was at her peak of fame, appearing in such films as Reap the Wild Wind (1942, Paramount), The Lady Has Plans (1942, Paramount), Kitty (1945, Paramount) in which she received the best notices of her career, and Unconquered (1947, Paramount). For her performance in the film So Proudly We Hail! (1943, Paramount) she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, though she lost out to Katina Paxinou in For Whom The Bells Tolls. On May 21, 1944, she married again, to Burgess Meredith, this marriage would last until June 8, 1949. During the 1950's she was in only six films, the last of which came in 1954. For the remainder of the 1950's and the early 1960's she found sporadic acting work on television. In the late 1950's she moved to Europe and married Erich Maria Remarque, the novelist who wrote All Quiet on the Western Front. They were married on February 25, 1958 and remained married until his death on September 25, 1970. Her final acting role was in The Snoop Sisters, a 1972 made-for-television movie. During the 1970's and 1980's Paulette was energetic, articulate and intelligent and had a close friendship with artist Andy Warhol. She was independently wealthy, initially from her first husband, then from investing the money that she made in Hollywood. In later years she sold many valuable artworks at auction, including her collection of Impressionist art, which was sold in 1979 for $2.9 million. In 1972, she permanently retired from acting and was living in Ronco, Switzerland when she died of heart failure on April 3, 1990, she was 79 years old. Goddard left more than twenty million dollars to New York University upon her death. The school named one of its residence halls after her. In addition, New York University's Tisch School of the Arts renamed its main staircase after her and created a number of scholarships in her honor.

[@patrocleazorel4478]

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[@stevefranks1711]

Why use such an inaccurate title? It really diminishes your work. Please stop doing that!

[@muffassa6739]

She had a long and good life. RIP

[@redbuoy10]

My Grandfather, Ronnie Kemper was an extra in Pot O' Gold and had a few parts where Paulette would sing and dance past him as he strummed a guitar. She was strikingly beautiful.

[@MrSkippydevereaux]

At 7:28, is that not Ingrid Bergman? Sure looks like it.

[@jamesfox2579]

Yes, it is.

[@onagaali2024]

Without a shadow of a doubt it is.

[@jmadratz]

A remarkably beautiful woman.

[@spacekitt.n]

strange ai voice. why cant anyone narrate their videos anymore

[@nironeko2242]

But there's nothing tragic about her life..

[@donnasherwood283]

then let her be an "icon" and do not post photos of her the midnight of her life

[@nironeko2242]

Getting old is normal thing..

[@donnasherwood283]

@@nironeko2242 wait till it happens to you !

[@nironeko2242]

@@munnufitusu Exactly..this great woman had the most fulfilling life and was generous enough to support education by huge donations but this shallow people can't see beyond the look..and seriously she looks happy and cute in that pic..

[@donnasherwood283]

@@munnufitusu iti s unfortunate he did not teach you any manners. How dare you make such a remark to a stranger over a suggestion of the lack of necessity of posting photos of film celebrities at such an advanced age. Huge vain souls ? really are you so certain of that ? I had an aunt who was a living saint for her entire life. There has never been a person who knew her who did not feel this way. She was a pretty woman passed at age 96 having been unhappy with the way she had changed physically through the years. Get back to me when you are my age 73 and tell me how you feel about it. WOW what a nerve.

[@NerdNest0]

You are wrong. Vivien Leigh got her part because she was extremely talanted and beautiful.

[@ukrandr]

Paulette lived an interesting life that warranted a much better presentation than this repetitive and poorly worded mish-mash. Such are the times in which we live.

[@F_antomas]

the only old person on the thumbnail isn't Goddard and there' s nothing tragic about her life . Dislike .

[@keithsmits6203]

I think she was wonderful

[@tommoran9819]

Goddard was born in Whitestone, Queens. Which is in New York City, not Long Island.

[@onagaali2024]

At 4:11 that looks just like Hedy Lamarr.

[@j.w.2391]

Ambivalent about Paulette Goddard...more of a "Personality" / commodity and socialite rather than a serious "Actress". While she is vivacious in So Proudly We Hail, where she received an AA nomination, she is atrociously miscast (acting wise) in the cheapie Epic Jezebel (53), a role that called for the genuine Femme Fatale Allure of Hedy LaMarr or Ava Gardner. Goddard was given many screen chances but couldnt transcend "chorus girl" typecasting and her own acting limitations. She's not up to the the challenges of Wilde's comedy of manners An Ideal Husband (48) and superb British actress Diana Wynyard just steals the show. As an American woman of Ethnic background, I was taken aback at her GWTW Screen Test and racist "Mammy" impersonation of Hattie McDaniel. I found it rather egregious and ironic given that Goddard went on to play the girl of an "Oppressed Group" in the anti-Nazi satire, The Great Dictator (40).

[@hillcrock]

One image looks like Donna Reed.

[@DrLeroyGreen]

I ain't saying she's a gold digger.....

[@meganhuggins7494]

Always liked Paulette Goddard. Never thought Charlie Chaplin funny, can’t understand the hype. 😊

[@bernadetterosaferreira7585]

Traduzir para o português

[@parrotgirl7536]

Probably the times. Movies were brand new. Comedy changes. Just like I used to love Bob Hope specials and movies, but now I think they are corny, like Red Skeleton (which I used to love)

[@F_antomas]

you never thought chaplin was funny huh ? yeah but couple Billions of people worldwide believe he's extremely funny . you probably believe all the ridiculous american stand up '' comedies '' are funny 😆 .

[@m.j.c.6969]

She claimed her father wasn't actually her biological father and he sued her and won. She had to pay him an income for the rest of his life after the court determined she ruined her father's reputation.