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Paulette Goddard: Career
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Paulette Goddard died on April 23, 1990, at the age of 75. Of all his wives, she had the most successful film career and was remembered for her work, and maybe more so than being Mrs. Charles Chaplin.
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Set in 1895, Sir Robert Chiltern (Hugh Williams), a prospective Cabinet minister discovers his career may be jeopardised by an unscrupulous adventuress from Berlin, Mrs Cheveley (Paulette Goddard). She attempts to enlist Sir Robert’s help in a shady Argentinean canal scheme, and when he indignantly refuses she threatens to expose him with the knowledge that he had previously sold government secrets to a foreign buyer. His situation threatens both his social position and his marriage, and being an honourable man, he must think deftly to resolve the situation. Forced to agree, Sir Robert consults his best friend Lord Goring (Michael Wilding), who agrees to try and help and advises Sir Robert to confess to his wife. Lady Chiltern (Diana Wynyard) is horrified to discover her husband is not the paragon of virtue she envisaged and threatens to leave him... she relents when he promises not to support Mrs. Cheveley’s plan. Goring believes he can frustrate Mrs. Cheveley but she attempts to blackmail him so he must now defeat her to save both Sir Robert and himself.
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Gilbert ... captures the vivacity and youthfullness that saw Goddard well past middle age. "Opposite Attraction" is the most complete biography of Goddard, charting her career from the dawn of talkies, through Hollywood's heyday, into the Golden Age of live television, rediscovery in the Warhol era and a painful reclusive decline. Goddard maintained her Zieg[[sterling]]eld figure well into her fifties, documented by Remarque's candid snapshots of her topless sunbathing, one of which is reproduced in the book.
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