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Paulette Goddard was born Marion Pauline Levy. She was an only child, born in Whitestone Landing, Queens, Long Island, New York. Her father, Joseph Russell Levy, was Jewish, and her mother, Alta Mae Goddard, was Episcopalian.[2] Her parents divorced while she was young, and she was raised by her mother. Her father virtually vanished from her life, only later to resurface in the 1940s after she became a star. At first, their relationship seemed genial as she used to take him to her film premieres, but then he sued her over a magazine article that claimed he abandoned her when she was young. They were never to reconcile and upon his death, he left her just one dollar in his will.
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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.
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Paulette Goddard had begun appearing in films, with bit parts in Berth Marks (1929) with Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, The Girl Habit (1931), The Mouthpiece (1932) and Young Ironsides (1932). One of her bigger roles was appearing as a blond "Goldwyn Girl" in the Busby Berkeley chorus of the Eddie Cantor musical The Kid from Spain (1932), as well as in Roman Scandals(1933) (alongside Lucille Ball, in her first role). In 1932, in addition to her searching for parts, she made the acquaintance of Charlie Chaplin. They quickly became 'an item,' and Chaplin cast her as The Gamine in his famous film, Modern Times (released in 1936). The couple were ... secretly married about ship in 1936, while vacationing in the Orient.
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American actress Paulette Goddard, born Pauline Marion Levy, spent her teen years as a Broadway chorus girl, gaining attention when she was featured reclining on a prop crescent moon in the 1928 Ziegfeld musical Rio Rita. In Hollywood as early as 1929, Goddard reportedly appeared as an extra in several Hal Roach two-reel comedies, making confirmed bit appearances in a handful of these short subjects wearing a blonde wig over her naturally raven-black hair. Continuing as a blonde, she appeared as a "Goldwyn Girl" in the 1932 Eddie Cantor film Kid From Spain, where she was awarded several close-ups.
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When pretty college band manager Ellen (Paulette Goddard) is lured away by the glamour of famous bandleader Artie Shaw, trumpet players Danny (Fred Astaire) and Hank (Burgess Meredith) scheme to get her back in a wily game of romantic cat-and-mouse. Packed with great song-and-dance numbers, this romantic comedy delight will lift your spirits to the skies!
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This remake of the Paul Dickey-Charles W. Goddard play, first filmed as The Ghost Breaker (1922), was designed to cash in on the success of The Cat and the Canary (1939). That film began in the middle with its old-dark-house setting, this follow-up takes rather longer to get going. Ditching the Kentucky family feud motif from The Ghost Breaker, it has Bob Hope and his black servant Best, soon matching quips for the role as first coward--"If two men come down, let the first one go, that'll be me"--making their escape from importunate gangsters.
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