PAULETTE GODDARD BIOGRAPHY & FILMOGRAPHY:

Paulette Goddard was born on June 3rd, 1910 in Whitestone Landing in Long Island, New York with the birth name Pauline Marion Goddard Levy as an only child.  She was involved in the entertainment industry from a young age working as a child model and who then debuted in, "The Ziegfeld Follies" at the young age of thirteen.  By the age of sixteen she was married but soon divorced and decided to move to Hollywood.
 
She began working on films being cast in a number of small roles. such as in the film, "Berth Marks" (1929), "The Girl Habit" (1931) and "The Mouthpiece" (1932).  Paulette had a natural exquisite beauty and could mesmerize any man with her appearance.  She was cast in the film, "The Kid From Spain" (1932) and soon met Charlie Chaplin who cast her in, "Modern Times" (1936).  She became an item with Chaplin, but that actually began to hurt her film career.  The couple married in 1936 secretly but divorced just four years later.
 
In 1939 she received a role in the film, "The Women" which earned her a contract with Paramount followed by a role with Bob Hope in, "The Cat and the Canary" (1939).  As her career entered the 1940's, it was the busiest time for her with roles on such films as, "The Great Dictator" (1940), "Reap the Wild Wind" (1942), "The Diary of a Chambermaid" (1946) and "Proudly We Hail!" (1943) in which she received a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Actress.
 
However, in the late 40's roles were becoming less available to Goddard and she was dropped from her Paramount contract.  After a role in her last feature, "Charge of the Lancers" (1954), she decided to leave the film industry and move to Europe returning to the screen only once in the television movie, "The Snoop Sisters" (1972).
 
Paulette Goddard married four times during her lifetime, first to Edgar James from 1927 through 1932.  Her second marriage was to Charles Chaplin from 1936 through 1942.  She then married Burgess Meredith from 1944 through 1949.  After retiring from acting she married Erick Maria Remarque in 1958 and remained living in Europe with him until he passed away.
 
Paulette Goddard passed away from heart failure at the age of seventy nine in Ronco, Switzerland on April 23rd, 1990.  She left over twenty million dollars to the New York University.  She never had any children, but was for a time the step mom to Charlie Chaplin's children and she did suffer one miscarriage when she was pregnant with Burgess's child.  Goddard is buried in Ronco Cemetery.    
 

Filmography

1972 The Snoop Sisters
1964 Time of Indifference 
1961 The Phantom 
1959 Adventures in Paradise 
1953-1957 The Ford Television Theatre 
1957 The Joseph Cotten Show: On Trial 
1956 The Errol Flynn Theatre
1955 Producers' Showcase  
1954 Sherlock Holmes
1954 The Unholy Four 
1954 Charge of the Lancers 
1953 Paris Model
1953 Sins of Jezebel 
1953 Vice Squad 
1952 Babes in Bagdad 
1950 The Torch 
1949 Anna Lucasta 
1949 Bride of Vengeance 
1948 Hazard 
1948 On Our Merry Way 
1947 An Ideal Husband 
1947 Unconquered
1947 Suddenly It's Spring 
1946 The Diary of a Chambermaid 
1945 Kitty
1944 I Love a Soldier 
1944 Standing Room Only
1943 So Proudly We Hail!
1943 The Crystal Ball 
1942 The Forest Rangers 
1942 Reap the Wild Wind
1942 The Lady Has Plans
1941 Nothing But the Truth
1941 Hold Back the Dawn 
1941 Pot o' Gold 
1940 Second Chorus 
1940 North West Mounted Police 
1940 The Great Dictator
1940 The Ghost Breakers 
1939 The Cat and the Canary
1939 The Women 
1938 Dramatic School 
1938 The Young in Heart
1936 The Bohemian Girl 
1936 Modern Times
1934 Kid Millions
1933 Roman Scandals
1933 The Bowery 
1932 The Kid from Spain 
1932 Girl Grief
1932 Pack Up Your Troubles 
1932 Young Ironsides 
1932 Show Business 
1932 The Mouthpiece
1931 Ladies of the Big House 
1931 The Girl Habit
1931 City Streets 
1930 Whoopee! 
1929 The Locked Door 
1929 Berth Marks