Paulette Goddard.

Paulette Goddard (June 3, 1910 – April 23, 1990), was a film and theatre actress. She started out as a child fashion model and in several Broadway productions as a Ziegfeld Girl and she became a major star for Paramount Studio's in the 1940s. She was married several times, her husbands were: Charlie Chaplin, Burgess Meredith, and Erich Maria Remarque. Goddard, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the film, So Proudly We Hail! (1943).

Personal Quote:

"You live in the present and you eliminate things that don't matter. You don't carry the burden of the past. I'm not impressed by the past very much. The past bores me, to tell you the truth; it really bores me. I don't remember many movies and certainly not my own."

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The film Paris Model(1953). Was directed by Alfred E. Green. Cast: Marilyn Maxwell, Paulette Goddard, Eva Gabor, Barbara Lawrence.

The story begins at the Parisian designer shop Elissa de France, Gogo Montaine, wants a special gown for a party, to impress the Maharajah of Kim-Kepore. Dress designer Lisa Jones, designs a copy of a beautiful dress called, "Nude at Midnight" and Gogo loves the dress and decides to charge the dress to a former lover, Louis-Jean Vacheron.

While at dinner, Gogo flirts with the Raj, who is not interested in her. Later in the evening, while gambling, Gogo watches Raj flirts and leaves with another woman. Gogo, decides to leave with Jean-Louis, promising to return the dress and his money. .

After arriving in New York, Lisa Jones, takes the dress she designed to Mason's, to be reproduced.

Attorney Edgar Blevins, is talking with his wife Cora, about an important dinner engagement and she wants a new dress, as Edgar's secretary, Betty Barnes who has eyes for her boss, listens to their conversation.

That afternoon, Betty shops at Mason's and asks the saleswoman for a sexy dress, telling her that she wants to take her boss away from his wife, not realizing that Cora is listening. The saleswoman shows Betty the dress "The Nude at Midnight," which Betty buys. At dinner the following night, Edgar loves Betty's dress. Betty, nearly has him convinced to divorce his wife when Cora shows up wearing the same dress. Edgar, is captivated at the change in his wife and leaves with her. Leaving Betty, behind at the restaurant.

Marion Parmelee, shops for a special gown for the retirement party of her husband's boss, Patrick James "P. J." Sullivan, who designs designer beds.  The sales clerk promises Marion, that the dress she likes, "Nude at Midnight," is a original copy of a copy of a Parisian design. When Marion and Jack arrive at the party, P. J. loves Marion's beautiful gown. P. J. invites Marion to his private office to flirt with her, while Marion insists that P. J. pick Jack as his replacement. Nora, begins the evening's tributes and when Jack demonstrates the latest bed design, P. J. and Marion, roll out in in front of everyone. P. J. recovers and begins to announce his replacement, but Nora interrupts, saying that since her family started the business, she should be allowed to pick the next president.

Now in Hollywood, California, Marta Jensen celebrates her twenty-first birthday in the gown "Nude at Midnight" she purchased at a thrift shop for $19. She is hoping for proposal from her boyfriend, Charlie Johnson. Charlie takes Marta to a fancy Restaurant and when he is refused a table, Prince Michael Romanoff, the restaurant owner, is taken with Marta beauty and finds the couple a private table. The only thing Charlie wants to talk about is sports cars. When playboy Johnny Grandville arrives, Marta talks about his nine marriages. Marta receives a note from the Maharajah of Kim-Kepore, asking her to have dinner with him. When she considers joining him, Charlie proposes to Marta.

I would call this a woman's picture and you may only want to watch it because of the actresses. Although.. I did enjoy watching Tom Conway, who was served very fancy dishes and wasn't to sure what to think of them.

Marilyn Maxwell (August 3, 1921 – March 20, 1972, was best known for her blond hair, she performed in many films and radio programs, and entertained the troops during World War II and the Korean War on USO tours with Bob Hope.

She started her professional entertaining career as a radio singer while still a teenager before signing with MGM in 1942 as a contract player. Among the programs in which she appeared was The Abbott and Costello Show. Some of her film roles included Lost in a Harem (1944), Champion (1949), The Lemon Drop Kid (1951), and Rock-A-Bye Baby (1958). "Silver Bells" made its debut in The Lemon Drop Kid, sung by Maxwell and Hope.

Eva Gabor (February 11, 1921 – July 4, 1995), was a Hungarian-born socialite and actress. Her first movie role was a bit part in, Forced Landing. She acted in movies and on the stage throughout the 1950s. In 1965, she performed in her best known role in the TV sitcom Green Acres, in which she played Lisa Douglas, the New York wife of Oliver Wendell Douglas played by Eddie Albert who left New York City to live on a farm. This was a hit show for six seasons, ending in 1971.

In later years, Gabor did voice-over work for Disney movies, providing the European-accented voices of Duchess in, The Aristocats, Miss Bianca in, The Rescuers and The Rescuers Down Under, and the Queen of Time in, Nutcracker Fantasy.

Barbara Jo Lawrence (born February 24, 1928), began her career as a model and performed in her first film, Diamond Horseshoe (1945). She had a small part in the film, Captain from Castile(1947) with Tyrone Power. While going to UCLA, she attracted the attention of talent scouts from, 20th Century Fox and she landed a parts in the films, A Letter to Three Wives, The Street with No Name, Thieves' Highway and Here Come the Nelsons.

After moving to MGM, Lawrence starred with Gig Young in the 3D movie, Arena. She then starred in, Her Twelve Men with Greer Garson. Lawrence also played the major role of Gertie Cummings in the film, Oklahoma!, in which she gets into a knockdown fight with Gloria Grahame. In 1957, she starred in Kronos with Jeff Morrow, which eventually attracted a cult following for its storyline and special effects.

Great On Screen Couples: Bob Hope & Paulette Goddard

"Old Ski Nose" Bob Hope has starred with many of Hollywood's most fetching beauties in his hilarious comedies: Dorothy Lamour, Virgina Mayo, Lucille Ball, Hedy Lamarr, Jane Russell and Paulette Goddard. I personally think Paulette was his best on screen partner, no offense Bing. But Bob and Paulette did have wonderful chemistry. They made three films together: The Cat and The Canary (1939), The Ghost Breakers (1940) and Nothing But The Truth (1941). All three are very funny and showcase Bob and Paulette at their best. Their first film together The Cat and the Canary, which is a remake of the 1927 film of the same name. The plot has relatives gathering in New Orleans for the reading of a will and the setting is a creepy old mansion. Paulette plays Joyce, the heir who will inherit everything if she survives the night. Hope is Wally, a radio personality,who becomes involved with Joyce. There are thrills amid the laughs and it's a very good comedy but not the best of the three Hope and Goddard made together.

They would come back one year later for the much better The Ghost Breakers. This film pretty much has the same plot as The Cat and The Canary in that Bob plays another radio personality and him and Paulette must survive a night in another haunted mansion. But the laughs come much faster in this one. And the duo's chemistry is perfect as Bob has the scaredy guy down straight and Paulette is quite the beguiling leading lady. All that adds up to a wonderfully funny film.

However the two stars saved their best for last with the truly zany 1941 comedy Nothing But The Truth. In this one Bob plays stockbroker Steve Bennett who makes a bet with his co-workers that he can tell the truth for 24 hours. Paulette is the boss's niece who wants Steve to invest some money for her. The whole cast winds up on a yacht for a dinner party and it's a gas seeing Hope tap dance around the truth for a solid hour. Hope has never been better and Goddard ratchets up her game as well as she gets in on the fun too. I think it was a great move by placing the duo in a modern setting and not dealing with haunted mansions, zombies and murder. This made it seem like a breath of fresh air seeing the stars in this type of setting. It's too bad they didn't make anymore films together.

Paulette Goddard

Paulette Goddard, was A former child fashion model and in several Broadway productions as Ziegfeld Girl, she was a big star in the 1940s. She was married to Charlie Chaplin, Burgess Meredith and Erich Maria Remarque. Goddard was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in So Proudly We Hail! (1943).

Her first stage performance was, No Foolin in 1926, and played a small role in Rio Rita. The next year she made her stage acting debut in The Unconquerable Male. She also changed her name to Paulette and took her mother's maiden name as her last name. Goddard then returned to Hollywood in 1929 where she performed in small roles in The Girl Habit (1931) and The Mouthpiece (1932).She signed a contract with Hal Roach Studios, and performed in, The Kid from Spain and Hardy's Pack Up Your Troubles (both 1932). In 1932, she met Charlie Chaplin. Chaplin began planning a film with Goddard, that would be released in 1936 as Modern Times.

Goddard also performed in a few films for Samuel Goldwyn Productions. Goddard became a 'Goldwyn Girl' and was featured in films such as Roman Scandals (1933) and Kid Millions (1934).

Following the film Modern Times, Chaplin planned other films with Goddard in mind as a co-star. Tired of waiting around for things to happen, she signed a contract with David O. Selznick and was interested in the role of Scarlett O'Hara in his planned film version of Gone with the Wind. She performed in the comedy The Young in Heart (1938) before Selznick loaned her to MGM to perform in, Dramatic School (1938) and The Women (1939). With an all-female cast headed by Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford and Rosalind Russell, Goddard played the supporting role of Miriam Aarons.

Goddard signed a contract with Paramount Pictures and her next film The Cat and the Canary (1939), was a turning point in the careers of both actors. She starred with Chaplin again in his 1940 film The Great Dictator.

She was Fred Astaire's leading lady in the musical Second Chorus (1940), where she met Burgess Meredith. One of her best-remembered film appearances was in the variety musical Star Spangled Rhythm (1943) in which she sang a comic number "A Sweater, a Sarong, and a Peekaboo Bang" with contemporary sex symbols Dorothy Lamour and Veronica Lake.

She received her only Oscar nomination, for the 1943 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in So Proudly We Hail! Her most successful film was Kitty (1945), where she played the title role. In The Diary of a Chambermaid (1946).

Her career faded in the late 1940s. In 1947 she made An Ideal Husband. In 1949, she formed Monterey Pictures with John Steinbeck. Her last starring roles were the English production A Stranger Came Home, and Charge of the Lancers in 1954. She also acted in summer stock and on television, including in the 1955 television remake of The Women, playing a different character than she played in the 1939 film. In 1964, she attempted a comeback in films with a supporting role in the Italian film Time of Indifference, but that turned out to be her last feature film. Her last acting role was in The Snoop Sisters (1972) for television.

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(1910-1990)
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