Paulette

Paulette Goddard is perhaps more famous for her illustrious husbands--Charles Chaplin, Burgess Meredith and Erich Maria Remarque--than for her film career. Despite leading a high life both in Hollywood and abroad, Goddard, according to the authors, was not a celluloid damsel typical of her era: she was independent, unconventional, and intelligent. A childhood that was impoverished educationally, emotionally, and financially toughened her. Forced to drop out of school at age 14 to support her mother and herself, she married a rich husband who provided her with the first of the many "settlements" she would receive throughout her life. She was thus enabled to be professionally and socially selective and to ignore the intrusive demands of press and public. Smart, charming, witty, down-to-earth yet bejeweled, in this routine portrait readers will learn lots of facts about this actress, socialite, and star -- the adventurous Paulette.