Paulette Goddard

Born Marion Levy in New York City on June 3, 1910, and raised in Kansas City, she started as a child model and Ziegfeld Girl before moving to Hollywood in the early 1930s. Her relationship with Charlie Chaplin brought her into Modern Times (1936) and The Great Dictator (1940), and after signing with Paramount she became a major star opposite Bob Hope, Gary Cooper, and John Wayne in films like The Cat and the Canary (1939), Reap the Wild Wind (1942), and Unconquered (1947). She earned an Academy Award nomination for So Proudly We Hail! in 1943. Her marriages - to Chaplin, actor Burgess Meredith, and writer Erich Maria Remarque - drew heavy press, and after marrying Remarque she moved to Switzerland and largely left acting behind. She resurfaced as a socialite in the 1980s and died in Switzerland on April 23, 1990.