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Best Supporting Actress Academy Awards [1944] (Won/Nominated: nominated)
 

Paulette Goddard Biography
Was the leading contender for the role of Scarlett O`hara in the 1939 classic Gone With the Wind. Her inability to produce a marriage certificate to prove she and Charles Chaplin were married, and appearance of Vivien Leigh on the scene lost her the part. She was lifelong friends with Jinx Falkenburg,Veronica Lake, and Joan Crawford.
 

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My aunt was adopted and the only thing she knew about her biological mother was that she was a very well known actress around the 30`s and 40`s and that her real name was Pauline Levy. I know that it is stated that she did not have any children but after researching Paulette, the resemblance to my cousin is uncanny. I was wondering if anyone out there knows anything about a child that she would have given birth to at the age of approximately 15. We are trying all avenues because my cousins would like to know where they came from. My aunt has passed away but her children have been seeking their heritage.
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Bust: 34" -  Waist: 4 "  Hips: 34"
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  • Actors and actresses who say they never go to see their own pictures are talking through their hats. You don`t have to be a Freud to know that the most fascinating person in the world - actors or anybody - is yourself.
  • I lived in Hollywood long enough to learn to play tennis and become a star, but I never felt it was my home.
  • 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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  • Actress Claire Trevor once reminisced on her friendship with Goddard. She said that Goddard was a year older (!) and that they had attended high school and sorority together, and that the guys were "gaga" over the lovely, young Pauline.
  • Goddard never had any children, but she became a stepmother to Charles Chaplin`s two sons, Charles Chaplin Jr. and Sydney Chaplin, while she and Charlie were married. In his memoirs, "My Father Charlie Chaplin," from 1960, Charles Jr. describes her as a lovely, caring and intelligent woman throughout the book.
  • Had no siblings and no children.
  • Is portrayed by Diane Lane in Chaplin (1992) and by Gwen Humble in The Scarlett O`Hara War (1980) (TV).
  • Left more than US$20 million to New York University on her death.
  • Married Charles Chaplin the first week in June, 1936, in Canton, China, while on a world cruise.
  • Owing to her donation of an estimated twenty million dollars, New York University named a residence hall after her. Paulette Goddard Hall is located at 79 Washington Square East in New York City. NYU`s Tisch School of the Arts also named its main staircase after her and awards several scholarships to students in her honor.
  • Sources variously cite her year of birth as 1911 and 1914, and the place as Whitestone Landing, New York, USA. However, municipal employees in Ronco, Switzerland, where she died, gave her birth year of record as 1905.
  • Was one of the 20 original "Goldwyn Girls" along with Lucille Ball, Virginia Bruce, Ann Dvorak and Betty Grable.
  • Paulette was one of the many actresses tested for the part of Scarlett O`Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939)
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