Posted on 04/23/2023 12:44:01 AM PDT by Ozguy1945
Paulette Goddard was a woman who refused to be tied down, saying “I don’t like collecting anything I can’t pack” and “The future doesn’t concern me. I’ll just do what comes to mind at the time” and “The past bores me ..........."
A friend of Paulette’s, Anita Loos, said of Paulette, “Gentlemen prefer blondes, until they get a load of Paulette!”
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Between 1936 and 1949 she had marriages for six and five years to Charlie Chaplin and Burgess Meredith.
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In 1958, she married “All Quiet On The Western Front” author, Erich Maria Remarque, who had fled nazi totalitarianism in 1933. Their marriage ended in 1970 with his death of heart failure at the age of 72. Goddard donated $20,000,000 to fund an Institute at NYU, named after Remarque and devoted to European Studies. The goal was to better understand the whole of Europe not just the familiar Western European nations.
From a babe bored by the past to a benefactor of modern history studies.
God Bless Paulette Goddard.
God Bless Freedom.
I liked her in the movie “The Women”.
I wonder what that department currently teaches? That Europe invented war and slavery and pollution, and stole all science and math and wealth from Africa?
she had the part of Scarlett O’Hara in G-W-T-W all but locked up...until David O Selznick’s brother wandered up with Vivian Leigh at the last minute.
Sounds about right.
NYU (a private college not a “state” university) is where rich New Yorkers send their kids when they are not smart enough for Harvard or Yale.
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