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Paulette Goddard (June 3, 1910 – April 23, 1990) was an American actress. A child fashion model and a performer in several Broadway productions as a Ziegfeld Girl, she became a major star of the Paramount Studio in the 1940s. Her most notable films were her first major role, as Charles Chaplin's leading lady in ''Modern Times'', and Chaplin's subsequent film ''The Great Dictator''. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in ''So Proudly We Hail!'' (1943). Her husbands included Chaplin, Burgess Meredith, and Erich Maria Remarque. ==Early life== Goddard was the only child of Joseph Russell Levy (1881–1954), who was Jewish, and the son of a prosperous cigar manufacturer from Salt Lake City, and of Alta Mae Goddard (1887–1983), who was Episcopalian and of English heritage.〔Gilbert, Julie (1995). ''Opposite Attraction – The Lives of Erich Maria Remarque and Paulette Goddard.'' Pantheon Books; ISBN 0-679-41535-1, pp. 37–41 for parents' names and backgrounds, as well as Alta's birth year; pp. 159–60 for Levy's death year and p. 477 for Alta's death year.〕 They married in 1908 and separated while their daughter was very young, although the divorce did not become final until 1926. According to Goddard, her father left them, but according to J.R. Levy, Alta absconded with the child.〔 Goddard was raised by her mother, and did not meet her father again until the late 1930s, after she had become famous.〔Gilbert, pp. 159–60〕 In a 1938 interview published in ''Collier's'', Goddard claimed Levy was not her biological father.〔 In response, Levy filed a suit against his daughter, claiming that the interview had ruined his reputation and lost him his job, and demanded financial support from her. In a December 17, 1945, article written by Oliver Jensen in ''Life Magazine'', Goddard admitted to having lost the case and being forced to pay her father $35 a week. To avoid a custody battle, her mother and she moved often during her childhood, even relocating to Canada at one point.〔 Goddard began modelling at an early age to support her mother and herself, working for Saks Fifth Avenue and Hattie Carnegie, among others. An important figure in her childhood was her great-uncle, Charles Goddard, the owner of the American Druggists Syndicate. He played a central role in Goddard's career, introducing her to Broadway impresario Florenz Ziegfeld.〔 In 1926, she made her stage debut as a dancer in Ziegfeld's summer review, ''No Foolin, which was also the first time that she used the stage name Paulette Goddard.〔Gilbert, p. 43〕 Ziegfeld hired her for another musical, ''Rio Rita'', which opened in February 1927, but she left the show after only three weeks to appear in the play ''The Unconquerable Male'', produced by Archie Selwyn.〔Gilbert, p. 46〕 It was, however, a flop and closed after only three days following its premiere in Atlantic City.〔 Soon after the play closed, Goddard was introduced to Edgar James, president of the Southern Lumber Company, located in Asheville, North Carolina, by Charles Goddard.〔Gilbert, pp. 46–51.〕 Aged 17, considerably younger than James, they married on June 28, 1927, in Rye, New York. It was a short marriage, and Goddard was granted a divorce in Reno, Nevada, in 1929, receiving a divorce settlement of $375,000.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Paulette Goddard」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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