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Paulette Goddard (1910-1990) was an Oscar®-nominated American actress. Goddard went from being a child model to a Ziegfeld girl to Charlie Chaplin’s leading lady (on screen and off screen) to one of the most popular stars of the 1940s. Paulette Goddard’s IMDb page shows 64 acting credits from 1929-1972. This page will rank 38 Paulette Goddard movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Her television appearances, uncredited roles, shorts and her last movie, Time of Indifference (could not find box office) were not included in the rankings.
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Paulette Goddard Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.
- Sort Paulette Goddard movies by co-stars of her movies
- Sort Paulette Goddard movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort Paulette Goddard movies by yearly domestic box office rank
- Sort Paulette Goddard movies by how they were received by critics and audiences. 60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
- Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each Paulette Goddard movie received.
- Sort Paulette Goddard movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR)Score. UMR Score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
- Blue link in Co-star column takes you to that star’s UMR movie page
Stats and Possibly Interesting Things From The Above Paulette Goddard Table
- Seventeen Paulette Goddard movies crossed the magical $100 million domestic gross mark. That is a percentage of 44.73% of her movies listed. Modern Times (1936) was her biggest box office hit.
- An average Paulette Goddard movie grossed $114.50 million in adjusted box office gross.
- Using RottenTomatoes.com’s 60% fresh meter. 18 Paulette Goddard movies are rated as good movies…or 64.00% of her movies. Modern Times (1936) is her highest rated movie while Charge of the Lancers (1954) is her lowest rated movie.
- Ten Paulette Goddard movies received at least one Oscar® nomination in any category…..or 26.31% of her movies.
- Two Paulette Goddard movies won at least one Oscar® in any category…..or 5.26% of her movies.
- An average Ultimate Movie Ranking (UMR) Score is 40.00. 20 Paulette Goddard movies scored higher that average….or 52.63% of her movies. The Great Dictator (1940) got the the highest UMR Score while Charge of the Lancers (1954) got the lowest UMR Score.
Possibly Interesting Facts About Paulette Goddard
1. Marion Levy was born on Long Island, New York in 1910.
2. In 1926, she was hired by Florenz Ziegfeld to appear in the stage play No Foolin’. For her debut she changed her name to Paulette Goddard.
3. Paulette Goddard arrived in Hollywood in 1929. She would appear in many shorts (including two with Laurel and Hardy) and uncredited roles from 1929 to 1935.
4. Paulette Goddard was cast by Charlie Chaplin (her boyfriend at the time) as the leading lady in his classic movie Modern Times (1936). Goddard and Chaplin were married after they filmed the movie and would remain married until 1942.
5. Paulette Goddard was the leading contender for the role of Scarlett O’Hara in 1939’s Gone with the Wind. Her inability to produce a marriage certificate to prove she and Charles Chaplin were married, and the appearance of Vivien Leigh on the scene, lost her the part.
6. During the filming of 1939’s The Women….Rosalind Russell actually bit Paulette Goddard in their fight sequence. Despite the permanent scar the bite left Goddard, the actresses remained friends.
7. More trivia from 1939’s The Women…..their are over 130 roles in this movie, all played by women….even the animals shown in the movie were female.
8. Paulette Goddard was nominated for one acting Oscar®….she received a Best Supporting Actress nomination for 1943’s So Proudly We Hail!.
9. Paulette Goddard was married four times and had no children. Her most famous marriage was to Chaplin….the one that surprised us was her marriage to Burgess “Rocky” Meredith.
10. Paulette Goddard would not do a dangerous stunt in Cecil B. Demille‘s Unconquered (1947). Five years later DeMille rejected her acceptance of a key role in 1952’s The Greatest Show on Earth and cast Gloria Grahame, instead. That was pretty the end of her career as she sent the rest of career in low budget B movies and retired in 1954.
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Hey Soren….glad you liked and found your requested page. Despite her being a Paramount leading lady….most of her movies were big enough hits to get the attention of Variety…so it was pretty easy….though once it reached the 1950s….easy was not the word at all…..every one of her movies in the 1950s was a flop. Also the Harrison Reports were very helpful on some of her other movies that were not huge hits. Thanks for the comment and the visit.
Paulette Goddard has never been on the Oracle of Bacon top 1000 Center of the Hollywood Universe list (Her last picture was 52 years ago when the Beatles hit America). These are the only people on the current top 1000 ahe appeared in a picture with.
Babes in Bagdad (1952) – 35 Christopher Lee
The Ghost Breakers (1940) – Anthony Quinn
Time of Indifference (1964) – 112 Rod Steiger, 555 Tomas Milian, 781 Shelley Winters
A few people were on the first list way back in 2000 that were in a film with her and have now fallen off. Rank is for 2000.
An Ideal Husband (1947) – 438 Glynis Johns, 854 Michael Medwin
Anna Lucasta (1949) – 90 John Ireland, 241 Broderick Crawford, 592 Whit Bissell, 965 Mary Wickes
Bride of Vengeance (1949) – 100 Ian Wolfe, 925 Raymond Burr, 984 Peter Mamakos
Charge of the Lancers (1954) – 315 Jean-Pierre Aumont, 915 Ivan Triesault
Duffy’s Tavern (1945) – 362 Barry Sullivan, 783 James Flavin
Hazard (1948) – 256 Hank Worden, 379 Ann Doran, 682 Ray Teal, 746 Herb Vigran
Hold Back the Dawn (1941) – 393 Charles Boyer, 783 James Flavin, 962 Olivia De Havilland
I Love a Soldier (1944) – 379 Ann Doran
Kid Millions (1934) – 222 Bess Flowers
Kitty (1945) – 187 Ray Milland
North West Mounted Police (1940) – 160 Robert Ryan, 234 Akim Tamiroff, 783 James Flavin
Nothing But the Truth (1941) – 534 Bob Hope
On Our Merry Way (1948) – 41 Burgess Meredith, 56 Henry Fonda, 344 James Stewart, 671 Eduardo Cianelli
Paris Model (1953) – 969 Byron Foulger
Pot o’ Gold (141) – 344 James Stewart, 699 Art Carney, 783 James Flavin
Reap the Wild Wind (1942) – 179 John Wayne, 187 Ray Milland, 234 Akim Tamiroff, 783 James Flavin, 963 Frank Ferguson, 969 Byron Foulger
Roman Scandals (1933) – 280 Billy Barty
Second Chorus (1940) – 41 Burgess Meredith, 832 Don Brodie, 982 Billy Benedict
Sins of Jezebel (1953) – 731 John Hoyt
So Proudly We Hail! (1943) – 192 Yvonne De Carlo, 256 Hank Worden, 379 Ann Doran, 783 James Flavin, 969 Byron Foulger
Standing Room Only (1944) – 192 Yvonne De Carlo
Star Spangled Rhythm (1942) – 118 Woody Strode, 187 Ray Milland, 534 Bob Hope
The Bowery (1933) – 410 George Raft, 571 Charles Lane
The Cat and the Canary (1939) – 534 Bob Hope, 571 Charles Lane
The Crystal Ball (1943) – 187 Ray Milland, 562 Paul Bryar
The Diary of a Chambermaid (1946) – 41 Burgess Meredith
The Forest Rangers (1942) – 740 George Chandler, 969 Byron Foulger
The Ghost Breakers (1940) – 160 Robert Ryan, 534 Bob Hope, 542 Paul Fix, 783 James Flavin
The Great Dictator (1940) – 832 Don Brodie
The Lady Has Plans (1942) – 187 Ray Milland
The Mouthpiece (1932) – 571 Charles Lane
The Torch (1950) – 384 Gilbert Roland
Time of Indifference (1964) – Claudia Cardinale
Unconquered (1947) – 27 Marc Lawrence, 50 Jeff Corey, 76 Eddie Albert, 146 Mike Mazurki, 147 Lloyd Bridges, 682 Ray Teal, 783 James Flavin, 824 Frank Wilcox, 868 Lex Barker, 969 Byron Foulger
Variety Girl (1947) – 45 Burt Lancaster, 187 Ray Milland, 207 William Holden, 379 Ann Doran, 380 Sterling Hayden, 534 Bob Hope, 963 Frank Ferguson
Vice Squad (1953) – 180 Lee Van Cleef, 463 Edward G. Robinson, 562 Paul Bryar, 723 Mickey Knox
I count 28 Oscar winners she worked with;
Broderick Crawford, Gary Cooper (City Streets, North West Mounted Police, Unconquered), Paul Lukas (City Streets), Luise Rainer (Dramatic School), Barry Fitzgerald (Duffy’s Tavern, I Love a Soldier, Variety Girl), Bing Crosby (Duffy’s Tavern, Star Spangled Rhythm, Variety Girl), Olivia De Havilland, Ray Milland, Jane Darwell (Ladies of the Big House, Roman Scandals), Henry Fonda, James Stewart, Charles Laughton (On Our Merry Way), Art Carney, John Wayne, Claudette Colbert (So Proudly We Hail!), Susan Hayward (Star Spangled Rhythm, The Forest Rangers), Wallace Beery (The Bowery), Anthony Quinn, Jane Wyman (The Kid From Spain), Joan Crawford (The Women), Joan Fontaine (The Women), Norma Shearer (The Women), Janet Gaynor (The Young in Heart), Rod Steiger, Shelley Winters, William Holden, Burt Lancaster, Gale Sondergaard (Dramatic School, The Cat and the Canary)
Hey Dan.
1. List 1: Only five actors on the list….pretty surprising even with her long gap since her last movie.
2. List 2: List is covered with lots of good actors…I still find it hard to believe that Lee Van Cleef is so highly rated. Lancaster is in the Top 100….and Gary Cooper is a miss? That does not make sense.
3. 28 Oscar winners…that is a pretty good total…lots of great leading men in this list.
4. Thanks for sharing your information…it is greatly appreciated.
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I had another list I posted with comments that just vanished. Some of this info was in the comments from these top 10 Boxoffice ranking lists, follow the sight. It has nothing to do with Paulette but was part of the 1939 comments.
http://www.b-westerns.com/terms5.htm
Lee Van Cleef made a lot of European films which may have helped be he’s gone now off the list.
Helped him but he’s gone
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Hey Dan…sorry your comment disappeared. Thanks for the link….it was an interesting link. Gene Autry was the man back then….and Roy Rogers was right behind him. Lots of fun information and lists on that page…thanks for sharing. As for Van Cleef….I agree 100%…seems like I am always running across one of his movies….and had no idea what the movie was about. Thanks for the feedback.
Have not see many if any of her movies but I agree that she was a very pretty lady. I will have to check her Chaplin movies.
Hey Helakoski….I really appreciate you taking the time to comment…especially since she is not somebody you know. I think you will like her Chaplin movies if you can find them.
interesting. sad to see the torch so lowly ranked. in my house growing up that was an important movie. i beat if you asked people in Central America their thoughts on the movie it would be rated much better.
Hey Willie….sorry The Torch was so lowly ranked. Goddard’s career really took a nose dive when the 1950s came rolling along….that did not help The Torch succeed. Your comment has me interested in checking out The Torch….thanks for the recommendation and the comment…both are greatly appreciated.
Hi Bruce
Another fascinating page. I am always amazed of your ability to find all these stats.
..and thank you so much for all your kind words, but if you didn’t write all these great pages…..