Paulette Goddard Movies

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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

1. 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.
2. An average Paulette Goddard movie grossed $114.50 million in adjusted box office gross.
3. 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.
4. Ten Paulette Goddard movies received at least one Oscar® nomination in any category…..or 26.31% of her movies.
5. Two Paulette Goddard movies won at least one Oscar® in any category…..or 5.26% of her movies.
6. 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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