Paulette Goddard — Actor (29)
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Kitty (1945) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Kitty
director: Mitchell Leisen actor: Paulette Goddard / Ray Milland …
other title: Eine Lady mit Vergangenheit / La bribona
Pickpocket Kitty's life changes when painter Thomas Gainsborough makes her portrait. The artwork gains the attention of Sir Hugh Marcy, who later decides to use her for his benefit.
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Bride of Vengeance (1949) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Bride of Vengeance
director: Mitchell Leisen actor: Paulette Goddard / John Lund …
other title: La maschera dei Borgia / La máscara de los Borgia
The tiny independent duchy of Ferrara is located between Casare Borgia's Rome and Venice, and Borgia has plans to conquer Venice via Ferrara. He murders his sister's husband and makes it appear that Alfonso D'Este of Ferrara was behind the killing. To avenge herself against Ferrara and D'Este, Lucretia Borgia marries D'Este and intends to poison him. But...she falls in love with him.
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The Diary of a Chambermaid (1946) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Diary of a Chambermaid
director: Jean Renoir actor: Paulette Goddard / Burgess Meredith …
other title: Il diario di una cameriera / Segredos de Alcova …
Celestine, the chamber-maid, has a new job in the country, at the Lanlaires. She has decided to use her beauty to seduce a wealthy man, but Mr. Lanlaire is not a right choice: the house is firmly controlled by Madame Lanlaire, helped by the strange valet Joseph. Then she tries the neighbour, former officer Mauger. This seems to work. But soon the son of the Lanlaires comes back. He is young, attractive and does not share his mother's antirepublican opinions. So Celestine's beauty attracts Captain Mauger, young Georges Lanlaire, and Joseph. Three men, from three different social classes, with three different conceptions of life. Will Celestine be able to convince Georges of her sincerity?
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The Lady Has Plans (1942) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Lady Has Plans
director: Sidney Lanfield actor: Ray Milland / Paulette Goddard …
Some dastardly criminals have stolen some top secret plans and tattoo them on the back of a woman so she can sell them to the highest bidder in Lisbon. This woman plans to take the place of a 'Sidney Royce', a legitimate traveler going to Lisbon as a reporter. Crossed signals allows the real Sidney to reach Portugal first, where she is pursued by those trying to obtain the plans and US government agents trying to prevent the sale.
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Pot o' Gold (1941) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Pot o' Gold
director: George Marshall actor: James Stewart / Paulette Goddard …
other title: Un sacco d'oro / L'or du ciel …
Jimmy, the owner of a failed music shop, goes to work with his uncle, the owner of a food factory. Before he gets there, he befriends an Irish family who happens to be his uncle's worst enemy because of their love for music and in-house band who constantly practices. Soon, Jimmy finds himself trying to help the band by getting them gigs and trying to reconcile the family with his uncle.
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Reap the Wild Wind (1942) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Reap the Wild Wind
director: Cecil B. DeMille actor: Paulette Goddard / Ray Milland …
other title: Vento selvaggio / O Vento Selvagem …
The Florida Keys in 1840, where the implacable hurricanes of the Caribbean scream, where the salvagers of Key West, like the intrepid and beautiful Loxi Claiborne and her crew, reap, aboard frail schooners, the harvest of the wild wind, facing the shark teeth of the reefs to rescue the sailors and the cargo from the shipwrecks caused by the scavengers of the sea.
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Variety Girl (1947) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Variety Girl
director: George Marshall actor: Bing Crosby / Bob Hope …
other title: Rivista di stelle / Mädchen für Hollywood …
Dozens of star and character-actor cameos and a message about the Variety Club (a show-business charity) are woven into a framework about two hopeful young ladies who come to Hollywood, exchange identities, and cause comic confusion (with slapstick interludes) throughout the Paramount studio.
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Dramatic School (1938) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Dramatic School
director: Robert B. Sinclair actor: Luise Rainer / Paulette Goddard …
other title: Coup de théâtre / Passione ardente
Aspiring actress Louise Muban attends the prestigious Paris School of Drama during the day and works at a dreary factory assembling gas meters at night. She daydreams and "acts" her way through life, and her fellow students at school begin to suspect her stories are just that - fabrications. After Louise begins to weave an actual meeting with a debonair playboy into a fantasy of club dates and romance, her classmate Nana discovers the lie when she too meets the playboy. Nana sets a trap for Louise, and the result is an end to one fantasy and the realization of another.
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The Stranger Came Home (1954) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Stranger Came Home
director: Terence Fisher actor: Paulette Goddard / William Sylvester …
other title: Meurtres sans empreintes / A Stranger Came Home …
Someone knocked out a man and left him for dead during a fishing trip in Portugal. That someone is either his fetching wife, or two business partners, all sporting guilty faces after his unexpected return. Two more murders and a frame-up befall the quartet before an inspector closes the case.
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Standing Room Only (1944) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Standing Room Only
director: Sidney Lanfield actor: Paulette Goddard / Fred MacMurray …
other title: Tutto esaurito
During WWII, an executive and his secretary arrive in Washington, DC on business but, because of the housing shortage, are unable to find hotel rooms. In desperation, they pretend to be married and hire themselves out as a butler and maid in order to secure lodgings. Comedy.
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Star Spangled Rhythm (1942) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Star Spangled Rhythm
director: George Marshall actor: Bing Crosby / Bob Hope …
other title: Signorine, non guardate i marinai / Fantasía de estrellas
Pop, a security guard at Paramount has told his son that he's the head of the studio. When his son arrives in Hollywood on shore leave with his buddies, Pop enlists the aid of the studio's dizzy switchboard operator in pulling off the charade. Things get more complicated when Pop agrees to put together a show for the Navy starring Paramount's top contract players.
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The Forest Rangers (1942) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Forest Rangers
director: George Marshall actor: Fred MacMurray / Paulette Goddard …
other title: Corazones en llamas
Ranger Don Stuart fights a forest fire with timber boss friend Tana 'Butch' Mason, and finds evidence of arson. He suspects Twig Dawson but can't prove it. Butch loves Don but he, poor fool, won't notice her as a woman; instead he meets socialite Celia in town and elopes with her. The action plot (Don's pursuit of the fire starter) parallels Tana's comic efforts to scare tenderfoot Celia back to the city.
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On Our Merry Way (1948) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
On Our Merry Way
director: Leslie Fenton / King Vidor actor: Paulette Goddard / Burgess Meredith …
other title: La strada della felicità / Når enden er god …
Oliver Pease gets a dose of courage from his wife Martha and tricks the editor of the paper (where he writes lost pet notices) into assigning him the day's roving question. Martha suggests, "Has a little child ever changed your life?" Oliver gets answers from two slow-talking musicians, an actress whose roles usually feature a sarong, and an itinerant cardsharp. In each case the "little child" is hardly innocent: in the first, a local auto mechanic's "baby" turns out to be fully developed as a woman and a musician; in the second, a spoiled child star learns kindness; in the third, the family of a lost brat doesn't want him returned. And Oliver, what becomes of him?
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The Cat and the Canary (1939) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
The Cat and the Canary
director: Elliott Nugent actor: Bob Hope / Paulette Goddard …
other title: Il fantasma di mezzanotte / Erbschaft um Mitternacht …
Relatives gather at a haunted mansion for a will reading where the sole heir is threatened by a clause that could disinherit her if she goes mad, all while a homicidal maniac escapes nearby.