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Oh, that face, that fabulous face. Whose is it?


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She's not Mae Murray. When she died of tuberculosis at thirty, film producer Paul Bern arranged her funeral, remarking that she was too beautiful to cremate. Her son was raised by ZaSu Pitts. Her surname would later be given to another beautiful brunette actress.

 

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Barbara La Marr was considered too beautiful for anything. Adela Rogers St. John was in court as a cub reporter when a judge ordered Barbara, then fourteen, to go back to Imperial Valley to stay with her parents as a ward of the court, because "you are too beautiful to be allowed alone in a big city. You are too beautiful to be without constant protection from your parents at your age." Adela persuaded the young girl to come down to the newspaper to have some pictures taken. When they came into the City Room, everything stopped. One of the reporters said to Adela, "Helen of Troy, I presume?" They ran the story with the pictures, quoting the judge.

 

Barbara died of TB after a brief lifetime full of trouble. Men abducted her, committed bigamy for her, forged checks to buy her things she didn't want, followed her, tried to kill themselves for her. She thought of her beauty as a curse and said she wished she had a nose as long as the Elephant Child's. A sad life.

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Very tragic tale. But you know I have never been all that impressed with Barbara La Marr's looks. Olive Thomas, Jacqueline Logan, Corinne Griffith, Esther Ralston, Marceline Day, Dolores Costello, very much so. Not Barbara La Marr. In-fact in SOULS FOR SALE I never even notice her. Barely even noticed her in PRISONER OF ZENDA either. Give me Renee Adoree or Colleen Moore any day.

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