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Barbara La Marr

1896 - 1926

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Barbara La Marr (born Reatha Dale Watson; July 28, 1896 – January 30, 1926) was an American film actress and screenwriter who appeared in twenty-seven films during her career between 1920 and 1926. La Marr was also noted by the media for her beauty, dubbed as the "Girl Who Is Too Beautiful", as well as her tumultuous personal life. Born in Yakima, Washington, La Marr spent her early life in the Pacific Northwest before relocating with her family to California when she was a teenager. After performing in vaudeville and working as a dancer in New York City, she moved to Los Angeles with her second husband and became a screenwriter for Fox Film Corporation, writing several successful films for the company. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Barbara La Marr is the 4,270th most popular actor (up from 4,341st in 2019), the 6,808th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,362nd in 2019) and the 1,966th most popular American Actor.

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Among actors, Barbara La Marr ranks 4,270 out of 13,578. Before her are Noël Roquevert, Mike Starr, Nikolai Kryuchkov, Käthe von Nagy, Ruth Roman, and James Read. After her are Christiane Hörbiger, Waheeda Rehman, Mohammad Bakri, Ewa Aulin, Kenan İmirzalıoğlu, and Ken Jeong.

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Among people born in 1896, Barbara La Marr ranks 202. Before her are Kim Myeong-sun, Heinz Prüfer, Marion Zinderstein, Walter Lang, Firaq Gorakhpuri, and Ruben Lagus. After her are Edvin Wide, Eric Backman, Sirarpie Der Nersessian, Kostas Karyotakis, Ethel Waters, and Mordecai Ardon. Among people deceased in 1926, Barbara La Marr ranks 94. Before her are Jenő Károly, André Gaudin, Eugene V. Debs, Gérard Cooreman, Jón Magnússon, and Thomas Moran. After her are Georges Vézina, Giovanni Amendola, Eliška Krásnohorská, Friedrich Kluge, Jan Szczepanik, and Olle Lanner.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Barbara La Marr ranks 6,810 out of 20,380. Before her are Mike Starr (1950), Ruth Roman (1922), James Read (1953), Patti Scialfa (1953), Gordon Willis (1931), and Butler Lampson (1943). After her are Anita Loos (1889), Edward Livingston (1764), Frank Havens (1924), Sue Grafton (1940), Bisher Al-Khasawneh (1969), and Eugene Garfield (1925).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Barbara La Marr ranks 1,967. Before her are Richard Thomas (1951), Jessica Walter (1941), John Finn (1952), Mike Starr (1950), Ruth Roman (1922), and James Read (1953). After her are Ken Jeong (1969), George Eads (1967), Janet Margolin (1943), Vondie Curtis-Hall (1950), Derek Luke (1974), and Susan Kohner (1936).

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