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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.
Barbara La Marr earned the title “The Girl Who Is Too Beautiful” after juvenile authorities ordered her from Los Angeles on the grounds that she was “too beautiful” to be alone in a big city. She was seventeen-year-old Reatha Watson then.
Feb 10, 2017 · She was the “too beautiful girl,” whose epic life and early death created what eventually became the Monroe archetype — the doomed, destructive beauty, whose death is foretold in the...
My biography, Barbara La Marr: The Girl Who Was Too Beautiful for Hollywood, released by the University Press of Kentucky and selected as one of the Huffington Post’s “Best Film Books of 2017,” is available on the University Press of Kentucky website, Amazon, and Barnes & Noble.
Barbara La Marr. Actress: The Eternal City. Barbara La Marr was born in Yakima, Washington, on July 28, 1896, as Reatha Watson. Her childhood was mostly uneventful, mainly because Yakima--today a medium-sized city with a population of over 50, 000-wasn't exactly a beehive of activity.
Not long before her passing at age twenty-nine on January 30, 1926, Barbara La Marr, one of Hollywood’s most infamous, misunderstood screen sirens, asked writer Jim Tully, a friend of hers, “Some day, Jim, will you write about me—and tell them that I wasn’t everything I played on the screen?”
Dec 11, 2017 · Barbara La Marr, circa early 1924; Melbourne Spurr image. Born into an era governed by stifling Victorian mores, a time when many women led lives of submissive domesticity, Barbara La Marr played by her own rules, charted her own course through life.
Barbara La Marr (born Reatha Dale Watson; July 28, 1896 – January 30, 1926) was an American film actress and screenwriter who appeared in 27 films during her career between 1920 and 1926.
Barbara La Marr first made headlines in January 1913. She was an unknown sixteen-year-old named Reatha Watson then, inexplicably missing from the Los Angeles apartment she occupied with her parents.
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.
