Barbara La Marr
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Birth Name: Reatha Dale Watson
Born: 28 July 1896 Died: 30 January 1926
Country of origin: United States
Height: 5' 4"
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Premature Deaths (Actors and Actresses)
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Published 10 years ago
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My Favourite Old Hollywood Hairstyles
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Published 14 years, 4 months ago
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Actresses Forgotten
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Published 9 years, 11 months ago
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62 votes
The Beauty of Silence
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Published 11 years, 6 months ago
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Reatha Watson (Barbara La Marr) is most famous as one of the first drug-related deaths in Hollywood, but she is notable for many other reasons. Born in Yakima, Washington, her parents moved to the Imperial Valley in California, where Reatha began her explorations of Los Angeles as a teenager. After several disastrous marriages she worked as a burlesque dancer until she married vaudeville actor Ben Deeley. They moved to New York, where Reatha (under the name Folly Lytell) wrote six scenarios for Fox. She made the successful leap from writer to actress in Douglas Fairbanks' The Nut (1921/I), and her career skyrocketed under her ne
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2. Souls for Sale (1923)
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3. The Nut (1921)
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4. The Prisoner of Zenda (1922)
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5. Trifling Women (1922)
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1. My Husband's Wives (1924)
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2. The White Moth (1924)
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3. The Mother of His Children (1920)
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4. Rose of Nome (1920)
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5. Flame of Youth (1920)
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