page_title: Paulette Goddard
section_title: Charlie Chaplin
hierarchical_section_title: Paulette Goddard / Film career / Charlie Chaplin
caption_attribution_description: English: Studio publicity portrait for film Modern Times (1936)
context_page_description: Paulette Goddard was an American actress, a child fashion model and a performer in several Broadway productions as a Ziegfeld Girl; she became a major star of Paramount Pictures in the 1940s. Her most notable films were her first major role, as Charlie Chaplin's leading lady in Modern Times, and Chaplin's subsequent film The Great Dictator. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in So Proudly We Hail!. Her husbands included Charlie Chaplin, Burgess Meredith, and Erich Maria Remarque.
context_section_description: The year she signed with Goldwyn, Goddard began dating Charlie Chaplin, a relationship that received substantial attention from the press. It marked a turning point in Goddard's career when Chaplin cast her as his leading lady in his next box office hit, Modern Times, in 1936. Her role as "The Gamin", an orphan girl who runs away from the authorities and becomes The Tramp's companion, was her first credited film appearance and garnered her mainly positive reviews, Frank S. Nugent of The New York Times describing her as "the fitting recipient of the great Charlot's championship".
caption: Studio publicity portrait for Charles Chaplin's Modern Times (1936), in which Goddard had her first substantial film role.
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