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  1. Barbara La Marr was born in 1896 [a] as Reatha Dale Watson to William and Rosana "Rose" Watson in Yakima, Washington (La Marr later claimed she was born in Richmond, Virginia). [3] Her father was an editor for a newspaper and her mother, a native of Corvallis , Oregon , already had one son, Henry, and a daughter, Violet, from a previous marriage. [ 4 ]

  2. A personality dangerous, vivid, attractive; a desire to live life at its maddest and its fullest; a mixture of sentiment and hardness, a creature of weakness and strength—that was Barbara La Marr.”. Reatha Dale Watson made her grand debut into the world July 28, 1896, in Yakima, Washington. She was the last child born to Rosa (Rose) Contner ...

  3. Remembering Barbara. 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?”. To those who loved ...

  4. Feb 10, 2017 · Now really — why Barbara La Marr? … Wasn’t she rather a peculiarly notorious little girl in this city before she became worth $15,000 a year? ... Barbara died on Jan. 30, 1926, her parents ...

  5. Silent screen siren Barbara La Marr passed away on January 30, 1926, having lived life on her own terms. Her death, attributed to tuberculosis and nephritis, was hastened by her tendency to “burn the candle at both ends,” her severe diet regimen, and her insistence upon continuing her work until her final collapse on the set of her last film.

  6. Download. XML. Barbara La Marr's (1896--1926) publicist once confessed: "There was no reason to lie about Barbara La Marr. Everything she said, everything she did wa...

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  8. Feb 1, 2019 · After collapsing in a coma on the set of her final film, The Girl from Montmartre (1926), silent screen star Barbara La Marr, suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis, was forced into isolation in Altadena, California, by her doctor in October 1925. As the months passed, Barbara often worried that those in the outside world had forgotten her.