List of the best Paulette Goddard movies: The Crystal Ball(1943), An Ideal Husband(1948), Bride of Vengeance(1949), Sins of Jezebel(1954), Diary of a Chambermaid(1946), Hazard(1948), Modern Times(1936), The Great Dictator(1940), So Proudly We Hail(1943), The Cat and the Canary(1939), Nothing but the Truth(1941), The Ghost Breakers(1940) ... ...
Comedy
USA
1943
81 Minutes
Toni Gerard
Paulette Goddard Ray Milland Virginia Field Gladys George Cecil Kellaway William Bendix
Girl loses beauty contest, becomes a fortune teller.
Comedy, Drama
UK
1948
96 Minutes
Paulette Goddard Michael Wilding Hugh Williams Diana Wynyard C. Aubrey Smith Glynis Johns Michael Medwin
A prominent politician is preparing to expose a financial scandal. But then a woman who has invested heavily in the shady venture threatens to uncover a damaging secret in the politician's ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1949
92 Minutes
A female Borgia is sent out to live up to the family name by killing someone, but falls in love with her intended victim.
Drama, History
USA
1954
74 Minutes
The aging Ahab, king of Israel, comes under the influence of a young and beautiful but scheming pagan woman named Jezebel and, against the advice of his advisers and the prophet Elijah, ... See full summary »
Comedy, Drama
1946
86 Minutes
CĂ©lestine
Paulette Goddard Burgess Meredith Hurd Hatfield Francis Lederer Judith Anderson Florence Bates Irene Ryan Reginald Owen
A gold-digging chambermaid (Paulette Goddard) eyes her brooding master (Hurd Hatfield) and drives a valet to murder.
Comedy
1948
95 Minutes
A gambler (Fred Clark) hires a private eye (Macdonald Carey) to catch a woman (Paulette Goddard) on the run from a lost bet.
Comedy
USA
1936
89 Minutes
A Gamin
Charles Chaplin Paulette Goddard Henry Bergman Tiny Sandford Chester Conklin Hank Mann Stanley Blystone Cecil Reynolds
factory worker orphan police officer amusing witty playful countryside factory prison nightclub aspirations modernization man vs. machine adventure discovery escape underdog 1930s
The Tramp struggles to live in modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman.
Comedy
USA
1940
128 Minutes
Hannah
Charles Chaplin Paulette Goddard Jack Oakie Reginald Gardiner Henry Daniell Billy Gilbert Maurice Moscovich Emma Dunn Grace Hayle Carter DeHaven Bernard Gorcey
barber dictator girl adviser hilarious cheeky dark incredible europe airplane hospital barbershop government offices stadium anti-semitism fascism persecution propaganda world war i loyalty
Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.
War
USA
1943
126 Minutes
Claudette Colbert Paulette Goddard Veronica Lake George Reeves Barbara Britton Walter Abel Sonny Tufts Mary Servoss Ted Hecht John Litel Mary Treen
nurse lieutenant soldier priest patriotic engaging tense rousing spirited hospital tunnel philippines bataan war medicine female bonding world war ii sacrifice escape rescue
A group of nurses returning from the war in the Phillippines recall their experiences in combat and in love.
Comedy, Mystery & Thriller
USA
1939
72 Minutes
Bob Hope Paulette Goddard Gale Sondergaard John Beal Douglass Montgomery Nydia Westman George Zucco
relative friend attorney housekeeper maniac playful creepy new orleans mansion study bedroom secret passageway haunted houses inheritance impersonation lawyers insanity murder mystery quest
When an eccentric family meets in their uncle's remote, decaying mansion on the tenth anniversary of his death for the reading of his will, murder and madness follow.
Comedy
USA
1941
90 Minutes
Bob Hope Paulette Goddard Edward Arnold Leif Erickson Helen Vinson Willie Best Glenn Anders Grant Mitchell Catherine Doucet Rose Hobart Clarence Kolb
stockbroker niece uncle boss partner employee amusing madcap crafty intricate yacht florida office wager schemes honesty family business money rivalry
Stockbroker T.T. Ralston has promised his niece Gwen to double it if she can raise $20,000. for charity. But he connives so those she asks refuse to give her more than the $10,000 she's ... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller, Comedy
USA
1940
82 Minutes
Bob Hope Paulette Goddard Richard Carlson Paul Lukas Willie Best Pedro de Cordoba Virginia Brissac Noble Johnson Anthony Quinn Tom Dugan Paul Fix
pretty woman radio host servant adviser gangster mysterious man cheeky creepy playful new york city hotel ocean liner cuba island haunted house ghosts inheritance chance meeting travel voodoo
A radio broadcaster, his quaking manservant and an heiress investigate the mystery of a haunted castle in Cuba.
Adventure
USA
1947
146 Minutes
Abby
Gary Cooper Paulette Goddard Howard da Silva Boris Karloff Cecil Kellaway Ward Bond Katherine DeMille Henry Wilcoxon C. Aubrey Smith Victor Varconi Virginia Grey
captain slave trader heroine slave native american friend tense spirited confident rousing colony north america pittsburgh fort river conspiracy slave trade colonialism land wars raids
Intrepid frontiersman Chris Holden foils the political and personal ambitions of renegade Martin Garth in the Ohio Valley following the French and Indian War.
Comedy
USA
1944
82 Minutes
Fred MacMurray Paulette Goddard Edward Arnold Roland Young Hillary Brooke Porter Hall Clarence Kolb Anne Revere Isabel Randolph Marie McDonald Veda Ann Borg
During World War II, Lee Stevens travels to Washington D.C. with his secretary Jane Rogers in order to secure a government contract. Not thinking it through, Jane cancels their hotel ... See full summary »
Comedy, Drama
UK
1942
87 Minutes
Celia Huston Stuart
Fred MacMurray Paulette Goddard Susan Hayward Lynne Overman Albert Van Dekker Eugene Pallette Regis Toomey Rod Cameron Clem Bevans James Brown Chester Clute
"Mark's Priory". the family seat of the Lebanons, is a house of terror to Ilsa Crane, secretary and niece of Lady Lebanon. The strange behavior of two sinister butlers, Gilder and Brooks, ... See full summary »
Musical, Comedy
1940
83 Minutes
Ellen Miller
Fred Astaire Paulette Goddard Burgess Meredith Artie Shaw Charles Butterworth Frank Melton Jimmy Conlin Adia Kuznetzoff Michael Visaroff Joseph Mari Don Brodie
student musician manager friend amusing charming madcap new york city college concert hall dance studio music failure romance abandonment rivalry love 1940s
College trumpet players (Fred Astaire, Burgess Meredith) flirt with a girl (Paulette Goddard) who tries to get them into Artie Shaw's band.
Comedy
1948
107 Minutes
Martha Pease
Burgess Meredith Leslie Fenton Paulette Goddard Fred MacMurray Hugh Herbert James Stewart Dorothy Lamour Victor Moore Eilene Janssen Henry Fonda William Demarest
clerk musician actress magician wife editor amusing lighthearted los angeles newsroom household stage studio impersonation repentance deception babies relationships journalism quest
Musicians, Hollywood extras and others tell a reporter (Burgess Meredith) how children affect their lives.
Musical, Comedy
1941
86 Minutes
Molly McCorkle
James Stewart Paulette Goddard Charles Winninger Mary Gordon Jed Prouty Donna Wood
store owner music lover uncle singer girlfriend bandleader endearing amusing lighthearted spirited store boardinghouse factory jail radio station music radio business success family
A harmonica player (James Stewart) woos a landlady's daughter (Paulette Goddard) and joins a conductor's (Horace Heidt) orchestra.
Romance
USA
1941
115 Minutes
Anita Dixon
Charles Boyer Olivia de Havilland Paulette Goddard Victor Francen Walter Abel Curt Bois Rosemary DeCamp Eric Feldary Nestor Paiva Eva Puig Micheline Cheirel
gigolo teacher girlfriend melodramatic mexico los angeles border hollywood, calif. immigration love deception escape discovery 1940s
Stopped in Mexico by U.S. Immigration, Georges Iscovescu hopes to get into the country by marrying a citizen.
Comedy
USA
1938
91 Minutes
Leslie Saunders
Janet Gaynor Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Paulette Goddard Roland Young
father mother son daughter elderly person lawyer amusing charming mellow french riviera london house car office fortune hunters family spinster inheritance love schemes
Thrown out of the Riviera, a family of grifters meets a lonely, vulnerable rich old woman and insinuate themselves into her life while they sponge off her.
Adventure
USA
1942
124 Minutes
Loxi Claiborne
Ray Milland John Wayne Paulette Goddard Raymond Massey Robert Preston Susan Hayward Charles Bickford Hedda Hopper Louise Beavers Martha O'Driscoll Lynne Overman
ship captain shipwreck survivor lawyer villain spirited atlantic ocean north carolina florida keys ship office shipwreck shipping insurance love triangle piracy rivalry love adventure 1840s
Florida ship salvager, Loxi, falls for Jack, captain of a ship wrecked on the Key West shore. However, their romance is complicated by the arrival of another suitor, and eventually leads to tragedy.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1947
93 Minutes
Mary Hatcher Olga San Juan DeForest Kelley Bing Crosby Bob Hope Gary Cooper Ray Milland Alan Ladd Barbara Stanwyck Paulette Goddard Dorothy Lamour
Almost everyone under contract to Paramount Pictures at the time make cameos or perform songs, with particularly large amounts of screen time featuring Bob Hope and Bing Crosby.