Celia Johnson

She was knighted and became a Dame. Mayer named the actress Hedy Lamarr after Barbara La Marr, who had been one of his favourite actresses. She was married to Peter Fleming an explorer and writer and brother of Ian Fleming. In the 1930s, Louis B. She generally played a genteel and/or repressed Englishwoman, though she proved in many stage productions to be a talented comedienne. The child was renamed Don Gallery and grew up to become an actor and a sometime boyfriend of Elizabeth Taylor; he now lives in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Other films include The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969). Some years after her death, it was revealed that she had mothered an illegitimate son, Marvin Carville La Marr, who was adopted after her death by the actress Zasu Pitts and her husband, film executive Tom Gallery.

She made relatively few films, of which Brief Encounter is by far the best known. At the time of her death she was married to the actor Jack Dougherty. By 1931, she was starring as Ophelia in a New York production of Hamlet. Lamarr married for the first time at the age of seventeen, and during her short life was married five times. Her stage début was in Major Barbara in 1928. The newspapers of the day referred to her as "The Girl Too Beautiful To Live", a slight variation on the title that had been closely associated with her. She was born in Richmond, Surrey, and trained in acting at RADA. She died from tuberculosis and nephritis in Altadena, California and was interred in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery.

Dame Celia Johnson (1908-1982) was an English actress, famous for her role in the 1945 film, Brief Encounter, opposite Trevor Howard. During this time she became addicted to heroin, and her addiction, combined with her busy social life and gruelling work commitments took their toll on her health. Her film career flourished, but she also embraced the Hollywood nightlife, remarking in an interview that she slept no more than two hours a night, as life was too short to waste on sleep. Over the next few years she acted frequently in films, and was widely publicised as "The Most Beautiful Girl In The World". After marrying and moving with her husband to New York, New York, La Marr found employment writing screenplays and her association with movie makers led to her returning to Los Angeles and making her film debut as an actress in 1920.

Changing her name to Barbara La Marr, she continued working on the fringes of showbusiness, but at that time her main ambition was to become a writer. While still in her teens she was arrested for dancing in a burlesque club. After spending her early years in a small town, she was impressed by the nightlife of the rapidly growing Los Angeles. She was known after her adoption as Rheatha Dale Watson.

Born in Yakima, Washington, La Marr moved with her adoptive parents to California while in her early teens. Barbara La Marr (July 28, 1896 - January 30, 1926) was an American film actress.