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Can Barbara Come Back?
This scene with Lewis Stone in "The Girl jrom Montmartre", is
the last one Barbara La Marr
made before illness forced
her to retire
BARBARA LA MARR has had a complete nervous and physical breakdown and has temporarily retired from the screen into the mountains for a long period of absolute rest and quiet ordered by her doctors. That her condition is extremely serious, if not acutely dangerous, none who saw her in the last days of her slay in Hollywood could doubt. How she managed to finish her last picture, "The Cnrl from Montmartre," nobody will ever know. Three or four hours work a day was all she could stand, and even then she fainted from sheer weakness on (he set many times. Personally, I think Bobby's light in I he mountains is a fight for life, and she needs the earnest prayers and sympathy of everyone of us who have loved her on the screen in the past if we are ever to see her there in (he future.
THERE was something terribly pitiful about Barbara — to see the gorgeous, exotic woman as thin and pale as some ghost of herself, trying to smile her old, mesmeric smile. To see
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her driving to the studio in her Rolls-Royce, acquired at the height of her sudden lame, when I don't suppose she has given a thought to such commonplace things as savings accounts and rainy days. To see her get rid. one by one, of all the staff of paid and unpaid slaves and admirers, and cling at the last to her old Dad. who has stood by Barbara through all the ups and downs of her wild youth and dazzling fame and prodigal generosity,
Barbara knows — that is the strange thing about Barbara, she always knows — what it means to give up your place in the sun even for a little while. She knows what it means to let them forget you. She knows that she will have to take up the battle all over again.
The doctors call it overwork, and that in some measure it undoubtedly is. Barbara has worked terribly hard, she has never considered herself if anyone needed her in any way; she has always lived in the day with no thought of the morrow.
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