Barbara La Marr was an actress who made over 30 films and is believed to be one of the first to die a drug related death at age 29, in 1926.
Barbara was born in Yakima Washington in 1896. She was known to be 'dramatic' at an early age. Herc family moved to Fresno Ca in 1910. She married at the age of 17.
Her and her husband moved to New York City, where Barbara found work writing screenplays. This lead to her later returning to the Los Angelesa area. She made her first film in 1920. During the next several years she appeared frequently in films, and became publicised as "The Most Beautiful Girl In The World". With that slogan, she rapidly shot to stardom.
Barbara had made a successful jump from writer to actress when she appeared in Douglas Fairbanks' "The Nut" (1921). She appeared in over 30 films, and had written seven successful screenplays for United Artists and Fox studios. La Marr's films also included "The Prisoner of Zenda" and "Trifling Women," both released in 1922.
While her film career began to flourish, she also embraced the ultra fast-paced Hollywood lifestyle. She was known to have made the remark that 'she slept no more than two hours a night', as she felt with all her film work, life was too short to waste on sleep.
During those years living in the Hollywood fastlane she also became addicted to heroin. Her addiction, combined with her non-stop social life and grueling film work, began to take its toll on her health.
In January 1926, La Marr died suddenly from tuberculosis and nephritis in Altadena, California. She was interred in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery.
Newspapers at that time referred to her as "The Girl Too Beautiful To Live". "The Girl Who Was Too Beautiful", was a slight variation on the film title that had been closely associated with her.
La Marr had been married five times.
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