She was the ultimate party girl, rumoured to only sleep two hours a night and used heroin to keep her hectic social schedule.
Amy Winehouse? Lindsay Lohan? Britney Spears?
No none of the above. Instead it's Barbara La Marr, a woman who didn't get to see her 30th birthday despite having talent and beauty.
Getting her start in Hollywood as a screen writer after achieving notoriety as a teenage burlesque dancer, she made the switch to the silver screen in such outstanding films as The Prisoner of Zenda and The Three Musketeers; trading on her reputation of The Girl Who Was Too Beautiful.
Beautiful, and five times married she may have been, but long forgotten she is now and today as are a lot of her films but here's a clip from The Three Musketeers starring Douglas Fairbanks.
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