Barbara La Marr (July 28, 1896 – January 30, 1926) was an American stage and film actress, cabaret artist, and screenwriter.

La Marr was known as "The Girl Who Is Too Beautiful," after a Hearst newspaper feature writer, Adela Rogers St. Johns, saw a judge sending her home during the police beat in Los Angeles because she was too beautiful and young to be on her own in the big city.

Biography

La Marr was married five times. She married her first husband, Jack Lytell, in 1914 at the age of 17. Lytell died of pneumonia a few weeks after the marriage. La Marr married for a second time, on June 2, 1914, to lawyer Lawrence Converse. Converse was already married with children when he married La Marr and was arrested for bigamy the following day. While in jail, Converse repeatedly banged his head on his cell wall while calling for La Marr and knocked himself unconscious. He died of a blood clot in his brain on June 5. In 1916, La Marr married dancer Phil Ainsworth. Ainsworth was sent to San Quentin for passing bad checks. They divorced in 1917. La Marr married for a fourth time to Ben Deely in 1918. They separated in April 1921. Before the divorce from Deely was finalized, La Marr married actor Jack Dougherty in May 1923. They remained married until La Marr's death.

Some years after her death, it was revealed that she had given birth to a son. The name of the boy's father has never been publicly released. The child, Marvin Carville La Marr, was adopted after La Marr's death by the actress ZaSu Pitts and her husband, film executive Tom Gallery. He was renamed Don Gallery.