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February 4, 2018	Good article nominee	Listed

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Untitled[edit]

IMDb has it as "La Marr", and that's how I've seen it in various movie-related books. --Notmicro 10:06, 17 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

"La Marr" is correct, and it's also a more complete article. There is really nothing in Barbara LaMarr that is not in Barbara La Marr, and even the photo is the same. It should be a redirect. Blank "LaMarr" and redirect it to "La Marr". Rossrs 13:05, 17 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

TB or drug overdose?[edit]

Zasu Pitts's bio says that LaMarr died of a drug overdose but her bio says it was TB and doesn't mention drug use. Anyone know what is closer to the truth? 69.125.134.86 (talk) 23:20, 19 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I can officially tell you that Pitts's bio is incorrect; Barbara La Marr died of nephritis as a complication of pulmonary tuberculosis. The only illicit drug she took in any large quantities, due to the Prohibition of the 1920s, was alcohol. Stolengood (talk) 07:49, 20 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Dates of marriages[edit]

‘In November 1914, she came back from Arizona and announced that she was the newly widowed wife of a rancher named Jack Lytell.’

But then: ‘La Marr married for a second time, on June 2, 1914, to lawyer Lawrence Converse.’

Correct dates, please. Valetude (talk) 14:44, 12 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review[edit]

This review is transcluded from Talk:Barbara La Marr/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Numerounovedant (talk · contribs) 04:13, 4 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I'm going to put up comments soon. VedantTalk 04:13, 4 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

First set

"La Marr's name appeared frequently in newspaper headlines during the next few years. In November 1914, she came back to California from Arizona and announced that she was the newly widowed wife of a rancher named Jack Lytell and that they were supposedly married in Mexico. She also stated that she loathed the name Reatha and preferred to be called by the childhood nickname "Beth"." - The source for this?
"After marrying and moving with her third husband, vaudevillian Ben Deely" - moving in?
"She was credited as writer Barbara La Marr Deely on the films The Mother of His Children, The Rose of Nome, Flame of Youth, The Little Grey Mouse, and The Land of Jazz." - Do we know any of the release years?
The Hollywood Walk of Fame is very very worthy of being mentioned in the lead (The opening paragraph preferably).
You might want to source all the "In popular culture" claims.
While the Career section could be fleshed out substantially, I'm not too sure if you'd be able to find many sources on her or her films' performances? Is there anything you can do to make the section carry somelre weight?
Also, a lot of the material from the Career section could be used to form a "In the media"/"Media image" section, but only once the Career section itself has more weight.

I'll look at it again once you're done with these comments. It's been a very interesting read until now. VedantTalk 04:27, 4 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Numerounovedant: I believe I've addressed all of the logistical and reference concerns you raise above. As far as expanding the career section of the article, it is a bit of a difficult task given the lack of material available for reference; what is out there is largely anecdotal/trivial, though Snyder's biography may offer some details worth including here. I will have to look more into this, but generally, there is not a great wealth of available information. --Drown Soda (talk) 07:53, 4 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Final comments

Well, in that case, I do not see any reason to delay the promotion. The prose is reasonably well written and substantiated with reliable sources, all of which look to be in fine order. You can always add whatever information you find to fhe article. Good work, I'm going to pass this. VedantTalk 08:42, 4 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

P.S.

@Numerounovedant and Drown Soda:. Three short citations are broken: "Donnelly 2003" should probably be "Donnelley 2003", "Synder 2017" should probably be "Snyder 2017". "Martson 2010" is missing from Works cited entirely. – Finnusertop (talk ⋅ contribs) 09:56, 4 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you Finnusertop, I've (hopefully) fixed the typos. Book citations were never my strongest suit. VedantTalk 10:39, 4 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Looks okay now, Numerounovedant. – Finnusertop (talk ⋅ contribs) 12:25, 4 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]