Paulette Goddard’s onetime NYC home lists for $2.3…


This glam Sutton Place duplex penthouse comes with old Hollywood star power. It’s the former home of Paulette Goddard, an actress during Hollywood’s Golden Age with a career spanning six decades.

The 1,650-square-foot, two-bedroom, two-bath spread at 320 E. 57th St. is on the market for $2.39 million.

It last sold for $2.15 million in 2021, according to property records.

Born in New York, Goddard — her birth name was Marion Levy — was secretly married to Charlie Chaplin, who was her second husband, and appeared with him in two of the world’s most iconic films, “Modern Times” and “The Great Dictator.” In 1927, at age 17, she married her first husband, an older lumber mogul named Edgar James; they separated two years later and divorced in 1932. After then dating the artist Diego Rivera in Mexico, she married her third husband, Burgess Meredith, in 1944. He was later blacklisted in Hollywood.

Paulette Goddard.
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The unit is a duplex, with the levels connected by a staircase.
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A peek inside the kitchen.
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The kitchen comes with a bit of eat-in space.
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Private outdoor space with great views.
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One of two bedrooms.
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This apartment is where Goddard lived with her fourth, and final, husband, novelist Erich Maria Remarque, who wrote the famous World War I novel, “All Quiet on the Western Front.” Remarque also wrote his last novel here. Published posthumously, it was called “Shadows in Paradise,” and it featured the apartment as home to an emigre fleeing the NazisWhen the couple lived here, it was a 15th-floor one-bedroom. It has now been combined with an upstairs unit to create a duplex.

The penthouse opens on the lower level with a foyer that leads to a large living room with a woodburning fireplace and city skyline views. There’s also a chef’s kitchen with a…