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Souls for Sale (1923): $3,500/week
Quincy Adams Sawyer (1922): $6,500/week
Flame of Youth (1920): $10,000

Never had more then two hours of sleep a day, because she felt that life was too short to waste any of it by sleeping. Stage actress and cabaret artist. Phil Ainsworth, husband #3, wound up in San Quentin for passing bad checks. In 1923 she secretly had a child from one of her numerous affairs. She "adopted" the child to save face and named him Marvin Carville La Marr. After her death in 1926, little Marvin was adopted by good friend Zasu Pitts and her husband Tom Gallery. He was renamed Don Gallery. Barbara was adopted by a foster family when she was a month-old baby. No birth certificate was ever found. Was, for a time, great friends with the actor William Haines until a falling-out in 1923. They never spoke again. Her brother, William W. Watson Jr, was a 20s vaudeville comedian who went by the stage name of Billy DeVore. On the 1900 and 1910 Censuses for Portland, Oregon, and Fresno, California, it states that Barbara La Marr was born in the state of Washington. In the Los Angeles Times, her sister, Violet Ake, is listed as her half-sister who was from her mother Rose's first marriage. It is highly unlikely that she was adopted, and a tale that she made up for her show business career.