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Barbara Bates
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Charles Chaplin
offered Barbara the lead role in his film
Limelight (1952)
, but 20th Century-Fox made her turn it down.
In 1945 agent Cecil Coan left his wife to marry Barbara. Despite a big age difference, they stayed married until he died from cancer in 1967.
Suicide death caused by carbon monoxide poisoning.
Barbara Bates was 19 years old when she married Cecil Coan on his 42nd birthday, 27th March 1945.
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