Popular Culture
- In the 1930s, Louis B. Mayer named the actress Hedy Lamarr after Barbara La Marr, who had been one of his favorite actresses.
- La Marr is referred to in the Flanagan and Allen song "Underneath the Arches" during the break when Ches Allen reads out the headlines from a 1926 newspaper.
- La Marr's former home in the Hollywood Hills was featured on "Secrets from a Stylist" on Home and Garden Television (HGTV) in 2011, in the episode "Hollywood Regency meets Country Club Chic."
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“Popular culture is seductive; high culture is imperious.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
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