Overview
Born September 13, 1903 in Saint-Mandé, Seine [now Val-de-Marne], France
Died July 30, 1996 in Speightstown, Barbados (after a series of strokes)
Birth Name Emilie Claudette Chauchoin
Nickname Lily
Height 5' 4½" (1.64 m)
One of the most splendid film stars to beauty the screen was conceived Emilie Claudette Chauchoin on September 13, 1903, in Saint Mandé, France where her dad claimed a pastry kitchen at 57, mourn de la République (presently Avenue Général de Gaulle). The family moved to the United States when she was three. As Claudette grew up, she needed just to play to Broadway crowds (back then, any entertainer or entertainer deserving at least moderate respect went for Broadway, not Hollywood). After her conventional instruction finished, she signed up for the Art Students League, where she paid for her sensational preparation by working in a dress shop. She made her Broadway debut in 1923 in the stage creation of "The Wild Wescotts". It was during this occasion that she took on the name Claudette Colbert.
At the point when the Great Depression shut down a large portion of the theaters, Claudette chose to find success with it in films. Her first film was required the Love of Mike (1927). Tragically, it was a film industry catastrophe. She wasn't genuine excited about the entertainment world, yet with an outrageous shortage in dramatic jobs, she had no real option except to remain. In 1929 she featured as Joyce Roamer in The Lady Lies (1929). The film was a triumph and sometime thereafter she had one more hit entitled The Hole in the Wall (1929). In 1930 she featured inverse Fredric March in Manslaughter (1930), which was a change of the quiet form of eight years sooner. A year after that Claudette was again combined in a film with March, Honor Among Lovers (1931). It fared well in the cinematic world, likely simply because it was the sort of film that took special care of ladies who delighted in magazine fiction heartfelt stories. In 1932 Claudette played the malicious Poppeia in Cecil B. Yet again DeMille's last incredible work, The Sign of the Cross (1932), and was projected with March. Later that very year she was combined with Jimmy Durante in The Phantom President (1932). At this point Claudette's name represented great films and she, alongside March, maneuvered packs into the performance centers with the acclaimed Tonight Is Ours (1933).
The following year began a little on the sluggish side with the arrival of Four Frightened People (1934), where Claudette and her co-stars were at chances with the feared bubonic plague on board a boat. Be that as it may, the following two movies were genuine jewels for this youthful entertainer. First up, Claudette was enchanting and brilliant in Cecil B. DeMille's terrific Cleopatra (1934). It wasn't one of DeMille's best using any and all means, yet it was a monetary achievement and displayed Claudette as at no other time. Notwithstanding, it was as Ellie Andrews, in the now renowned It Happened One Night (1934), that guaranteed she would be always deified. Matched with Clark Gable, the foolish parody was a uber hit all over the country. It likewise brought about Claudette being designated for and winning the Oscar that year for Best Actress. IN 1935 she was assigned again for Private Worlds (1935), where she played Dr. Jane Everest, on the staff at a psychological foundation. The presentation was lovely. Movies like The Gilded Lily (1935), Drums Along the Mohawk (1939) and No Time for Love (1943) kept fans coming to the theaters and the film head honchos cheerful. Claudette was a certain drawing card for all intents and purposes any film she was in. In 1944 she featured as Anne Hilton in Since You Went Away (1944). Once more, despite the fact that she didn't win, Claudette got her third selection for Best Actress.
By the last part of the 1940s and mid 1950s she was seen on the screen as well as the newborn child mode of TV, where she showed up in various projects. Nonetheless, her drawing power was blurring to some degree as new stars supplanted the more established ones. In 1955 she recorded the western Texas Lady (1955) and wasn't seen on the screen again until Parrish (1961). It was her last cinema execution. Her last debut before the cameras was in a TV film, The Two Mrs. Grenvilles (1987). She did, in any case, stay on the stage where she had returned in 1956, her first love. After a progression of strokes, Claudette split her time between New York and Barbados. On July 30, 1996, Claudette passed on in Speightstown, Barbados. She was 92.
Most shots of her in her movies were of her left profile. She believed her passed on side to be her best and just seldom permitted full face or right profile shots; a physical issue to her nose had made a knock on the right. When a whole set must be revamped so she would not need to show her right side, bringing about certain cameramen referring to the right half of her face as "the clouded side of the moon".
History in's: "Who in Comedy" by Ronald L. Smith. Pg. 111-112. New York: Facts on File, 1992. ISBN 0816023387
Was named for Broadway's 1959 Tony Award as Best Actress (Dramatic) for "The Marriage-Go-Round".
History in: "American National Biography". Supplement 1, pp. 115-117. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Was named #12 Actress on The American Film Institute's 50 Greatest Screen Legends
Asked old buddy Charles Boyer to learn English, to additional his American film profession.
She was really persuaded that she would lose the Oscar rivalry in 1935 to write-in chosen one Bette Davis, that she chose not to go to the honors service. As opposed to her conviction, when she won that year for her exhibition in It Happened One Night (1934), she was called from a train station to get her Oscar.
In Italy, in her initial movies, most strikingly the multi-Oscar champ It Happened One Night (1934), she was named by Nella Maria Bonora. Dissimilar to other conspicuous Hollywood entertainers, Colbert didn't have an "official Italian voice": She was frequently named by Giovanna Scotto and Lydia Simoneschi yet Marcella Rovena, Andreina Pagnani, Tina Lattanzi and Lia Orlandini loaned their voice to her sooner or later also.
Subsequent to shooting The Secret Heart (1946) together, she and co-star June Allyson became incredible companions. Colbert became back up parent to Allyson's girl, Pamela Powell.
Was offered the job of Hildy Johnson in His Girl Friday (1940), which she turned down. Rosalind Russell was projected all things being equal.
A 1945 exchange distribution reported she was being considered for a job as a French blue-blood in The New Adventures of Don Juan (1948), yet when this film turned out in 1948, the job as of now not existed.
Two times showed up with individual Academy Award victor Rex Harrison late in their vocations in Broadway creations; "The Kingfisher" by William Douglas-Home opening at the Biltmore Theater on December 16, 1978 running for 181 exhibitions and "Aren't We All" by Frederick Lonsdale opening at the Brooks Atkinson Theater on April 2, 1985 running for 93 exhibitions.
Profiled in the book, "Amusing Ladies: 100 Years of Great Comediennes", by Stephen M. Silverman (1989).
After the arrival of The Secret Fury (1950), RKO offered her the choice of coordinating just as acting, yet she turned the proposal down.
After the consummation of For the Love of Mike (1927), Colbert told everyone, "I will never make another film".
The racking of a proposed film about "Joan of Arc", at Warner Brothers in 1936, to be coordinated by Anatole Litvak, was viewed as probably her biggest dissatisfaction in her profession.
Back up parent of Helen B. Kelly.
Is one of five French entertainers to have gotten an Academy Award. The others in sequential request are: Simone Signoret for Room at the Top (1959), Juliette Binoche for The English Patient (1996), Marion Cotillard for La Vie En Rose (2007) and Jean Dujardin for The Artist (2011).
Is one of 13 French entertainers to have gotten an Academy Award assignment. The others in sequential request are: Colette Marchand, Leslie Caron, Simone Signoret, Anouk Aimée, Isabelle Adjani, Marie-Christine Barrault, Catherine Deneuve, Juliette Binoche, Marion Cotillard, Bérénice Bejo, Emmanuelle Riva and Isabelle Huppert.
Had showed up with Irving Bacon in seven movies: It Happened One Night (1934), Private Worlds (1935), Remember the Day (1941), Skylark (1941), Since You Went Away (1944), Guest Wife (1945) and Family Honeymoon (1948).
Had showed up with Fred MacMurray in seven movies: The Gilded Lily (1935), The Bride Comes Home (1935), Maid of Salem (1937), No Time for Love (1943), Practically Yours (1944), The Egg and I (1947) and Family Honeymoon (1948).
She was granted a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6812 Hollywood Blvd. on February 8, 1960.
Moved on from Washington Irving High School in New York City in 1923.
After she furtively wedded Norman Foster in 1928, they declared that they would keep up with isolated homes so that "affection could never kick the bucket". Clearly it did, as the couple separated in 1935.
Since a slipped plate left her in foothold in 1950 at her home, in Barbados. She swam two times day by day in the sea for 30 minutes.
Is one of 14 Best Actress Oscar victors to have not acknowledged their Academy Award face to face, Colbert's being for It Happened One Night (1934). The others are Katharine Hepburn, Judy Holliday, Joan Crawford, Vivien Leigh, Anna Magnani, Ingrid Bergman, Sophia Loren, Anne Bancroft, Patricia Neal, Elizabeth Taylor, Maggie Smith, Glenda Jackson and Ellen Burstyn.
Was the seventh entertainer to get an Academy Award; she won the Best Actress Oscar for It Happened One Night (1934) at The seventh Academy Awards on February 27, 1935.
Was scheduled for the lead job of Margot Channing in All About Eve (1950) when she experienced a slipped plate while shooting a fierce scene (fending off an endeavored assault by a Japanese officer) in Three Came Home (1950). The injury put her into footing. The job was then proposed to Bette Davis, who had as of late been set free from Warner Brothers and was broadly remembered to be toward the finish of her vocation. It would turn into an unbelievable job for Davis, who was selected for a Best Actress Oscar playing Margot Channing.
Is one of 25 entertainers to have won an Academy Award for their exhibition in a satire; hers being for It Happened One Night (1934). The others, in sequential request, are: Loretta Young (The Farmer's Daughter (1947)), Josephine Hull (Harvey (1950)), Judy Holliday (Born Yesterday (1950)), Audrey Hepburn (Roman Holiday (1953)), Goldie Hawn (Cactus Flower (1969)), Glenda Jackson (A Touch of Class (1973)), Lee Grant (Shampoo (1975)), Diane Keaton (Annie Hall (1977)), Maggie Smith (California Suite (1978)), Mary Steenburgen (Melvin and Howard (1980)), Jessica Lange (Tootsie (1982)), Olympia Dukakis (Moonstruck (1987)), Cher (Moonstruck (1987)), Jessica Tandy (Driving Miss Daisy (1989)), Mercedes Ruehl (The Fisher King (1991)), Marisa Tomei (My Cousin Vinny (1992)), Dianne Wiest (Bullets Over Broadway (1994)) Mira Sorvino (Mighty Aphrodite (1995)), Frances McDormand (Fargo (1996)), Helen Hunt (As Good as It Gets (1997)), Gwyneth Paltrow (Shakespeare in Love (1998)), Judi Dench (Shakespeare in Love (1998)), Penélope Cruz (Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)), and Jennifer Lawrence (Silver Linings Playbook (2012)).
Is one of 12 entertainers who won the Best Actress Oscar for a film that likewise won the Best Picture Oscar (she won for It Happened One Night (1934)). The others are Luise Rainer for The Great Ziegfeld (1936), Vivien Leigh for Gone with the Wind (1939), Greer Garson for Mrs. Miniver (1942), Louise Fletcher for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), Diane Keaton for Annie Hall (1977), Shirley MacLaine for Terms of Endearment (1983), Jessica Tandy for Driving Miss Daisy (1989), Jodie Foster for The Silence of the Lambs (1991), Gwyneth Paltrow for Shakespeare in Love (1998), Hilary Swank for Million Dollar Baby (2004) and Frances McDormand for Nomadland (2020).
Beneficiary of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor by the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation in 1986.
Featured in five Oscar Best Picture candidates: The Smiling Lieutenant (1931), It Happened One Night (1934), Imitation of Life (1934), Cleopatra (1934) and Since You Went Away (1944). The center three were totally delivered in 1934. It Happened One Night is the main champ.
In 1934, Theda Bara said: "In spite of the fact that from the get go idea you don't group Claudette Colbert as what was once called a "vampire," I figure she will likely give a brilliant presentation [in Cleopatra (1934)]".
She has showed up in three movies that have been chosen for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "socially, by and large or stylishly" huge: It Happened One Night (1934), Imitation of Life (1934) and Midnight (1939).
On August 27, 2020, she was regarded with a day of her filmography during the Turner Classic Movies Summer Under the Stars Festival.
Colbert showed up with Robert Young in three motion pictures: [link:tt0026137], I Met Him in Paris (1937), and Bride available to be purchased (1949).
One of Cecil B. DeMille's cherished entertainers. She featured in three of his motion pictures: The Sign of the Cross (1932), Four Frightened People (1934), and Cleopatra (1934). DeMille offered her the job of Mollie Monahan in Union Pacific (1939), yet she turned it down and the part went to Barbara Stanwyck.
At a certain point highlighted in notices for Chesterfield and Lucky Strike cigarettes.
Anne Baxter was given a role as Eve in All About Eve (1950) in light of her likeness to Colbert, who was initially picked to play Margo Channing. Curiously, the two entertainers depicted Egyptian sovereigns in Cecil B. DeMille motion pictures: Colbert was Cleopatra (1934), and quite a while later Baxter became Nefretiri in The Ten Commandments (1956).
Passed on the majority of her domain to her dear companion Helen O'Hagan.
List of Claudette Colbert Movies
- It Happened One Night (1934)
- Cleopatra (1934)
- She Married Her Boss (1935)
- The Bride Comes Home (1935)
- Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938)
- Zaza (1938)
- Midnight (1939)
- Since You Went Away (1944)
- Family Honeymoon (1948)
- Thunder on the Hill (1951)
- The Planter's Wife (1952) & Many more....
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