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Claudette Colbert

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Claudette Colbert

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Also known as Émilie "Lily" Chauchoin, Lily Chauchoin

American actress (1903–1996)

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Claudette Colbert, born Émilie Chauchoin in Saint-Mandé, was a French and American film, stage, and television actor. Her professional career spanned from 1925 to 1987. She was educated at the Art Students League of New York and spoke French and American English. Colbert was a member of the Republican Party in the United States.

She received the Academy Award for Best Actress, the Kennedy Center Honors, the Donostia Award, and a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film. She was also nominated for a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. Her works include *A community of two* and *Remember the day*.

Colbert was married to Norman Foster. She died of a stroke in Speightstown in 1996 and was buried in Barbados.

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Person · Open Library

Works
2

Top works

  • A community of two
  • Remember the day

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Film & TV

Acting · Saint-Mandé, Val-de-Marne, France

Claudette Colbert (September 13, 1903 — July 30, 1996) was an American actress. Born Emilie Claudette Chauchoin in Saint-Mandé, Val-de-Marne, France, she was brought to the United States as a child three years later and went to high school in New York. While studying at the Art Students League when, in 1923, she took the name Claudette Colbert for her first Broadway role in "The Wild Westcotts".…

Known for

  • Complicated Women — Self (archive footage)2003
  • Frank Capra Jr. Remembers: 'It Happened One Night' — Self (archive footage)1999
  • The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender — Self (archive footage)1997
  • That's Entertainment! III — (archive footage)1994
  • The Two Mrs. Grenvilles — Alice Grenville1987
  • Marilyn Monroe — archive footage1986
  • The Kennedy Center Honors — Self1978
  • Parrish — Ellen McLean1961
  • The Comedian — Self (intro)1957
  • One Coat of White — Betsy Gregg1957

via TMDB

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Female
Origin
United States
Active from
1903
Active to
1996
Discogs

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
31
Total plays
234

Claudette Colbert (/koʊlˈbɛər/; 13 September 1903 – 30 July 1996) was a French-American stage and film actress, and a leading lady for two decades. Colbert began her career in Broadway productions during the 1920s, progressing to film with the advent of talking pictures. Initially associated with Paramount Pictures, later gradually Colbert shifted to a freelance actor. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress in It Happened One Night (1934) <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Claudette+Colbert

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. The NumPy Array: A Structure for Efficient Numerical Computation

    · 2011 · cited 9,092x

  2. The River Continuum Concept

    · 1980 · cited 6,935x

  3. Crystalline Ropes of Metallic Carbon Nanotubes

    · 1996 · cited 4,921x

  4. Fullerene Pipes

    · 1998 · cited 2,854x

  5. Oxidized arachidonic and adrenic PEs navigate cells to ferroptosis

    · 2016 · cited 2,738x

via Crossref · CC0

Quotes

  • “Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy—the mother.”

via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA

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Encyclopedic overview

Claudette Colbert (koʊlˈbɛər/ kohl-BAIR, September 13, 1903, Saint-Mandé, France – July 30, 1996, Speightstown, Barbados), also known as Lily Claudette Chauchoin (ʃoʃwɛ̃/ show-shwan); was a French-American stage and film actress. Colbert began her career in Broadway productions during the late 1920s and progressed to films with the advent of talking pictures. Initially associated with Paramount Pictures, and then followed a string of successes that she gradually shifted to working as a freelance actress.

With her Mid-Atlantic accent, versatility, rigid character, aristocratic demeanor, and flair for light comedy and emotional drama, Colbert became one of the popular stars of the 1930s and 1940s. In all, she was cast in more than 60 movies, in most of which she had top billing. Among her frequent co-stars were Fred MacMurray in seven films (1935–1949), and Fredric March in four (1930–1933).

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Claudette Colbert” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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