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Claudette Colbert

Claudette Colbert

Highest Rated: 100% Three Came Home (1950)

Lowest Rated: 45% Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938)

Birthday: Sep 13, 1903

Birthplace: Saint-Mandé, Val-de-Marne, France

Inimitably charming, witty and sophisticated star of American films from the start of talkies till the mid-1950s, and later a most welcome presence on the stage and in occasional TV. Born in Paris, Claudette Colbert moved to New York when her banker father encountered financial setbacks. Initially intending to become a commercial artist, she studied with speech teacher Alice Rossetter to overcome a slight lisp. Rossetter encouraged Colbert to audition for a play she had just written, "The Widow's Veil" (1919), and so one of the most durable careers in show business began with an appearance as an Irish bride (complete with red wig and brogue).

Highest rated movies

100% Three Came Home
100% So Proudly We Hail
98% It Happened One Night
97% The Palm Beach Story
93% Midnight
88% Imitation of Life
88% The Smiling Lieutenant
83% Thunder on the Hill

Photos

UNDER TWO FLAGS, Claudette Colbert, 1936 UNDER TWO FLAGS, Claudette Colbert, 1936 I MET HIM IN PARIS, Melvyn Douglas, Claudette Colbert, Robert Young, 1937 BRIDE COMES HOME, THE, Fred MacMurray, Claudette Colbert, Robert Young, 1935 BRIDE COMES HOME, THE, Claudette Colbert, 1935 ARISE MY LOVE, Claudette Colbert, Ray Milland, 1940 THE BRIDE COMES HOME, Robert Young, Claudette Colbert, 1935 THE BRIDE COMES HOME, Robert Young, Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, 1935 BRIDE COMES HOME, THE, Fred MacMurray, Claudette Colbert, Robert Young, 1935 BRIDE FOR SALE, George Brent, Claudette Colbert, 1949 BRIDE FOR SALE, Claudette Colbert, Max Baer, 1949 CLEOPATRA, Claudette Colbert, 1934 THE EGG AND I, from left, Marjorie Main, Billy House, at the premiere, 1947 (on display photo, Fred MacMurray, Claudette Colbert) GUEST WIFE, Don Ameche, Claudette Colbert, 1945 I COVER THE WATERFRONT, from left: Ben Lyon, Claudette Colbert, 1933 I MET HIM IN PARIS, Melvyn Douglas, Claudette Colbert, 1937 MAID OF SALEM, Fred MacMurray, Claudette Colbert, 1936 NO TIME FOR LOVE, Fred MacMurray, Claudette Colbert, 1943 NO TIME FOR LOVE, director Mitchell Leisen, Claudette Colbert fooling around on set, 1943 REMEMBER THE DAY, from left: Claudette Colbert, John Payne, 1941. ©20th Century-Fox Film Corporation, TM & Copyright
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet 60% Lubitsch Musicals Unknown (Character) - 2008
No Score Yet 62% Parrish Ellen McLean (Character) - 1961
No Score Yet 11% Texas Lady Prudence Webb (Character) - 1956
No Score Yet No Score Yet Royal Affairs in Versailles Madame de Montespan (Character) - 1954
No Score Yet No Score Yet Outpost in Malaya Liz Frazer (Character) - 1952
No Score Yet 37% Let's Make It Legal Miriam Halsworth (Character) - 1951
83% 65% Thunder on the Hill Sister Mary Bonaventure (Character) - 1951
100% 69% Three Came Home Agnes Newton Keith (Character) - 1950
No Score Yet 50% The Secret Fury Ellen R. Ewing (Character) - 1950
No Score Yet No Score Yet Bride for Sale Nora Shelley (Character) - 1949
No Score Yet 67% Sleep, My Love Alison Courtland (Character) - 1948
No Score Yet No Score Yet Family Honeymoon Katie Armstrong Jordan (Character) - 1948
No Score Yet 78% The Egg and I Betty MacDonald (Character) - 1947
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Secret Heart Lee Addams (Character) - 1946
No Score Yet 54% Without Reservations Kit (Character) - 1946
60% 83% Tomorrow Is Forever Elizabeth Hamilton (Character) - 1946
No Score Yet 25% Guest Wife Mary Price (Character) - 1945
77% 79% Since You Went Away Mrs. Anne Hilton (Character) - 1944
No Score Yet No Score Yet Practically Yours Peggy Martin (Character) - 1944
No Score Yet 72% No Time for Love Katherine Grant (Character) - 1943
100% 82% So Proudly We Hail Lt. Janet "Davy" Davidson (Character) - 1943
97% 81% The Palm Beach Story Geraldine "Gerry" Jeffers (Character) - 1942
No Score Yet 29% Skylark Lydia Kenyon (Character) - 1941
No Score Yet 50% Remember the Day Nora Trinell (Character) - 1941
No Score Yet 66% Boom Town Betsy Bartlett (Character) - 1940
71% 61% Arise, My Love Augusta Nash (Character) - 1940
93% 88% Midnight Eve Peabody aka Baroness Czerny (Character) - 1939
82% 60% Drums Along the Mohawk 'Lana' Magdelana (Character) - 1939
No Score Yet 78% It's a Wonderful World Edwina Corday (Character) - 1939
No Score Yet No Score Yet Zaza Zaza (Character) - 1939
45% 63% Bluebeard's Eighth Wife Nicole de Loiselle (Character) - 1938
No Score Yet 15% I Met Him in Paris Kay Denham (Character) - 1937
No Score Yet 0% Maid of Salem Barbara Clarke (Character) - 1937
No Score Yet 38% Tovarich Grand Duchess Tatiana Petrovna Romanov (Character) - 1937
No Score Yet 50% Under Two Flags Cigarette (Character) - 1936
No Score Yet 71% The Gilded Lily Marilyn David (Character) - 1935
No Score Yet 47% She Married Her Boss Julia Scott (Character) - 1935
No Score Yet 0% Private Worlds Unknown (Character) - 1935
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Bride Comes Home Jeannette Desmereau (Character) - 1935
No Score Yet 36% Four Frightened People Judy Jones (Character) - 1934
83% 67% Cleopatra Cleopatra (Character) - 1934
98% 93% It Happened One Night Ellie Andrews (Character) - 1934
88% 85% Imitation of Life Beatrice "Bea" Pullman (Character) - 1934
No Score Yet No Score Yet Torch Singer Sally Trent/Mimi Benton (Character) - 1933
No Score Yet 75% Broadway Singer Sally Trent (Character) - 1933
No Score Yet 40% I Cover the Waterfront Julie Kirk (Character) - 1933
No Score Yet No Score Yet Tonight Is Ours Princess Nadya (Character) - 1933
No Score Yet 30% Three Cornered Moon Elizabeth Rimplegar (Character) - 1933
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Man From Yesterday Sylvia Suffolk (Character) - 1932
55% 64% The Sign of the Cross Poppea (Character) - 1932
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Wiser Sex Margaret Hughes (Character) - 1932
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Misleading Lady Helen Steele (Character) - 1932
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Phantom President Felicia Hammond (Character) - 1932
88% 66% The Smiling Lieutenant Franzi (Character) - 1931
No Score Yet No Score Yet Honor Among Lovers Julia Traynor (Character) - 1931
No Score Yet No Score Yet His Woman Sally Clark (Character) - 1931
No Score Yet No Score Yet Secrets of a Secretary Helen Blake (Character) - 1931
No Score Yet No Score Yet Manslaughter Lydia Thorne (Character) - 1930
No Score Yet No Score Yet Young Man of Manhattan Ann Vaughn (Character) - 1930
No Score Yet 11% The Big Pond Barbara Billings (Character) - 1930
No Score Yet No Score Yet Hole in the Wall Jean Oliver (Character) - 1929

TV

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet Zane Grey Theatre Unknown (Character) 1957 1960
No Score Yet No Score Yet What's My Line? Guest 1956 1959
No Score Yet No Score Yet Climax! Unknown (Character) 1954-1955
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Jack Benny Program: The Lost Episodes Guest 1951