🪷 The #Antinous Capitoline statue upstages all the Hollywood stars in Cecil B. #DeMille's epic movie #Cleopatra, starring #ClaudetteColbert, which premiered 16 Aug 1934. More images here: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2021/08/antinous-movie-star-upstages-everybody.html 🪷

🪷 The #Antinous Capitoline statue upstages all the Hollywood stars in Cecil B. #DeMille's epic movie #Cleopatra, starring #ClaudetteColbert, which premiered 16 Aug 1934. More images here: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2021/08/antinous-movie-star-upstages-everybody.html 🪷

🪷 The #Antinous Capitoline statue upstages all the Hollywood stars in Cecil B. #DeMille's epic movie #Cleopatra, starring #ClaudetteColbert, which premiered 16 Aug 1934. More images here: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2021/08/antinous-movie-star-upstages-everybody.html 🪷

Torch Singer (1933), a pre-code melodrama. A singing star searches for her lost daughter. A bit sentimental for my tastes but Claudette Colbert makes anything worth seeing (and she wears some stunning gowns). In its own way it's quite pre-code.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2023/08/torch-singer-1933.html

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Claudette Colbert in “Tonight Is Ours” (1933)

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In her later years, Claudette Colbert divided her time between her Manhattan apartment and her vacation home in Barbados. She died in 1996 in Barbados, at the age of 92.

Claudette left most of her estate to a long-time friend, Helen O'Hagan. She met O'Hagan in 1961 on the set of Parrish, her final movie.

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#ClaudetteColbert Q + A

What is your favourite song?
Cole Porter’s “Night and Day”.

Of what personal accomplishment are you most proud?
The way I ski. I must admit I took to it very quickly and have won a few prizes.

What rumour upsets you the most?
The constant rumours that Dr Pressman and I are not happy together.

Why won’t you allow your husband to be photographed with you?
The publicity would hurt him in his profession - medicine.

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Claudette Colbert Q + A

What is your greatest fault?
I am stubborn.

What is your greatest virtue?
Truthfulness.

What do you think is the most unpleasant mannerism in women?
Coyness. I can’t stand cuteness.

What do you think is the most unpleasant mannerism in men?
Their inclination to be smug.

What is your favourite form of entertainment?
As we say in Hollywood, “Motion pictures are your best entertainment.” They are for me.

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In the 1930s Claudette Colbert observed that censorship drove performers to extremes, recalling that in one wild love scene, she and her co-star were only permitted to put their heads together while their legs stretched in opposite directions. She admitted, “It was hard to be convincing.”

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At the age of forty-two, Claudette Colbert wanted more control over her career, and to spend more time with her husband, Dr Joel Pressman, so she went freelance. She said, “I had long wanted to be free of contractual obligations and restrictions, so that I could choose vehicles best suited to me.”

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In 1935, a very busy year for Claudette Colbert, she made one of her most interesting films, Private Worlds, a story about the staff and patients of a psychiatric hospital. Cinematographer Leon Shamrov used early zoom lenses to create special effects for this film. However, maybe the subject matter was too challenging for movie audiences at the time because Private Worlds lost $10,000 at the box office.

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Actress of the Month: Claudette Colbert

In 1935 Claudette divorced Norman Foster and married Dr Joel Pressman. They remained married until his death in 1968. Claudette said of Pressman, “Joel was perhaps the most emotionally mature man I had ever met. I felt that I could trust him, completely and permanently.”

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Actress of the Month: Claudette Colbert

Claudette and Norman Foster lived apart for most of their seven year marriage, so it came as no surprise when it fizzled to divorce. Professionally, through movies like Imitation of Life and The Gilded Lily, Claudette established herself as one of Hollywood’s leading actresses and, as her Bel Air home demonstrates, reaped the rewards.

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Actress of the Month: Claudette Colbert

Claudette’s career received another boost with It Happened One Night, a movie that set the stage for a series of screwball comedies. Constance Bennett and Miriam Hopkins rejected the lead role because they thought it was too silly. Claudette accepted the part because she want to act alongside Clark Gable.

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Actress of the Month: Claudette Colbert

Q + A with Helen Hover

Do you allow yourself to be photographed in bathing suits?
No. I think it is undignified, unless a scene in a picture calls for it. I think it’s fine for the newer crop of starlets, but not for me, thank you.

Are you a good housekeeper?
You bet! I proudly admit that I can cook, sew, wash and iron.

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Actress of the Month: Claudette Colbert

Thanks to The Sign of the Cross, Claudette became the latest ‘sex goddess’ of the silver screen. Being a private person, I sense that she was never happy wearing that mantel. Bland Johaneson of the New York Mirror wrote: “Her naked lust for March burns up the screen.”

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Actress of the Month: Claudette Colbert

While filming Sign of the Cross, for three days Claudette had to bathe in asses milk. Of course, the producers didn’t use asses milk. Instead they used powdered milk, which by the third day stank to high heaven. The glamour of Hollywood.

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Actress of the Month: Claudette Colbert

Between 1929 and 1932, Claudette made fourteen movies. Although she received excellent reviews many of these pictures were mediocre, suffering from poor scripts or struggling to make the technical adjustments required to move from the silent era to the talkies.

📸 Claudette on the set of The Phantom President (1932)

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Actress of the Month: Claudette Colbert

Claudette’s husband, Norman Foster, struggled with the adjustments required of stage actors breaking into movies. The microphone “didn’t like his voice” while his hand gestures remained exuberant.

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Actress of the Month: Claudette Colbert

“If I were to pick out Rule Number One for a girl who has set her saucy cap for some particular man, I would say, ‘Find out what his particular interests are.’

It has always amused me that I should be considered beautiful, for I have looked at myself too often in the mirror. My secret: I make the best of my good points.

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