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Claudette Colbert
Bernard F. Dick
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Description for Claudette Colbert
Claudette Colbert's mix of beauty, sophistication, wit, and vivacity made her one of Hollywood's brightest stars during the 1930s and 1940s. This biography presents readers with an account of her long and illustrious career - from her early life in Paris and New York to her becoming one of America's most captivating icons of screen and stage. Num Pages: 304 pages, 32 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: APB; APF; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 653.
Claudette Colbert's mixture of beauty, sophistication, wit, and vivacity quickly made her one of the film industry's most famous and highest-paid stars of the 1930s and 1940s. Though she began her career on the New York stage, she was beloved for her roles in such films as Preston Sturges's The Palm Beach Story, Cecil B. DeMille's Cleopatra, and Frank Capra's It Happened One Night, for which she won an Academy Award. She showed remarkable prescience by becoming one of the first Hollywood stars to embrace television, and she also returned to Broadway in her later career. This is the first ... Read more
Claudette Colbert's mixture of beauty, sophistication, wit, and vivacity quickly made her one of the film industry's most famous and highest-paid stars of the 1930s and 1940s. Though she began her career on the New York stage, she was beloved for her roles in such films as Preston Sturges's The Palm Beach Story, Cecil B. DeMille's Cleopatra, and Frank Capra's It Happened One Night, for which she won an Academy Award. She showed remarkable prescience by becoming one of the first Hollywood stars to embrace television, and she also returned to Broadway in her later career. This is the first ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University Press of Mississippi United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Series
Hollywood Legends Series
Number of Pages
304
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Jackson, United States
ISBN
9781604730876
SKU
V9781604730876
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About Bernard F. Dick
Bernard Dick is Professor of Communications and English at Fairleigh Dickinson University.
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