Claudette Colbert

Claudette Colbert , of its true name Lily Claudette Chauchoin , is a French actress born the September 13rd 1903 with Saint-Mandé and deceased the July 30th 1996 with Speightstown with the Barbados.

Biography

Claudette Colbert is three years old when his/her father pastrycook emigrates in New York in the United States. It continues its studies in the schools of New York and projects a career of Couturière. Claudette Colbert is registered with the league of the students of dramatic art of his college, and at the same time works in a store of mode. It makes its cinematographic beginnings with Broadway in 1923 in the film “The Wild Wescotts” .

After having signed a contract with the Paramount, she interprets its first role of actress with Frank Capra For the off coils Mike (1927) who was a disaster for her (not French version). Its first great success was turned in 1932 with Cecil B. DeMille in (the Sign of the cross) (1932) (not of French version) where she was discovered with the screen for her beauty, and its sensual silhouette being introduced into an ass's milk bath. Frank Capra proposes to him New York-Miami (1934) which was immediately a great success and which enables him to obtain the Oscar of best the actress of the year. Always with DeMille, she interprets the fatal one and celebrates Cléopâtre (1934). Successes are with go throughout its cinematographic career and the rewards follow one another during its life of actress, like the Baroness of midnight (Midnight) (1939) of Mitchell Leisen and the Fever of oil (Boom town) (1940) of Jack Conway with Clark Gable to speak only about films projected on the French screens.

She announces her retirement in 1992, where she shares her time between her apartment in New York and an old house of plantation with Speightstown, with the Barbados, where she invites famous friends such as Frank Sinatra and Ronald Reagan. She was married twice and did not have any child. Its first husband was the actor Norman Foster in 1928. They divorced in 1935, and she married in second weddings the Chirurgie N Joel Pressman, deceased in 1968.

Partial catalog of films

Actress

Rewards

Oscars

  • 1935 : Better actress for New York - Miami in the Oscars of the cinema, the United States
  • 1936: nomination Better actress for private Worlds with the Oscars of the cinema, the United States
  • 1945: nomination Better actress for Since your departure with the Oscars of the cinema, the United States

Others

  • 1984 : Tribute official reception by Film Society off Lincoln Center
  • 1987: Emmy of best interpretation in a series TV for: The Two Mrs. Grenvilles, with the Emmy Awards, the United States.
  • 1988 : Golden Globe Award (the United States): Award Golden Globe: Better actress in a supporting role in a series, a minisery or a telefilm for: The Two Mrs. Grenvilles,
  • 1989: Price for the whole of its career by: John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
  • 1990: Donostia price for the whole of its career: Festival of San Sebastián - international festival of the film (Spain)

External bonds

  • '' Claudette Colbert '' on Internet Movie Database
  • Classic Movies (1939 - 1969): Claudette Colbert

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