CLAUDETTE COLBERT - AUTOGRAPHED SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH - HFSID 323255
Sale Price $245.00
Reg. $300.00
CLAUDETTE COLBERT
Photograph of the actress posed against a plush arm chair, signed in
black felt tip
Photograph signed: "Claudette/Colbert", in black felt tip, B/w
8x10. Paris-born actress Claudette Colbert (1903-1996) was brought to New
York at the age of seven. She embarked on a stage career in 1925. Colbert
disliked film acting; but audiences responded to her beauty and cultured voice,
so she forsook the stage for Hollywood. Her popularity (and salary)
skyrocketed after she was cast as "the wickedest woman in history," Nero's
unscrupulous wife Poppaea, in the Biblical epic The Sign of the Cross
(1932). Colbert showed her flair for sophisticated comedy by winning
the 1934 Academy Award for Best Actress for It Happened One
Night. Traveling the usual "fading star" route, Colbert made films in
Europe and a budget Western in the U.S. before returning triumphantly to
Broadway. In 1961, she returned to Hollywood as Troy Donahue's mother in
Parrish. It would be her last film appearance until the 1987 TV movie,
The Two Mrs. Grenvilles - in which she far outclassed her material.
Corners slightly worn and creased. Fine condition.
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