CLAUDETTE COLBERT - DOCUMENT SIGNED 04/27/1987 - HFSID 250343

CLAUDETTE COLBERT
Claudette Colbert signs a Grant of License in connection with her performance in It Happened One Night.
Document signed: "Claudette Colbert". 1p, 8½x11. No place, 1987 April 27. Grant of License to the Motion Picture and Television Fund, California, and Nicholas Volpe. In part: "I hereby grant a non-exclusive license to...for a one-time use of my likeness as illustrated by Nicholas Volpe in reference to my performance in It Happened One Night to be used in the fund-raising coupon book entitled, "Heart of Hollywood". Paris-born actress Claudette Colbert 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. Fold creases not at signature. Fine condition.