CLAUDETTE COLBERT - INSCRIBED BOOK PHOTOGRAPH SIGNED - HFSID 265397
Price: $240.00
CLAUDETTE COLBERT
Black and white book photograph of Claudette Colbert sitting in a chair in a
dress smoking inscribed to a fan.
Book Photograph inscribed and signed: "To
Karen/Seymour/Claudette/Colbert". B/w, 7¼x9. 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. Fine condition.
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