CLAUDETTE COLBERT - INSCRIBED PRINTED PHOTOGRAPH SIGNED IN INK CIRCA 1936 - HFSID 289929

CLAUDETTE COLBERT
Black and white photograph of the Oscar winning actress, inscribed to collector Saul Goodman
Inscribed Printed Photograph Signed in Ink: "To Saul/Claudette Colbert", B/w 8x10. Ink stamp on verso dates signature: March 25, 1936. 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. Saul Goodman (1919-2003), a New York business man by day, pursued his love of film and theatre in the evening, making friends with many celebrities. While other autograph seekers offered album leaves, Goodman presented stars with snazzy photographs, a rarity then, to sign in fountain pen. Slightly creased. Light surface impressions (not visible head on). Lightly worn at edges. Otherwise, fine condition.