CLAUDETTE COLBERT - SHOW BILL SIGNED - HFSID 252643
Price: $180.00
CLAUDETTE COLBERT
Claudette Colbert signs a show bill for the Plymouth Theatre's production of
Janus.
Show bill signed: "Claudette Colbert", 26p, 6½x9. Show bill for the
Plymouth Theatre's production of Janus, week beginning May 21, 1956.
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. Lightly foxed at edges. Pen skipped while signing. Fine
condition.
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