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2 unusual facts about Claudette Colbert


Aren't We All?

After nineteen previews, it opened on April 29, 1985 at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre, where it enjoyed a sold out limited run of only 93 performances; the all-star cast that included Rex Harrison, Claudette Colbert, Lynn Redgrave, John Michael King, and George Rose.

The Secret Heart

The Secret Heart is a 1946 film directed by Robert Z. Leonard, and starring Claudette Colbert, Walter Pidgeon and June Allyson.


Back-to-the-land movement

This story was the basis of a successful comedy film starring Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray.

Carl Zimmerman

Zimmerman was known for representing clients such as Academy Award winners, Spencer Tracy, Paul Muni and Claudette Colbert.

Cross-Country Romance

With the huge success of It Happened One Night, the 1934 American romantic comedy film directed by Frank Capra and starring Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable, every studio in Hollywood attempted to cash in with a similar storyline.

Ernest Torrence

Filming for I Cover the Waterfront (1933), in which he starred as a smuggler opposite Claudette Colbert in New York, had just been completed when he died suddenly on May 15, 1933, at the relatively young age of 54.

Grace Bradley

During her career she co-starred opposite such notable figures as Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour, Alice Faye, Bruce Cabot, William Bendix, Fred MacMurray, Harold Lloyd, Claudette Colbert, and W.C. Fields.

Isotta Fraschini

An Isotta also makes a featured appearance in the 1946 film Without Reservations with John Wayne and Claudette Colbert.

Sam McDaniel

He appeared uncredited as a waiter on a train in both the 1947 film The Egg and I (with Fred MacMurray and Claudette Colbert) and its first followup Ma and Pa Kettle (1949).

Telephone Time

The program showcased the talents of actors and actresses such as Joseph Cotten, Michael Landon, Johnny Crawford, Katherine Warren, Lon Chaney Jr., Pamela Baird, Claudette Colbert, Wright King, Strother Martin, Judy Morris, Ahna Capri, John Carradine, Helen Wallace, and Michael Winkelman.

The Hole in the Wall

The Hole in the Wall is a 1929 film directed by Robert Florey, and starring Claudette Colbert and Edward G. Robinson.

W A von Keisenberg

For example, the Oscar-winning Arise, My Love starring Claudette Colbert and Ray Milland required a cut to remove a comment by a maid about the war that “our men have to die, and their sons and their sons” so as not to demoralise civilians.

Walter D. Edmonds

One of them, Drums Along the Mohawk (1936), was successfully adapted as a Technicolor feature film in 1939, directed by John Ford and starring Henry Fonda and Claudette Colbert.


see also

Arise, My Love

Composed by Victor Schertzinger, lyrics by Clifford Grey, sung and hummed by Claudette Colbert, introduced in The Love Parade (1929)