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It Happened One Night
(1934)
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Frank Capra
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Claire McDowell, Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly, Roscoe Karns, Jameson Thomas
Frank Capra's seminal screwball comedy, which won all five major Academy Awards for 1934, is still as breezy and beguiling today. Claudette Colbert plays Ellie Andrews, a spoiled heiress who has married fortune-hunting aviator King Westley (Jameson Thomas), despite her father (Walter Connolly)'s objections. To keep Ellie from marrying this ...
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Three Came Home
(1950)
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directed by
Jean Negulesco
featuring
Claudette Colbert, Patric Knowles, Sessue Hayakawa, Florence Desmond, Sylvia Andrew
Based on the autobiographical book by Agnes Newton Keith, Three Came Home stars Claudette Colbert as Mrs. Keith. Trapped in Borneo during the Japanese invasion, Mrs. Keith and her British husband (Patric Knowles) are penned up in a prison camp along with several other subjects. Despite the humanitarian views of camp commander Col. Suga (Sessue ...
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Drums Along the Mohawk
(1939)
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directed by
John Ford
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Claudette Colbert, Henry Fonda, Edna May Oliver, Arthur Shields, Eddie Collins, Ward Bond, John Carradine
John Ford directed this outdoor adventure set in the American Colonial period. Gilbert and Lana Martin (Henry Fonda and Claudette Colbert) are a young couple trying to make a home in New York State's Mohawk Valley, but repeated attacks by Indians drive them, along with other settlers in the valley, into a nearby fort, where they watch helplessly ...
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The Palm Beach Story
(1942)
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directed by
Preston Sturges
featuring
Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea, Mary Astor, Rudy Vallee, William Demarest
As for the opening reels, the principal motivating factor is money. After a deliberately confusing pre-credit sequence (not explained until the film's punch line), Tom Jeffers (Joel McCrea) and Gerry Jeffers (Claudette Colbert) are married. "And so they lived happily ever after," exults a title card, "...or did they?" Well, they didn't. After five ...
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Since You Went Away
(1944)
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directed by
John Cromwell
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Claudette Colbert, Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Shirley Temple, Agnes Moorehead, Monty Woolley
David O. Selznick's first production since 1940's Rebecca, Since You Went Away, based on Margaret Buell Wilder's bestselling novel, is a long but rewarding paean to the World War 2 "home front". Claudette Colbert plays the wife of a businessman who, though well past draft age, volunteered to serve his country as an officer (though the husband is ...
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Parrish
(1961)
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directed by
Delmer Daves
featuring
Troy Donahue, Claudette Colbert, Karl Malden, Dean Jagger, Connie Stevens
A scenic, tobacco-road soap opera by director Delmar Daves, known more for his westerns, Parrish features Troy Donahue in the eponymous title role. Parrish's mother Ellen (Claudette Colbert in her last movie role) happens to marry one of two competing tobacco growers in the Connecticut River Valley. Her new husband and Parrish's stepfather Judd ...
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The Egg and I
(1947)
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directed by
Chester Erskine
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Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, Marjorie Main, Percy Kilbride, Louise Allbritton
Based on the humorous autobiographical book by Betty McDonald, The Egg & I casts Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray as Manhattan-dwelling newlyweds. When MacMurray enthusiastically purchases an upstate farm in the hopes of cleaning up in the egg business, Colbert cautiously goes along. The film's humor is derived from the efforts of these two ...
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The Sign of the Cross
(1932)
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directed by
Cecil B. DeMille
featuring
Fredric March, Claudette Colbert, Elissa Landi, Charles Laughton, Ian Keith
Director Cecil B. DeMille returned to Paramount Pictures for this typically epic production, which became his first box office hit after the close of the silent era. Fredric March stars as Roman Prefect Marcus Superbus, a noble military leader of the year 64 A.D. Emperor Nero (Charles Laughton) has just burned down the city and blamed the ...
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Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
(1938)
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directed by
Ernst Lubitsch
featuring
Claudette Colbert, Gary Cooper, Edward Everett Horton, David Niven, Elizabeth Patterson
The great Ernst Lubitsch directed this farce (written by Charles M. Brackett and Billy Wilder) about a free-wheeling millionaire, Michael Brandon (Gary Cooper), who enjoys getting married but has a hard time staying married: he's had seven wives and is looking for number eight. He thinks he may have found her in the person of Nicole de Loiselle ...
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Without Reservations
(1946)
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directed by
Mervyn LeRoy
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Claudette Colbert, John Wayne, Don DeFore, Anne Triola, Dona Drake, Louella Parsons, Phil Brown
Without Reservations has to be the least typical John Wayne picture of the postwar era. Top billing is bestowed upon Claudette Colbert as Kit, a best-selling novelist heading westward to oversee the film version of her latest novel. Taking it upon herself to select the man who should portray the hero of her novel, Kit chooses war hero Rusty (John ...
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Boom Town
(1940)
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directed by
Jack Conway
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Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, Claudette Colbert, Hedy Lamarr, Frank Morgan
Clark Gable is "Big John" and Spencer Tracy is "Square John"; both "Johns" seek their fortunes in the Texas oil fields. They simultaneously fall in love with Claudette Colbert, but it's "Big John" who wins out. When both Johns grow rich on oil, "Big John" lets money go to his head, and he begins neglecting wife Colbert for Hedy Lamarr, the "been ...
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So Proudly We Hail!
(1943)
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directed by
Mark Sandrich
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Claudette Colbert, Paulette Goddard, Veronica Lake, George Reeves, Barbara Britton
Paramount's So Proudly We Hail, like MGM's Cry Havoc, is a tribute to the Red Cross nurses trapped behind enemy lines in the early days of the Pacific war. Claudette Colbert is the self-sacrificing head nurse, struggling to minister to the wounded and to keep her staff (including Paulette Goddard, Veronica Lake and Barbara Britton, all of them ...
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Midnight
(1939)
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directed by
Mitchell Leisen
featuring
Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche, John Barrymore, Francis Lederer, Mary Astor
Paramount's screwball comedy Midnight is the first collaboration between director Mitchell Leisen and screenwriting duo Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder. The film merges Brackett and Wilder's early emphasis on repartee and masquerade with ex-costume designer Leisen's flair for high style and sophistication. American Eve Peabody (Claudette Colbert ...
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I Cover the Waterfront
(1933)
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directed by
James Cruze
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Claudette Colbert, Ben Lyon, Ernest Torrence, Hobart Cavanaugh, Maurice Black
Max Miller's best-seller forms the basis of this romantic melodrama about cynical, hard-drinking reporter Joe Miller (Ben Lyon), who exploits his romance with Julie Kirk (Claudette Colbert) to hand in a sensational story to his newspaper. Julie's father Eli (Ernest Torrence) is a decrepit sea-captain who smuggles in illegal Chinese on the West ...
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Let's Make It Legal
(1951)
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directed by
Richard Sale
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Claudette Colbert, MacDonald Carey, Zachary Scott, Barbara Bates, Robert Wagner
Let's Make It Legal begins at the end--the end of the long marriage between beautiful grandmother Miriam (Claudette Colbert) and her chronic-gambler husband Hugh (Macdonald Carey). Barbara (Barbara Bates), the daughter of the couple, hopes to bring her parents back together, which proves to be a difficult proposition when Miriam's old flame Victor ...
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Tomorrow Is Forever
(1946)
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directed by
Irving Pichel
featuring
Claudette Colbert, Orson Welles, George Brent, Lucile Watson, Richard Long
Elizabeth MacDonald (Claudette Colbert) is a newly married corporate librarian in 1918 Baltimore working for a chemical company owned by the Hamilton family and managed by Larry Hamilton (George Brent). Just as she is celebrating the armistice and anticipating the return of her husband John (Orson Welles), she learns he was killed in action, just ...
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Imitation of Life
(1934)
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directed by
John M. Stahl
featuring
Claudette Colbert, Warren William, Louise Beavers, Ned Sparks, Fredi Washington, Rochelle Hudson
The first of two film version of Fannie Hurst's novel, 1934's Imitation of Life chronicles the friendship between two women--one white (Claudette Colbert), one black (Louise Beavers). Colbert is a widow with a baby daughter who hires Beavers, who also has a daughter, as a housekeeper. Colbert is a working girl who yearns to operate her own ...
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The Bride Comes Home
(1936)
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directed by
Wesley Ruggles
featuring
Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, Robert Young, William Collier, Donald Meek
After It Happened One Night, Claudette Colbert seemed to make a career out of playing plucky heiresses with minds of their own, which sums up her character well in this romantic comedy. When her wealthy father goes broke, Jeanette Desmereau (Claudette Colbert) decides she should find a job of her own, applying for work as a writer at a magazine ...
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Cleopatra
(1934)
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directed by
Cecil B. DeMille
featuring
Claudette Colbert, Warren William, Henry Wilcoxon, Gertrude Michael, Joseph Schildkraut
Film historian William K. Everson once observed that the secret to the success of Cecil B. DeMille's 1934 Cleopatra is that DeMille subtly reshaped the known historical events into a contemporary "gold-digger makes good" scenario. Exhibiting the same determination with which Barbara Stanwyck sleeps her way to the top in 1933's Baby Face, Queen ...
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