Claudette Colbert - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Claudette Colbert write by Bernard F. Dick. This book was released on 2010-02-17. Claudette Colbert available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Claudette Colbert's mixture of beauty, sophistication, wit, and vivacity quickly made her one of the film industry's most famous and highest-paid stars of the 1930s and 1940s. Though she began her career on the New York stage, she was beloved for her roles in such films as Preston Sturges's The Palm Beach Story, Cecil B. DeMille's Cleopatra, and Frank Capra's It Happened One Night, for which she won an Academy Award. She showed remarkable prescience by becoming one of the first Hollywood stars to embrace television, and she also returned to Broadway in her later career. This is the first major biography of Colbert (1903–1996) published in over twenty years. Bernard F. Dick chronicles Colbert's long career, but also explores her early life in Paris and New York. Along with discussing how she left her mark on Broadway, Hollywood, radio, and television, the book explores Colbert's lifelong interests in painting, fashion design, and commercial art. Using correspondence, interviews, periodicals, film archives, and other research materials, the biography reveals a smart, talented actress who conquered Hollywood and remains one of America's most captivating screen icons.
Claudette Colbert
Claudette Colbert - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Claudette Colbert write by William K. Everson. This book was released on 1976. Claudette Colbert available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Legends of Hollywood
Legends of Hollywood - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Legends of Hollywood write by Charles River Charles River Editors. This book was released on 2018-02-28. Legends of Hollywood available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. *Includes pictures. *Includes Colbert's quotes about her own life and career. *Includes a bibliography for further reading. "I know what's best for me, after all I have been in the Claudette Colbert business longer than anybody." - Claudette Colbert The 1930s were the height of the classical Hollywood era, known for lavish studio productions by heavyweights like MGM, RKO, Warner Brothers, Paramount, and 20th Century Fox, which were operating at the height of their powers. Every major studio possessed a long roster of contract players, and films were released at such a rapid pace that it made for an especially competitive environment within the industry. Even while America remained in the throes of the Great Depression, the film industry continued to flourish, and movies easily supplanted the theater as the main attraction for American entertainment. Indeed, it would be no exaggeration to claim that the film industry reached its zenith during the decade precisely because it offered an affordable (if very temporary) escape from the anxieties of the economic woes of the era. Despite that competition, Hollywood's biggest star at the box office in 1938 was French actress Claudette Colbert, who had already won an Oscar for Best Actress in It Happened One Night (1934) and used her Broadway experience from the previous decade to become perhaps the industry's most famous screwball comedienne. The fact that Colbert had gotten that far was impressive, given that Hollywood loved to cast foreign actresses in stereotypical roles, and she once noted, "In the very beginning, they wanted to give me French roles...That's why I used to say my name Col-bert just as it is spelled instead of Col-baire. I did not want to be typed as 'that French girl.'" Far from being pigeonholed, Colbert went on to perform in dozens of films, earning several nominations for Academy Awards and acting in both comedic and melodramatic roles effectively. Even as her film career waned, she resurrected her career both on television screens and the stage in the 1950s, and she continued to be an award winning stage performer well into her 70s. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Colbert the 12th best female screen legend, ahead of beloved actresses like Ginger Rogers and Grace Kelly. Legends of Hollywood: The Life and Legacy of Claudette Colbert examines the life and career of one of Hollywood's biggest stars. Along with pictures of important people, places, and events, you will learn about Claudette Colbert like never before, in no time at all.
Claudette Colbert
Claudette Colbert - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Claudette Colbert write by Lawrence J. Quirk. This book was released on 1985. Claudette Colbert available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Legends of Hollywood
Legends of Hollywood - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Legends of Hollywood write by Charles River Editors. This book was released on 2014-04. Legends of Hollywood available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. *Includes pictures. *Includes Colbert's quotes about her own life and career. *Includes a bibliography for further reading. "I know what's best for me, after all I have been in the Claudette Colbert business longer than anybody." - Claudette Colbert The 1930s were the height of the classical Hollywood era, known for lavish studio productions by heavyweights like MGM, RKO, Warner Brothers, Paramount, and 20th Century Fox, which were operating at the height of their powers. Every major studio possessed a long roster of contract players, and films were released at such a rapid pace that it made for an especially competitive environment within the industry. Even while America remained in the throes of the Great Depression, the film industry continued to flourish, and movies easily supplanted the theater as the main attraction for American entertainment. Indeed, it would be no exaggeration to claim that the film industry reached its zenith during the decade precisely because it offered an affordable (if very temporary) escape from the anxieties of the economic woes of the era. Despite that competition, Hollywood's biggest star at the box office in 1938 was French actress Claudette Colbert, who had already won an Oscar for Best Actress in It Happened One Night (1934) and used her Broadway experience from the previous decade to become perhaps the industry's most famous screwball comedienne. The fact that Colbert had gotten that far was impressive, given that Hollywood loved to cast foreign actresses in stereotypical roles, and she once noted, "In the very beginning, they wanted to give me French roles...That's why I used to say my name Col-bert just as it is spelled instead of Col-baire. I did not want to be typed as 'that French girl.'" Far from being pigeonholed, Colbert went on to perform in dozens of films, earning several nominations for Academy Awards and acting in both comedic and melodramatic roles effectively. Even as her film career waned, she resurrected her career both on television screens and the stage in the 1950s, and she continued to be an award winning stage performer well into her 70s. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Colbert the 12th best female screen legend, ahead of beloved actresses like Ginger Rogers and Grace Kelly. Legends of Hollywood: The Life and Legacy of Claudette Colbert examines the life and career of one of Hollywood's biggest stars. Along with pictures of important people, places, and events, you will learn about Claudette Colbert like never before, in no time at all.
