Claudette Colbert: Academy Award winner for her role in the 1934 Comedy It Happened One Night. Known for work in Screwball Comedies and worked with some of the silver screens greatest legends including Clark Gable, Edward G. Robinson, John Wayne, and Spencer Tracy. Claudette Colbert was voted number twelve on the AFI list of the 50 Greatest American Screen Legends.
Claudette Colbert’s portrayals of strong WWII women are tributes to her acting ability — or are her comedy roles the ones that define her career? Weigh in and let us know what you think.
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Guest blogger Jessica Pickens presents her views on the World War II drama, So Proudly We Hail (1943) starring Claudette Colbert, Veronica Lake and Paulette Goddard. There’s drama in today’s guest post.
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Another week, another batch of great new DVD and Blu-ray releases! What really makes these offerings something truly special is the star power that is on display this week. We’ve got film favorites featuring Orson Welles, Claudette Colbert, Natalie Wood,…
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Last week, guest blogger Richard Finch presented his choices for The Greatest (Classic) Performances By an Actor. Here’s his follow-up piece examining his picks for the greatest leading ladies ever to hit the silver screen. This week I’m posting the…
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Guest blogger Stephen Reginald writes: Sometimes history isn’t always fair. For example, there are movie directors and actors who, in their day, were enormously famous and successful, but for whatever reasons are almost forgotten today. Paramount Director Such is the…
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Guest contributor Victoria Balloon writes: Where did Ma and Pa Kettle come from and how on earth did such an unlikely, unsophisticated premise become so popular? In 1945 Betty Mac Donald’s “The Egg and I” was a wildly successful book,…
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Combine outrageous scenarios with slapstick humor, then add witty, fast-paced dialogue and light romantic situations and you have that wonderful cinematic treasure called the screwball comedy — or as film critic Andrew Sarris describes it, “a sex comedy without the…
Read more →February 25, 1906: Future Universal Pictures president Carl Laemmle enters the moving pictures business with Chicago’s first nickelodeon, the White Front Theater. February 27, 1920: German expressionist painting and design are captured to great effect in Robert Wiene‘s The Cabinet…
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Claudette Colbert: Hollywood’s Lucky Charm Having seen a lot of movies throughout the years, I’ve enjoyed more than my fair share of great performances. If I had to pick a leading lady who entertained me time after time and for…
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