“I just never had the luck to play bitches.”
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Claudette Colbert
Claudette Colbert, also known as Lily Claudette Chauchoin, was a French-American stage and film actress. She began her career in earnest on Broadway during the late 1920s and progressed to films with the advent of talking pictures. Initially associated with Paramount Pictures, Colbert had a string of successes as she gradually shifted to working as a freelance actress.
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entertainment · French-American actress (1903–1996) · film actor · stage actor · television actor · actor · also Claudette Colbert, Émilie "Lily" Chauchoin, Lily Chauchoin, Colbert
Born 13 September 1903 · Died 30 July 1996 · Q203819
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2026· 3 entries
Public attention spiked: 7,701 Wikipedia readers in one day, 11.9× the usual 648, with 13 article edits. Editors noted: Early films, 1929–1934 typo
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Public attention spiked: 5,095 Wikipedia readers in one day, 7.9× the usual 648, with 0 article edits.
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1999· 1 entry
Colbert was named the 12th-greatest female star of classic Hollywood cinema by the American Film Institute
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1996· 2 entries
Died 1996-07-30.
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In Barbados at the age of 92, where she had employed a housekeeper and two cooks
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1990· 1 entry
Awarded Donostia Award (1990).
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1988· 1 entry
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film for The Two Mrs. Grenvilles (1988).
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1984· 1 entry
Received a Gala Tribute from the Film Society of Lincoln Center
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1970· 1 entry
And her brother in 1971, Colbert's only surviving relative was her brother's first wife's daughter, Coco Lewis
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1969· 1 entry
Expressed her intention to write a book entitled How to Run a House for her friend Bennett Cerf's Random House Press
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1964· 2 entries
Colbert went on a safari trip with Pressman
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In 1964, Colbert went on a safari trip with Pressman.
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1963· 1 entry
Colbert sold her Lloyd Wright-designed residence in Holmby Hills, and she and Dr
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1961· 1 entry
On the set of Parrish, her last film, and they became good friends in 1970
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1960· 1 entry
The historical drama Maid of Salem (1937) enhanced the esteem
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1959· 1 entry
And guest-starred on anthology drama series such as Robert Montgomery Presents and Playhouse 90
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1958· 1 entry
Met Verna Hull, a wealthy painter, photographer, and the stepdaughter of a Sears Roebuck heiress
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1957· 1 entry
Was cast as Lucy Bradford, wife of schoolteacher Jim Bradford (Jeff Morrow), in the Blood in the Dust episode of CBS's Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
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1956· 1 entry
Colbert hosted the 28th Academy Awards ceremony
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1954· 1 entry
Colbert turned down a million-dollar broadcast deal with NBC-TV, but made a pact with CBS-TV to star in several teleplays
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1951· 1 entry
Colbert went on to guest-star on the TV show The Jack Benny Program, and starred in a successful stage production of Noël Coward's Island Fling in Connecticut
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1950· 1 entry
And Ronald Reagan, with whom she starred in the TV show General Electric Theater episode The Dark, Dark Hours (1954)
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1945· 1 entry
Colbert ended her association with Paramount and continued to freelance in such films as Sam Wood's Guest Wife (1945) with Don Ameche
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1940· 1 entry
Colbert was offered a seven-year contract with Paramount Pictures that would have paid her $200,000 a year; she declined the offer after learning she could command $150,000 per film as a freelance artist
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1938· 1 entry
Was again reported to be Hollywood's top-paid actress, with a salary of $426,924
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1937· 1 entry
And 1938, she was listed as the fourteenth and sixth (respectively) top money-making woman in the U
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1936· 1 entry
Colbert signed a new contract with Paramount, making her Hollywood's highest-paid actress
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1935· 3 entries
Awarded Academy Award for Best Actress for It Happened One Night (1935).
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Colbert and Foster divorced in 1935 in Mexico.
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Was elected best-dressed film actress in the U
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1932· 1 entry
Was cast in the wartime drama The Man from Yesterday and the musical comedy film The Phantom President
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1930· 1 entry
Colbert starred opposite Maurice Chevalier in The Big Pond, which was a high-quality musical film that featured their songs
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1928· 2 entries
Colbert married actor and director Norman Foster, with whom she co-starred in the Broadway show The Barker
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Colbert signed a contract with Paramount Pictures
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1924· 1 entry
The English actor Leslie Howard met her, was impressed by her ability to speak with both Mid-Atlantic and British accents, and contacted the producer Al Woods to cast her in Frederick Lonsdale's The Fake, but she was rep
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1921· 1 entry
At the age of 17, Colbert made her stage debut at the Provincetown Playhouse in revivals of Rostetter's The Widow's Veil and Aria da Capo by Edna St
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1903· 2 entries
Born 1903-09-13.
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In Saint-Mandé, France, to Jeanne (née Loew, with British Channel Islands heritage), and Georges Chauchoin
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