LEADER 03091nam 22006134a 450 001 9910782837703321 005 20230721005315.0 010 $a1-282-48479-6 010 $a9786612484797 010 $a1-60473-329-2 035 $a(CKB)1000000000721955 035 $a(EBL)515584 035 $a(OCoLC)317403502 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000123159 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11922734 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000123159 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10014657 035 $a(PQKB)10257834 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC515584 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse13719 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL515584 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10282584 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL1588112 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000721955 100 $a20080128d2008 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aClaudette Colbert$b[electronic resource] $eshe walked in beauty /$fBernard F. Dick 210 $aJackson $cUniversity Press of Mississippi$dc2008 215 $a1 online resource (348 p.) 225 1 $aHollywood legends series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-60473-087-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 305-318) and index. 320 $aIncludes filmography: p. 303-304. 327 $aContents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Chapter 1. Lily of Saint-Mande?; Chapter 2. Becoming Claudette Colbert; Chapter 3. Commuting to Work; Chapter 4. "Ready When You Are, C. B."; Chapter 5. That Wonderful Year; Chapter 6. A Night to Remember; Chapter 7. The End of a Modern Marriage; Chapter 8. Life after Oscar; Chapter 9. Blaze of Noon; Chapter 10. Claudette and the "Good War"; Chapter 11. Slow Fade to Legend; Chapter 12. The Last Picture Shows; Chapter 13. The Long Voyage Home; Chapter 14. She's Back on Broadway; Chapter 15. The Stigma; Chapter 16. Slow Fade to Black; 327 $aBroadway Plays Major Radio Appearances; Major Television Appearances; Filmography; Source Notes; Index 330 $aClaudette Colbert's mixture of beauty, sophistication, wit, and vivacity quickly made her one of the film industry's most famous and highest-paid stars of the 1930's and 1940's. Though she began her career on the New York stage, she was beloved for her roles in such films as Preston Sturges's The Palm Beach Story , Cecil B. DeMille's Cleopatra , and Frank Capra's It Happened One Night , for which she won an Academy Award. She showed remarkable prescience by becoming one of the first Hollywood stars to embrace television, and she also returned to Broadway in her later career. This is the first 410 0$aHollywood legends series. 606 $aMotion picture actors and actresses$zUnited States$vBiography 615 0$aMotion picture actors and actresses 676 $a791.4302/8092 676 $aB 700 $aDick$b Bernard F$0444202 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910782837703321 996 $aClaudette Colbert$93849579 997 $aUNINA