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Autore: | Dick Bernard F |
Titolo: | Claudette Colbert [[electronic resource] ] : she walked in beauty / / Bernard F. Dick |
Pubblicazione: | Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, c2008 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (348 p.) |
Disciplina: | 791.4302/8092 |
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Soggetto topico: | Motion picture actors and actresses - United States |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-318) and index. |
Includes filmography: p. 303-304. | |
Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Chapter 1. Lily of Saint-Mandé; 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; |
Broadway Plays Major Radio Appearances; Major Television Appearances; Filmography; Source Notes; Index | |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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 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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | Claudette Colbert |
ISBN: | 1-282-48479-6 |
9786612484797 | |
1-60473-329-2 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910453871503321 |
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