Claudette Colbert: She Walked in Beauty (Hollywood Legends Series)

Claudette Colbert: She Walked in Beauty (Hollywood Legends Series) by Dick, Bernard F.. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781604730876.

Claudette Colberts mixture of beauty, sophistication, wit, and vivacity quickly made her one of the film industrys 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 Sturgess The Palm Beach Story, Cecil B. DeMilles Cleopatra, and Frank Capras 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 Colberts 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 Colberts 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 Americas most captivating screen icons.