Mini-Biography:
Claudette Colbert was born under the given name Emilie Claudette Chauchoin on September 13, 1903 in Saint-Mandé, Seine, France. She was an American Actress, known for The Secret heart (1946), Arise, My Love (1940), Tomorrow is forever (1946), Claudette Colbert's first movie on record is from 1927. Claudette Colbert died on July 30, 1996 in Speightstown, Barbados. Her last motion picture on file dates from 1987.

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1987: The two Mrs. Grenvilles (Cast: Alice Grenville ),
1965: The Love Goddesses (A History of Sex in the Cinema) (Cast: Claudette Colbert), Directed by Saul J. Turell, with Theda Bara, Ingrid Bergman,
1961: Parrish (Cast: Ellen McLean), Directed by Delmer Daves, with Madeleine Sherwood, Troy Donahue,
1959: The Bells of St. Mary's (Cast: Sister Benedict ),
1958: Suspicion - The Last Town Car (Cast),
1956: Blithe Spirit (Cast: Ruth Condomine),
1955: Texas Lady (Cast: Prudence Webb ), Directed by Tim Whelan, with Barry Sullivan,
1953: Si Versailles m'était conté (Royal Affairs in Versailles) (Cast: Madame de Montespan), Directed by Sacha Guitry, with Michel Auclair, Brigitte Bardot,
1953: Destinées - Vittime della guerra (Destini di donne - Vittime della guerra) (Cast: Elizabeth Whitefield), Directed by Marcello Pagliero, with Eleonora Rossi Drago,
1952: The Planter's Wife (Outpost in Malaya) (Cast: Liz Frazer), Directed by Ken Annakin, with Jack Hawkins,
1951: Thunder on the Hill (Cast: Sister Mary Bonaventure ), Directed by Douglas Sirk, with John Aboott, Ann Blyth, Philip Friend,
1951: Let's make it legal (Cast: Miriam Halsworth ), Directed by Richard Sale, with Zachary Scott, Macdonald Carey,
1950: Three came home (Cast: Agnes Newton Keith ), Directed by Jean Negulesco, with Sessue Hayakawa, Patric Knowles,
1950: The secret fury (Cast: Ellen R. Ewing ), Directed by Mel Ferrer, with , Robert Ryan, Jane Cowl,
1949: Bride for sale (Questo me lo sposo io) (Cast: Nora Shelley ), Directed by William D. Russell, with George Brent,
1948: Sleep, my love (Cast: Alison Courtland ), Directed by Douglas Sirk, with Don Ameche, Robert Cummings,
1948: Family Honeymoon (Abbandonata in viaggio di nozze) (Cast: Katie Armstrong Jordan ), Directed by Claude Binyon, with Fred MacMurray,
1947: The egg and I (Io e l'uovo) (Cast: Betty MacDonald ), Directed by Chester Erskine, with Fred MacMurray,
1946: The Secret heart (In fondo al cuore) (Cast: Lee Addams ), Directed by Robert Z. Leonard, with June Allyson, Lionel Barrymore, ,
1946: Tomorrow is forever (Cast: Elizabeth Hamilton ), Directed by Irving Pichel, with George Brent, Natalie Wood, Sonny Howe,
1946: Without Reservations (California Express) (Cast: Kit), Directed by Mervyn LeRoy, with Dolores Moran, John Wayne,
1945: Guest Wife (Cast: Mary Price ), Directed by Sam Wood, with Don Ameche, Dan Seymour,
1944: Since you went away (Cast: Mrs. Anne Hilton), Directed by John Cromwell, with Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten,
1944: Practically yours (Cast: Peggy Martin ), Directed by Mitchell Leisen, with Fred MacMurray,
1943: So proudly we hail! (Sorelle in armi) (Cast: Lt. Janet 'Davy' Davidson ), Directed by Mark Sandrich, with Walter Abel, Barbara Britton, ,
1943: No time for love (Cast: Katherine Grant ), Directed by Mitchell Leisen, with Fred MacMurray,
1942: The Palm Beach Story (Cast: Gerry Jeffers), Directed by Preston Sturges, with Mary Astor, Robert Dudley, Joel McCrea,
1941: Remember the day (Cast: Nora Trinell), Directed by Henry King, with John Payne, Shepperd Strudwick,
1941: The skylark (Cast: Lydia Kenyon ), Directed by Mark Sandrich, with Ray Milland,
1940: Arise, My Love (Cast: Augusta Nash), Directed by Mitchell Leisen, with Walter Abel, Esther Dale,
1940: Boom Town (Cast: Betsy Bartlett ), Directed by Jack Conway, with Lionel Atwill, Chill Wills, Clark Gable,
1939: Drums along the Mohawk (Cast: Lana Martin), Directed by John Ford, with Henry Fonda, John Carradine,
1939: It's a wonderful World (Cast: Edwina Corday ), Directed by W. S. Van Dyke, with Frances Drake, Guy Kibbee,
1939: Midnight (Cast: Eve Peabody), Directed by Mitchell Leisen, with Don Ameche, John Barrymore,
1938: Zaza (Cast: Zaza), Directed by George Cukor, with Herbert Marshall, Bert Lahr,
1938: Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (Cast: Nicole de Loiselle), Directed by Ernst Lubitsch, with Gary Cooper, Edward Everett Horton,
1937: The maid of Salem (Cast: Barbara Clarke ), Directed by Frank Lloyd, with Fred MacMurray,
1937: Tovarich (Cast: Grand Duchess Tatiana Petrovna Romanov), Directed by Anatole Litvak, with Charles Boyer, Fritz Feld, Leo White,
1937: I met his in Paris (Cast: Kay Denham ), Directed by Wesley Ruggles, with Melvyn Douglas, Fritz Feld,
1936: The Bride comes home (Cast: Jeannette Desmereau ), Directed by Wesley Ruggles, with Fred MacMurray,
1936: Under two flags (Cast: Cigarette ), Directed by Frank Lloyd, with Ronald Colman,
1935: The gilded lily (Cast: Marilyn David), Directed by Wesley Ruggles, with Fred MacMurray, Ray Milland,
1935: She married her boss (Voglio essere amata) (Cast: Julia Scott ), Directed by Gregory La Cava, with Melvyn Douglas, Katharine Alexander,
1935: Private Worlds (Cast: Dr. Jane Everest ), Directed by Gregory La Cava, with Joel McCrea,
1934: Imitation of Life (Cast: Beatrice Pullman ), Directed by John M. Stahl, with , Rochelle Hudson,
1934: Cleopatra (Cast: Cleopatra), Directed by Cecil B. DeMille, with , Henry Wilcoxon,
1934: Four frightened people (Cast: Judy Jones ), Directed by Cecil B. DeMille, with Herbert Marshall, William Gargan,
1934: It happened one night (Accadde una notte) (Cast: Ellie Andrews), Directed by Frank Capra, with Clark Gable, Roscoe Karns,
1933: I cover the waterfront (Pescicani, Contrabbando giallo) (Cast: Julie Kirk ), Directed by James Cruze, with Ben Lyon,
1933: Three cornered Moon (Cast: Elizabeth Rimplegar ), Directed by Elliott Nugent, with Richard Arlen,
1933: Tonight is ours (The Queen Was in the Parlor (Working title)) (Cast: Princess Nadya ), Directed by Stuart Walker, with Fredric March, Alison Skipworth,
1933: Torch Singer (Cast: Sally Trent, aka Mimi Benton ), Directed by Alexander Hall,
1932: The Wiser Sex (Cast: Margaret Hughes), Directed by Berthold Viertel, with William Boyd, Clive Brook, Lilyan Tashman,
1932: The Man from Yesterday (Cast: Sylvia Suffolk ), Directed by Berthold Viertel, with Charles Boyer, Clive Brook,
1932: The misleading lady (Cast: Helen Steele ), Directed by Stuart Walker, with Edmund Lowe, Stuart Erwin,
1932: The Sign of the Cross (Cast: Empress Poppaea ), Directed by Cecil B. DeMille, with Fredric March, Elissa Landi,
1932: The Phantom President (Cast: Felicia Hammond), Directed by Norman Taurog, with George M. Cohan, Jimmy Durante,
1932: Make Me a Star (Cast: Claudette Colbert (/xx/) ), Directed by William Beaudine, with Fredric March, Sylvia Sidney, Joan Blondell,
1931: The Smiling Lieutenant (Cast: Franzi), Directed by Ernst Lubitsch, with Maude Allen, George Barbier,
1931: Honor among Lovers (Cast: Julia Traynor ), Directed by Dorothy Arzner, with Fredric March, Betty Morrissey, Monroe Owsley,
1931: Secrets of a Secretary (Cast: Helen Blake ), Directed by George Abbott, with Herbert Marshall,
1931: His Woman (Cast), Directed by Edward Sloman, with Gary Cooper,
1930: L' énigmatique Monsieur Parkes (Cast: Lucy Stavrin ),
1930: La grande mare (Cast: Barbara Billings), Directed by Hobart Henley, with Maurice Chevalier,
1930: Young man of Manhattan (Cast: Ann Vaughn), Directed by Monta Bell, with Norman Foster, Ginger Rogers,
1930: The big pond (La conquista dell'America) (Cast: Barbara Billings), Directed by Hobart Henley, with Maurice Chevalier, Frank Lyon, George Barbier,
1930: Manslaughter (Cast: Lydia Thorne), Directed by George Abbott, with Hilda Vaughn, Fredric March, Emma Dunn,
1929: The hole in the wall (Cast: Jean Oliver ), Directed by Robert Florey, with Edward G. Robinson,
1929: The lady lies (Cast: Joyce Roamer ), Directed by Hobart Henley, with Walter Huston,
1927: For the love of Mike (Cast: Mary), Directed by Frank Capra, with Ben Lyon,

Bibliography
- Filmlexicon degli Autori e delle Opere, Vol I, pg 1375ff;
- Reichow / Hanisch, Filmschauspieler A-Z, Henschelverlag Berlin 1980;
- International Dictionnary of Films and Filmmakers, Vol 3: Actors and Actresses, St James Press, Detroit and London, 2nd edition 1992

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