biography
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Colbert, Claudette
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originally Lily Claudette Chauchoin
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pronunciation:
[kolbair]
| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1903–96)
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| biography:
| Film actress, born in Paris, France. She went to the USA as a child, and started in films with spirited comedy roles, becoming a star with It Happened One Night (1934), which won her an Oscar. This was followed by 10 years of romantic comedy successes, including Tovarich (1937) and The Palm Beach Story (1942), and varied character parts up to the 1960s, such as in Parrish (1960). On the stage her career continued into the 1980s. |
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