Claudette Colbert in the Egg and I | 1947

Clip Name: An Unsuccessful Rescue

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Claudette Colbert in the Egg and I | 1947

Starring: Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray and Marjorie Main
Directed by: Chester Erskine
About this actor

Claudette Colbert (pronounced /koʊlˈbɛər/; September 13, 1903 – July 30, 1996) was a French-born American stage and film actress. Born in Saint-Mandé, France and raised in New York City, Colbert began her career in Broadway productions during the 1920s, progressing to film with the advent of talking pictures. She established a successful film career with Paramount Pictures and later, as a freelance performer, became one of the highest paid entertainers in American cinema. Colbert was recognized as one of the leading female exponents of screwball comedy; she won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her comedic performance in It Happened One Night (1934), and also received Academy Award nominations for her dramatic roles in Private Worlds (1935) and Since You Went Away (1944). Her film career began to decline in the 1950s, and she made her last film in 1961. Colbert continued to act in theater and, briefly, in television during her later years. After a career of more than 60 years'...