Claudette Colbert : she walked in beauty /
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 1930s and 1940s. Though she began her career on the New York stage, she was beloved for her roles in such films as Preston Sturges&...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
©2008.
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Colección: | Hollywood legends series.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | 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 1930s and 1940s. 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 ma. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvi, 329 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-318) and index. Includes filmography: pages 303-304. |
ISBN: | 9781604733297 1604733292 1282485792 9781282485792 1282484796 9781282484795 9786612484797 6612484799 |