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Claudette Colbert

1903 - 1996

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Claudette Colbert (koʊlˈbɛər/ kohl-BAIR, born Émilie "Lily" Claudette Chauchoin (ʃoʃwɛ̃/ show-shwan); September 13, 1903 – July 30, 1996) was an American actress. Colbert began her career in Broadway productions during the late 1920s and progressed to films with the advent of talking pictures. Initially contracted to Paramount Pictures, Colbert became one of the few major actresses of the period who worked freelance; that is to say, independently of the studio system. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Colbert the 12th-greatest female star of classic Hollywood cinema. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Claudette Colbert is the 538th most popular actor (up from 651st in 2019), the 968th most popular biography from France (up from 1,171st in 2019) and the 42nd most popular French Actor.

Claudette Colbert was an American actress who is most famous for her role in the 1934 film It Happened One Night.

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Among actors, Claudette Colbert ranks 538 out of 13,578. Before her are Gena Rowlands, Françoise Dorléac, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Bill Nighy, Mahershala Ali, and Hugh Jackman. After her are Christian Clavier, Maria Schell, Gerard Butler, Phylicia Rashad, Barbara Stanwyck, and Mike Wallace.

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Among people born in 1903, Claudette Colbert ranks 45. Before her are Alec Douglas-Home, Bing Crosby, Jiro Horikoshi, Haldan Keffer Hartline, Igor Kurchatov, and Matthias Sindelar. After her are Tunku Abdul Rahman, Julius Fučík, Abul A'la Maududi, Eliot Ness, Giulio Natta, and Bruno Bettelheim. Among people deceased in 1996, Claudette Colbert ranks 35. Before her are William Vickrey, René Clément, Artur Axmann, Solomon Asch, Ademir de Menezes, and Abdus Salam. After her are Lars Ahlfors, Andreas Papandreou, Geoffrey Wilkinson, Fujiko Fujio, Masaki Kobayashi, and Marcel Carné.

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Among people born in France, Claudette Colbert ranks 968 out of 6,770. Before her are Claude Perrault (1613), John, Duke of Berry (1340), Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle (1657), Louis Barthou (1862), Henri Lebesgue (1875), and Childebert III (678). After her are Christian Clavier (1952), Pauline Viardot (1821), Agnès Sorel (1422), Claude Louis Hector de Villars (1653), Maria Malibran (1808), and Jeanne d'Évreux (1310).

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Among ACTORS In France

Among actors born in France, Claudette Colbert ranks 42. Before her are Emmanuelle Riva (1927), Jean-Pierre Cassel (1932), Juliette Gréco (1927), Bruno Cremer (1929), Marie Laforêt (1939), and Françoise Dorléac (1942). After her are Christian Clavier (1952), Geneviève Page (1927), Carole Bouquet (1957), Bourvil (1917), Michael Lonsdale (1931), and Claude Jade (1948).

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