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Actor Born: September 13, 1903 in Paris, France Death: July 30, 1996 Biography:Paris-born actress "Claudette Colbert" was brought to New York at the age of seven by her banker father. She planned an art career after high school graduation, studying at the Art Student's League. Attending a party with actress "Anne Morrison", the 18-year-old was offered a three-line bit in Morrison's new play The Wild Westcotts. That ended her art aspirations, and Colbert embarked on a stage career in 1925, scoring her first big critical success in the 1926 Broadway production of The Barker, in which she played a duplicitous snake charmer. One year later, the actress made her first film at Long Island's Astoria studio, "For the Love of Mike" (1927), but the film was unsuccessful and she enjoyed neither the experience nor her young director, "Frank Capra". So back she went to Broadway, returning to films during the talkie revolution in "The Hole in the Wall" (1929), which was also the movie-speaking... Full Biography
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