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Filmography Highlights
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Three Came Home
1950- Rated:
- A
Fact-based WWII drama starring Claudette Colbert as a woman who, captured with her family in Borneo, is separated from her husband and imprisoned with her son in a Japanese camp.
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Sleep My Love
1948- Rated:
- PG
This is the old Gaslight plot about a husband trying to get his wife to believe she's going mad so he can acquire her money and marry his mistress.
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Since You Went Away
1944- Rated:
- U
One of the weepiest, longest and biggest hits about the home front during the Second World War. Producer Selznick himself wrote the morale-boosting script about the lives of indomitable American midd
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Boom Town
1940- Rated:
- TBC
Romantic comedy with a top-notch cast. Gentle Tracy and macho Gable are the buddies who head out West to try their luck making a fortune in the oilfields. Unfortunately, they run across Colbert who h
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Zaza
1939- Rated:
- TBC
Colbert plays the title role in Cukor's take on this romantic fol-de-rol. On its third outing (the previous inhabitants of the lead having been Swanson and Frederick) the costumes and settings are su
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Midnight
1939- Rated:
- TBC
A magical comedy, Midnight stars Colbert as the gal who is stranded in Paris and taken on by an aristocrat to divert the attention of his wife's lover. But she catches the eye of taxi driver Ameche,
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Drums Along the Mohawk
1939- Rated:
- TBC
This, one of four films made by Ford in the space of a year, was his first film in colour, adapted from a 'factually inspired' novel set just before the American Revolution. From this socio-political
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Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
1938- Rated:
- TBC
Colbert and Cooper cavort about on the French Riviera in this farce. Cooper is the playboy who likes the journey up the aisle, but can't quite stick it out marriage-wise. After seven gos he's still h
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Tovarich
1937- Rated:
- TBC
Two Russian aristocrats (Colbert and Boyer) pose as French servants while hiding the Czar's fortune. This frothy but likeable comedy-drama makes good use of the exotic Boyer's talents (he was half-Fr
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She Married Her Boss
1935- Rated:
- TBC
Superbly crafted screwball comedy starring Claudette Colbert as a romantically inclined secretary trying to persuade boss Melvyn Douglas that their new marriage is more than just another business partnership.
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It Happened One Night
1934- Rated:
- U
Posh totty Claudette Colbert and hack Clark Gable begin a rocky romance on the run in this classic multi-Oscar-winning romantic comedy directed by Frank Capra
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Imitation of Life
1934- Rated:
- TBC
An early example of Hollywood tackling America's racial divides, based on a best-selling novel of the time by Fanny Hurst. Colbert is a wealthy white woman, Beavers her black maid. The women strike u
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Cleopatra
1934- Rated:
- TBC
Cleopatra gets the typically over-the-top Cecil B DeMille treatment, which, as history lessons go, could hardly be more inaccurate, but it is the business as far as grand spectacle is concerned. Colb
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I Cover the Waterfront
1933- Rated:
- TBC
Made just before the Hays Code strangled explicit sexiness and brutal directness in dialogue, this movie raised eyebrows in the early 1930s. Tough investigative journalism, exploitation of immigrants
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Sign of the Cross, The
1932- Rated:
- TBC
f this were any more camp, it'd be a row of tents at a seaside resort - but that's what you get when De Mille is at the end of his cinematic powers and set lose on a Christian epic. Laughton is Nero
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Smiling Lieutenant, The
1931- Rated:
- TBC
Chevalier in the title role is flanked by demi-mondaine Colbert and Hopkins as his plain Proncess wife. Though Colbert is having an affair with Chevalier - this is the pre-Production Code era - she d
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Big Pond, The
1930- Rated:
- TBC
Humdrum musical that has Chavelier reduced to taking on a mundane job to prove his independence from his wealthy family. The usual collection of songs with a lashing of romance fails to stir the emot
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