Claudette Colbert: She Walked in Beauty (Hollywood Legends Series) | 
 enlarge | Author: Bernard F. Dick
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
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Pages: 304
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Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 6 x 1.2
ISBN: 1604730870
Dewey Decimal Number: 791.43028092
EAN: 9781604730876
ASIN: 1604730870
Publication Date: July 31, 2008
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pClaudette 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 iThe Palm Beach Story/i, Cecil B. DeMille's iCleopatra/i, and Frank Capra's iIt Happened One Night/i, 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. pThis is the first major biography of Colbert (1903-1996) published in over twenty years. Bernard F. Dick chronicles Colbert's long career, but also explores her early life in Paris and New York. Along with discussing how she left her mark on Broadway, Hollywood, radio, and television, the book explores Colbert's lifelong interests in painting, fashion design, and commercial art. Using correspondence, interviews, periodicals, film archives, and other research materials, the biography reveals a smart, talented actress who conquered Hollywood and remains one of America's most captivating screen icons. pBernard F. Dick is professor of communication and English at Fairleigh Dickinson University and is the author of iHal Wallis: Producer to the Stars/i; iEngulfed: The Death of Paramount Pictures and the Birth of Corporate Hollywood/i; iForever Mame: The Life of Rosalind Russell/i (University Press of Mississippi); and other books.
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 What a disappointment October 13, 2008
Avid Reader (Miramar, FL USA)
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
I've waited years for a biography of Claudette Colbert and this book was a major let down. There was very little biographical information in this "biography". It would be better called a filmography. Chapter after chapter of detail about her film stage roles. Details of the plots, her co-stars, her directors but very few details of her life. You have to stay awake until chapter 15 before you get anything that might be considered biographical. br /The book is a bore and a big disappointment.
 ZZZZZZZZZZZ! October 7, 2008
DEAN (PALM SPRINGS, CALIFORNIA)
16 out of 18 found this review helpful
I must admit that I was apprehensive about purchasing this book after reading Bernard F. Dick's rather routine and dry bio of Rosalind Russell. However I figured the likelhood of any future bios about Ms. Colbert would be unlikely and thought I'd give it a chance. br / br /Unfortunately this book suffers from the same faults as Mr. Dick's other bio - boring, boring, boring. Much too much detail on the plot summaries of Ms. Colbert's movies with very little information or insights into the making of the films and Ms. Colbert's feelings and opinions about the films (or anything else for that matter). br / br /Finally, the chapter discussing Ms. Colbert's sexual orientation - homophobically entitled "The Stigma" is just plain offensive. The author should realize it is 2008 not 1958!
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