Claudette Colbert

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The Palm Beach Story review by Savage from London, England

A classic comedy from the absolute master 31 October 2006
...iter-director Sturges' usual twin obsessions, money and sex, the wacky plot has Claudette Colbert leave her mad-inventor (and much-loved) husband, Joel McCrea, because she recko... Read customer review

Let's Make it Legal on DVD (1951)
Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Claudette Colbert, Macdonald Carey
Director: Richard Sale
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The nearly-final divorce of the Halsworths suddenly gets complicated when Miriam's old flame comes to town.

54% from 153 members

Three Came Home on DVD (1950)
Starring: Claudette Colbert, Patrick Knowles, Florence Desmond
Director: Jean Negulesco
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Based on the autobiography by Agnes Newton Keith, which tells the story of Mrs Keith and her children's imprisonment in Borneo during the Japanese invasion.

55% from 77 members

The Adventures of Ma and Pa Kettle - The... (1947)
Starring: Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, Marjorie Main
Director: Chester Erskine
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This program contains four adventures from the Ma and Pa Kettle Series. Films include, THE EGG AND I, THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF MA AND PA KETTLE, MA AND PA KETTLE GO TO TOWN, and MA AND PA KETTLE BACK ON THE FARM.

43% from 9 members
Currently unavailable

Without Reservations on DVD (1946)
Starring: Claudette Colbert, John Wayne, Don Defore
Director: Mervyn Le Roy
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Returning from his stint in World War II, tough Marine Rusty meets up with a famous writer.

54% from 101 members

Since You Went Away on DVD (1944)
Starring: Claudette Colbert, Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten
Director: John Cromwell
Certificate:
One of the great films to emerge from the Second World War, focusing on the home front and the life of a typical family, where the man of the house is away at war.

63% from 85 members

The Palm Beach Story on DVD (1942)
Starring: Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea
Director: Preston Sturges
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An inventor needs cash to develop his big idea. His wife, who loves him, decides to raise it for him by divorcing him and marrying a millionaire.

70% from 646 members

Drums Along The Mohawk on DVD (1939)
Starring: Claudette Colbert, Henry Fonda, Edna May Oliver
Director: John Ford
Certificate:
DRUMS ALONG THE MOHAWK is John Ford's first film in Technicolor (which recently perfected far richer shadings of colour than had previously been possible), and the director uses it to stunning effect. The film stars Henry Fonda as Revolutionary War-era farmer Gilbert Martin, who, in 1776, has ..read more »

59% from 250 members

Cleopatra - Blu-ray (1934)
Starring: Henry Wilcoxon, Warren William, Claudette Colbert
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
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Claudette Colbert stars in Cecil B DeMille's fevered portrait of the decadence and sexual depravity of Cleopatra and her life.

20% from 1 member
Not available for rental

It Happened One Night on DVD (1934)
Starring: Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert
Director: Frank Capra
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Frank Capra's seminal screwball comedy, which won all five major Academy Awards for 1934, is still as breezy and beguiling today. Claudette Colbert plays Ellie Andrews, a spoiled heiress who has married fortune-hunting aviator King Westley (Jameson Thomas), despite her father (Walter Connolly)'s ..read more »

73% from 4,934 members

Love Scenes - The Romance Classics Colle... (5 discs) on DVD
Starring: James Stewart, Myrna Loy, Gary Cooper
Director: Frank Borzage, James Cruze, John Cromwell
Certificate:
Featuring a dozen of Hollywood's best-loved classics, this set includes the following feature films: THE SHEIK, INDISCREET, A FAREWELL TO ARMS, BIRD OF PARADISE, ANIMAL KINGDOM, I COVER THE WATERFRONT, MY MAN GODFREY, LOVE AFFAIR, MADE FOR EACH OTHER, BEYOND TOMORROW, PENNY SERENADE and CYRANO DE ..read more »

40% from 14 members

It Happened One Night - 3.5 stars
The Palm Beach Story - 3.5 stars
Since You Went Away - 3.0 stars
Drums Along The Mohawk - 3.0 stars
Three Came Home - 3.0 stars

Sylvia Andrew - 2 times - show films
Mark Keuning - 2 times - show films
Sessue Hayakawa - 2 times - show films
Patrick Knowles - 2 times - show films
Florence Desmond - 2 times - show films

Jean Negulesco - 2 times - show films
John Cromwell - 2 times - show films
Wesley Ruggles - 1 times - show films
Frank Borzage - 1 times - show films
Chester Erskine - 1 times - show films