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This item is an 8 1/2" X 10 1/2",black and white print of a charcoal portrait of actress Claudette Colbert. The print is from 1962 and features Claudette Colbert as she starred in the 1934 Columbia Movie-"It Happened One Night". Claudette Colbert (September 13, 1903 – July 30, 1996) was an Academy Award-winning French-born American actress. She was a popular leading lady in Hollywood films, particularly during the 1930s and 1940s.About the mid 1920s, she signed a five-year contract with the producer Albert H. Woods. She played on Broadway from 1925 through 1929. During her early years on stage, she received critical acclaim on Broadway in the production of The Barker (1927).Her screen career started in earnest early in 1929. Her first hit film was The Hole in the Wall (1929), followed by The Lady Lies (1929) which was also successful. The next year she had another hit entitled The Big Pond, opposite Maurice Chevalier. By 1932 she had appeared in some 17 films, playing diverse roles in approximately four films per year.She would make a total of four films with Fredric March, including Dorothy Arzner's Honor Among Lovers (1931), which fared well at the box-office.Colbert's star rose with such notable features as the Ernst Lubitsch musical The Smiling Lieutenant (1931), Cecil B. DeMille's The Sign of the Cross (1932). This was followed in 1933 by Tonight Is Ours and Torch Singer. On loan out to Columbia Pictures, she achieved redemption and further acclaim in her most famous role as Ellie Andrews in It Happened One Night (1934). This film won the Academy Award for Best Picture, and she was selected for Best Actress. The print has been autographed on the front cover by Claudette Colbert in red fountain pen..............BOTH PRINT AND AUTOGRAPH ARE IN EXCELLENT CONDITION...........
