#Claudette colbert

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I can’t let you out of my life now.

Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert as Peter Warne and Ellie Andrews It Happened One Night (1934), directed by Frank Capra

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BLUEBEARD'S EIGHTH WIFE (1938) — dir. Ernst Lubitsch

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Claudette Colbert in Cleopatra (1934)

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Claudette Colbert (born Émilie Claudette Chauchoin; September 13, 1903 – July 30, 1996) was an American actress most known for It Happened One Night (1934). Despite both her marriages being seemingly legitimate and loving, rumors of Claudette’s affairs with other actresses such as Katharine Hepburn, Joan Crawford, and Marlene Dietrich followed her for her entire career. Most notably, Claudette had a very public intimate relationship with the "out" lesbian artist Verna Hull in the 1950s. Although Claudette denied the rumors that she was bisexual or a lesbian, she and Verna rented a home together in New York City and even had neighboring vacation homes in Barbados. The relationship ended abruptly and on bad terms in the early 1960s after the death of Claudette’s husband. When Claudette passed away on July 30, 1996, she left her entire estate to another woman named Helen O’Hagan, whom she instructed in her will to be treated “as her spouse.” "She certainly moved with great ease in gay circles," said a friend. "I used to see her at George Cukor's, and there would be quite the carrying-on. She was never shocked. It was a world she was comfortable in. It was taken for granted that she was gay, or at least not conventionally straight." "We used to call her "Uncle Claude"," said Don Bachardy, the lover of the writer Christopher Isherwood. "Actually, I think she's really a good example of a very closeted situation. Only well within her own circle did they know the truth."

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HOLLYWOOD STEPS OUT (1941) | dir. Tex Avery

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IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (1934)

What are you thinking about? By a strange coincidence, I was thinking of you.

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Olivia de Havilland, Joan Blondell, Groucho Marx, Claudette Colbert, and Charlotte Greenwood are a few of the film stars on tour with the Hollywood Victory Caravan in 1942. They toured thirteen cities by train to raise money for Army and Navy relief.

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Beautiful Elizabeth Taylor as legendary Cleopatra, 1963

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Propaganda

Sumiko Mizukubo (Dragnet Girl)— isn't she cute???

Claudette Colbert (It Happened One Night)—She's super sexy but also the perfect screwball. Laugh through the horniness

This is round 2 of the tournament. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. Please reblog with further support of your beloved hot sexy vintage woman.

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Sumiko Mizukubo:

Claudette Colbert propaganda:

quintessential 30s look, expert of the thin brow and dark lip combo. she's. So Hot

I think her eyebrows are fun!

Known for her chic manner, she's the only actress to date to star in three films nominated for Best Motion Picture in the same year!

The hitchhiking scene from "It Happened One Night":

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Baths and Bubbles.

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Henry Wilcoxon and Claudette Colbert on the set of Cleopatra (1934)

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Claudette Colbert (1933)

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Claudette Colbert in Cleopatra (1934)

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Old Hollywood stars enjoying the sun part 2!

left to right: Dorothy Dandridge, Audrey Hepburn, Veronica Lake, Ginger Rogers, Marilyn Monroe, Claudette Colbert, Dolores del Río, Grace Kelly

part 1

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SHIRLEY TEMPLE PRESENTING THE OSCAR TO CLAUDETTE COLBERT FOR IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (1934)

image from vogue

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THE SMILING LIEUTENANT (1931) dir. ERNST LUBITSCH