Word: colbert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lady Lies (Paramount). That a talking picture about a man and his mistress could be made both mature and witty is a proposition most cinema critics would deny. Yet this is such a film, directed by Hobart Henley, feelingly played by actors from the legitimate theatre. Claudette Colbert's wide-set eyes, tender voice and Gallic smartness herein make their screen debut. Graciously she suggests the thoroughbred woman who may be kept but who will ultimately be married by any sensible keeper. The corporation lawyer so fortunate as to convert his woman into his wife is played by Walter...
Score Harvard 9, Brown 0. Goals Johnson 3, Sanders, 2, Glenn, Gulick, Hodge, McGuire Referee Lynch, Field Judge Colbert. Time Two 20 minute periods...
...Hole in the Wall (Paramount). A band of crooks, recruited from the best talent of the legitimate stage, robs gullible ladies who come for messages from the dead, until one real ghost, through the mouth of brilliant Claudette Colbert, gives away the gang's secret. Best shot: a kidnaped baby on a wharf-ladder...
...playing is more intelligible than the play. Glenn Anders is splendidly desperate as the groping youth and Claudette Colbert not only plays the temptress with a true earthiness but is, in addition, one of the most beautiful pictures in this season's gallery. Dudley Digges gives to the atheist his usual excellent sense of values...
...Miss Colbert's début with the Theatre Guild, a happy event for both. She is a small brunette of perfect symmetry and French antecedents. New York first discovered her in A Kiss in a Taxi in 1925. Since then she has played in The Barker (in which she met Actor Norman Foster, whom she married), The Pearl of Great Price, The Mulberry Bush, The Ghost Train, Fast Life, and Tin Pan Alley. She has gifts which the Guild undoubtedly will magnify...