Word: colbert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Without Reservations (RKO Radio) rescues Claudette Colbert from the whale-boned dignity of her recent mother-with-grown-children roles, brings her back again as the giggly, harebrained, pratfalling heroine of a romantic farce. In this highly specialized type of film, Veteran Colbert excels. The screwball love story was excellent entertainment when she first tried it back in 1934 (It Happened One Night). It is still surprisingly good-and so is Claudette...
...every Midwest town. At the final game of Illinois' state tourney, scalpers charged $60 for seats. When Anderson High won the Indiana state championship before a wildly cheering crowd, school closed for three days. Until tiny Danbury (Iowa) High (15 boys) was eliminated last week, R.F.D. Mailman Jack Colbert twice drove 300 miles to Iowa City in his jeep to see Danbury play, sped back to get to his mail route...
Tomorrow Is Forever (International-RKO Radio) is a specious, stylishly dressed domestic drama starring Claudette Colbert and Orson Welles-as well as cinema's old friends Rip van Winkle and Enoch Arden. Derived from a lending library novel of the same title, the film concerns a young lady (Claudette) who believes that her husband (Welles) was killed in World War I. After a longish period of mourning, she reluctantly remarries. But husband No. 1, by no means dead, continues to live on in Europe. On the eve of World War II, he returns to the U.S. with a foster...
Cinemactress Colbert, moving waxy and beautifully gowned through a series of handsome sets, manages to convey the idea that she cannot quite pierce the Wellesian disguise of beard, limp and heavy Teutonic accent. Welles himself, posing as an Austrian scientist, does a far more skillful job of characterization than the creaky plot and prevailing platitudes warrant...
...Bennett). By 1932 he was ranked among the top ten U.S. money-making stars. During the next decade he played opposite such glittering screen favorites as Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Marion Davies, Greta Garbo, Jean Harlow, Lana Turner. By 1934 he had made It Happened One Night, with Claudette Colbert, and with the won the Academy award...