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Nadine S. Colbert...
...songs. On a good night, Broadway will have more stars than there are in Hollywood. Elizabeth Taylor spent the summer in town with The Little Foxes, and this fall a quartet of grandes dames will lend their incandescence to the stage: Katharine Hepburn in The West Side Waltz, Claudette Colbert in A Talent for Murder, Anne Bancroft in Duet for One, Joanne Woodward as Shaw's Candida. And then, and always, there are the musicals. At least 16 have been announced, including one potential gem that begins previews next week: Stephen Sondheim's Merrily We Roll Along, directed...
...time the "damned thing" arrives on Broadway, it is safe to say that it will have met its mistress. "Tough dame, that lovely frog," said Frank Capra, who directed her in It Happened One Night. When she sets her mind to do something, Colbert does it. Period. "I don't have any patience with people who say I can't.' " she says. "You can do anything you want...
That determination doubtless came from her mother and grandmother. Father, a minor bank functionary who brought the family to the U.S. in 1906, when Colbert was three, was overshadowed by those two feuding, formidable little women. Colbert's favorite was grandmère. "There's an old saying," she says: "Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-the mother...
...Colbert loves acting, though it was never an obsession for her, as it was for some of her contemporaries, like Bette Davis and Katharine Hepburn. "I never thought of my career as the primary thing in my life," she says. "I looked upon acting as a job, and now, frankly, I regret it. I think of all the things I could have done. I just let parts come to me. I never went after them." Still, that seems to be about all she regrets, and if Colbert, radiant and ageless, is not happy, who is? "She's been drinking...