Beautiful Portraits of Claudette Colbert in Color From the 1920s

Claudette Colbert (1903–1996) was a French-born American actress, and a leading lady for two decades. Colbert began her career in Broadway productions during the 1920s, progressing to film with the advent of talking pictures. Initially associated with Paramount Pictures, Colbert later gradually shifted to working as a freelance actor.

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