Claudette Colbert

Written by Cliff Aliperti and originally published on Immortal Ephemera

Claudette Colbert (1903-1996)

Born Émilie Claudette Chauchoin in Saint-Mandé, France, arrived in Manhattan a few years later. Her stage debut came at age fifteen at the Provincetown Playhouse in a play by her high school English teacher. Colbert's Broadway break came while attending the Art Students League of New York when acquaintance Anne Morrison offered her a role in her play The Wild Wescotts, which opened at the end...