Claudette Colbert

Claudette Colbert (1903-1996) was an actor, primarily on screen, who was one of the top Hollywood leading ladies of the thirties and forties. Alternating between comedy and drama, in 1934 she both portrayed the titular queen in Cleopatra and starred in the screwball comedy It Happened One Night (winning an Oscar for Best Actress). Her other notable films included Imitation of Life, Drums Along the Mohawk (with Henry Fonda), the Preston Sturges comedy The Palm Beach Story, and The Egg and I.
Her career slowed down in the 1950s, but she was one of two American stars to take a cameo role in the French historical epic Royal Affairs in Versailles (1954, with Orson Welles as Benjamin Franklin), playing the mistress of Louis XIV.
==References==
* When Forgetful Jones forgets who he's calling in Sesame Street Episode 1771, Clementine tries to give him a hint, that he's trying to call a pretty young woman whose name begins with C. Forgetful is inevitably confused: "Claudette Colbert?!? Why, I don't even know her!"
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