#Fact1Was a Naturalized Citizen of the United States.2Was a Staunch Republican and Natural Conservative.3Was Close Friends with Ronald Reagan and Nancy...
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Was a naturalized citizen of the United States.
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Was a staunch Republican and natural conservative.
Was slated for the lead role of Margot Channing in All About Eve (1950) when she suffered a slipped disc while filming a violent scene (fighting off an attempted rape by a Japanese soldier) in Three Came Home (1950). The injury put her into traction. The role was then offered to Bette Davis, who had recently been released from Warner Brothers and was widely thought to be at the end of her career. It would become a legendary role for Davis, who won a Best Actress Oscar playing Margot Channing.
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Was the seventh actress to receive an Academy Award; she won the Best Actress Oscar for It Happened One Night (1934) at The 7th Academy Awards on February 27, 1935.
After Colbert secretly married Norman Foster in 1928, they announced that they would maintain separate residences so that "love would never die". Evidently, that did as the couple divorced in 1935.
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Attended and graduated from Washington Irving High School in New York City (1923).
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She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6812 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on February 8, 1960.
The shelving of a proposed movie about "Joan of Arc", at Warner Brothers in 1936, to be directed by Anatole Litvak, was considered one of her greatest disappointments in her career.
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After the completion of For the Love of Mike (1927), Colbert told one and all, "I shall never make another film".
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After the release of The Secret Fury (1950), RKO offered the actress the option of directing as well as acting, but she turned the offer down.
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Profiled in the book, "Funny Ladies: 100 Years of Great Comediennes", by Stephen M. Silverman (1989).
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Twice appeared with fellow Academy Award winner Rex Harrison late in their careers in Broadway productions; "The Kingfisher" by William Douglas-Home opening at the Biltmore Theatre on December 16, 1978 running for 181 performances and "Aren't We All" by Frederick Lonsdale opening at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre on April 2, 1985 running for 93 performances.
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A 1945 trade publication announced she was being considered for a role as a French aristocrat in Adventures of Don Juan (1948), but by the time this film came out in 1948, the role no longer existed.
She was so convinced that she would lose the Oscar competition in 1935 to write-in nominee Bette Davis, that she decided not to attend the awards ceremony. Contrary to her belief, when she won that year for her performance in It Happened One Night (1934), she was summoned from a train station to pick up her Oscar.
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Urged good friend Charles Boyer to learn English, in order to further his American movie career.
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Was named #12 Actress on The American Film Institute's 50 Greatest Screen Legends
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Biography in: "American National Biography". Supplement 1, pp. 115-117. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
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Was nominated for Broadway's 1959 Tony Award as Best Actress (Dramatic) for "The Marriage-Go-Round".
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Biography in: "Who's Who in Comedy" by Ronald L. Smith. Pg. 111-112. New York: Facts on File, 1992. ISBN 0816023387
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Most shots of her in her films were of her left profile. She considered her left side to be her best and only rarely allowed full face or right profile shots; an injury to her nose had created a bump on the right. Once an entire set had to be rebuilt so she would not have to show her right side, resulting in some cameramen calling the right side of her face "the dark side of the moon".
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