Tag: ClaudetteColbert
July 23, 2015 /

Gary Cooper in the bath, the Lubitsch touch…

It’s supposed to be Louis the XIV’s, a gift to Claudette Colbert in the comedy Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife, and of course it breaks like an eggshell around lanky Mr. Cooper. Funny how differently men are portrayed in the bath…

February 18, 2015 /

“It Happened One Night,” and the first Oscar sweep…

Yes, a really static shot of a bunch of people who made motion picture magic… Elected officers and board of directors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on November 15, 1932. Left to right, seated, Al Cohn, B. P. Schulberg, Benjamin Glazer, new vice president; Conrad Nagel,…

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December 22, 2014 /

It Happened One Night…

April 13, 2014 /

Art Deco divinity — by the pool: Claudette Colbert, Outpost Estates

March 13, 2014 /

I think there was more sex in those old films than in all that thrashing around today. I’m tired of sex scenes. Claudette Colbert