I bet you think an egg is something you casually order for breakfast when you can’t think of anything else. Well, so did I once, but that was before the egg and I.
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It took me years to figure out that you don't fall into a tub of butter, you jump for it.
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Birth: | 13th September, 1903 |
Death: | 30th July, 1996 |
Nationality: | American, French |
Profession: | Actress |
Claudette Colbert was born in Saint-Mandé, France. She was a French-born American actress. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress in It Happened One Night, the first woman born outside of North America to do so, and also received Academy Award nominations for Private Worlds and Since You Went Away. She was the industry's biggest box-office star in 1938 and 1942. For her television work in The Two Mrs. Grenvilles she won a Golden Globe Award and received an Emmy Award nomination. In 1999, the American Film Institute voted Colbert the "12th Greatest Female American Screen Legend" in cinema.
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