feaito
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In fact Stoney, besides the aforementioned "The Sign of the Cross" (1932) and "Tonight is Ours" (1933), Claudette Colbert starred in two other Pre-Codes with Fredric March: "Manslaughter" (1930) and "Honor Among Lovers" (1931). It would be great to see them all.
Speaking of Claudette's films I'd like to see, another one on my list is "Private Worlds" with Charles Boyer, Joan Bennett and Joel McCrea.
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An American Tragedy
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Bette Davis in "Cabin in the Cotton"...."I cannot kiss you 'cos I just washed my hair..."
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I saw "Three Came Home" many, many years ago on TV (BTW it's also available on VHS/DVD), and is a very fine drama in which Claudette gets caught in the middle of a japanese invasion during WWII...she gives a great dramatic performance opposite Sessue Hayakawa.
From the same decade (1950s) I remeber a film in which she co-starred with Jack Hawkins, entertaining flick "Outpost in Malaya" aka "The?Planter's Wife".
Also I recall fondly her perfomance as Troy Donahue's mother in the 1961 "Parrish" (and Karl Malden's wife).
She was very good too, in a film I saw only once (on local TV), "Thunder on the Hill", as a Nun, with Ann Blyth playing a convicted murderess!!
Anything Claudette Colbert was in, was at least worthwhile!!
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Are Snakes Necessary?
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BTW, although out-of-print, you can get second-hand, these movies on VHS format: "Cleopatra", "The Sign of the Cross", "Bluebeard's Eighth Wife", "Midnight" (EXCELLENT), "So Proudly We Hail" (all Paramounts), "Guest Wife" (RKO), but most of them are scheduled by TCM in March 2005.
Colbert's 1933 "I Cover the Waterfront" (United Artists)(which I've read is good) is available on a very cheap DVD edition and "The Palm Beach Story" (Paramount) is being released on DVD this month.
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Sadly Colbert's films made for Paramount belong to the Universal Catalog, so I think that TCM may get them (someday) on lease-terms.
At least they have scheduled some Paramounts like "The Sign of the Cross", "Cleopatra" and "The Smiling Lieutenant", which are all very good. I also remember than when TCM aired for the first time the "Complicated Women" Documentary, as a part of a Pre-Code special month, they aired "Torch Singer" an excellent drama with Claudette, Ricardo Cortez and David Manners.
Also scheduled in March are Claudette's great Universal-released "Imitation of Life", Columbia-released "It Happened One Night" and the great TCM-owned "It's a Wonderful World!" (MGM) and "Tovarich" (WB), both fantastic.
Sadly, goodies such as "The Bride Comes Home", "The Gilded Lily", "I met Hin in Paris", "Arise My Love", "No time for Love", "Skylark",...and rarities such as "Under Two Flags" and "Maid of Salem", all Paramounts, are not even available on VHS. The same happens with her excellent "She Married Her Boss", which belongs to the Columbia catalog.
Another great Colbert movie scheduled in March is the very entertaining RKO "Without Reservations" with John Wayne and Don DeFore.
I would also like to see her in "The Egg and I" (Universal).
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It's in the Bag
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Claude Rains
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Fifty Races to Town?
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I second your motion friend, excellent choices: I'd love to see "The Big Pond" and "The Gilded Lily"; also, it would be a must to see "She Married Her Boss", "Tovarich" (once again), "Private Worlds"...and Claudette in two unusual roles for her: in "Under Two Flags" and "Maid of Salem".
There are so many Claudette films yet to see: "Skylark", "No time for Love", "Arise My Love", "I met Him In Paris", "Secrets of a Secretary", "I Cover the Waterfront", "Three Cornered Moon", "His Man", etc...mostly Paramounts.
Claudette Colbert, one of the greatest stars of all time!
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I am almost sure that the clip you mention might be from the WB movie "Dames" (1934).
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Hi!...This movie has also lingered in my mind quite a long time, it's called "The Bermuda Depths", a 1978 TV Movie...really haunting...at least I thought so when I was a kid.
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Of It Happened One Night?
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Oh my!...She was beautiful & talented, I remember her fondly in "The Corsican Brothers" with Doug Fairbanks Jr., wonderful swashbuckler! May she RIP.
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Yeah evh, congrats...you are 100% right...your turn!
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No...great film that one
Clue number four: World War I
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Hi again Mary Lou...
Third Clue: An English Baronet marries an american girl
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The Three Musketeers/The Four Musketeers?
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Hello Mary Lou....Not that film, I love the "Harry Potter" movies though....
Second clue: England
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Thanks Mongo!!
Here we Go:
Clue N? 1: A Chessboard
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The Bad and the Beautiful?
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Ella Raines?
Robert Siodmak?
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Laurel & Hardy
Claudette Colbert - Star of the Month
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As I can see you love Pre-Code films and you'll go to the Library...I recommend to you these books:
"Sin in Soft Focus" by Mark Vieira.
"Complicated Women" and "Dangerous Men", both by Mick LaSalle.
"Hollywood Censored: Morality Codes, Catholics and The Movies" by Gregory D. Black.
In that Order.
I'm currently reading "Pre-Code Hollywood" by Thomas Doherty, and it's not as good as I thought it would be, 'cos it has too much historic-politics and I didn't like the style of his writing. The parts of the book which I've liked most, are when the author describes and analyzes certain "obscure" movies from the period.