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Jean Baptiste Colbert
Jean Baptiste Colbert , 1619-83, French statesman. The son of a draper, he was trained in business and was hired by Cardinal Mazarin to look after his financial affairs. On his deathbed, Mazarin recommended Colbert to King Louis XIV, who made him comptroller general of finances (1665). Colbert hel... Read more
Antoine Coysevox
Antoine Coysevox , 1640-1720, French sculptor. He enjoyed the patronage of Louis XIV and produced a great part of the sculpture at Versailles. His Winged Horses, at the entrance to the Tuileries gardens, and his portrait and memorial sculptures show free, vigorous, and original treatment. The bust... Read more
Gérard Edelinck
Gérard Edelinck , 1640-1707, French engraver, b. Antwerp. He is known for his faithful interpretations of the work of Raphael, Le Brun, Champaigne, and other masters and for his portraits of celebrities of the time, including Louis XIV, Colbert, La Fontaine, John Dryden, and Descartes. ... Read more
Rochefort
Rochefort or Rochefort-sur-Mer , city (1990 pop. 26,949), Charente-Maritime dept., W France, on the Charente River near the Bay of Biscay. It is a fishing port with shipyards and aircraft and machine industries. It has become a popular health spa since the early 1960s. An important naval base in... Read more
Claude Perrault
Claude Perrault , 1613-88, French architect, scientist, and physician. One of the most eminent French scholars of his time, he advanced the study of anatomy and made other scientific contributions. His greatest architectural achievement is his work on the east facade of the Louvre, known as the Colo... Read more
Beauvais
Beauvais , town (1990 pop. 56,278), capital of Oise dept., N France. Tractors, ceramic tiles, textiles, and musical instruments are among its many manufactures. A Roman town and an early episcopal see, it flourished in the Middle Ages and again after the 17th cent., when Colbert established the stat... Read more
French East India Company
French East India Company 1664-1769, commercial enterprise planned by Jean Baptiste Colbert and chartered by King Louis XIV for the purpose of trading in the Eastern Hemisphere. It failed to found a colony on Madagascar but established ports on the nearby islands of Bourbon and Île-de-France ... Read more
Manufacture nationale des Gobelins
Manufacture nationale des Gobelins , state-controlled tapestry manufactory in Paris. It was founded as a dye works in the mid-15th cent. by Jean Gobelin. A tapestry works started by two Flemish weavers, Marc de Comans and François de la Planche, called to France by Henri IV in 1601, was later... Read more
Dennis Vincent Brutus
Dennis Vincent Brutus 1924-, South African poet, b. Salisbury, Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe). Brutus grew up in South Africa and received (1947) his B.A. from its Univ. of Fort Hare at Alice. He taught high school from 1948 until 1962, when as a result of his political activism, notably his prote... Read more
Charles Le Brun
Charles Le Brun , 1619-90, French painter, decorator, and architect. He studied with Vouet and in Rome. Strongly influenced by Poussin, he returned in 1646 to Paris, where he gradually developed a more decorative form of classicism. He decorated the Hôtel Lambert and worked at Vaux-le-Vicomte ... Read more

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Claudette Colbert
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...her rosy cheeks, velvet voice, hearty laugh, and curly bangs, Colbert distinguished herself in a series of sophisticated comedies...Worlds (1935), Since You Went Away (1944), and Parrish (1961). Colbert also appeared on the stage and in a television movie, The Two... Read more
Dynamo
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre ...neighbors. When the minister's son, Reuben ( Glenn Anders ), falls in love with Fife's daughter, the teasing Ada ( Claudette Colbert), father and son have a falling out. Reuben denounces religion and goes in search of truth. He returns years later... Read more
Frank Capra
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...director — one of three he would win, all in that decade — and for both of its leads, Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert. One of the most famous scenes takes place on a broken down bus in which the riders, to entertain themselves, begin... Read more
John Frankenheimer
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...anthology series, Frankenheimer worked with a number of accomplished actors, as well as future stars. They included Claudette Colbert, Ingrid Bergman, John Gielgud, and Paul Newman. Some of the more famous episodes that Frankenheimer directed were... Read more
Capra, Frank
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Oscar) for Best Picture, Best Director (Capra), and Best Actor and Actress (Clark Gable [1901 – 1960] and Claudette Colbert [1903 – 1996], respectively). One of the most famous scenes takes place on a broken down bus in which the... Read more

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Colbert, Claudette
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers COLBERT, Claudette Nationality: American. Born: Claudette Lily Chauchoin in Paris, France...Morrison, offered bit part in her The Wild Westcotts ; changed name to Colbert; 1925 – 26 — on Broadway in A Kiss in a Taxi ; 1927 —... Read more
Claudette
Book article from: A Dictionary of First Names Claudette ♀ French: feminine diminutive form of Claude , now also occasionally used in the English-speaking world. It gained considerable prominence in the 1930s as the name of the French film star Claudette Colbert (1903–96), a Hollywood favourite for many years. Her original name was Lily ... Read more
It Happened One Night
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Clark Gable ( Peter Warne ); Claudette Colbert ( Ellie Andrews ); Walter Connolly...Paris, 1981. Quirk, Lawrence, Claudette Colbert: An Illustrated Biography...Pacheco, Joseph B., Jr., "Claudette Colbert," in Films in Review (New York... Read more
Goosson, Stephen
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...player in the film industry. It Happened One Night was a small, unheard of romantic comedy starring Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert which became a commercial and critical success. With very little advertising or company push It Happened One Night... Read more
Levien, Sonya
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...is probably the Trotti-Levien adaptation of Drums along the Mohawk , in which the central role of Lana, played by Claudette Colbert, is a classic example of the pioneer wife, feminine and attractive, but strong enough to survive the da Read more
Louis, Jean
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...would lament that Columbia had no big stars except Hayworth, he could count Doris Day, Joan Crawford, Kim Novak, Claudette Colbert, Lana Turner, Deborah Kerr, Elizabeth Taylor and Marilyn Monroe among the stars for whom he designed. Louis was... Read more
Riskin, Robert
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...aspects of his creation. Since Riskin was schooled in the sophisticated stage comedy he was well able to provide Claudette Colbert, the rich man's daughter in It Happened One Night , with plausible and sparkling dialogue. Working for other directors... Read more

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When Hollywood got it right.
Magazine article from: Catholic Insight; 3/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...watch the 1944 film Since You Went Away. Starring Claudette Colbert, Jennifer Jones, Shirley Temple, Monty Woolley, Robert...Unconquerable Fortress, the American home, 1943. Cut to Colbert (as housewife Anne Hilton) coming home on a rainy... Read more
Heir heads.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
Magazine article from: Washington Monthly; 4/1/2004; ; 211 words ; ...of the very early Oscars went to a film he ought to watch called It Happened One Night, starring Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert. In that famous film, a wealthy debutante gets her comeuppance, for being born rich during the Depression, presumably... Read more
Screwballs of the silver screen: a treasured comedy genre turns 70: the 1934 releases of "It Happened One Night" and "Twentieth Century" launched Hollywood into an era of madcap zaniness that endures to this day.(Entertainment)(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: USA Today (Magazine); 3/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...chronicles the comic misadventures of Claudette Colbert as a runaway heiress and Clark...comically teaches a spoiled-rich Colbert about the other side of the tracks...Night. The unmarried Gable and Colbert share a motel cabin, with their... Read more
DRESSING ROOM CONFESSIONS.(Brief Article)(Interview)
Magazine article from: Interview; 12/1/2000; 700+ words ; ...once--at a play called Aren't We All, with Claudette Colbert. I had to see Claudette Colbert come out the stage door; and when she did it was so thrilling. LT: Oh God, well Claudette Colbert came backstage in '77. There was really an... Read more
(movie reviews)
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter; 6/2/1995; ; 293 words ; ...is allergic to mindless sexual permissiveness. After all, one of the main reasons even my mother was rooting for Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable to get together in It Happened One Night is that the movie kept them apart for 90 minutes. While... Read more
STEVENSON'S CLEO SAILS.(the Houston Ballet)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Dance Magazine; 6/1/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...attracted such cinematic divas as Elizabeth Taylor, Claudette Colbert and Vivien Leigh--and Stevenson's hot-tub-steamy ballet...piece, highlighted with such visual climaxes as the Colbert-inspired bath, the Taylor-inspired grand entrance... Read more
(movie review)
Magazine article from: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine); 1/22/2002; ; 321 words ; ...husband Rudolf Sieber, French actor Jean Gabin) and women (writer Mercedes de Acosta, fellow Hollywood luminary Claudette Colbert) but on her tortured one with her homeland, Germany. Dietrich, Hollywood's hottest import in the early 1930s, was... Read more
(book review)
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter; 5/11/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...an era in film when women were expected not only to have minds but to speak them as well. Says Jimmy Stewart to Claudette Colbert in It's a Wonderful World (1939), You sort of changed my whole philosophy about women. I always figured they all... Read more
Movies that caused an uproar.(MOVIES)(The King of Kings)(The Sign of the Cross)(Mohammed, Messenger of God)(Monty Python's Life of Brian)(The Last Temptation of Christ)(Priest)(Dogma)(The Passion of the Christ)(Movie review)
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter; 6/2/2006; ; 655 words ; ...1932) Supposedly a story of the early Christian martyrs, this was really an excuse for DeMille to stick a naked Claudette Colbert in a bath of asses' milk and pile on the sex and sadism. ( Ah, as Charles Laughton's Nero observes, the food, the... Read more
DV delight: movie madness for the living room: from Clark Gable and James Stewart to Robert De Niro and Tom Cruise, from merry old England to modern America, here are over 20 films worth watching.(Entertainment)(Bibliography)
Magazine article from: USA Today (Magazine); 5/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...her wedding on a cross-country trip swept the best picture, director (Frank Capra), actor (Clark Gable), actress (Claudette Colbert), and screenplay (Robert Riskin) Oscars. It was not until One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest in 1975 that another film... Read more