He also cast leading actors such as Claudette Colbert, Gloria Swanson, Gary Cooper, Jetta Goudal, Robert Preston, Paulette Goddard and Charlton Heston in multiple pictures.

This was a silent comedy about three bickering godfathers, a German, a Jew, and an Irishman, starring a budding actress, Claudette Colbert.

The film established the names of Capra, Columbia Pictures, stars Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable, in the movie industry.

Regular attendees at his famed soirées included Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, Joan Crawford and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart, Claudette Colbert, Marlene Dietrich, Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, actor Richard Cromwell, Stanley Holloway, Judy Garland, Gene Tierney, Noël Coward, Cole Porter, director James Whale, costume designer Edith Head, and Norma Shearer, especially after the death of her first husband, Irving Thalberg.

She continued to produce films for others, including Sleep, My Love ( 1948 ) with Claudette Colbert and Love Happy ( 1949 ) with the Marx Brothers.

By the 1930s, talkies brought in a range of powerful new draws: Miriam Hopkins, Marlene Dietrich, Mae West, Gary Cooper, Claudette Colbert, the Marx Brothers, Dorothy Lamour, Carole Lombard, Bing Crosby, the band leader Shep Fields and the famous Argentine tango singer Carlos Gardel among them.

* Claudette Colbert

* 1903 – Claudette Colbert, American actress ( d. 1996 )

* Claudette Colbert

Claudette Colbert

* July 30 – Claudette Colbert, American actress ( b. 1903 )

* September 13 – Claudette Colbert, American actress ( d. 1996 )

* February 22 – Frank Capra's It Happened One Night, starring Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert, is released.

* November 26 – Universal Pictures releases the first film version of Fannie Hurst's novel, Imitation of Life, starring Claudette Colbert and Louise Beavers.

It Happened One Night is a 1934 American romantic comedy film with elements of screwball comedy directed by Frank Capra, in which a pampered socialite ( Claudette Colbert ) tries to get out from under her father's thumb, and falls in love with a roguish reporter ( Clark Gable ).

Spoiled heiress Ellen " Ellie " Andrews ( Claudette Colbert ) marries fortune-hunter " King " Westley ( Jameson Thomas ) against the wishes of her extremely wealthy father ( Walter Connolly ) who has the marriage annulled.

* Claudette Colbert as Ellie Andrews

Boom Town was the third and final Gable-Tracy picture, also featuring Claudette Colbert, making it one of the most anticipated films of the year.

Famous cases include Pluma Noisom ( stand-in for Claudette Colbert ) and Adam Bryant ( Robin Williams ).

The Smiling Lieutenant ( 1931 ) is an American film directed by Ernst Lubitsch, starring Maurice Chevalier and Claudette Colbert, and released by Paramount Pictures.

The movie stars Maurice Chevalier, Claudette Colbert, Miriam Hopkins, Charles Ruggles and George Barbier.

* Claudette Colbert as Franzi

In 1931, Chevalier starred in a musical called The Smiling Lieutenant with Claudette Colbert and Miriam Hopkins.

Claudette Colbert (; September 13, 1903 – July 30, 1996 ) was a French-born American actress of stage and film.

She had been using the name Claudette instead of nickname Lily since high school, and for her stage name she added her maternal grandmother's maiden name, Colbert.

When Claudette walked in the room where Dees and Orbison were writing to say she was heading for Nashville, Orbison asked if she had any money.

He and Claudette shared a love for motorcycles ; she had grown up around them, but Orbison claimed Elvis Presley had introduced him to motorcycles.

Claudette Colbert won the award for It Happened One Night but the uproar led to a change in Academy voting procedures the following year, whereby nominations were determined by votes from all eligible members of a particular branch, rather than by a smaller committee, with results independently tabulated by the accounting firm Price Waterhouse.

Since You Went Away won the Academy Award for Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture ( Max Steiner ) and was nominated for Best Picture, Best Actress in a Leading Role ( Claudette Colbert ), Best Actress in a Supporting Role ( Jennifer Jones ), Best Actor in a Supporting Role ( Monty Woolley ), Best Cinematography, Black-and-White ( Lee Garmes ), Best Film Editing, Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Black-and-White ( Mark-Lee Kirk, Victor A. Gangelin ), and Best Effects, Special Effects.

Smokey was present with original Miracles members Bobby Rogers, Pete Moore, ( Bobby's cousin ) Claudette Rogers, and Gloria White, accepting for her husband, the late Ronnie White, whose daughter Pamela and granddaughter Maya were there representing him as well.

It is the second time since the Claudette Colvin case that a Negro woman has been arrested for the same thing.

I had already engaged Claudette Colbert for the title role, but had not yet found a satisfactory Marc Antony to play opposite her.

It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress ( Claudette Colbert ).

Rosa Parks similarly acted on conscience in 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama refusing a legal order to give up her seat to make room for a white passenger ; her action ( and the similar earlier act of 15-year-old Claudette Colvin ) leading to the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

During 1983 and further on in 1984, he produced four singles " The Face of Dorian Gray " " I Just Want to Dance ", " Claudette " and " Calling All Destroyers " for his friend Robert Marlow, which were released on this label.

** Frank Loesser ( composer ) & the original cast with Robert Morse, Rudy Vallee, Charles Nelson Reilly, Bonnie Scott, Claudette Southerland & Sammy Smith for How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

Hank's mother, Claudette, taught him from a young age that he could do whatever he set his mind to do ; and Hank participated in Little League Baseball for several seasons.

She returned to the Eurovision Song Contest stage in 2000 as the backing singer for the Maltese entry " Desire " by Claudette Pace.

Finally, detectives Dutch Wagenbach and Claudette Wyms try to track down an elusive serial killer who Dutch thinks to be responsible for at least four murders.

Dutch eventually resolved the situation by making a back-room deal with the DA to " keep Claudette in line " and do favors for the office in return for breaking back into action.

Claudette finally gets her opportunity for promotion as the captain of the Barn, which she reluctantly accepts.

Daringly for the time, she is portrayed ( by Claudette Colbert ) as being openly bisexual, suggestively inviting a female slave to bathe with her in the asses ' milk, but lusting after Roman soldier Marcus Superbus ( Fredric March ).

During this early period, the group suffered some problems as Robinson caught the Asian Flu and had to be bedded for a month, Claudette Robinson suffered her first miscarriage that occurred after a car accident and Moore was drafted to serve in the United States Army.