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Transcript: Film Comedy Pioneer Claudette Colbert Dead at Age 92
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- NPR Morning Edition
- Article date:
- July 31, 1996
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Claudette Colbert, star of over 60 films, died Tuesday at her home
in Barbados. Colbert said she never wanted to be an actress, but that
once she appeared on Broadway, her career took off.
BOB EDWARDS, Host: Actress Claudette Colbert has died. She was 92
years old. Colbert appeared in more than 60 movies, most of them
sophisticated comedies that made Depression-era America laugh at the
follies of the rich and the reckless.
Pat Dowell has this appreciation.
PAT DOWELL, Reporter: Claudette Colbert was a movie star made for
talking pictures, even though she first went to Hollywood to make
a silent film in 1927. She had a throaty voice that easily ...