The Claudette Colbert Collection (1933-1947)

The Claudette Colbert Collection celebrates the career of one of the most popular and versatile actresses of all time. Equally charming in screwball comedies (It Happened One Night), epics (Cleopatra) and dramas (Imitation of Life), Claudette's striking beauty and captivating talent dazzled audiences around the world.



This stunning collection of 6 rare films includes Three-Cornered Moon, Maid of Salem, I Met Him in Paris, Bluebeard's Eighth Wife, No Time for Love and The Egg and I. Co-starring Hollywood favorites Fred MacMurray and Gary Cooper, The Claudette Colbert Collection is a much-needed spotlight on one of Hollywood’s true cinematic greats. Three-Cornered Moon (1933) Laughter is the best medicine in tough times, and that is certainly the case for Elizabeth (Claudette Colbert) and her three brothers who are forced to find work after their eccentric family’s fortune is lost. Maid of Salem (1937) Inspired by the true-life Salem “witch trials”, an independent young woman (Claudette Colbert) is accused of casting evil spells by the Puritan townsfolk during one of the most notorious periods in American history. I Met Him in Paris (1937) All is fair in love and fashion as a successful designer (Claudette Colbert) must choose between three suitors: a creative playwright (Melvyn Douglas), a dashing playboy (Robert Young) and a hometown boy (Lee Bowman). Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938) The daughter (Claudette Colbert) of a destitute aristocrat is determined to teach her millionaire groom (Gary Cooper) a lesson when she learns that their wedding day is not his first trip down the aisle. No Time for Love (1943) A working class man (Fred MacMurray) falls for a sophisticated fashion photographer (Claudette Colbert), but the picture is not pretty when he loses his job and she hires him to be her assistant. The Egg and I (1947) A new bride (Claudette Colbert) reluctantly says “I do” to her husband’s (Fred MacMurray) plan to leave their life in the city and raise chickens on a dilapidated farm located miles from civilization.







Upper-class female reporter is (despite herself) attracted to hulking laborer digging a tunnel under the Hudson river.






Director: Mitchell Leisen
Cast: Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, Ilka Chase, Richard Haydn, Paul McGrath, June Havoc, Marjorie Gateson, Murray Alper, Faith Brook, Rod Cameron, Kenneth Chryst, Sayre Dearing, Jerome DeNuccio, Helen Dickson, George Dolenz, Jack Gardner, Bill Goodwin, Kit Guard, Alan Hale Jr., Eddie Hall, Tex Harris, Oscar 'Dutch' Hendrian, Frederic Henry, Robert Herrick, Robert Homans, Mitchell Ingraham, Charles Irwin, Ted Jacques, John Kelly, Fred Kohler Jr.

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Sandhog Jim Ryan is suspended from his job helping to dig a tunnel beneath a river because of an incident while being photographed for a story by Katherine Grant. Feeling responsible, Katherine hires Ryan to assist her during his suspension. She is elegant and sophisticated, while he is outspoken and down-to-earth. This combination leads to conflicts, and ultimately romance.
~ Ron Kerrigan

On their wedding night Bob informs his new bride Betty that he has bought a chicken farm. An abandoned chicken farm, to be exact, which is obvious when the two move in. Betty endures Bob's enthusiasm for the rural life, rustic inconveniences, and battling nature, but her patience is severely tested when glamorous neighbor Harriet Putnam seems to set her sights on Bob.






Director: Chester Erskine
Cast: Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, Marjorie Main, Louise Allbritton, Percy Kilbride, Richard Long, Billy House, Ida Moore, Donald MacBride, Samuel S. Hinds, Esther Dale, Elisabeth Risdon, John Berkes, Victor Potel, Fuzzy Knight, Isabel O'Madigan, Dorothy Vaughan, Banjo the Dog, Colleen Alpaugh, Polly Bailey, William Bailey, Jack Baxley, Vangie Beilby, Hank Bell, Carl Bennett, Earl Bennett, Joseph E. Bernard, Robert Beyers, Judith Bryant, Robert Cherry

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BONUS FEATURES:
- Claudette Colbert - Queen of the Silver Screen featurette,
- Trailers







Kay Denham, romanced in Paris by friends Gene and George, can't figure out why George disapproves of Gene.






Director: Wesley Ruggles
Cast: Claudette Colbert, Melvyn Douglas, Robert Young, Lee Bowman, Mona Barrie, George Davis, Fritz Feld, Rudolph Anders, Alexander Cross, George Sorel, Louis LaBey, Egon Brecher, Hans Joby, Jacques Vanaire, Eugene Borden, Albert Pollet, Francisco Maran, Yola d'Avril, Joe Thoben, Gennaro Curci, Jean De Briac, Francisco Moreno, Sam Ash, Fernando Garcia, Charles F. Haas, Arthur Hurni, Otto Jehly, Jacques Lory, Priscilla Moran, Alberto Morin

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Kay Denham is off for a 'fling' in Paris, leaving her staid suitor Berk behind. There, she meets two new suitors, Gene and George. Gene smooth-talks her into a junket to Switzerland, but George (with no illusions about his friend) appoints himself chaperone. Through a series of slapstick winter sports, Kay remains puzzled about George's disapproval of Gene…but there's a reason.
~ Rod Crawford

The daughter of a penniless marquis teaches her multi-millionaire fiance a lesson, after learning he has had 7 previous wives.






Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Cast: Claudette Colbert, Gary Cooper, Edward Everett Horton, David Niven, Elizabeth Patterson, Herman Bing, Warren Hymer, Franklin Pangborn, Armand Cortes, Rolfe Sedan, Lawrence Grant, Lionel Pape, Tyler Brooke, Mariska Aldrich, Leon Ames, Lenore Aubert, Barlowe Borland, Marie Burton, Gino Corrado, Joseph Crehan, Albert D'Arno, George Davis, Dorothy Dayton, Ray De Ravenne, Paula DeCardo, Blanche Franke, Norah Gale, Pauline Garon, Grace Goodall, Sacha Guitry

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US multi-millionaire Michael Barndon marries his eight wife, Nicole, the daughter of a broken French Marquis. But she doesn't want to be only a number in the row of his ex-wives and starts her own strategy to "tame" him.
~ Stephan Eichenberg

Nellie Rimplegar has to tell her grown children that due to her bungled handling of their finances, the family has been wiped out by the Stock Market crash. Friend and family doctor, Alan Stevens, tells them they'll all need to eliminate their extravagant ways and get jobs. Stevens also rents a room in their house more as a way to be near pretty Elizabeth Rimplegar, than to help their finances. Stevens faces competition from Elizabeth's beau, Ronald, a free-loading writer who remains oblivious to her money woes.





Director: Elliott Nugent
Cast: Claudette Colbert, Richard Arlen, Mary Boland, Wallace Ford, Lyda Roberti, Tom Brown, Joan Marsh, Hardie Albright, William Bakewell, Sam Hardy, Joan Clark, Margaret Armstrong, Clara Blandick, Edward Gargan, Sam Godfrey, John Kelly, George LeGuere, Charlotte Merriam, Elliott Nugent, Fred Santley, Joe Sawyer, John M. Sullivan, Nick Thompson

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Young lovers fall afoul of repressive society as Salem elders get caught up in the witch hunts and trials of 17th century Massachusetts. One family in particular uses the hysteria to its advantage, getting even with everyone for every slight–real or imagined.






Director: Frank Lloyd
Cast: Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, Harvey Stephens, Gale Sondergaard, Louise Dresser, Benny Bartlett, Edward Ellis, Beulah Bondi, Bonita Granville, Virginia Weidler, Donald Meek, E.E. Clive, Halliwell Hobbes, Pedro de Cordoba, Madame Sul-Te-Wan, Lucy Beaumont, William Farnum, Ivan F. Simpson, Brandon Hurst, Sterling Holloway, Zeffie Tilbury, Babs Nelson, Mary Treen, J. Farrell MacDonald, Stanley Fields, Lionel Belmore, Kathryn Sheldon, Rosita Butler, Madge Collins, Amelia Falleur

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