When Claudette Colbert heard the gossip about her love life, she was aghast. “She screamed!” the actress’ friend, novelist Leonora Hornblow, recalled. “She said, ‘I thought everyone knew I liked men!’”
In the 1930s, Claudette’s knowing jet-black eyes, easy laugh and great legs made her a superstar of the Golden Age. At one point, the twice-married actress earned more money in a year than anyone in Hollywood except MGM honcho Louis B. Mayer. “When I think of Claudette Colbert, I think about champagne bubbles,” Bernard F. Dick, author of Claudette Colbert: She Walked in Beauty, tells Closer. “She had a natural effervescence.”
Despite her irresistible charm, the actress, who immigrated to the U.S. from France as a child, spent years trying to escape the grasp of her mother. “Claudette looked like and acted like an independent woman, but she was very much under her mother’s control,” says Dick.
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