Claudette Colbert chronology of performances

Claudette Colbert in I Cover the Waterfront (1933).

The following provides a list of the film, television, Lux Radio Theater, Broadway stage performances, etc. of the US actress, Claudette Colbert.

Filmography

Feature films

Year	#	Title	Role	Leading Man	Director	Other cast members / Notes
1927	1	For the Love of Mike	Mary	Ben Lyon	Frank Capra	Colbert's film debut and her only silent. Now believed lost.[1]
1929	2	The Hole in the Wall	Jean Oliver	Edward G. Robinson	Robert Florey
	3	The Lady Lies	Joyce Roamer	Walter Huston	Hobart Henley
1930	4	Young Man of Manhattan	Ann Vaughn	Norman Foster	Monta Bell	w/ Ginger Rogers
	5	The Big Pond	Barbara Billings	Maurice Chevalier	Hobart Henley
	6	Manslaughter	Lydia Thorne	Fredric March	George Abbott	The first of four films that Colbert made with March.
	7	Mysterious Mr. Parkes	Lucy Stavrin	Adolphe Menjou	Louis J. Gasnier	French language version of the 1930 film Slightly Scarlet
1931	8	Honor Among Lovers	Julia Traynor	Fredric March	Dorothy Arzner
	9	The Smiling Lieutenant	Franzi	Maurice Chevalier	Ernst Lubitsch	w/ Miriam Hopkins. a French language version was also filmed with the same cast.[2]
	10	Secrets of a Secretary	Helen Blake	Herbert Marshall	George Abbott
	11	His Woman	Sally Clark	Gary Cooper	Edward Sloman
1932	12	The Wiser Sex	Margaret Hughes	Melvyn Douglas	Berthold Viertel	w/ Lilyan Tashman.
					Victor Viertel
	13	Misleading Lady	Helen Steele	Edmund Lowe	Stuart Walker
	14	The Man from Yesterday	Sylvia Suffolk	Clive Brook	Berthold Viertel
				Charles Boyer
	15	The Phantom President	Felicia Hammond	George M. Cohan	Norman Taurog
	16	The Sign of the Cross	Empress Poppaea	Fredric March	Cecil B. DeMille
				Charles Laughton
1933	17	Tonight Is Ours	Princess Nadya	Fredric March	Stuart Walker	Based on a play by Noel Coward.
	18	I Cover the Waterfront	Julie Kirk	Ben Lyon	James Cruze
	19	Three-Cornered Moon	Elizabeth Rimplegar	Richard Arlen	Elliott Nugent	w/ Mary Boland.
	20	Torch Singer	Sally Trent, aka Mimi Benton	Ricardo Cortez	Alexander Hall	w/ Lyda Roberti.
				David Manners	George Somnes
1934	21	Four Frightened People	Judy Jones	Herbert Marshall	Cecil B. DeMille	w/ Mary Boland. Filmed on location in Hawaii.
	22	It Happened One Night	Ellie Andrews	Clark Gable	Frank Capra	Academy Award winner for Best Actress (Colbert), Best Picture, etc.
	23	Cleopatra	Cleopatra	Henry Wilcoxon	Cecil B. DeMille
				Warren William
	24	Imitation of Life	Beatrice 'Bea' Pullman	Warren William	John M. Stahl	w/ Rochelle Hudson. Remade in 1959 with Lana Turner in Colbert's role.
				Ned Sparks
1935	25	The Gilded Lily	Marilyn David	Fred MacMurray	Wesley Ruggles	The first of seven films that Colbert made with MacMurray.
				Ray Milland
	26	Private Worlds	Dr. Jane Everest	Charles Boyer	Gregory La Cava	w/ Joan Bennett.
				Joel McCrea
	27	She Married Her Boss	Julia Scott	Melvyn Douglas	Gregory La Cava
	28	The Bride Comes Home	Jeannette Desmereau	Fred MacMurray	Wesley Ruggles
				Robert Young
1936	29	Under Two Flags	Cigarette	Ronald Colman	Frank Lloyd	w/ Rosalind Russell. Previously filmed in 1917 with Theda Bara in Colbert's role.
				Victor McLaglen
1937	30	Maid of Salem	Barbara Clarke	Fred MacMurray	Frank Lloyd	w/ Gale Sondergaard
	31	I Met Him in Paris	Kay Denham	Melvyn Douglas	Wesley Ruggles
				Robert Young
	32	Tovarich	Grand Duchess Tatiana Petrovna Romanov	Charles Boyer	Anatole Litvak	w/ Anita Louise.
				Basil Rathbone
1938	33	Bluebeard's Eighth Wife	Nicole de Loiselle	Gary Cooper	Ernst Lubitsch
1939	34	Zaza	Zaza	Herbert Marshall	George Cukor
	35	Midnight	Eve Peabody	Don Ameche	Mitchell Leisen	w/ Mary Astor.
				John Barrymore
	36	It's a Wonderful World	Edwina Corday	James Stewart	W.S. Van Dyke
	37	Drums Along the Mohawk	Lana Martin	Henry Fonda	John Ford	w/ John Carradine. Colbert's first film in Technicolor.
1940	38	Boom Town	Elizabeth Bartlett McMasters	Clark Gable	Jack Conway	w/ Hedy Lamarr.
				Spencer Tracy
	39	Arise, My Love	Augusta	Ray Milland	Mitchell Leisen	Colbert once said that this was her favorite film of her own.[3][4]
				Dennis O'Keefe
1941	40	Skylark	Lydia Kenyon	Ray Milland	Mark Sandrich
				Brian Aherne
	41	Remember the Day	Nora Trinell	John Payne	Henry King
1942	42	The Palm Beach Story	Geraldine 'Gerry' Jeffers	Joel McCrea	Preston Sturges	w/ Mary Astor, Rudy Vallee.
1943	43	No Time for Love	Katherine Grant	Fred MacMurray	Mitchell Leisen
	44	So Proudly We Hail!	Lt. Janet Davy Davidson	George Reeves	Mark Sandrich	w/ Paulette Goddard, Veronica Lake, Sonny Tufts.
1944	45	Since You Went Away	Mrs. Anne Hilton	Joseph Cotten	John Cromwell	w/ Jennifer Jones, Shirley Temple, Robert Walker.
	46	Practically Yours	Peggy Martin	Fred MacMurray	Mitchell Leisen
1945	47	Guest Wife	Mary Price	Don Ameche	Sam Wood
1946	48	Tomorrow Is Forever	Elizabeth Hamilton	Orson Welles	Irving Pichel
				George Brent
	49	Without Reservations	Christopher Kit Madden	John Wayne	Mervyn LeRoy	Features unbilled cameo appearances by Cary Grant, Jack Benny, and the film's director, LeRoy.
	50	The Secret Heart	Leola 'Lee' Addams	Walter Pidgeon	Robert Z. Leonard	w/ June Allyson.
1947	51	The Egg and I	Betty MacDonald	Fred MacMurray	Chester Erskine
1948	52	Sleep, My Love	Alison Courtland	Robert Cummings	Douglas Sirk
				Don Ameche
1949	53	Family Honeymoon	Katie Armstrong Jordan	Fred MacMurray	Claude Binyon	w/ Rita Johnson.
	54	Bride for Sale	Nora Shelley	Robert Young	William D. Russell
				George Brent
1950	55	Three Came Home	Agnes Newton Keith	Patric Knowles	Jean Negulesco	w/ Florence Desmond.
				Sessue Hayakawa
	56	The Secret Fury	Ellen R. Ewing	Robert Ryan	Mel Ferrer	Director Ferrer appears in a small uncredited role.
1951	57	Thunder on the Hill	Sister Mary	Robert Douglas	Douglas Sirk	w/ Ann Blyth.
	58	Let's Make It Legal	Miriam Halsworth	MacDonald Carey	Richard Sale	Also featuring Marilyn Monroe.
				Zachary Scott
				Robert Wagner
1952	59	The Planter's Wife	Liz Frazer	Jack Hawkins	Ken Annakin	A British film. Released in the U.S. as Outpost in Malaya.
1954	60	Destinées	Elizabeth Whitefield	-	Marcello Pagliero (segment Elisabeth)[5]	w/ Eleonora Rossi Drago. A French language film. Released in the US as Daughters of Destiny, and in the UK as Love, Soldiers, and Women. Colbert appears in the Elizabeth segment.
	61	Royal Affairs in Versailles	Madame de Montespan	-	Sacha Guitry	French language film.
1955	62	Texas Lady	Prudence Webb	Barry Sullivan	Tim Whelan	Filmed in Technicolor.
1961	63	Parrish	Ellen McLean	Troy Donahue	Delmer Daves	Filmed in Technicolor. Colbert's last theatrically released film.

Short Films

Year	#	Title	Role	Leading Man	Director	Notes
1932	1	Hollywood on Parade	Herself	-	Louis Lewyn	Promotional shorts.
1933	2	Hollywood on Parade No. 9	Herself	-	Louis Lewyn
1934	3	The Hollywood You Never See	Herself	Henry Wilcoxon	Herbert Moulton	A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Cleopatra (1934).
			Cleopatra	Warren William
	4	The Fashion Side of Hollywood	Herself	-	Josef von Sternberg	A behind-the-scenes short.
1938	5	Breakdowns of 1938	Herself	-	-	Outtakes from several films, including Colbert in Tovarich 1938.
			Grand Duchess Tatiana Petrovna Romanov
1942	6	Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 6	Herself	-	Herbert Moulton	Short subject of columnist Hopper covering two war benefit affairs.
1944	7	Garabatos Claudette Colbert	Herself	-	Enrique Diban	An Animated short subject from Spain.
1948	8	Screen Snapshots: Photoplay Gold Medal Awards	Herself	-	Ralph Staub

Cameo appearance

• Make Me a Star (1932)

Television

• The Best of Broadway (2 episodes, 1954-1955)
• The Ford Television Theatre (2 episodes, 1955)
• Climax! (3 episodes, 1954-1955)
• Letter to Loretta (1 episode, 1955)
• Ford Star Jubilee (1 episode, 1956)
• Robert Montgomery Presents (1 episode, 1956)
• Playhouse 90 (1 episode, 1957)
• Telephone Time (1 episode, 1957)
• General Electric Theater (3 episodes, 1954-1958)
• Suspicion (1 episode, 1958)
• Colgate Theatre (1 episode, 1958)
• Frontier Justice (1 episode, 1959)
• The Bells of St. Mary's (1959)
• Zane Grey Theater (2 episodes, 1957-1960)
• The Two Mrs. Grenvilles (1987)

Self

• The Jack Benny Program (1 episode, 1951)
• The Colgate Comedy Hour (1 episode, 1955)
• General Motors 50th Anniversary Show (1957)
• The Steve Allen Show (3 episodes, 1956-1958)
• What's My Line? (2 episodes, 1956-1959)
• The American Film Institute Salute to Frank Capra (1982)

Radio

Lux Radio Theater

• Holiday (03/10/1935) opposite Eric Dressler
• The Barker (07/20/1936) opposite Walter Huston
• The Awful Truth (10/15/1936,^[6] 09/11/1939) opposite Cary Grant
• The Gilded Lily (01/11/1937) opposite Fred MacMurray
• Hands Across the Table (05/03/37 1937) opposite Joel McCrea
• Alice Adams (01/03/1938) opposite Fred MacMurray
• It Happened One Night (03/20/1939) opposite Clark Gable
• The Ex-Mrs. Bradford (06/19/1939) opposite William Powell
• Midnight (05/20/1940) opposite Don Ameche
• His Girl Friday (09/30/1940) opposite Fred MacMurray
• The Shop Around the Corner (06/23/1941) opposite Don Ameche
• Skylark (02/02/1942) opposite Ray Milland
• Once Upon a Honeymoon (04/12/1943) opposite Brian Aherne
• So Proudly We Hail! (11/01/1943) opposite Veronica Lake
• Magnificent Obsession (11/13/1944) opposite Don Ameche
• Practically Yours (08/27/1945) opposite Ray Milland
• Tomorrow is Forever (05/06/1946) opposite Van Heflin
• Without Reservations (08/26/1946) opposite Robert Cummings
• The Egg and I (05/05/1947) opposite Fred MacMurray
• Family Honeymoon (04/04/1949, 04/23/1951) opposite Fred MacMurray
• Thunder on the Hill (11/09/1953) opposite Barbara Rush
• The Corn Is Green (05/17/1954) opposite Cameron Mitchell

NBC radio show

• The Old Gold Comedy Theatre: The Palm Beach Story (10/29/1944)^[7] opposite Robert Young and Natalie Schafer
• Bob Hope Show: Guest Star Claudette Colbert (04/01/1952)^[8]

Theater

Broadway

• The Wild Westcotts (Dec 24, 1923 - Jan 1924)
• A Kiss in a Taxi (Aug 25, 1925 - Oct 1925)
• The Ghost Train (Aug 25, 1926 - Oct 1926)
• The Pearl of Great Price (Nov 1, 1926 - Nov 1926)
• The Barker (Jan 18, 1927 - Jul 1927)
• The Mulberry Bush (Oct 26, 1927 - Nov 1927)
• La Gringa (Feb 1, 1928 - Feb 1928)
• Within the Law (Mar 5, 1928 - Mar 1928)
• Fast Life (Sep 26, 1928 - Oct 1928)
• Tin Pan Alley (Nov 1, 1928 - Dec 1928)
• Dynamo (Feb 11, 1929 - Mar 1929)
• See Naples and Die (Sep 24, 1929 - Nov 1929)
• Janus (1956 during the spring and summer^[3] - Jun 30, 1956)
• The Marriage-Go-Round (Oct 29, 1958 - Feb 13, 1960)
• Julia, Jake and Uncle Joe (Jan 28, 1961)
• The Irregular Verb to Love (Sep 17, 1963 - Dec 28, 1963)
• The Kingfisher (Dec 6, 1978 - May 13, 1979)
• A Talent for Murder (Oct 1, 1981 - Dec 6, 1981)
• Aren't We All? (Apr 29, 1985 - Jul 21, 1985)

Other stage

• Island Fling (1951) opposite Noel Coward in Westport, Connecticut
• Diplomatic Relations (1965) opposite Brian Aherne in Miami, Florida
• A Community of Two (1974) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Aren't We All? (1984), opposite Rex Harrison, Haymarket Theatre, London

Audio cassette

• Gift from the Sea (1986)^[9]

Notes

1. ^ Classic Film Guide
2. ^ Bradley, Edwin M. The First Hollywood Musicals. Jefferson, NC, and London. McFarland Press, 1996.
3. ^ ^{a b} "Claudette Colbert - Pure Panache - Biography". http://www.meredy.com/claudettecolbert/bio.htm. Retrieved 2007-11-25. 
4. ^ "Claudette Colbert Biography (1903-1996) - Lenin Imports". http://www.leninimports.com/claudette_colbert.html. Retrieved 2007-11-25. 
5. ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044544/fullcredits#directors
6. ^ "Radio Shows - The Ultimate Cary Grant Pages". http://www.carygrantradio.com/. Retrieved 2007-11-25. 
7. ^ "Premier Collections: The Old Gold Comedy Theatre, Volume 1". http://www.radioarchives.org/sets/PC25.htm. Retrieved 2007-11-25. 
8. ^ "Downloadable Online Audio Books available at Audible.com". http://www.audible.com/adbl/entry/offers/productPromo2.jsp?BV_UseBVCookie=Yes&productID=RT_RADI_000400. Retrieved 2007-11-25. 
9. ^ "Amazon.com: Gift from the Sea: 50th Anniversary Edition". http://www.amazon.com/Gift-Sea-Anne-Morrow-Lindbergh/dp/0394556747. Retrieved 2007-11-25.