Well, two hundred cops on motorcycles ain’t exactly my idea of beauty. 

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250 Favorite Classic Films in no particular order
⇨ Marie Antoinette (1938)
Perhaps the great loves come with tears.

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When Claudette was offered the role in Three Came Home, she signed on , even though she knew it would be a grueling shoot and that she would be the object of violence, which, to be effective, had to be done realistically. However, she did not  think she would end up with a broken back.

Agnes is trying to take her clothes off the line during a rainstorm when a guard attacks her. Rather than portray it as the rape it was, Johnson made it clear that it was an abortive rape, and director Jean Negulesco shot the scene accordingly. Agnes, who earlier had to crawl under the barbed wire to enjoy a few fleeting moments with her husband, is now subjected to more roughhouse than she had ever experienced before, including being thrown on the ground and then against the steps of the women’s quarters. 

When Agnes makes the mistake of lodging a complaint, she is expected to sign a confession stating, in effect, that she fabricated the charge (which could mean death). When she refuses, one of the soldiers turns his back and looks out the window, as if he does not want to see what will happen. As Agnes is seated on a chair, another guard comes behind her and twists her arm behind her back. When she still refuses, she is thrown on the floor, on her back, and kicked in the ribs. At the time, Claudette did not know that she had broken her back, although anyone looking closely at the sequence would not have been surprised. 

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If all the films that Claudette made in which she dealt with children - bathing them, tucking them into bed, reading to them, consoling them - were arranged in order of age, from infants to toddlers, pre-adolescents, teenagers, and adults, the image of a perfect mother would emerge. Perhaps Claudette was just a screen mother, but one would like to think that her films revealed the kind of mother Claudette might have been if she had children of her own. Even when she bathed her young son in Family Honeymoon, she did it with such naturalness that it seemed not only unrehearsed but also unfeigned. It was the same in The Egg and I, when she cupped the chicks in her hands as tenderly as she would hold an infant in her arms. Somehow one feels that changing diapers would have come as easily to Claudette as breezing down a staircase in a Travis Banton gown. 
- Claudette Colbert: She Walked in Beauty 

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You’ve changed all right! You’re selfish, hard.

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250 Favorite Classic Films in no particular order
⇨ Now, Voyager (1942)
Oh Jerry, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We have the stars.

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There is one scene in Remember the Day that does not so much advance the plot as attest to Claudette’s artistic ability. Nora has developed a close rapport with the student who will grow up to run for president. Since the boy is obsessed with sailing, Nora demonstrates her knowledge of ships by illustrating on a chalkboard the difference between a barque and a brig. With another actress, King might have to cut from Nora at the chalkboard to a shot of a hand - sketching the ships with a piece of chalk - that would be added in post production. With Claudette, King did not have to cut. The camera stayed on Claudette, who handles the chalk as if she were a trained artist (which she was), sketching the ships as she describes its features, timing her comparison so that it ends with the last stroke of the chalk.
- Claudette Colbert: She Walked in Beauty  

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Don’t ever let any man make a sucker out of you. Make him know what you’re worth. 

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250 Favorite Classic Films in no particular order
⇨ Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
Look I probably should have told you this before but you see… well… insanity runs in my family… It practically gallops.

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We won’t be away from each other, darling. I will be with you every minute.

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250 Favorite Classic Films in no particular order
⇨ Mary Poppins (1964)
First of all, I would like to make one thing quite clear. I never explain anything.

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