Directed by Wesley Ruggles • 1935 • United States
Starring Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, Ray Milland
Claudette Colbert is at her effortlessly charming best in this oft-overlooked, Depression-era romantic-comedy gem. She stars as Marilyn David, a New York City stenographer whose close friend, cynical reporter Peter Dawes (Fred MacMurray, in the first of seven pairings with Colbert), is heartbroken when she informs him that she has fallen in love with visiting Englishman Charles Gray (Ray Milland). Unbeknownst to Marilyn, Gray is actually a wealthy, already-engaged nobleman—propelling all three into the center of a tabloid scandal that makes the now-notorious Marilyn the toast of the town.
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I Met Him in Paris
Directed by Wesley Ruggles • 1937 • United States
Starring Claudette Colbert, Lee Bowman, Melvyn DouglasIt’s comic romance amid the snowy Alps when successful American fashion designer Kay Denham (Claudette Colbert) jets off from Paris to a Swiss vacation resort where she finds herself juggling...
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Maid of Salem
Directed by Frank Lloyd • 1937 • United States
Starring Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, Harvey StephensOne of seven films frequent costars Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray made together, this proto-“Crucible” examination of small-town suspicion and paranoia unfolds in seventeenth-century...
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Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife
Directed by Ernst Lubitsch • 1938 • United States
Starring Claudette Colbert, Gary Cooper, Edward Everett HortonThe great Ernst Lubitsch lends his famously sophisticated touch to this whimsical farce about a spoiled American millionaire who uses his wealth to lure an attractive French aristocra...
