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Nickname:	Lily Claudette Chauchoin /
Known for:	It Happened One Night, Since You Went Away, Imitation of Life
Birth name:	Lily Claudette Chauchoin
Birthday:	13 September 1903, Paris, France
Height:	5' 4½" (1.64 m)
Available Photos	48
Wallpapers	4

The vast majority of movie shots taken of Claudette Colbert were of her left profile. She considered her left side to be her best and only rarely allowed full face or right profile shots; an injury to her nose had created a bump on the right. Once an entire set had to be rebuilt so she wouldn't have to show her right side; thus dubbing her "the dark side of the moon". Measurements: 32 1/2B-25-34 (according to her costumer) (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine) Biography in: "Who's Who in Comedy" by Ronald L. Smith. Pg. 111-112. New York: Facts on File, 1992. ISBN 0816023387 Was nominated for Broadway's 1959 Tony Award as Best Actress (Dramatic) for "The Marriage-Go-Round." Biography in: "American National Biography". Supplement 1, pp. 115-117. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. Was named #12 Actress on The American Film Institute's 50 Greatest Screen Legends Urged good friend Charles Boyer to learn English, in order to further his American movie career. She was so convinced that she would lose the Oscar competition in 1935 to write-in nominee Bette Davis, that she decided not to attend the awards ceremony. When she, contrary to her belief, won that year for her performance in It Happened One Night she was summoned from a train station to pick up her Oscar.

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