Programmed February 2025

Starring Claudette Colbert

With her heart-shaped face, casual elegance, and natural charm, Claudette Colbert was one of the most effortlessly sophisticated, easy-to-love stars of Hollywood’s golden age. While her deep saucer eyes could generate real pathos in tear-jerking melodramas like Torch Singer and Imitation of Life , she proved particularly adept at screwball comedy, delivering the genre’s delicious dialogue with impeccable poise in classics like It Happened One Night , Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife , and The Palm Beach Story . The shrewdly independent, self-assured women Colbert specialized in portraying mirrored her own trajectory as one of the few major stars of the era to work successfully as a freelancer, breaking free from the studio system and taking full control of her own career and image.