List of the best Claudette Colbert movies: It Happened One Night(1934), So Proudly We Hail(1943), Imitation of Life(1934), The Palm Beach Story(1942), Since You Went Away(1944), Bluebeard's Eighth Wife(1938), Remember the Day(1941), Drums Along the Mohawk(1939), Tovarich(1937), Arise, My Love(1940), The Gilded Lily(1935), Thunder on the Hill(1951) ... ...
8.1/10
Romance
USA
1934
105 Minutes
Claudette Colbert Clark Gable Walter Connolly Roscoe Karns Alan Hale Ward Bond
heiress reporter father husband salesman boss charming amusing playful madcap hotel bus highway countryside vehicle road love triangle road trip class distinctions prejudice
A renegade reporter and a crazy young heiress meet on a bus heading for New York, and end up stuck with each other when the bus leaves them behind at one of the stops.
7.5/10
War
USA
1943
126 Minutes
Lt. Janet "Davy" Davidson
Claudette Colbert Paulette Goddard Veronica Lake George Reeves Barbara Britton Walter Abel Sonny Tufts Mary Servoss Ted Hecht John Litel Mary Treen
nurse lieutenant soldier priest patriotic engaging tense rousing spirited hospital tunnel philippines bataan war medicine female bonding world war ii sacrifice escape rescue
A group of nurses returning from the war in the Phillippines recall their experiences in combat and in love.
7.5/10
Drama
USA
1934
106 Minutes
Beatrice "Bea" Pullman
Claudette Colbert Warren William Louise Beavers Rochelle Hudson Ned Sparks Alan Hale Henry Armetta Wyndham Standing
widow daughter housekeeper friend emotional touching atlantic city, n.j. family friendship abandonment race relations business mother/daughter relationship growing up transformation 1930s
A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter; the two women start a successful business, but face familial, identity, and racial issues along the way.
7.5/10
Comedy
USA
1942
90 Minutes
Geraldine "Gerry" Jeffers
Claudette Colbert Joel McCrea Rudy Vallee Mary Astor Sig Arno Robert Warwick Arthur Stuart Hull Torben Meyer Jimmy Conlin Victor Potel William Demarest
husband wife architect millionaire sister amusing madcap lighthearted palm beach, fla. yacht new york city train mansion deception romance love triangle wealth marriage love pursuit
An inventor needs cash to develop his big idea, so his adoring wife decides to raise it by divorcing him and marrying a millionaire.
7.5/10
Drama
USA
1944
172 Minutes
Mrs. Anne Hilton
Claudette Colbert Jennifer Jones Joseph Cotten Monty Woolley Shirley Temple Lionel Barrymore Robert Walker Hattie McDaniel
housewife daughter young woman lodger soldier maid melodramatic heartwarming house small town united states war loss young love home front love growing up sacrifice 1940s
With her husband away to fight in World War II, a housewife struggles to care for their two daughters - and a pair of lodgers who have moved in - alone.
7.3/10
Comedy
USA
1938
85 Minutes
Nicole de Loiselle
Claudette Colbert Gary Cooper Edward Everett Horton David Niven Elizabeth Patterson Herman Bing Warren Hymer
millionaire young woman father marquis best friend husband charming lighthearted french riviera hotel shop family home marriage wealth divorce love transformation 1930s
After learning her multi-millionaire fiancé has already been married seven times, the daughter of a penniless marquis decides to tame him.
7.2/10
Romance
USA
1941
85 Minutes
Nora Trinell
schoolteacher wife husband presidential candidate student melodramatic heartwarming moving indiana small town school banquet hall washington, d.c. teaching scandal world war i loss politics marriage sacrifice
Elderly schoolteacher Nora Trinell, waiting to meet presidential nominee Dewey Roberts, recalls him as her student back in 1916 and his relation to Dan Hopkins, the man she married and lost.
7.1/10
Drama, History
USA
1939
103 Minutes
Claudette Colbert Henry Fonda John Carradine Edna May Oliver Eddie Collins Dorris Bowdon Jessie Ralph Arthur Shields Robert Lowery Roger Imhof Francis Ford
husband wife widow native american tory patriotic thrilling albany, n.y. farm fort dayton mohawk valley frontier life colonialism revolutionary war love daunting task quest rivalry sacrifice 1770s
Newlyweds Gil and Lana Martin try to establish a farm in the Mohawk Valley but are menaced by Indians and Tories as the Revolutionary War begins.
7.0/10
Romance
USA
1937
98 Minutes
Grand Duchess Tatiana Petrovna Romanov
Claudette Colbert Charles Boyer Basil Rathbone Anita Louise Melville Cooper Isabel Jeans Maurice Murphy Morris Carnovsky Gregory Gaye Montagu Love Renie Riano
duchess prince banker wife daughter government official charming hilarious paris household assumed identity russian revolution domestic work aristocracy money exile sacrifice discovery transformation 1930s
After the Russian revolution, a married Russian couple of nobility must take up jobs in Paris in order to survive.
6.8/10
Romance
USA
1940
110 Minutes
Augusta Nash
Claudette Colbert Ray Milland Dennis O'Keefe Walter Abel Dick Purcell George Zucco Frank Puglia Esther Dale Paul Leyssac Ann Codee Stanley Logan
pilot journalist editor priest love interest lighthearted witty patriotic spain paris europe ocean liner prisoners of war journalism love world war ii career escape transformation 1930s
A dashing pilot and a vivacious reporter have romantic and dramatic adventures in Europe as World War II begins.
6.7/10
Romance
USA
1935
80 Minutes
Marilyn David
Claudette Colbert Fred MacMurray Ray Milland C. Aubrey Smith Eddie Craven Donald Meek
secretary reporter aristocrat duke fiancée cheeky moving spirited new york city park bench pier stage london class conflict publicity friendship reputation duplicity love triangle
A stenographer becomes a famed entertainer, courted by an English nobleman and an informal American reporter.
6.7/10
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1951
84 Minutes
Sister Mary Bonaventure
Claudette Colbert Ann Blyth Robert Douglas Anne Crawford Philip Friend Gladys Cooper Michael Pate John Abbott Connie Gilchrist Gavin Muir Phyllis Stanley
Convicted murderess Valerie Carns (Ann Blyth) is being transported to Norwich to be executed when a flood strands her and her guards at a convent hospital. Nurse Sister Mary (Claudette ... See full summary »
6.6/10
Comedy
USA
1935
85 Minutes
Julia Scott
Claudette Colbert Melvyn Douglas Michael Bartlett Raymond Walburn Jean Dixon Katharine Alexander Edith Fellows Clara Kimball Young Grace Hayle Charles Arnt
secretary boss friend daughter sister playboy frenetic hilarious playful new york city office household pennsylvania department store work vs. family ambition romance working woman family dysfunction rivalry
An efficient secretary at a department store marries her boss, but discovers that taking care of him at home is a lot different to taking care of him at work.
6.6/10
Comedy
USA
1945
90 Minutes
Mary Price
Claudette Colbert Don Ameche Richard Foran
husband wife friend reporter boss lighthearted crafty new york city small town marriage deception friendship honeymoon adventure revenge 1940s
A newspaper correspondent who has convinced his publisher he is married implores his friend's wife to pose as his bride.
6.6/10
Drama
USA
1935
84 Minutes
doctor partner psychiatrist patient sister wife tense dark uneasy asylum office hospital room household staircase mental illness psychiatry accident misogyny murder nervous breakdown
The work of a progressive female psychiatrist and her colleague at a mental hospital is threatened by the arrival of a conservative new supervisor, who disapproves of both her methods and the fact that she is a woman in a "man's field."
6.5/10
Romance
USA
1946
107 Minutes
Kit
Claudette Colbert John Wayne Don DeFore Anne Triola Frank Puglia Phil Brown Thurston Hall Louella Parsons Dona Drake
author captain lieutenant producer passenger charming madcap witty cheery train chicago ranch unlikely romance movies military service writers road trip pursuit love 1940s
En route to Hollywood, an author becomes smitten with a marine, though he is unaware of her celebrity status and is critical of her best-selling novel.
6.5/10
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1937
86 Minutes
Barbara Clarke
Claudette Colbert Fred MacMurray Harvey Stephens Gale Sondergaard Louise Dresser Bennie Bartlett Edward Ellis Beulah Bondi Bonita Granville Virginia Weidler Donald Meek
lover adventurer young woman judge townsperson passionate thrilling emotional salem, mass. courtroom town hall town square puritanism affair repression wrongfully accused witch trials witchcraft love wretched excess
Young lovers fall afoul of repressive society as Salem elders get caught up in the witch hunts and trials of 17th century Massachusetts. One family in particular uses the hysteria to its ... See full summary »
6.4/10
Comedy
USA
1948
90 Minutes
Katie Armstrong Jordan
Claudette Colbert Fred MacMurray Rita Johnson Gigi Perreau Jimmy Hunt Peter Miles Lillian Bronson Hattie McDaniel Chill Wills Catherine Doucet Paul Harvey
A bachelor marries a widow and her three kids join the honeymoon.
6.3/10
Drama
USA
1933
70 Minutes
Julie Kirk
Claudette Colbert Ben Lyon Ernest Torrence Hobart Cavanaugh Maurice Black Purnell Pratt Wilfred Lucas Harry Beresford
reporter smuggler daughter illegal immigrant police officer editor gritty melodramatic waterfront san diego ship apartment hideout news investigation deception smuggling illegal immigration pursuit mystery
An investigative reporter romances a suspected smuggler's daughter.
6.3/10
Comedy
USA
1935
83 Minutes
Jeannette Desmereau
A penniless socialite is hired by two young men as a front in their plan to start a magazine. Soon, however, they find themselves more interested in her than in their publishing venture.
6.2/10
Adventure
USA
1934
78 Minutes
Judy Jones
Four passengers escape their bubonic plague-infested ship and land on the coast of a wild jungle. In order to reach safety they have to trek through the jungle, facing wild animals and attacks by primitive tribesmen.
6.1/10
Romance
USA
1937
86 Minutes
Kay Denham
Kay Denham, romanced in Paris by friends Gene and George, can't figure out why George disapproves of Gene.
6.1/10
Romance
USA
1941
94 Minutes
Lydia Kenyon
Claudette Colbert Ray Milland Brian Aherne Binnie Barnes Walter Abel Grant Mitchell Mona Barrie Ernest Cossart James Rennie
As her fifth wedding anniversary approaches, a woman realizes that she is fed up with always coming in second to her husband's advertising business. Just at the moment when she is trying to... See full summary »
5.9/10
Drama
UK
1952
88 Minutes
Claudette Colbert Jack Hawkins Anthony Steel Ram Gopal Jeremy Spenser Tom Macauley Helen Goss Sonja Hana Andy Ho Peter Asher Shaym Bahadur
plantation owner wife terrorist neighbor son suspenseful thrilling gory intense profound rubber plantation british malaya danger extortion murder rubber business adventure rivalry pursuit escape
During the 1950s, in British-controlled Malaya, rubber-tree planters face many difficulties and dangers, including bandit attacks and nationalist guerrilla ambushes.
5.5/10
Western
USA
1956
86 Minutes
Prudence Webb
Claudette Colbert Barry Sullivan Ray Collins James Bell Horace MacMahon Gregory Walcott John Litel Douglas Fowley Don Haggerty Walter Sande Alexander Campbell
publisher gambler deputy judge rancher beautiful woman melodramatic suspenseful moving texas small town newsroom ranch sheriff's office riverboat journalism corruption grief inheritance unlikely allies
A strong-headed woman from the East inherits a newspaper in a small Texas town where the local cattle barons, who control the region, want her out of their hair.
Comedy
1951
77 Minutes
Miriam Halsworth
Claudette Colbert Macdonald Carey Zachary Scott Barbara Bates Robert Wagner Marilyn Monroe Frank Cady Jim Hayward Carol Savage Paul Gerrits
A woman (Claudette Colbert) divorces her husband (Macdonald Carey) of 20 years because he gambles too much.
Romance
1943
83 Minutes
Katherine Grant
Claudette Colbert Fred MacMurray Ilka Chase Richard Haydn Paul McGrath June Havoc Marjorie Gateson Bill Goodwin Rhys Williams Murray Alper Grant Withers
photographer worker friend fiancé publisher witty lighthearted new york city tunnel unlikely romance love triangle journalism employment construction reconciliation love rivalry 1940s
A magazine photographer (Claudette Colbert) makes a he-man tunnel digger (Fred MacMurray) her assistant.
Comedy
1947
108 Minutes
Betty MacDonald
Claudette Colbert Fred MacMurray Marjorie Main Louise Allbritton Percy Kilbride Richard Long Donald MacBride Samuel S. Hinds
man wife neighbor pig divorcée friend madcap outlandish cheery countryside farm barn city farming rural life dance jealousy fire mother/daughter relationship adventure
A broker (Fred MacMurray) and his bride (Claudette Colbert) leave the city to fix up a chicken farm next door to Ma (Marjorie Main) and Pa Kettle.
Romance
1939
83 Minutes
Zaza
Claudette Colbert Herbert Marshall Bert Lahr Helen Westley Constance Collier Genevieve Tobin Walter Catlett Ann E. Todd Rex O'Malley Ernest Cossart Rex Evans
A cabaret performer (Claudette Colbert) has an affair with a married man (Herbert Marshall) in France.
Drama
1946
97 Minutes
Lee Addams
Claudette Colbert Walter Pidgeon June Allyson Robert Sterling Marshall Thompson Elizabeth Patterson Richard Derr Patricia Medina Eily Malyon Nicholas Joy Anna Q. Nilsson
pianist doctor father daughter mother eerie emotional suspenseful melodramatic united states family home ocean liner love marriage jealousy mental illness affair discovery forbidden love mystery
A teenager's (June Allyson) despondency over her father's suicide causes concern for her brother and stepmother (Claudette Colbert). Narrated by Hume Cronyn.
Drama
1946
105 Minutes
Claudette Colbert Orson Welles George Brent Lucile Watson Richard Long Natalie Wood
secretary husband boss son aunt ward emotional engaging patriotic tense baltimore hospital office house cottage train station horrors of war family impersonation war injury
A woman's (Claudette Colbert) husband (Orson Welles), listed dead in World War I, goes to work for her second husband (George Brent) during World War II.
Comedy
1939
94 Minutes
Eve Peabody aka Baroness Czerny
Claudette Colbert Don Ameche John Barrymore Francis Lederer Mary Astor Elaine Barrie Hedda Hopper Rex O'Malley Monty Woolley Armand Kaliz Lionel Pape
showgirl taxi driver wealthy man socialite baroness playful crafty paris party disguise high society cheating schemes courtship love pursuit 1930s
A Paris cabby (Don Ameche) chases a chorus girl (Claudette Colbert) hired by a rich man (John Barrymore) to pose as a baroness.
Drama, History
1934
101 Minutes
Cleopatra
Claudette Colbert Warren William Henry Wilcoxon Gertrude Michael Joseph Schildkraut C. Aubrey Smith Claudia Dell Robert Warwick
cleopatra julius caesar mark antony king herod slave soldier melodramatic spectacular alexandria, egypt royal palace barge love political intrigue wretched excess fall 1st century b.c.
The queen of Egypt (Claudette Colbert) barges the Nile and flirts with Mark Antony (Henry Wilcoxon) and Julius Caesar (Warren William).
7.2/10
Musical, Comedy
USA
1931
88 Minutes
Franzi
Maurice Chevalier Claudette Colbert Miriam Hopkins Charles Ruggles George Barbier Hugh O'Connell Robert Strange Lon MacSunday Janet Reade Elizabeth Patterson Harry C. Bradley
soldier princess peasant king girlfriend playful amusing cheeky lighthearted flausenthurm palace europe royalty forced marriage adultery love triangle love 19th century
An amorous lieutenant is forced to marry a socially awkward princess, though he tries to keep his violin-playing girlfriend on the side.
6.5/10
Adventure
USA
1936
105 Minutes
sergeant major love interest lounge singer valet engaging melodramatic algeria desert love triangle heroism jealousy military deception love rivalry sacrifice adventure 1860s
Sergeant Victor comes to the French Foreign Legion after taking the blame for his brother's crime. Cigarette falls in love with him though Major Doyle is in love with her. Doyle sends ... See full summary »
6.5/10
Romance
USA
1933
77 Minutes
Mary Boland Claudette Colbert Richard Arlen Wallace Ford Lyda Roberti Tom Brown Joan Marsh Hardie Albright William Bakewell Sam Hardy
mother doctor daughter writer brother sister witty amusing madcap brooklyn, n.y. family home financial troubles family dysfunction romance lifestyle changes love triangle work transformation love 1930s
Nellie Rimplegar has to tell her grown children that due to her bungled handling of their finances, the family has been wiped out by the Stock Market crash. Friend and family doctor, Alan ... See full summary »
6.5/10
Drama
USA
1961
140 Minutes
Ellen McLean
Troy Donahue Claudette Colbert Karl Malden Dean Jagger Diane McBain Connie Stevens Sharon Hugueny Dub Taylor Hampton Fancher Dave Knapp Saundra Edwards
In the Connecticut River Valley, Parrish McLean and his mother are newly employed by the Sala Post tobacco farm that is engaged in a competition war with the neighboring Judd Raike tobacco corporation.
5.9/10
Musical, Comedy
USA
1932
80 Minutes
Felicia Hammond
George M. Cohan Claudette Colbert Jimmy Durante
A presidential candidate is deemed to have a dull personality, thus a charismatic look-alike is hired as a front.
5.8/10
Musical, Romance
USA
1930
75 Minutes
A tour guide in Venice romances a visiting American tourist whose father owns a chewing-gum factory back in the U.S. She sets out to convince her skeptical father to bring the tour guide to America and give him a job in the plant.
Drama, History
1932
118 Minutes
Poppea
Fredric March Claudette Colbert Charles Laughton Elissa Landi Ian Keith Vivian Tobin Harry Beresford Ferdinand Gottschalk Arthur Hohl Tommy Conlon Nat Pendleton
emperor nero empress christian military officer stepfather young woman hedonistic brutal tense rome colosseum burning of rome persecution unrequited love royalty jealousy lions rescue wretched excess underdog
A Roman official (Fredric March) tries to save Christians from the lions and the madness of Emperor Nero (Charles Laughton).
7.1/10
Adventure
USA
1940
119 Minutes
Betsy Bartlett
Clark Gable Spencer Tracy Claudette Colbert Hedy Lamarr Frank Morgan Lionel Atwill Chill Wills Marion Martin Minna Gombell Joe Yule Horace Murphy
partner sheriff oil baron love interest engaging emotional texas south america revolution oil business law romance wealth rivalry rise transformation love 1930s
Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a twenty year period both love the same woman.
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