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class="ContentHearDek-bIqFFZ fYeNbg">Wh her impecble makp, tramark bangs, and stunng legs, Cltte Colbert beme Ameri’s hight-paid movie star 1938 by sheer force of will. At Bellerive, the 18th-century plantatn hoe on Barbados where Colbert entertaed Satra, the Harrimans, the Paleys, and the Reagans, the thor rells a woman who played by her own perfectnist l, om the timg wh which she left the screen to the secret liaison wh Clark Gable, her -star <em>It Happened One Night</em>.</div><div class="ContentHearByle-kmPyCa emiglw"><div class="ContentHearByleContent-dpPmNn DRFq"><div data-ttid="BylWrapper" class="BylWrapper-KIudk irTIfE byl ContentHearByl-cZqgyJ bHLeKI"><p class="ByleWrapper-jWHrLH jqYyWD byle byl__byle" data-ttid="ByleWrapper" emProp="thor" emType="><span emProp="name" class="ByleNamWrapper-jbHncj fuDQVo"><span data-ttid="ByleName" class="ByleName-kwmrLn cYaBaU byle__name"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BylePreamble-iJolpQ iUEiRd bIbWCO gnILss byle__preamble">By </span><a class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BaseLk-eNWuiM ByleLk-gEnFiw iUEiRd kIEUAJ lddgzd eErqIx byle__name-lk button" href="/ntributor/amy-fe-lls">Amy Fe Colls</a></span></span></p></div><time data-ttid="ContentHearPublishDate" dateTime="2010-04-23T00:00:00-04:00" class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ ContentHearPublishDate-eIBicG iUEiRd bSlZUC cmPkTr">April 23, 2010</time></div></div></div></div><div class="ContentHearLeadAsset-hGbumP dDDxdb lead-asset ContentHearLeadAssetWrapper-hfXHEc Grck" data-ttid="ContentHearLeadAsset"><figure class="ContentHearLeadAssetContent-kOfYSG dRGWbI"><div class="ContentHearLeadAssetContentMedia-bLEIpi jjhWdS lead-asset__ntent__photo"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW jvZaPI rponsive-asset ContentHearRponsiveAsset-bREgIb hONbnm"><div data-tt="aspect-rat-ntaer" class="AspectRatContaer-bJHpJz eYuCmI"><div class="aspect-rat--overlay-ntaer"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa ContentHearRponsiveAsset-bREgIb hONbnm rponsive-image"><source media="(max-width: 767px)" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w" siz="100vw"/><source media="(m-width: 768px)" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w, 1920w, 2240w" siz="100vw"/><img alt="Image may nta Tie Accsori Accsory Human Person Advertisement Poster Flyer Brochure and Paper" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src="></picture></div></div></span></div></figure></div></div></hear></div><div data-attribute-verso-pattern="article-body" class="ArticlePageContentBackGround-cNiFNN diFyUH article-body__ntent"><div class="ActnBarWrapperContent-lasBkU cAHp"><div class="ActnBarWrapperComponent-cjwxLS bEeSLb"><div data-attr-viewport-monor="" class="ActnBarWrapper-dhxmQh izlawS viewport-monor-anchor"><button id="bookmark" aria-label="Save" class="ActnBarButton-dyFOZU foKBbl bookmark large-screen"><span class="ActnBarSendaryButtonPrimaryIn-isbvyN cAwccV bookmark-button-in"><svg class="in in-bookmark" width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" xmlns="><tle>Save this story</tle><path class="in-bookmark-stroke" d="M11.7661 16.3228L4.5 20.1695V3.5H19.5V20.1695L12.2339 16.3228L12 16.199L11.7661 16.3228Z" stroke-lep="square"/></svg></span><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ ActnBarButtonText-bYXYuh iUEiRd kdAzed gkccfO">Save</span></button></div><div data-attr-viewport-monor="" class="ActnBarWrapper-dhxmQh ledqMp viewport-monor-anchor"><button id="bookmark" aria-label="Save" class="ActnBarButton-dyFOZU ePWKOF bookmark mobile"><span class="ActnBarSendaryButtonPrimaryIn-isbvyN cAwccV bookmark-button-in"><svg class="in in-bookmark" width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" xmlns="><tle>Save this story</tle><path class="in-bookmark-stroke" d="M11.7661 16.3228L4.5 20.1695V3.5H19.5V20.1695L12.2339 16.3228L12 16.199L11.7661 16.3228Z" stroke-lep="square"/></svg></span><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ ActnBarButtonText-bYXYuh iUEiRd kdAzed gkccfO">Save</span></button></div></div></div><div class="ArticlePageChunksContent-etcMtP bwyLBj"><div data-ttid="ArticlePageChunks" class="ArticlePageChunks-fLyCVG eOdfIs"><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK kHBDeH grid grid-margs grid-ems-2 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bjczjj grid-layout--adrail narrow wi-adrail"><div class="GridItem-buujkM stRKV grid--em grid-layout__ntent"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa dEQjuV body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p class="has-dropp">Durg the Amy Awards broadst last sprg, the televisn the Barbados livg room of the late Cltte Colbert was not tuned to the show—not even when, the urse of the ceremony’s obuary montage, her beguilg face flashed past, lghg, a clip om Cecil B. DeMille’s 1934 <em>Cleopatra.</em> The Osr that Colbert had won that same year for <em>It Happened One Night,</em> once a fixture on the bar down the hall, was not visible, eher— had already been shipped off for a Christie’s sale Los Angel. Yet everythg else at Bellerive, the 18th-century plantatn hoe to which Colbert whdrew after her Hollywood reer end 1961, had stayed virtually the same sce her ath on July 30, 1996, at 92. Her lady’s maid of 35 years, Marie Corb, was still paddg quietly whe slippers through the placid ral-stone hoe. Blah Griffh, the ok, was still njurg up Colbert’s favore dish—curried shrimp, lamb chops, apple brown Betty— the reworn kchen, and the homey meals were still beg served skillfully by crisply uniformed maids, the open-air Che paviln by day and by night the formal turquoise-walled dg room.</p><p>For a year followg Colbert’s ath, however, the proprietrs of Bellerive was Helen O’Hagan, Colbert’s clost pann and nfidante of 20 years. The former vice print of public relatns for Saks Fifth Avenue, O’Hagan beme wh the actrs’s passg the sole executor and major beneficiary of the Colbert tate. Heaped on the blue-and-whe floral-prt sofas and the suave 30s Luce tabl were, on this particular night, fan letters, movie stills, and scrapbooks documentg the life of the celluloid godss Hedda Hopper once lled “the smartt, nnit, smootht 18-karat lady I’ve ever seen cross the Hollywood pike.” O’Hagan, her lap lan wh dty albums, sat remiscg about the actrs until nearly midnight, the reverential nce of her words acpanied by the rhythmic lappg of the surf, visible om panels wdows that overlook the prettit ve on the island.</p><p class="paywall"><a href="/hollywood/classic/x">[#image: /photos/54cbf4865e7a91c52822a734]</a></p><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad---ntent"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot---ntent" data-no-id="8kc0zq"></div></div><p class="paywall">“Cltte was really a Renaissance woman—a morn woman ahead of her tim,” O’Hagan relled. Marie terjected her ty doll-voice, “I loved my ar ltle Madame more than the earth.”</p><p class="has-dropp paywall">In the twilight of her movie reer the actrs utned an terviewer, “How uld we talk about Cltte Colbert? There is an old French proverb: ‘Happy untri and hont women have no stori to tell about themselv.’” Perhaps she might have had some tal to tell if she had spoken stead of Lily Eie Chcho, the name given to her at birth. The send child of a pastry-shop owner, Ge Cl Chcho, and Jeanne Loew, Lily was born the Paris suburb of St.-Mandé on September 13, 1903. After M. Chcho suffered bs revers, the fay moved to New York when Lily was three and her brother, Charl, eight.</p><div class="Contaer-bkChBi byNLHx"></div><p class="paywall">The Chchos settled to a fifth-floor walk-up at 226 East 53rd Street. “Cltte said that climbg those stairs every day until the age of 18 is what ma her legs so betiful,” says a iend. M. Chcho found a job as a mor official at First Natnal Cy Bank (Cibank’s precursor), and the children attend grammar school at P.S. 59 on 57th Street. From the earlit age, Mme. Chcho told her dghter that <em>she</em> was the bety the fay, and that ltle Lily was an ugly ducklg. “She gave Cltte a terrific plex,” says Leonora Hornblow, widow of the producer Arthur Hornblow Jr. and a iend of Colbert’s sce 1942. Co Lewis, the dghter of Colbert’s brother, says that Mme. Chcho “clearly favored my father. She thought he uld do no wrong. Aunt Cltte spent her life searchg for her approval.”</p><p class="paywall">Colbert, who had wanted to be a pater ever sce she uld hold a pencil, enrolled Washgton Irvg High School bee of s strong art program. But December 1918, when she was 15, Colbert was unexpectedly thst onto the stage by the school’s elocutn partment. “A girl the class play beme ill,” she told film cric Rex Reed the urse of an unpublished terview late her life. “I was dragged to the productn at the 11th hour bee I was the only one the school who really spoke fluent French.” The play was lled <em>Grammar,</em> and the part was that of “Blanche, Caboset’s dghter.”</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-1 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p class="paywall">Colbert said that as a nsequence “the actg bug took a slice out of me,” and around 1919, when she learned that the Provcetown Playhoe Greenwich Village was payg $75 a week to actrs, she went down wh a iend and land a role a productn lled <em>The Widow’s Veil.</em> In the meantime, she was also earng around $35 a week givg French lsons. Throughout her life, Colbert ntued to thk, dream, and pray French, and spoke only her native tongue wh her mother.</p><p class="paywall">One of Colbert’s stunts seems to have arranged for her to meet the wrer Anne Morrison 1923, durg stg lls for her play <em>The Wild Wttts.</em> Colbert won a ty part, and her Broadway but at the Frazee Theatre on 42ndStreet nsisted of exactly three l: “The party was so lovely. The garn is betiful. I am so hungry.” From then on, Colbert stated, “I never wanted to do anythg else.”</p><p class="has-dropp paywall">Right om the start, the spired young actrs adopted a <em>nom théâtre,</em> selected by her mother. “Cltte”—an appellatn that the actrs erroneoly claimed had never existed until Mme. Chcho ma up—was a dimutive of her father’s middle name, and “Colbert” was plucked om a remote branch of the fay tree.</p><p class="paywall">By the end of 1925, the year of her father’s ath, Colbert had appeared about half a dozen plays, but wh her performance as a kept woman <em>A Kiss a Taxi</em> she leapt to the limelight. The play’s producer, “a shark named Al Woods,” had signed her up for a five-year ntract at $150 a week—enough money to move her fay out of the East Si walk-up to granr acmodatns at 55 Central Park Wt. “We had got to the luxury class,” Colbert said.</p><p class="paywall">Durg the same year, <em>Billboard</em> announced that Woods “has amb plans for her future,” and crics salivated over her. “In Miss Colbert’s bety there is a certa strangens,” wrote one. “Her ey are the only absolutely black ey we ever saw. She lghs all the time and is filled wh life and vivacy, and yet there is a certa mglg of virgy, an air of digny.” Likewise imprsed wh her physil assets, Walter Wchell dubbed her “Legs Colbert.”</p><p class="paywall">One reason Colbert began generatg so much heat was her performance 1927’s <em>The Barker</em> at the Biltmore Theater. She and the novice actor Norman Foster (né Hoeffer), who played her love tert, were rryg on a real-life, torrid, and clanste affair. “Norman was a charmg man—a wholome Amerin boy,” says photographer and Hollywood hosts Jean Howard. When the play traveled to London 1928, the lovers were surreptly wed. “I was so terrified of my mother’s disapproval, I kept the marriage a secret,” Colbert told Reed. She feared Mme. Chcho to such an extent that for the uple’s entire seven-year marriage Colbert ntued to live wh her mother, while Foster mataed a separate rince.</p><p class="paywall">Like many succsful stage actors of the perd, Colbert 1927 began a route of workg the theater at night and filmg durg the day at the studs then flourishg around New York. Her but movie—her only silent picture—was a slapdash unrtakg lled <em>For the Love of Mike,</em> directed by Frank Capra. Disuraged by the unspired rults, Colbert vowed never to do another film. “When I saw myself, I was appalled,” she said. “I was sure nobody would pay to look at me. Apparently I was wrong.”</p><p class="paywall">Colbert, of urse, changed her md about the medium. Around the same time she was appearg on Broadway Eugene O’Neill’s <em>Dynamo</em> (which the March 1929 <em>Vany Fair</em>promoted wh a Steichen portra of the starlet), she ma her first talkie, Paramount’s <em>The Hole the Wall,</em> wh Edward G. Robson. Time prophied that Colbert’s “screen stardom is assured,” and Paramount’s East Coast office the meantime had reward her wh a ntract. Norman Foster also signed wh Paramount, and 1930 the uple -starred <em>Young Man of Manhattan,</em> Gger Rogers’ first movie. (Ironilly, one cric wrote that Foster “did not seem to get any scery to his love scen.”)</p><p class="paywall">Gee Abbott’s <em>Manslghter</em> (1930) end her stt wh Paramount’s Astoria, Queens, stud, om which the pany whdrew 1932. “When I was still the toast of Broadway,” Colbert said, “the stock market crashed, talkg pictur were , and the night only 37 people showed up the dience of the Elmer Rice play <em>See Napl and Die</em> I knew was time to see Hollywood or die.” She and her mother board the Super Chief for California, and the Wt Coast Paramount office dispatched still photographer John Engstead, along wh one producer and a limoe, to greet her at L.A.’s Santa Fe statn. “It wasn’t one of the big-time arrivals,” Engstead noted.</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-2 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p class="paywall">Colbert languished at Paramount for a few years “fluffy, light-head rol which, I felt, did not give spe enough to her talent,” Cecil B. DeMille wrote. The director, however, sudnly rejuvenated her reer when he “stopped her one day on the Paramount lot, and whout any warng or explanatn asked her, ‘How would you like to play the wickest woman the world?’ Cltte’s betiful big ey opened wir and she said: ‘I’d love .’” The part DeMille had md was Poppaea, Emperor Nero’s lasciv wife, for his perverse historil spectacle <em>The Sign of the Cross.</em></p></div></div></div><div class="GridItem-buujkM fVLMby grid--em grid-layout__asi"><div class="StickyBoxWrapper-jfYB kNleGZ sticky-box"><div class="StickyBoxPrimary-dzWDWL cdhYoN sticky-box__primary"><div class="Contaer-bkChBi byNLHx"></div><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--rail"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--rail" data-no-id="qnme6"></div></div><div class="ConsumerMarketgUnThemedWrapper-iUTMTf jssHut nsumer-marketg-un nsumer-marketg-un--display-rail" role="prentatn" aria-hidn="te"><div class="nsumer-marketg-un__slot nsumer-marketg-un__slot--display-rail"></div><div 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ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="0fsllf"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK kHBDeH grid grid-margs grid-ems-2 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bjczjj grid-layout--adrail narrow wi-adrail"><div class="GridItem-buujkM stRKV grid--em grid-layout__ntent"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa dEQjuV body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p class="paywall">While Poppaea was tossg her chaste Christian rival to the lns, Colbert, real life, was menaced by a wolf the person of her -star Fredric March. “Freddie March was the worst womanizer I ever knew,” Colbert told Rex Reed. “His hands had 20 fgers, I swear, and they were always on my ass. I fally said, ‘If you don’t stop I’ll walk right out of the scene and tell Mr. DeMille what you’re dog.’ … So the mera rolled aga. I’m on top of the throne surround by four blacks—they lled them Nubians then, honey—and all the nuchs. The blacks and the nuchs were always shootg craps. Anyway, Mr. DeMille yelled ‘Actn,’ and all of a sudn I felt this hand right around my left cheek and I stopped and walked down to mera and mand to see Mr. DeMille!” Even when John Engstead was takg publicy shots for the movie, March uld not rist fondlg her rrière. One photo, “wh Freddie’s hand wrapped around my rear end,” Colbert said, found s way to the <em>Police Gazette.</em> “And the ptn read, ‘Even if the Mar haven’t land, Freddie March seems to have the suatn well hand.’” Afonted, she stormed to the stud boss’s office, and as a rult, Engstead said, “she was the first star at Paramount to get … approval of her photographs … and was all my flt.”</p><p class="paywall">March was not alone his lt for Colbert. “Everybody on the Paramount lot had a csh on her,” says producer A. C. Lyl, then an office boy. And once the public was treated to the tillatg sight of an unclothed Colbert olickg a bath of ass’s k, she attracted legns of new admirers. “Two men wh rdboard stirred up the k at the other end of the bathtub so would make wav,” she disclosed to Rex Reed, “and the k went below my nippl. DeMille would yell ‘Cut!’ till they got more k above the censorship level. I was sweatg like hell all that hot k!” DeMille, however, was forced to e the footage already shot when, after a dner break, everyone returned to the set to fd that the k had oled down and curdled to chee.</p><p class="has-dropp paywall">Colbert’s reer was given another need boost wh the help of Hollywood’s first power agent, Charl Feldman, who set up the al that would tapult Colbert to the loftit heights of the Hollywood empyrean. For months a script by Robert Risk lled <em>Night B</em>—the madp tale of a naway heirs who falls love wh the virile, sop-seekg journalist guardg her—had been passed around among the studs. MGM fally bought , and then trad and the servic of Clark Gable to Columbia, exchange for the e of Frank Capra for a picture that never materialized. Miriam Hopks and Constance Bent, appalled by the drab wardrobe selectns, had both turned down the movie. Dperate to start shootg, Columbia agreed to the terms—double her ual $25,000 fee and a shootg schle of no more than four weeks—mand by Colbert, who was not thrilled about ncelg a vatn wh Louis B. Mayer’s dghter Edie Goetz. Annoyed by her avarice, Capra rped that she had “a md as bright as a dollar, and a French appreciatn of s lter.” Capra and Colbert did not get along. “He was the one director she really hated,” says Colbert’s iend the wrer Leonard Gershe.</p><p class="paywall">Somehow or other, the ensemble managed to pull self together for the sake of the movie—which, of urse, was rechristened <em>It Happened One Night.</em> To everyone’s great astonishment, the stud found had churned out a smash h. The movie was nomated for five Amy Awards, and won all tegori: bt picture, bt actor, bt actrs, bt director, and bt wrg adaptatn, a feat not repeated until 1975’s <em>One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nt.</em> The 1934 Osr sweep of <em>It Happened One Night</em> was ma even more dramatic by the fact that a ntroversy broke out when neher Bette Davis’s performance <em>Of Human Bondage</em> nor Myrna Loy’s <em>The Th Man</em>had been nomated. Deferrg to protters, the amy spend normal votg pro-cr and allowed special wre- ballots. As a rult, Colbert harbored no hop of wng, and on the night of the ceremony she was tchg a tra for New York. “I was already aboard the Super Chief Los Angel,” Colbert remembered, “when three boys om Columbia htled me to a limoe and off to the old Biltmore Hotel downtown L.A. It was a very formal affair, and there I stood a brown travelg su and hat wh my fur over my arm.” Shirley Temple prented her wh the statuette, and the Super Chief was held until she returned to the statn.</p><p class="has-dropp paywall">An ocean of k has been spilt tryg to expla the endurg magic of <em>It Happened One Night</em>—still Colbert’s most famo role—much of centered, jtifiably, on the film’s pist appeal to a Deprsn dience. But Colbert nfid Leonard Gershe another reason for the spellbdg potency of the silver-screen chemistry. “I asked Cltte once, ‘Did you like Gable?’ And she gave me this funny look. ‘Darlg,’ she said. ‘I did go all the way wh him. Do that answer your qutn?’” Gershe’s story is rroborated by one other source. Barbara Satra says, “Mna Wallis, [producer]Hal Wallis’s sister, was a stg director at Warner’s, and she had all the stars go through her stg uch. When Mna told she had been wh one of Hollywood’s biggt sex symbols, we prsed for more tails. ‘Well,’ she said, holdg up her pkie, ‘he was like this.’ We were so disappoted! I repeated the story at lunch once when we were visg Barbados. After lunch Cltte grabbed me and took me behd a bh. ‘Mna is not the horse’s mouth—I am. He was not like this,’ she said, showg her ltle fger. ‘He was like <em>that!</em>’ And she spread her two hands wi apart. I gus Mna had been kiddg all along.”</p><p class="paywall">Wh <em>It Happened One Night,</em> the actrs had fally crystallized her star style, both physilly and technilly. Billy Wilr, who -wrote three of Colbert’s movi—<em>Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife</em> (1938), <em>Midnight</em> (1939), and <em>Arise, My Love</em> (1940)—says, “Cltte always knew where the joke was. She got the lghs.” Leonora Hornblow adds, “It was no accint that Cltte beme a star. She worked extremely hard at . She was not Hollywood’s greatt bety, but she had somethg more—a face that looked like no one else’s. A face that you <em>remembered</em>.”</p><p class="has-dropp paywall">Matag the Cltte Colbert look—unvaryg except historil rol—entailed an enormo amount of disciple, and more than a few power stggl. Her sistence that she be photographed only om her left si—sets had to be vised and shots tablished to mouflage a nearly visible bump on the right si of her nose—duced Mary Astor to ll Colbert’s right profile “the other si of the moon.” If anybody tried to tamper wh her immutable hairdo, makp, or hem length, she dismissed their attempts wh the words “I’ve been the Cltte Colbert bs a long time.” Paramount’s smetics wizard Wally Wtmore created the origal blueprt for her face makp. But before long, tappg her art stunt’s knowledge of lor and bsh, she surpassed the master. “I’m a good artist,” Colbert told wrer and photographer Michael Teague. “But every day I pat the same picture—my face.”</p><p class="paywall">Her hairdo was nceived by legendary Hollywood iffr Sydney Guilaroff, but soon enough Paramount’s tonsorial experts surrenred their shears, dy, and curlers to her. She never viated om her signature bangs, Leonard Gershe says, bee “she wanted to nceal her low forehead. She was self-nsc about . The basic Cltte was Lily Chcho, but glamorized and turned to an 8-by-10 glossy.”</p><p class="paywall">Her tramark whe Peter Pan llar—nspicuoly evint <em>It Happened One Night</em>—was a sartorial trick vented to elongate her short neck. (Durg rehearsals for the 1956 telest of his play <em>Blhe Spir,</em> Noël Coward told Colbert, who had been abradg his sensive nerv, “If you had a neck, I’d wrg .”) She tght Adolfo, who drsed her equently the last two s of her life, “how to make a llar so that she would not look buried a bloe,” he says. Colbert’s stum by Travis Banton for DeMille’s 1934 <em>Cleopatra,</em> wh their eccentric shoulr straps, were likewise engeered to disguise the same flaw.</p><p class="paywall">In 1935—the first year Colbert was named one of the top 10 stars at the box office—she was paired <em>The Gild Lily</em> wh Fred MacMurray, who would bee her -star six more pictur. “Arthur ed to say she was the only actrs who uld make Fred look sexy,” says Leonora Hornblow. She was also teamed that year wh Charl Boyer <em>Private Worlds,</em> the send of a tr of movi they did together—and Colbert, tranged om Norman Foster and goad by the meddlome Mme. Chcho, nearly ma the mistake of marryg him. “I had a mad csh on Charl, even though I uldn’t unrstand a goddamn word he said,” Colbert told Rex Reed. “He asked me to marry him several tim and I told him to go back to France and get a grip on himself. But then [ 1934] I went to New York for a s operatn and was so lonely I started to have send thoughts.” At last, givg , she phoned to accept his proposal—but she uldn’t reach him as he was “on lotn, Poland or someplace. Four days later I wasn’t feelg so bad, so I let pass. It’s jt as well.”</p><p class="has-dropp paywall">The chronic s ndn that nearly sent her to the altar wh Boyer also brought to her life the man who would bee her send hband, Joel Jay “Jack” Prsman, an ear-nose-and-throat physician and U.C.L.A. profsor. Colbert mataed she first met him his office as a patient—a tale fay lore ntradicts. “I always heard Aunt Cltte met Uncle Jack as a rult of a dner party she gave while she was still married to Norman Foster,” Co Lewis says. “My father, like my grandmother, never liked Norman. At this dner my father end up hlg Foster off, flatteng him out, and breakg his nose. Aunt Cltte took him to the bt surgeon town to have his nose fixed—and that turned out to be Jack Prsman.” Old prs clippgs, which dutifully reported every ailment Colbert suffered, noted that on Augt 25, 1933, a Dr. Prsman had assisted an appenctomy on the star. By this date, seems, the ear-nose-and-throat practner had begun to make a specialty of Colbert, if not of the appendix.</p><p class="has-dropp paywall">In Augt 1935, Colbert fally obtaed a Mexin divorce om Foster, who, one newspaper em noted, had been required durg their marriage to apply for a date “ the manner of an ordary suor.” Foster had not been stg home idly between “dat” wh his wife, however; as soon as their divorce was fal, he married Loretta Young’s sister Sally Blane, and went on to a rpectable reer as a director. “Cltte was termed to make her send marriage work,” Leonora Hornblow says. “She felt guilty about Norman bee she had never given the marriage a fair chance. But she also held her mother rponsible for g .” Leonard Gershe adds, “Cltte never really got over Norman. She loved the memory of their passn. It was the only time she ever really experienced . But if she had stayed the marriage wh Norman, she never would have bee Cltte Colbert. Beg Cltte is what subdued all her sexual drive.”</p><p class="paywall">To rce the wag time required by California law and to avoid publicy, Colbert and Prsman were married by a jtice of the peace Yuma, Arizona, on Christmas Eve 1935. Shortly before, Colbert had started buildg a $200,000 whe neo-Geian dream hoe at 615 North Farg Road Holmby Hills. Digned by the fashnable archect Wallace Neff, was rated wh the help of stumer Adrian, Billy Ha, and Hazel Ray Davis, an eclectic mélange of perds and mos—English, Che, and high Hollywood morne. She planned for the hoe to acmodate her mother, who lived there ially. When Edie Goetz learned of Colbert’s marriage plans, she mand of her iend, “Do you want this marriage to work?” Colbert rpond, “Of urse”—provokg Goetz to exclaim, “Well then, move your mother out of the hoe!” Embolned at last at age 32 to sever the apron strgs, Colbert built a hoe for her mother nearby and stalled her there style. “She kept her mother very expensively, wh a r and driver,” Helen O’Hagan says. Like a dutiful French hoewife, every Friday night Colbert assembled the entire clan for dner.</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-3 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p class="paywall">The marriage between Prsman and Colbert was “pannable,” Leonora Hornblow says. Both were wholly dited to their work, and highly distguished their fields. The son of a Philalphia fabric wholaler, Prsman had attend the Universy of Virgia and Harvard Medil School before gog to California, where he helped found U.C.L.A.’s Divisn of Head and Neck Surgery. His ft surgil touch was so renowned that when Samuel Goldwyn’s wife, Franc, elected to have her face lifted, she sisted on Dr. Prsman. She may have requted the kdly doctor for another reason as well. “Jack Prsman was the bt-lookg man, darlg,” Jean Howard says. “What we ed to ll a ‘charmer.’”</p><p class="paywall">In 1938—the year Colbert, wh an aggregate salary of $426,944, was named by the U.S. Treasury Department as the send-hight wage earner Hollywood (after Louis B. Mayer) and the fourth-hight-paid rporate employee Amer-i—the Prsmans fally found time for a belated honeymoon. Their four-month holiday, which took them to Italy, France, and St. Anton, Atria, for skig, was btally terpted by the arrival of Nazi troops Vienna. “German soldiers thronged the streets and people were heilg Hler all over the place,” Colbert said. “It ma me so sad and fur.”</p><p class="has-dropp paywall">Back Hollywood, Leonora Hornblow rells, “the mute she me home om the stud she was Mrs. Joel Jay Prsman. That was the name she ed on her statnery.” Early her marriage Colbert learned not to expect her hband to rt her to gala affairs or movie premier. “The last premiere I took him to—oh, was years ago,” Colbert told a reporter 1962, “I heard a loud snore. That was . A surgeon has a hard day. Mt he have to suffer at night, too?” Prsman eventually fell so far out of the Hollywood loop that one eveng when he acpanied his wife to a party the doctor spent most of the night talkg to a blon he had never before met. On the way home Colbert asked her hband if he was aware whose attentn he had managed to monopolize. “No, who was she?” he quired. “That,” she replied, “was Marilyn Monroe!”</p><p class="paywall">Though Louella Parsons, wh jtifitn, rated the Prsmans’ marriage “one of Hollywood’s most succsful,” the uple did experience their share of tribulatns. “They wanted very much to have children. But by the time they started tryg, was too late,” says Helen Prsman, the widow of Jack’s attorney brother, Harold. “It was very sad.” The problem, seems, was not jt that Colbert had postponed motherhood for the sake of her reer. Prsman may also have been renred sterile as a rult of ntractg the mumps at age 19. At one pot the uple nsired adoptn. “Some tws me on the market out Hollywood,” a iend remembers. “Through his medil nnectns, Jack heard about them. But at the last mute they changed their mds. Those tws turned out to be the on Joan Crawford took.”</p><p class="has-dropp paywall">Perhaps was Colbert’s tratn at beg prived of a child, or maybe was only the ual temptatns of Hollywood, that led her, jt twice, to ntemplate actns that might have jeopardized her marriage. Colbert always spoke admirgly of Ray Milland, wh whom she ma three films, and was probably wh as much quettish regret as llegial rpect that she relled him. While they were makg <em>Skylark</em> (1941), Milland, an irristible Lothar, proposned her. After some hatn Colbert fally nsented to an assignatn at her secretary’s apartment Wtwood. “On the way there, she said to herself, ‘No, I jt n’t do .’ And she turned around and drove home,” says a Hollywood source. “Cltte’s problem, you see, was that she jt uld not lie. It was not her character.”</p><p class="paywall">In the early 40s durg a trip to Sun Valley (where Colbert’s skig prows was renowned), she sudnly beme fatuated wh a powerful film-dtry executive. If, as one timate claims, she briefly ntemplated a liaison wh this man, she quickly me to her sens when Prsman beme a manr the Navy Medil Corps, statned as a flight surgeon on a Pacific battlhip. In the end, the iend nclus, “Cltte never, never cheated on Jack.”</p><p class="paywall">Hollywood folklorists, at least sce the 40s, have recurrently lked Marlene Dietrich’s name to Colbert’s. Columnist Liz Smh theoriz that the legend of a sapphic romance between the two Paramount divas probably n be traced back to a much-published photograph of Dietrich and Colbert slidg down a “chute-the-chute” together, the French actrs fortably wedged between her German unterpart’s bare and shapely legs. Snapped 1935 at a party Carole Lombard gave at a seasi amement park, the picture has evolved over the years to a kd of lbian talisman. Leonard Gershe says, “Cltte said some photographer phed her up there. Anyway, Marlene and Cltte didn’t even like each other. Dietrich scribed her as ‘that ugly Cltte Colbert, so shopgirl French.’” Jean Howard also rejects the mor pletely. “Cltte was <em>not</em> a physil girl.” As ristant to bunkg as most myths, the nard of Colbert and Dietrich’s supposed affair has assumed a life of s own. Jt two weeks after Colbert’s ath, the <em>Natnal Enquirer</em> ran a story, tossg Garbo’s name for good measure, headled secret cltte lbert took to her grave—she was a lbian.</p><p class="has-dropp paywall">Durg the war, Colbert—whose per-picture rate now hovered between $150,000 and $200,000—ma about two movi a year. Simultaneoly, she volunteered wh the Red Cross, participated the Hollywood Victory Caravan, and etted about relativ strand occupied France. In 1942’s <em>The Palm Beach Story,</em> Colbert proved herself at 39 still to be, Graham Greene’s words, “the most charmg light edy actrs on the screen.” Colbert’s one great wartime picture, for which she received an Amy Award nomatn, was David O. Selznick’s synoptic <em>Sce You Went Away</em> (1944), tend to apotheosize the women at the home ont the same way that his <em>Gone wh the Wd</em> had exalted the bell of the Civil War. For Hollywood aficnados, the enormoly stly parable ($3.257 ln) is bt remembered as the backdrop agast which producer Selznick, then 41 and married, lnched his tumultuo love affair wh 24-year-old Jennifer Jon—even as he oversaw the performance of Robert Walker, his paramour’s hband and the father of her two children, the same film. Further snarlg this tangled ske of emotns, Selznick, early the productn, ma an awkward pass at Colbert, wh the rult that the great filmmaker end up wrg a letter of apology to Prsman.</p><p class="paywall">Jennifer Jon reflects: “Consirg that she was a iend of Irene Selznick’s [David O.’s wife] and Edie Goetz [his sister--law], Cltte was always very charmg and lightful to me. When we were shootg the scene wh the three of walkg together a railroad statn—Cltte the middle, Shirley Temple and me on eher si—she looked down and said, ‘Well! There are three pairs of pretty good-lookg legs here.’ It gave me que a boost! I tell you, she was a grand lady—a mensch profsnally. She uldn’t have been iendlier to a neophyte—pecially, if you will, one who was a srlet woman.”</p><p class="has-dropp paywall">In 1944, after 14 years, Colbert’s ntract wh Paramount expired. Her last movie for the stud was a vapid edy, <em>Practilly Yours,</em> which upled her aga wh Fred MacMurray, and though Colbert acknowledged the stud’s generosy, she was exhilarated to be pennt at last. “I believe that I have reached a stage where nothg is gaed by a long-term ntract,” she remarked. “Now I am gog to do what I wish.”</p><p class="paywall">One of the bt cisns she ma after her liberatn om her stud was to take the starrg role <em>Tomorrow Is Forever</em> (1946), oppose Orson Well. Parisian playwright Pierre Barillet says he had heard that while enactg the film’s most melodramatic scene, Colbert leaned her lugubr face on Well’s knee as directed—only to disver that the actor, as a prank, had put a balloon si his pants and was pumpg up to make look as if he were gettg an erectn. “When I asked her about the episo,”Barillet says, “she refed to discs . Where sex was ncerned, she was very lite. Yet, at the same time, she loved to e slang words other ntexts.”</p><p class="paywall">Patricia Meda (Mrs. Joseph Cotten), who had a small part another of Colbert’s 1946 releas, <em>The Secret Heart,</em> says, “Cltte loved to swear! If you ask me, she was a mixture of a sailor and a duchs. We had been rehearsg together for a week. Came the day we were to shoot, I was fally lled onto the set. I said, ‘Good morng, Miss Colbert.’ She replied, ‘Who the fuck are you?’ I looked behd me and realized she was talkg to <em>me.</em> ‘I’m Patricia Meda. We’ve been rehearsg all week.’ ‘Well, what the Devil have you done wh your face?’ she mand. I explaed that I had jt e om the makp man. ‘Go wash your face!’ she shouted. I told her I uldn’t—he was so nice, he had worked so awfully hard. And she asked, ‘Do you want to be a star the makp room or on the screen?’ It was te—MGM had a set face that ma everyone look like Margaret O’Brien. Then, toward the end of the day they were dog a shot over my shoulr of Cltte’s face. At five, she says, ‘O.K., that’s . I’m out of here!’ The meraman said, ‘Miss Colbert, jt one last close-up.’ And she said, ‘They’ve seen close-ups of me for 20 years. Why not do one of what <em>I’ve</em> been lookg at?’—and she left. Cltte Colbert was BIG—and as hont as the California sun.”</p><p class="has-dropp paywall">Colbert had two good reasons for her proviso—not unual among stars—that she be off the set by five o’clock. First, as she was now past 40, she felt that her face would look fatigued by that hour. Send, she wanted to go home to Jack. Bee she was so flexible on this pot, however, she end up losg a job she badly need to mata her standg Hollywood. In 1947, buoyed up by her latt—and, as turned out, her last—mercial succs, a back-to-the-farm farce lled <em>The Egg and I</em> (the penultimate Colbert-MacMurray vehicle), Colbert was next led up to play the wife Frank Capra’s <em>State of the Unn</em> oppose Spencer Tracy. But Capra, refg to grant her the five p.m. cutoff time, brought Kathare Hepburn stead.</p><p class="paywall">Possibly the real culpr the <em>State of the Unn</em> bacle was neher Capra nor Hepburn, but Colbert’s brother. Te to form, Mme. Chcho had broken up her dghter’s thrivg workg relatnship wh Feldman by sistg that she employ her son as an agent stead. “My brother, Charl, God bls his soul, was my agent,” Colbert told Rex Reed. “And God save me.” Leonora Hornblow says potedly, “Charl was petent. His mother built him up so much he jt assumed everyone else was jealo of him. My hband told Cltte, ‘He is losg good opportuni for you.’ Everyone who knew her and red about her said the same thg.” Eventually, Colbert mtered the urage to fire him, but not before more damage was done.</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-4 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p class="paywall">The next blow to Colbert’s star stat me as a rult of an jury she staed while filmg <em>Three Came Home</em>(1950), a harrowg real-life acunt of a woman’s ternment a Japane prisoner-of-war mp. Colbert took the film’s grty realism so much earnt that for the sake of thenticy she allowed herself to appear sweaty and unkempt, and even permted the forbidn shots of her right profile. But she rried her qut for verisiu too far when, on the last day of shootg, she sisted on playg her own vlent rape scene rather than enlist a stuntwoman for the task. “I ptured a disc, cracked a vertebra, and land the hospal,” she told Rex Reed. It might all have been worth her while—she earned cril plds for her efforts—but for the fact that she was slated to beg shootg Twentieth Century Fox’s All About Eve immediately afterward, playg the role of Margo Channg, a character that had been wrten for her. “Fox uldn’t have been nicer,” Colbert told a reporter. “They waed two months for me, and Joe Mankiewicz, the director, was adorable.… Eventually they went wh Bette Davis, who was fantastic, as you well know.” Today is nearly impossible to image anyone but Bette Davis rnatg that superb role. Yet Joseph Mankiewicz’s stg of Anne Baxter as Eve Harrgton mak much more sense light of his tentn for Colbert to play the malevolent syphant’s mentor. “Joe’s ia origally was that Anne Baxter as a young girl looked very much like me,” Colbert said. “And that was the pot of , that this young girl had this fixatn about this actrs.… When Bette did the role, beme a whole different thg.… I cried for two years over that.”</p><p class="paywall">In 1982, at the Amerin Film Instute’s tribute to Frank Capra L.A. (Colbert and he had fally renciled), the actrs was wag for an elevator when Bette Davis sudnly stung her wh the barbed remark “I got even, didn’t I?” Colbert relled to Reed, “She never revered om the fact that 1934, when she was up for <em>Of Human Bondage</em>, I won the Osr for <em>It Happened One Night.</em> Then, years later, she got the role of Margo Channg, which would have been one of the plum rol of my reer. She had been stg on this thg for 50 years and I had fotten all about ! Oh well, as I have always said, the bt rol were bch, and she proved .”</p><p class="paywall">Takg advantage of a U.S. law that allowed a portn of e earned abroad to rema untaxed, Colbert went to Europe om 1951 to 1953 to make two movi, Outpost Malaya and Dghters of Dty. Though her film reer had slipped to an irreversible cle, fancially, at least, she was excellent shape. On weekends the Prsmans would fly to their Palm Sprgs untry hoe the Beechcraft Bonanza sgle-enge plane that Colbert had given her hband as a prent. They also bought a ranch Northern California, where the doctor voted himself to raisg show ttle. Colbert rented a ttage Cap-Ferrat, too, reasong that would look too ostentat if she traveled to France simply to buy her ctom-ma Anglisano sho Paris. “Cltte was extravagant,” says adman Peter Rogers. “I never, ever saw her qutn the price of anythg.”</p><p class="paywall">Solvent enough to turn down a ln-dollar broadst al wh NBC 1954, Colbert nohels was not above lendg her talents to the young medium of televisn. Among her several televised theatril engagements the 50s was Noël Coward’s Blhe Spir of 1956 (-starrg Lren Ball as the ghost wife), which ocsned the disgntled playwright’s famo remark about her neck. “The problem between her and Noël Coward was that he expected her to be letter-perfect each day at rehearsals, and Cltte sisted on holdg the script,” Leonard Gershe says. Tired of Coward’s relentls badgerg, Colbert one day said self-fense, “I know my part backwards.” To which he replied, “And that’s exactly how you’re readg .”</p><p class="paywall">That same year, Colbert ma her Broadway eback, fillg for Margaret Sullavan for two months Carolyn Green’s Jan, at the Plymouth Theater. “I’ve wanted to get back on the stage for a long time,” Colbert told the New York Journal-Amerin, “but you know my hband. He didn’t want me away.” Hband or no, once Colbert reverted to the theater, there was no turng back. In 1958 she was rned wh Charl Boyer Llie Stevens’s <em>The Marriage-Go-Round</em>, which ran for 450 performanc and toured 13 stat. She returned regularly to the theater up through the mid-80s. (Her last show was 1985’s <em>Aren’t We All?</em> wh Rex Harrison, which traveled throughout the untry and for five months Atralia.) “I was on the screen for 30 years and never did get ed to gettg up at five the morng,” she explaed. “In the theater you stay up late, and you sleep late the morng. It’s a lic life.”</p><p class="paywall">“Cltte was so smart—she knew the right moment to leave Hollywood,” says Leonard Gershe. “She arrived at that realizatn at a dner at the Goetz’ 1958. Natalie Wood me around and kissed all good night, sayg she was leavg bee she had to be makp at six a.m. I saw a look e over Cltte’s face—she had set her md. ‘What the hell do I need to be here for?’ she asked herself. ‘I’ll probably never have to be makp aga at six a.m.’” Observ Nancy Reagan, who first met Colbert 1950 at the hoe of MGM chief Dore Schary, “I admire Cltte. She had the sense to know when to pull back.”</p><p class="paywall">In 1958, while Colbert was Europe wag for her Paris wardrobe for <em>The Marriage-Go-Round</em>, she entered to a volatile and plited iendship wh a woman which she me to regret bterly. One eveng at a nightclub on Capri, Colbert stck up a nversatn wh a wealthy pater and photographer named Verna Hull, the dghter of Garbo’s psychiatrist, Dr. Vernon Herbst, and the stepdghter of a Sears Roebuck heirs. Hull’s openg le to Colbert was “I miss my r”—a Lln Contental that she had exchanged wh Sammy Davis Jr. for his Thunrbird. Colbert—who had been iendly wh Frank Satra and his Rat Pack ever sce the sger’s pal Pat DiCic latched onto the movie star on a tra ri to California—replied, “I drove that r once, down to Frank Satra’s Palm Sprgs. I liked so much I went out and bought one jt like blue.” They saw each other a send time, and, lighted by Hull’s backstage vis after the openg of <em>The Marriage-Go-Round</em> at the Plymouth Theatre, Colbert lled Jean Howard for Hull’s telephone number. From that moment on, the two beme separable. They pated together, traveled together, and even rented tw pentho at 136 East 64th Street, which the drs signer Sophie Gimbel of Saks Fifth Avenue (owned by her hband’s fay) found for them near her own town hoe. The iendship flowered bee of their mutual tert art, and bee Colbert, whose theatril obligatns now kept her apart om her hband for months at a time, “loathed beg alone— was a kd of paranoia. 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summary-em__ntent--no-bric"><a class="SummaryItemHedLk-civM fPFrPI summary-em-trackg__hed-lk summary-em__hed-lk" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-id="em-hed-3" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" href=" target="_self"><div data-ttid="ClampWrapper" class="ClampWrapper-kZxfkB hTTNGO clamp SummaryItemHedBase-hiFYpQ cQmBqp summary-em__hed"><div class="ClampContent-hilPkr jVhSBH"><div class="SummaryItemHedTag-TWblf gxaOcP" data-ttid="SummaryItemHed">Netflix’s <em>Murdgh Murrs</em> Is Officially Returng for Season 2: Exclive</div></div></div></a><div class="SummaryItemByleWrapper-boCfbi hYsZi summary-em__byle-date-in"><div class="SummaryItemBaseByle-fFbXkY gRtaxp summary-em__byle"><div class="summary-em__byle__ntent"><div data-ttid="BylWrapper" class="BylWrapper-KIudk irTIfE byl"><p class="ByleWrapper-jWHrLH iNSiTG byle byl__byle" data-ttid="ByleWrapper" emProp="thor" emType="><span emProp="name" class="ByleNamWrapper-jbHncj fuDQVo"><span data-ttid="ByleName" class="ByleName-kwmrLn cYaBaU byle__name"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BylePreamble-iJolpQ iUEiRd bIbWCO gnILss byle__preamble">By </span>Savannah Walsh</span></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></li><li><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ RecircMostPopularSummaryItem-jQxxiw bijeSB ad ad--asi"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--asi" data-no-id="u16s"></div></div></li></ul><div class="RecircMostPopularFooter-enPjgs eAuebe"></div></div></div></div><div class="StickyBoxPlaceholr-grPmrg dxAvXx"></div></div></div></div><div data-ttid="RowWrapper" class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="f87el"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK kHBDeH grid grid-margs grid-ems-2 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bjczjj grid-layout--adrail narrow wi-adrail"><div class="GridItem-buujkM stRKV grid--em grid-layout__ntent"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa dEQjuV body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p class="paywall">Around 1960, Hull, Colbert, Aled and Jeanne Vanrbilt, and Colbert’s old <em>Manslghter</em> director, Gee Abbott (a oime flame of Hull’s), went on holiday to Puerto Ri. On a whim, Hull and Colbert cut the vatn short and flew om that island to Barbados. Not long before, Colbert, seekg relief om her irrated s, had vised Noël Coward Jamai. She felt so well at Coward’s that she ma up her md to buy a hoe there. But then stage signer Oliver Msel, a Barbados rint, tervened, suggtg that she might fd his island even more to her taste. “The mute she got off the plane Barbados, she jt knew that was where she want-ed to spend the rt of her life,” says Leonard Gershe. Almost immediately Colbert found the hoe she wanted. Called Burwas and owned by a whe-haired Brish gentleman named Sir Rupert Briarcliff, was the island’s only plantatn hoe ontg the beach.</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-5 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p class="paywall">To help pay for the hoe that would bee Bellerive, Colbert accepted a role her last movie, <em>Parrish</em> (1961), -starrg Karl Maln and Troy Donahue. Every day Hull, who end up buyg the most hoe next door to Bellerive, would drive Colbert om Manhattan up to the movie’s lotn the Connecticut tobac fields. Sophie Gimbel created Colbert’s wardrobe for the movie, and was at this time that Gimbel’s young iend and protégée at Saks, Helen O’Hagan, beme acquated wh the actrs. “Workg wh Troy Donahue really fished her off wh the movi,” Peter Rogers says. She felt “he treated her like an old lady.”</p><p class="has-dropp paywall">Colbert planned for Bellerive to be the Shangri-la where she and Prsman—whose employer, U.C.L.A., enforced man-datory retirement at age 67—would fally be able to slow down and enjoy each other’s pany. They sold the Holmby Hills rince 1963 (many of the furnishgs om North Farg Road were stalled at Bellerive), and Prsman rented a small hoe on Readcrt Drive Beverly Hills. When he me to Bellerive, Prsman garned—Colbert had bought a plot of land across the street, which he planted wh u tre—and tkered wh his boat. “One day I was helpg Jack move his boat,” Che-art aler Bob Ellsworth rells. “I proposed that, after his sabbatil started, he should e wh me to Bangkok and have shipbuilrs there make him a new boat. His rponse was ‘What did Cltte say?’ I explaed I hadn’t asked her yet. He said, ‘No one our entire life has ever asked me first.’ I thk that says a lot about their marriage. It wasn’t that she was the boss—she was the star.”</p><p class="paywall">At Bellerive, Colbert was equently hosts to neighbors Pamela and Averell Harriman, De and John Hez, and Ronald and Marietta Tree and their iends Bill and Babe Paley. Slim Keh and Lillian Hellman vised often, as did Prcs Margaret, who stayed wh her chum Verna Hull. “Cltte was so warm and genero, she drew people to her like a hearth,” says Leonora Hornblow.</p><p class="paywall">At some pot durg Colbert’s iendship wh Hull, mors sprang up ncerng the exact nature of their relatnship. “Paris, London, New York—the whole world was talkg,” says one observer. Hull had even forewarned Colbert that people might misterpret their iendship, but somehow never registered wh the actrs as a real possibily. Leonora Hornblow says, “She felt so secure who she was, never occurred to her people actually <em>would</em> talk. When fally got back to her what people were sayg, she was appalled. She screamed! She said, ‘I thought everyone knew I liked men.’” And was there any tth to the speculatns? “Cltte was <em>not</em> someone you take liberti wh,” Hornblow says. “Not even wh a surgil mask and bber glov!” another iend exclaims. Gershe adds, “Cltte loved to flirt wh men but she liked women for pannship. The women Cltte’s life were never lovers—they were more like ladi--wag. Cltte was always cur about everyone else’s sex life. But for her was like listeng to fairy tal. I wonred whether wasn’t to pensate for the fact there was really nothg gog on her own life.” Partly on Gershe’s advice, she kept Hull her life—but soon, as Hornblow says, Colbert would “e the day she ever beme iends wh Verna.”</p><p class="has-dropp paywall">In 1966, when Frank Satra cid to spend one of his several honeymoons wh Mia Farrow at Bellerive, Colbert nverted a small outbuildg on the property to a gut ttage. Cltte threw the newlyweds a big party, and Satra—who Mia Farrow says “was always on his bt behavr wh Cltte”—oked a spaghetti-and-meatball dner. But after three days, Colbert said, Farrow and Satra “were barely speakg to each other. The night I found Mia wanrg on the beach, her hair soakg wet om the ra … I uld see the handwrg on the wall.” Colbert led Farrow up the outsi stairs to her bedroom and dried her hair. The problem, emerged, was that Farrow had jt been offered a part abroad the film <em>A Dandy Aspic,</em> and she didn’t know if Satra would acpany her if she accepted. “You <em>should</em> work,” Colbert advised her. “But don’t ever let Frank see you like this.” Farrow says, “Cltte was quick to mother me, soothe Frank. She seemed perfect. What did Cltte Colbert ever do wrong?”</p><p class="has-dropp paywall">By the holiday season of 1967, Prsman had at last moved om California permanently and joed his wife at Bellerive. But already, on the plane to Barbados, he was not well. Prsman was diagnosed wh liver ncer, and his ndn terrated rapidly. As he lay dyg, Colbert received a strange bullet om Frank Buono, her tate manager. Via a letter, Verna Hull had begged him to warn Colbert that Prsman might at any moment seize the gun om the Bellerive safe and kill her, possibly himself too, orr to take her wh him when he died. Offend and crlo, Colbert marched through the openg the fence that separated her property om Hull’s, exhortg her neighbor’s startled maid: “Tell your mistrs I will never see her or speak to her aga for the rt of my life!” And to make sure Hull knew she meant to stand by her words, she returned everythg Hull had ever given her durg their ne-year iendship.</p><p class="paywall">Prsman had never been happy about Hull—Mia Farrow says the doctor ed to refer to Hull as “the monster.” Probably he disliked her for the same reason he felt uneasy about sociale Jerry Zipk. A iend says, “Cltte was always quotg Zipk, referrg to him” a way that threatened not only Prsman’s own pre-emence her life but her own domn over herself. “The end of her iendship wh Hull was histrnic—and fal,” says the same observer. “But bee Cltte behaved like a woman srned,” the mors flared up aga, wh even greater vilence. Where once there had been only a fence, a wall went up separatg the two properti, and, as one wns said, “the island was divid two.”</p><p class="has-dropp paywall">To hasten her hband to California for treatment, Colbert asked Satra to send his Learjet to Barbados. As that vehicle was beg ed “to transfer his chums to the Rose Bowl,” Colbert relled to Rex Reed, Satra stead “sent a passenger plane” staffed wh a U.C.L.A. medil crew. It st her $27,500, she noted—and “a week later the prs praised him for flyg Dr. Joel Jay Prsman to U.C.L.A. at his own expense. Satra never nied . It was the only time I was ever upset by him.”</p><p class="paywall">Prsman died on Febary 26, 1968, two weeks after his 67th birthday, leavg his widow, her words, “pletely shattered.” Prsman’s body was flown back to Barbados and placed, at his requt, above ground a traverte msolm, signed by Colbert, the cemetery of St. Peter’s Church, not far om Bellerive. Her mother, her early 90s and firm, me to live wh her. She broke her hip, and was an obstrepero patient. When Mme. Chcho stubbornly refed to take food one day, Colbert’s maid, Marie, told her, “But Madame sists you mt eat somethg.” The dowager mand, “Who is this ‘Madame’ you keep referrg to?” Marie answered, “Your dghter.” To which the elrly woman replied, “I am the only Mme. Colbert. Peepee on my dghter!” Helen O’Hagan says, “All those years the mother was really livg virly through Cltte.” Leonard Gershe adds, “She felt all should have happened to <em>her.</em>” The redoubtable old matriarch fally died April 1970, “of boredom,” Colbert said, and her ash were laid to rt an elaborate stone urn near the foot of her son--law’s tomb.</p><p class="has-dropp paywall">Colbert’s brother, Charl, died the followg year, and for the first time her life Colbert was relieved—physilly and fancially if not spirually—of her burnsome fay. “It’s a strange feelg,” Colbert reflected, “when you’re sudnly ee and nobody really r where you go or what you do.” Seekg her roots, she took an apartment Paris on the Rue Raynouard, where she spent the tumn season om around 1970 to 1975, at the same time matag a Manhattan rental. “But she got bored and prsed Paris,” says Pierre Barillet. “All her iends were workg.”</p><p class="paywall">In 1974 she returned aga to the theater wh Jerome Chodorov’s <em>A Communy of Two,</em> but not before travelg to L.A. to have her neck lifted—the only plastic surgery she ever seems to have had. “When I saw her afterwards I told her she had wasted her money,” says Peter Rogers, for whose “What Be a Legend Most?” Blackglama advertisg mpaign she posed twice. “I uldn’t see any difference. Cltte somehow had already mastered the illn of youth.”</p><p class="paywall">Colbert’s preternatural agelsns was nstantly extolled the favorable notic she received for her plays. When she opened <em>The Kgfisher</em> wh Rex Harrison 1978, the New York <em>Daily News</em> ghed that she “was the lady that time fot.”</p><p class="paywall">An vatn to Bellerive beme, among top-drawer social typ, one of the most veted, stat-nferrg statns on the map, particularly after the Reagans’ Easter vis 1982. As Cltte was a great believer route, the activi at Bellerive durg the Print and First Lady’s vis progrsed very much acrdg to ctom. Colbert habually breakfasted alone by her bedroom, emergg jt before lunch fas-tidly ma up and meticuloly iffed—the face and hair required one hour. Twice a day she would swim the backstroke for half an hour, wearg a bathg p, a long-sleeved leotard (to protect her arms om the sun), and her full maquillage. Lunch was served the pagoda on Pierre Dx place mats, tea took place at five, drks were passed before dner, and the eveng guts ate their meal doors, where fger bowls and her Spo Darlgton or Crown Derby cha were rigur. “She’d get so nervo that everythg had to be impecble,” says Leonard Gershe. “She went to hysterics the day Brooke Astor, who was stayg wh Pamela Harriman, me over for tea—and Mrs. Astor never even went doors. She had a f, too, before Joan Colls and Rob Hurlstone vised 1992. But the mute she heard them g up the stairs, the actrs Cltte took over. Leonora whispered to me, ‘The curta’s gog up!’ She really was vulnerable.”</p><p class="has-dropp paywall">If Colbert happened to be alone at Belle-rive—“She hated seeg those blank spac on her gut lendar,” says stume-jewelry executive John Kleschmidt—she would ask Marie to move to the green bedroom oppose hers. She would sometim also requt that her iends the llectorsEia and Alighiero Micheli, who had their own hoe on Barbados, occupy the gut ttage for a week or 10 days to keep her pany. And durg her stays New York, where she now had a rental apartment on Fifth Avenue, Helen O’Hagan took to sleepg on the livg-room sofa so Colbert wouldn’t be alone. In 1984, Colbert upgrad to a two-bedroom apartment the same buildg, and O’Hagan moved . “I was workg at Saks and had to be bed much earlier than Cltte. But if she saw that I had fallen asleep, she’d wake me up orr to talk. She need somebody wh her all the time,” O’Hagan says. “There was a 27-year age difference between . So I was like her dghter. We were very lucky to fd each other at that time our liv.”</p><p class="paywall">Substutg them for her real k, Cltte drew to her sphere what she lled her “fay of iends.” To their amiable homag were add stutnal aclas om around the world. In 1980 she received Chigo’s Sarah Siddons Society award, and 1984, the same year as her Lln Center Film Society tribute, a buildg at the Kfman Astoria Studs Queens, where she had ma her first Paramount movi, was named for her. Her native untry rated her wh the Legn of Honor 1988, which she cherished at least as much as her Osr. And 1989 the Kennedy Center for the Performg Arts prented her wh an award for lifetime achievement the arts, a distctn which Nancy Reagan says she “had phed hard for” durg her hband’s admistratn. At the ceremony Gregory Peck mend Colbert as “the bt thg we’ve gotten om France sce the Statue of Liberty.”</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-6 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p class="paywall">Colbert had one last crack at actg, playg a blueblood matron who protects her homicidal dghter--law the 1987 NBC mi-seri <em>The Two Mrs. Grenvill,</em> based on the bt-sellg novel by Domick Dunne. “She tly fought for the part,” Dunne says. “It was the first time years a lead role for an olr woman was available. The producer wanted Loretta Young, but then she turned down. Gger Rogers, Joan Fontae, Bette Davis, Olivia Havilland, Jane Wyman—they all wanted .” Colbert triumphed over her petors, and the Goln Globe she won for her portrayal found a place near her Osr at Bellerive.</p><p class="has-dropp paywall">‘I‘ve had a lovely life,” Colbert remarked her 80s. “I’ve been blsed. The only bad thg is that my hband died much too soon.” But Colbert unrwent one last reversal: March of 1993 she suffered a bilatg stroke. O’Hagan put Colbert the hospal, where the actrs spent 17 days, and hired three private nurs to mister to her at home. After leavg work for seven weeks, O’Hagan fally took early retirement om Saks to re for her partially paralyzed iend two weeks out of every month. The extend “fay of iends” rallied. “We went down to spell Helen,” Liz Smh says. “Her post-stroke look was not bad at all,” says Kleschmidt. “Fortunately, she didn’t suffer any facial disfigurement. Her speech was a ltle slurred at first, but she got over the impediment. And she tried very, very hard, whout any succs, to learn to walk aga.” She ntued to enterta at Bellerive, though she often sat, the midst of nvivial gathergs, as aloofly mute as a sphx. Early 1996, producer A. C. Lyl wrote her a note fillg her on what had bee of such old Paramount croni as John Engstead and Wally Wtmore—and Colbert sent the reply, “I’m 92 and a wheelchair, but I look jt great. If you fd a good part for an actrs a wheelchair, please let me know.”</p><p class="has-dropp paywall">Early the eveng on Sunday, July 28, 1996—almost three and a half years after the stroke—O’Hagan, jt back Manhattan om a weekend northwtern Connecticut wh Bill Blass, got the ll “I had been fearg,” she says. “She was wag for me. She did not want to leave this world whout me next to her.” O’Hagan flew to Barbados and spent the night on the floor bi Colbert’s bed. On July 30, at 3:15 p.m., Colbert died while lookg out the wdow to the sea. Blah, the ok, llapsed a fat. Cathere, the send ok, threw herself on the floor, sobbg. The prit, Father Jim Grear, asked for everybody to jo hands. Colbert’s body was shipped to New York for crematn. As they watched Colbert’s remas enter the belly of an Amerin Airl aircraft, Michael Teague turned to O’Hagan and said, “I gus ’s the only time she’s ever flown the back of a plane.”</p><p class="paywall">Colbert’s ash were placed a mahogany box and posed si Dr. Prsman’s tomb—at a ro distance om Mme. Chcho’s urn. There is a space rerved there for Marie, to whom Colbert left $75,000. Her niece Co Lewis was remembered the will wh $150,000, and a tst worth more than $100,000 was bequeathed Prsman’s memory to U.C.L.A. Apart om some jewelry, patgs, and furnure—which were distributed among the “fay of iends”—the rt of the tate, the bulk of which is Belle-rive, was left to Helen O’Hagan, who “served a ln tim over,” Pierre Barillet says. (Last July, O’Hagan vated the hoe to make way for mogul David Geffen, who purchased Bellerive May for over $2 ln and then rold Augt to a midwtern uple.) The New York memorial service, anized by O’Hagan, at St. Vcent Ferrer, where the actrs had been nfirmed, attracted not only the timate circle but also such notable acquatanc and iends as Bill Blass, Liz Smh, Geofey Beene, and Domick Dunne. At Barillet’s smaller service for her at a church on Paris’s Fbourg St.-Honoré, Pamela Harriman, Mme. René Clair, and Lren Ball all paid their rpects.</p><p class="has-dropp paywall">Leonard Gershe remembers attendg a benef for the Italian Red Cross Venice 1983, graced by a royal flh of stars. “It was honor of Ingrid Bergman, on the first anniversary of her ath. Cltte and I were leavg the Grti Palace hotel one day for lunch, and there was such a csh of paparazzi, you uldn’t move. One photographer popped out of the hor, and shouted, right Cltte’s face, ‘Miss Colbert, I’m om <em>Oggi.</em> I n put you <em>Oggi.</em>’ Cltte replied, wh a charmg ltle se, ‘Baby, I don’t need you anymore.’ And she walked away so fast, all the photographers llapsed on one another like domo. In poker terms, Cltte knew exactly when to fold.” Unlike Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, who scend to mp self-parody makg kschy horror movi, or Garbo and Dietrich, who wound up reclive relics, only Colbert, until the end, “did a great job at life,” Co Lewis says. “She did everythg right.”</p><p class="paywall">Peter Rogers reflects, “She had a terrible, wonrful lt for life. She was not like the other movie queens of her era. Crawford, whom I also knew well, wanted to be a lady even more than a movie star. Cltte <em>was</em> a lady.” Leonora Hornblow agre: “The difference between her and the others is that she had a background. She had a strong fay sense—sometim to the triment of her happs. But she knew who she was. She was a real live person. There was somebody there.”</p><p class="has-dropp paywall">Helen O’Hagan ntu to receive Cltte Colbert fan mail. Most letters e om vote still not aware of her ath, who were not yet born when Colbert ma her last movie, <em>Parrish</em>. And Barbados, tourists on the beach still crawl unr the sea grap chokg the path leadg to Bellerive, hopg for a glimpse of the fabled hoe. Not long ago, durg a vis to St. Peter’s cemetery, O’Hagan enuntered a sunburned young uple on holiday om the North of England makg a solemn pilgrimage to the film star’s grave se. Des ago, mg on her fame, Colbert said, “To be celebrated is nothg. To be loved is everythg.”</p></div></div></div><div class="GridItem-buujkM fVLMby grid--em grid-layout__asi"><div class="StickyBoxWrapper-jfYB jxBcTH sticky-box"><div class="StickyBoxPrimary-dzWDWL cdhYoN sticky-box__primary"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--rail"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--rail" data-no-id="m143rm"></div></div><div class="ConsumerMarketgUnThemedWrapper-iUTMTf jssHut nsumer-marketg-un nsumer-marketg-un--display-rail" role="prentatn" aria-hidn="te"><div class="nsumer-marketg-un__slot nsumer-marketg-un__slot--display-rail"></div><div class="journey-un"></div></div></div><div class="StickyBoxPlaceholr-grPmrg dxAvXx"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK kHBDeH grid grid-margs grid-ems-2 PaywallInleBarrierWhWrapperGrid-fyrGfS kLQIUk grid-layout--adrail narrow wi-adrail"><div class="GridItem-buujkM stRKV grid--em grid-layout__ntent"><div class="body body__le-barrier article__body"><div class="ntaer ntaer--body"><div 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“Fuck Hut” Detail Too</div></div></div></a><div class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ SummaryItemDek-CRfsi iUEiRd ijSOpT jDyfzW summary-em__k">“I have to adm I read that and I was like, Go mom,” lghs Clea Newman Sorlund, speakg about her father’s posthumo memoir, <em>The Extraordary Life of an Ordary Man</em>. </div><div class="SummaryItemByleWrapper-boCfbi hYsZi summary-em__byle-date-in"><div class="SummaryItemBaseByle-fFbXkY gRtaxp summary-em__byle"><div class="summary-em__byle__ntent"><div data-ttid="BylWrapper" class="BylWrapper-KIudk irTIfE byl"><p class="ByleWrapper-jWHrLH iNSiTG byle byl__byle" data-ttid="ByleWrapper" emProp="thor" emType="><span emProp="name" class="ByleNamWrapper-jbHncj fuDQVo"><span data-ttid="ByleName" class="ByleName-kwmrLn cYaBaU byle__name"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BylePreamble-iJolpQ iUEiRd bIbWCO gnILss byle__preamble">By </span>Julie Miller</span></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="SummaryItemWrapper-iwvBff fKazuH summary-em summary-em--has-le summary-em--ARTICLE summary-em--no-in summary-em--text-align-left summary-em--layout-placement-text-below summary-em--layout-posn-image-left summary-em--layout-proportns-50-50 summary-em--si-by-si-align-center summary-em--si-by-si-image-right-mobile-false summary-em--standard SummaryCollectnGridSummaryItem-WColm cNQsbv" role="button" tabx="0"><div class="SummaryItemAssetContaer-gwhFFH VOyg summary-em__asset-ntaer"><a class="SummaryItemImageLk-dshqxb cPpCwE summary-em__image-lk summary-em-trackg__image-lk" href=" aria-hidn="te" tabx="-1" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-id="em-image-2" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" target="_self"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset SummaryItemRponsiveAsset-hjGIGg bDvSkO summary-em__image"><div data-tt="aspect-rat-ntaer" class="AspectRatContaer-bJHpJz hlQxkn"><div class="aspect-rat--overlay-ntaer"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa SummaryItemRponsiveAsset-hjGIGg bDvSkO summary-em__image rponsive-image"><noscript><source media="(max-width: 767px)" srcSet="" siz="100vw"/><source media="(m-width: 768px)" srcSet="" siz="100vw"/><img alt="Inventg Ivana Tmp: Her Improbable Rise and Tragic Death" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src="></noscript></picture></div></div></span></a></div><div class="SummaryItemContent-eiDYMl clSLtF summary-em__ntent"><div class="RubricWrapper-dKmCNX hXRWeY bric bric--disvery SummaryItemRubric-dguGKN lapGFj summary-em__bric"><span class="RubricName-fVtemz cLxcNi">Celebry</span></div><a class="SummaryItemHedLk-civM cxlTHI summary-em-trackg__hed-lk summary-em__hed-lk" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-id="em-hed-2" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" href=" target="_self"><div data-ttid="ClampWrapper" class="ClampWrapper-kZxfkB hTTNGO clamp SummaryItemHedBase-hiFYpQ khUTXM summary-em__hed"><div class="ClampContent-hilPkr jVhSBH"><div class="SummaryItemHedTag-TWblf gxaOcP" data-ttid="SummaryItemHed">Inventg Ivana Tmp: Her Improbable Rise and Tragic Death</div></div></div></a><div class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ SummaryItemDek-CRfsi iUEiRd ijSOpT jDyfzW summary-em__k">Ivana Marie Zelníčková ped om behd the Iron Curta to storm New York Cy and help create the twisted miracle of Donald Tmp. From her “greed is good” heyday to her post-divorce nouement vortg wh a seri of “eaky” Italian lovers, was Ivana, all along, who gild the Tmp name.</div><div class="SummaryItemByleWrapper-boCfbi hYsZi summary-em__byle-date-in"><div class="SummaryItemBaseByle-fFbXkY gRtaxp summary-em__byle"><div class="summary-em__byle__ntent"><div data-ttid="BylWrapper" class="BylWrapper-KIudk irTIfE byl"><p class="ByleWrapper-jWHrLH iNSiTG byle byl__byle" data-ttid="ByleWrapper" emProp="thor" emType="><span emProp="name" class="ByleNamWrapper-jbHncj fuDQVo"><span data-ttid="ByleName" class="ByleName-kwmrLn cYaBaU byle__name"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BylePreamble-iJolpQ iUEiRd bIbWCO gnILss byle__preamble">By </span>Mark Seal</span></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="SummaryItemWrapper-iwvBff fKazuH summary-em summary-em--has-le summary-em--ARTICLE summary-em--no-in summary-em--text-align-left summary-em--layout-placement-text-below summary-em--layout-posn-image-left summary-em--layout-proportns-50-50 summary-em--si-by-si-align-center summary-em--si-by-si-image-right-mobile-false summary-em--standard SummaryCollectnGridSummaryItem-WColm cNQsbv" role="button" tabx="0"><div class="SummaryItemAssetContaer-gwhFFH VOyg summary-em__asset-ntaer"><a class="SummaryItemImageLk-dshqxb cPpCwE summary-em__image-lk summary-em-trackg__image-lk" href=" aria-hidn="te" tabx="-1" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-id="em-image-3" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" target="_self"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset SummaryItemRponsiveAsset-hjGIGg bDvSkO summary-em__image"><div data-tt="aspect-rat-ntaer" class="AspectRatContaer-bJHpJz hlQxkn"><div class="aspect-rat--overlay-ntaer"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa SummaryItemRponsiveAsset-hjGIGg bDvSkO summary-em__image rponsive-image"><noscript><source media="(max-width: 767px)" srcSet="" siz="100vw"/><source media="(m-width: 768px)" srcSet="" siz="100vw"/><img alt="Brad Pt and Angela Jolie’s War of the Rosé" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src="></noscript></picture></div></div></span></a></div><div class="SummaryItemContent-eiDYMl clSLtF summary-em__ntent"><div class="RubricWrapper-dKmCNX hXRWeY bric bric--disvery SummaryItemRubric-dguGKN lapGFj summary-em__bric"><span class="RubricName-fVtemz cLxcNi">Hollywood</span></div><a class="SummaryItemHedLk-civM cxlTHI summary-em-trackg__hed-lk summary-em__hed-lk" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-id="em-hed-3" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" href=" target="_self"><div data-ttid="ClampWrapper" class="ClampWrapper-kZxfkB hTTNGO clamp SummaryItemHedBase-hiFYpQ khUTXM summary-em__hed"><div class="ClampContent-hilPkr jVhSBH"><div class="SummaryItemHedTag-TWblf gxaOcP" data-ttid="SummaryItemHed">Brad Pt and Angela Jolie’s War of the Rosé</div></div></div></a><div class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ SummaryItemDek-CRfsi iUEiRd ijSOpT jDyfzW summary-em__k">Miraval was more than jt their fay home. It was their fay bs: a hugely profable we label on an enchantg tate the South of France. When they spl followg a harrowg flight, an epic battle ensued.</div><div class="SummaryItemByleWrapper-boCfbi hYsZi summary-em__byle-date-in"><div class="SummaryItemBaseByle-fFbXkY gRtaxp summary-em__byle"><div class="summary-em__byle__ntent"><div data-ttid="BylWrapper" class="BylWrapper-KIudk irTIfE byl"><p class="ByleWrapper-jWHrLH iNSiTG byle byl__byle" data-ttid="ByleWrapper" emProp="thor" emType="><span emProp="name" class="ByleNamWrapper-jbHncj fuDQVo"><span data-ttid="ByleName" class="ByleName-kwmrLn cYaBaU byle__name"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BylePreamble-iJolpQ iUEiRd bIbWCO gnILss byle__preamble">By </span>Mark Seal</span></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ SummaryCollectnGridSummaryItem-WColm cNQsbv ad ad--read-more"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--read-more" data-no-id="v92cvb"></div></div><div class="SummaryItemWrapper-iwvBff fKazuH summary-em summary-em--has-le summary-em--ARTICLE summary-em--no-in summary-em--text-align-left summary-em--layout-placement-text-below summary-em--layout-posn-image-left summary-em--layout-proportns-50-50 summary-em--si-by-si-align-center summary-em--si-by-si-image-right-mobile-false summary-em--standard SummaryCollectnGridSummaryItem-WColm cNQsbv" role="button" tabx="0"><div class="SummaryItemAssetContaer-gwhFFH VOyg summary-em__asset-ntaer"><a class="SummaryItemImageLk-dshqxb cPpCwE summary-em__image-lk summary-em-trackg__image-lk" href=" aria-hidn="te" tabx="-1" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-id="em-image-4" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" target="_self"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset SummaryItemRponsiveAsset-hjGIGg bDvSkO summary-em__image"><div data-tt="aspect-rat-ntaer" class="AspectRatContaer-bJHpJz hlQxkn"><div class="aspect-rat--overlay-ntaer"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa SummaryItemRponsiveAsset-hjGIGg bDvSkO summary-em__image rponsive-image"><noscript><source media="(max-width: 767px)" srcSet="" siz="100vw"/><source media="(m-width: 768px)" srcSet="" siz="100vw"/><img alt="At Home Wh LeBron Jam and His Fay" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src="></noscript></picture></div></div></span></a></div><div class="SummaryItemContent-eiDYMl clSLtF summary-em__ntent"><div class="RubricWrapper-dKmCNX hXRWeY bric bric--disvery SummaryItemRubric-dguGKN lapGFj summary-em__bric"><span class="RubricName-fVtemz cLxcNi">Celebry</span></div><a class="SummaryItemHedLk-civM cxlTHI summary-em-trackg__hed-lk summary-em__hed-lk" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-id="em-hed-4" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" href=" target="_self"><div data-ttid="ClampWrapper" class="ClampWrapper-kZxfkB hTTNGO clamp SummaryItemHedBase-hiFYpQ khUTXM summary-em__hed"><div class="ClampContent-hilPkr jVhSBH"><div class="SummaryItemHedTag-TWblf gxaOcP" data-ttid="SummaryItemHed">At Home Wh LeBron Jam and His Fay</div></div></div></a><div class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ SummaryItemDek-CRfsi iUEiRd ijSOpT jDyfzW summary-em__k">The Jam—LeBron, Savannah, Bronny, Bryce, and Zhuri—pose for a first-ever fay photo extravaganza.</div><div class="SummaryItemByleWrapper-boCfbi hYsZi summary-em__byle-date-in"><div class="SummaryItemBaseByle-fFbXkY gRtaxp summary-em__byle"><div class="summary-em__byle__ntent"><div data-ttid="BylWrapper" class="BylWrapper-KIudk irTIfE byl"><p class="ByleWrapper-jWHrLH iNSiTG byle byl__byle" data-ttid="ByleWrapper" emProp="thor" emType="><span emProp="name" class="ByleNamWrapper-jbHncj fuDQVo"><span data-ttid="ByleName" class="ByleName-kwmrLn cYaBaU byle__name"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BylePreamble-iJolpQ iUEiRd bIbWCO gnILss byle__preamble">By </span>Dan Adler</span></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="SummaryItemWrapper-iwvBff fKazuH summary-em summary-em--has-le summary-em--ARTICLE summary-em--no-in summary-em--text-align-left summary-em--layout-placement-text-below summary-em--layout-posn-image-left summary-em--layout-proportns-50-50 summary-em--si-by-si-align-center summary-em--si-by-si-image-right-mobile-false summary-em--standard SummaryCollectnGridSummaryItem-WColm cNQsbv" role="button" tabx="0"><div class="SummaryItemAssetContaer-gwhFFH VOyg summary-em__asset-ntaer"><a class="SummaryItemImageLk-dshqxb cPpCwE summary-em__image-lk summary-em-trackg__image-lk" href=" aria-hidn="te" tabx="-1" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-id="em-image-5" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" target="_self"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset SummaryItemRponsiveAsset-hjGIGg bDvSkO summary-em__image"><div data-tt="aspect-rat-ntaer" class="AspectRatContaer-bJHpJz hlQxkn"><div class="aspect-rat--overlay-ntaer"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa SummaryItemRponsiveAsset-hjGIGg bDvSkO summary-em__image rponsive-image"><noscript><source media="(max-width: 767px)" srcSet="" siz="100vw"/><source media="(m-width: 768px)" srcSet="" siz="100vw"/><img alt="Margot Robbie Is Nobody’s Barbie: The Babylon Star on Navigatg Hollywood" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src="></noscript></picture></div></div></span></a></div><div class="SummaryItemContent-eiDYMl clSLtF summary-em__ntent"><div class="RubricWrapper-dKmCNX hXRWeY bric bric--disvery SummaryItemRubric-dguGKN lapGFj summary-em__bric"><span class="RubricName-fVtemz cLxcNi">Movi</span></div><a class="SummaryItemHedLk-civM cxlTHI summary-em-trackg__hed-lk summary-em__hed-lk" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-id="em-hed-5" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" href=" target="_self"><div data-ttid="ClampWrapper" class="ClampWrapper-kZxfkB hTTNGO clamp SummaryItemHedBase-hiFYpQ khUTXM summary-em__hed"><div class="ClampContent-hilPkr jVhSBH"><div class="SummaryItemHedTag-TWblf gxaOcP" data-ttid="SummaryItemHed">Margot Robbie Is Nobody’s Barbie: The <em>Babylon</em> Star on Navigatg Hollywood</div></div></div></a><div class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ SummaryItemDek-CRfsi iUEiRd ijSOpT jDyfzW summary-em__k">“The highs are really high and the lows are really, really low.”</div><div class="SummaryItemByleWrapper-boCfbi hYsZi summary-em__byle-date-in"><div class="SummaryItemBaseByle-fFbXkY gRtaxp summary-em__byle"><div class="summary-em__byle__ntent"><div data-ttid="BylWrapper" class="BylWrapper-KIudk irTIfE byl"><p class="ByleWrapper-jWHrLH iNSiTG byle byl__byle" data-ttid="ByleWrapper" emProp="thor" emType="><span emProp="name" class="ByleNamWrapper-jbHncj fuDQVo"><span data-ttid="ByleName" class="ByleName-kwmrLn cYaBaU byle__name"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BylePreamble-iJolpQ iUEiRd bIbWCO gnILss byle__preamble">By </span>Rebec Ford</span></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="SummaryItemWrapper-iwvBff fKazuH summary-em summary-em--has-le summary-em--ARTICLE summary-em--no-in summary-em--text-align-left summary-em--layout-placement-text-below 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BaseText-ewhhUZ SummaryItemDek-CRfsi iUEiRd ijSOpT jDyfzW summary-em__k">Its Venice premiere may have ptivated the ter for all the wrong reasons—no, Harry Styl didn’t sp on Chris Pe!—but s fierce, “fuckg tough” director is proud of the film, s st (startg wh the “astoundg” Florence Pugh), her reer, her kids, and the choic she’s ma followg her spl wh Jason Suikis.</div><div class="SummaryItemByleWrapper-boCfbi hYsZi summary-em__byle-date-in"><div class="SummaryItemBaseByle-fFbXkY gRtaxp summary-em__byle"><div class="summary-em__byle__ntent"><div data-ttid="BylWrapper" class="BylWrapper-KIudk irTIfE byl"><p class="ByleWrapper-jWHrLH iNSiTG byle byl__byle" data-ttid="ByleWrapper" emProp="thor" emType="><span emProp="name" class="ByleNamWrapper-jbHncj fuDQVo"><span data-ttid="ByleName" class="ByleName-kwmrLn cYaBaU byle__name"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BylePreamble-iJolpQ iUEiRd bIbWCO gnILss byle__preamble">By </span>Julie 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class="aspect-rat--overlay-ntaer"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa SummaryItemRponsiveAsset-hjGIGg bDvSkO summary-em__image rponsive-image"><noscript><source media="(max-width: 767px)" srcSet="" siz="100vw"/><source media="(m-width: 768px)" srcSet="" siz="100vw"/><img alt="Plan, Tras and Automobil at 35: An Oral History of One of the Most Beloved Road Movi Ever Ma" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src="></noscript></picture></div></div></span></a></div><div class="SummaryItemContent-eiDYMl clSLtF summary-em__ntent"><div class="RubricWrapper-dKmCNX hXRWeY bric bric--disvery SummaryItemRubric-dguGKN lapGFj summary-em__bric"><span class="RubricName-fVtemz cLxcNi">Movi</span></div><a class="SummaryItemHedLk-civM cxlTHI summary-em-trackg__hed-lk summary-em__hed-lk" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-id="em-hed-7" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" href=" target="_self"><div data-ttid="ClampWrapper" class="ClampWrapper-kZxfkB hTTNGO clamp SummaryItemHedBase-hiFYpQ khUTXM summary-em__hed"><div class="ClampContent-hilPkr jVhSBH"><div class="SummaryItemHedTag-TWblf gxaOcP" data-ttid="SummaryItemHed"><em>Plan, Tras and Automobil</em> at 35: An Oral History of One of the Most Beloved Road Movi Ever Ma</div></div></div></a><div class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ SummaryItemDek-CRfsi iUEiRd ijSOpT jDyfzW summary-em__k">Starrg Steve Mart and John Candy, the John Hugh road trip edy had a nearly four-hour ntime at one pot. 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summary-em__k">This sneak peek of <em>The New Royals</em> reveals fears around the Commonwealth and hope wh the fay—cludg whether Harry and Meghan might e back.</div><div class="SummaryItemByleWrapper-boCfbi hYsZi summary-em__byle-date-in"><div class="SummaryItemBaseByle-fFbXkY gRtaxp summary-em__byle"><div class="summary-em__byle__ntent"><div data-ttid="BylWrapper" class="BylWrapper-KIudk irTIfE byl"><p class="ByleWrapper-jWHrLH iNSiTG byle byl__byle" data-ttid="ByleWrapper" emProp="thor" emType="><span emProp="name" class="ByleNamWrapper-jbHncj fuDQVo"><span data-ttid="ByleName" class="ByleName-kwmrLn cYaBaU byle__name"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BylePreamble-iJolpQ iUEiRd bIbWCO gnILss byle__preamble">By </span>Katie Nicholl</span></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="SummaryItemWrapper-iwvBff fKazuH summary-em summary-em--has-le summary-em--ARTICLE summary-em--no-in summary-em--text-align-left summary-em--layout-placement-text-below 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class="ContentHearDek-bIqFFZ fYeNbg">Wh her impecble makp, tramark bangs, and stunng legs, Cltte Colbert beme Ameri’s hight-paid movie star 1938 by sheer force of will. At Bellerive, the 18th-century plantatn hoe on Barbados where Colbert entertaed Satra, the Harrimans, the Paleys, and the Reagans, the thor rells a woman who played by her own perfectnist l, om the timg wh which she left the screen to the secret liaison wh Clark Gable, her -star <em>It Happened One Night</em>.</div><div class="ContentHearByle-kmPyCa emiglw"><div class="ContentHearByleContent-dpPmNn DRFq"><div data-ttid="BylWrapper" class="BylWrapper-KIudk irTIfE byl ContentHearByl-cZqgyJ bHLeKI"><p class="ByleWrapper-jWHrLH jqYyWD byle byl__byle" data-ttid="ByleWrapper" emProp="thor" emType="><span emProp="name" class="ByleNamWrapper-jbHncj fuDQVo"><span data-ttid="ByleName" class="ByleName-kwmrLn cYaBaU byle__name"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BylePreamble-iJolpQ iUEiRd bIbWCO gnILss byle__preamble">By </span><a class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BaseLk-eNWuiM ByleLk-gEnFiw iUEiRd kIEUAJ lddgzd eErqIx byle__name-lk button" href="/ntributor/amy-fe-lls">Amy Fe Colls</a></span></span></p></div><time data-ttid="ContentHearPublishDate" dateTime="2010-04-23T00:00:00-04:00" class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ ContentHearPublishDate-eIBicG iUEiRd bSlZUC cmPkTr">April 23, 2010</time></div></div></div></div><div class="ContentHearLeadAsset-hGbumP dDDxdb lead-asset ContentHearLeadAssetWrapper-hfXHEc Grck" data-ttid="ContentHearLeadAsset"><figure class="ContentHearLeadAssetContent-kOfYSG dRGWbI"><div class="ContentHearLeadAssetContentMedia-bLEIpi jjhWdS lead-asset__ntent__photo"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW jvZaPI rponsive-asset ContentHearRponsiveAsset-bREgIb hONbnm"><div data-tt="aspect-rat-ntaer" class="AspectRatContaer-bJHpJz eYuCmI"><div class="aspect-rat--overlay-ntaer"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa ContentHearRponsiveAsset-bREgIb hONbnm rponsive-image"><source media="(max-width: 767px)" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w" siz="100vw"/><source media="(m-width: 768px)" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w, 1920w, 2240w" siz="100vw"/><img alt="Image may nta Tie Accsori Accsory Human Person Advertisement Poster Flyer Brochure and Paper" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src="></picture></div></div></span></div></figure></div></div></hear></div><div data-attribute-verso-pattern="article-body" class="ArticlePageContentBackGround-cNiFNN diFyUH article-body__ntent"><div class="ActnBarWrapperContent-lasBkU cAHp"><div class="ActnBarWrapperComponent-cjwxLS bEeSLb"><div data-attr-viewport-monor="" class="ActnBarWrapper-dhxmQh izlawS viewport-monor-anchor"><button id="bookmark" aria-label="Save" class="ActnBarButton-dyFOZU foKBbl bookmark large-screen"><span class="ActnBarSendaryButtonPrimaryIn-isbvyN cAwccV bookmark-button-in"><svg class="in in-bookmark" width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" xmlns="><tle>Save this story</tle><path class="in-bookmark-stroke" d="M11.7661 16.3228L4.5 20.1695V3.5H19.5V20.1695L12.2339 16.3228L12 16.199L11.7661 16.3228Z" stroke-lep="square"/></svg></span><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ ActnBarButtonText-bYXYuh iUEiRd kdAzed gkccfO">Save</span></button></div><div data-attr-viewport-monor="" class="ActnBarWrapper-dhxmQh ledqMp viewport-monor-anchor"><button id="bookmark" aria-label="Save" class="ActnBarButton-dyFOZU ePWKOF bookmark mobile"><span class="ActnBarSendaryButtonPrimaryIn-isbvyN cAwccV bookmark-button-in"><svg class="in in-bookmark" width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" xmlns="><tle>Save this story</tle><path class="in-bookmark-stroke" d="M11.7661 16.3228L4.5 20.1695V3.5H19.5V20.1695L12.2339 16.3228L12 16.199L11.7661 16.3228Z" stroke-lep="square"/></svg></span><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ ActnBarButtonText-bYXYuh iUEiRd kdAzed gkccfO">Save</span></button></div></div></div><div class="ArticlePageChunksContent-etcMtP bwyLBj"><div data-ttid="ArticlePageChunks" class="ArticlePageChunks-fLyCVG eOdfIs"><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK kHBDeH grid grid-margs grid-ems-2 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bjczjj grid-layout--adrail narrow wi-adrail"><div class="GridItem-buujkM stRKV grid--em grid-layout__ntent"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa dEQjuV body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p class="has-dropp">Durg the Amy Awards broadst last sprg, the televisn the Barbados livg room of the late Cltte Colbert was not tuned to the show—not even when, the urse of the ceremony’s obuary montage, her beguilg face flashed past, lghg, a clip om Cecil B. DeMille’s 1934 <em>Cleopatra.</em> The Osr that Colbert had won that same year for <em>It Happened One Night,</em> once a fixture on the bar down the hall, was not visible, eher— had already been shipped off for a Christie’s sale Los Angel. Yet everythg else at Bellerive, the 18th-century plantatn hoe to which Colbert whdrew after her Hollywood reer end 1961, had stayed virtually the same sce her ath on July 30, 1996, at 92. Her lady’s maid of 35 years, Marie Corb, was still paddg quietly whe slippers through the placid ral-stone hoe. Blah Griffh, the ok, was still njurg up Colbert’s favore dish—curried shrimp, lamb chops, apple brown Betty— the reworn kchen, and the homey meals were still beg served skillfully by crisply uniformed maids, the open-air Che paviln by day and by night the formal turquoise-walled dg room.</p><p>For a year followg Colbert’s ath, however, the proprietrs of Bellerive was Helen O’Hagan, Colbert’s clost pann and nfidante of 20 years. The former vice print of public relatns for Saks Fifth Avenue, O’Hagan beme wh the actrs’s passg the sole executor and major beneficiary of the Colbert tate. Heaped on the blue-and-whe floral-prt sofas and the suave 30s Luce tabl were, on this particular night, fan letters, movie stills, and scrapbooks documentg the life of the celluloid godss Hedda Hopper once lled “the smartt, nnit, smootht 18-karat lady I’ve ever seen cross the Hollywood pike.” O’Hagan, her lap lan wh dty albums, sat remiscg about the actrs until nearly midnight, the reverential nce of her words acpanied by the rhythmic lappg of the surf, visible om panels wdows that overlook the prettit ve on the island.</p><p class="paywall"><a href="/hollywood/classic/x">[#image: /photos/54cbf4865e7a91c52822a734]</a></p><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad---ntent"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot---ntent" data-no-id="8kc0zq"></div></div><p class="paywall">“Cltte was really a Renaissance woman—a morn woman ahead of her tim,” O’Hagan relled. Marie terjected her ty doll-voice, “I loved my ar ltle Madame more than the earth.”</p><p class="has-dropp paywall">In the twilight of her movie reer the actrs utned an terviewer, “How uld we talk about Cltte Colbert? There is an old French proverb: ‘Happy untri and hont women have no stori to tell about themselv.’” Perhaps she might have had some tal to tell if she had spoken stead of Lily Eie Chcho, the name given to her at birth. The send child of a pastry-shop owner, Ge Cl Chcho, and Jeanne Loew, Lily was born the Paris suburb of St.-Mandé on September 13, 1903. After M. Chcho suffered bs revers, the fay moved to New York when Lily was three and her brother, Charl, eight.</p><div class="Contaer-bkChBi byNLHx"></div><p class="paywall">The Chchos settled to a fifth-floor walk-up at 226 East 53rd Street. “Cltte said that climbg those stairs every day until the age of 18 is what ma her legs so betiful,” says a iend. M. Chcho found a job as a mor official at First Natnal Cy Bank (Cibank’s precursor), and the children attend grammar school at P.S. 59 on 57th Street. From the earlit age, Mme. Chcho told her dghter that <em>she</em> was the bety the fay, and that ltle Lily was an ugly ducklg. “She gave Cltte a terrific plex,” says Leonora Hornblow, widow of the producer Arthur Hornblow Jr. and a iend of Colbert’s sce 1942. Co Lewis, the dghter of Colbert’s brother, says that Mme. Chcho “clearly favored my father. She thought he uld do no wrong. Aunt Cltte spent her life searchg for her approval.”</p><p class="paywall">Colbert, who had wanted to be a pater ever sce she uld hold a pencil, enrolled Washgton Irvg High School bee of s strong art program. But December 1918, when she was 15, Colbert was unexpectedly thst onto the stage by the school’s elocutn partment. “A girl the class play beme ill,” she told film cric Rex Reed the urse of an unpublished terview late her life. “I was dragged to the productn at the 11th hour bee I was the only one the school who really spoke fluent French.” The play was lled <em>Grammar,</em> and the part was that of “Blanche, Caboset’s dghter.”</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-1 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p class="paywall">Colbert said that as a nsequence “the actg bug took a slice out of me,” and around 1919, when she learned that the Provcetown Playhoe Greenwich Village was payg $75 a week to actrs, she went down wh a iend and land a role a productn lled <em>The Widow’s Veil.</em> In the meantime, she was also earng around $35 a week givg French lsons. Throughout her life, Colbert ntued to thk, dream, and pray French, and spoke only her native tongue wh her mother.</p><p class="paywall">One of Colbert’s stunts seems to have arranged for her to meet the wrer Anne Morrison 1923, durg stg lls for her play <em>The Wild Wttts.</em> Colbert won a ty part, and her Broadway but at the Frazee Theatre on 42ndStreet nsisted of exactly three l: “The party was so lovely. The garn is betiful. I am so hungry.” From then on, Colbert stated, “I never wanted to do anythg else.”</p><p class="has-dropp paywall">Right om the start, the spired young actrs adopted a <em>nom théâtre,</em> selected by her mother. “Cltte”—an appellatn that the actrs erroneoly claimed had never existed until Mme. Chcho ma up—was a dimutive of her father’s middle name, and “Colbert” was plucked om a remote branch of the fay tree.</p><p class="paywall">By the end of 1925, the year of her father’s ath, Colbert had appeared about half a dozen plays, but wh her performance as a kept woman <em>A Kiss a Taxi</em> she leapt to the limelight. The play’s producer, “a shark named Al Woods,” had signed her up for a five-year ntract at $150 a week—enough money to move her fay out of the East Si walk-up to granr acmodatns at 55 Central Park Wt. “We had got to the luxury class,” Colbert said.</p><p class="paywall">Durg the same year, <em>Billboard</em> announced that Woods “has amb plans for her future,” and crics salivated over her. “In Miss Colbert’s bety there is a certa strangens,” wrote one. “Her ey are the only absolutely black ey we ever saw. She lghs all the time and is filled wh life and vivacy, and yet there is a certa mglg of virgy, an air of digny.” Likewise imprsed wh her physil assets, Walter Wchell dubbed her “Legs Colbert.”</p><p class="paywall">One reason Colbert began generatg so much heat was her performance 1927’s <em>The Barker</em> at the Biltmore Theater. She and the novice actor Norman Foster (né Hoeffer), who played her love tert, were rryg on a real-life, torrid, and clanste affair. “Norman was a charmg man—a wholome Amerin boy,” says photographer and Hollywood hosts Jean Howard. When the play traveled to London 1928, the lovers were surreptly wed. “I was so terrified of my mother’s disapproval, I kept the marriage a secret,” Colbert told Reed. She feared Mme. Chcho to such an extent that for the uple’s entire seven-year marriage Colbert ntued to live wh her mother, while Foster mataed a separate rince.</p><p class="paywall">Like many succsful stage actors of the perd, Colbert 1927 began a route of workg the theater at night and filmg durg the day at the studs then flourishg around New York. Her but movie—her only silent picture—was a slapdash unrtakg lled <em>For the Love of Mike,</em> directed by Frank Capra. Disuraged by the unspired rults, Colbert vowed never to do another film. “When I saw myself, I was appalled,” she said. “I was sure nobody would pay to look at me. Apparently I was wrong.”</p><p class="paywall">Colbert, of urse, changed her md about the medium. Around the same time she was appearg on Broadway Eugene O’Neill’s <em>Dynamo</em> (which the March 1929 <em>Vany Fair</em>promoted wh a Steichen portra of the starlet), she ma her first talkie, Paramount’s <em>The Hole the Wall,</em> wh Edward G. Robson. Time prophied that Colbert’s “screen stardom is assured,” and Paramount’s East Coast office the meantime had reward her wh a ntract. Norman Foster also signed wh Paramount, and 1930 the uple -starred <em>Young Man of Manhattan,</em> Gger Rogers’ first movie. (Ironilly, one cric wrote that Foster “did not seem to get any scery to his love scen.”)</p><p class="paywall">Gee Abbott’s <em>Manslghter</em> (1930) end her stt wh Paramount’s Astoria, Queens, stud, om which the pany whdrew 1932. “When I was still the toast of Broadway,” Colbert said, “the stock market crashed, talkg pictur were , and the night only 37 people showed up the dience of the Elmer Rice play <em>See Napl and Die</em> I knew was time to see Hollywood or die.” She and her mother board the Super Chief for California, and the Wt Coast Paramount office dispatched still photographer John Engstead, along wh one producer and a limoe, to greet her at L.A.’s Santa Fe statn. “It wasn’t one of the big-time arrivals,” Engstead noted.</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-2 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p class="paywall">Colbert languished at Paramount for a few years “fluffy, light-head rol which, I felt, did not give spe enough to her talent,” Cecil B. DeMille wrote. The director, however, sudnly rejuvenated her reer when he “stopped her one day on the Paramount lot, and whout any warng or explanatn asked her, ‘How would you like to play the wickest woman the world?’ Cltte’s betiful big ey opened wir and she said: ‘I’d love .’” The part DeMille had md was Poppaea, Emperor Nero’s lasciv wife, for his perverse historil spectacle <em>The Sign of the Cross.</em></p></div></div></div><div class="GridItem-buujkM fVLMby grid--em grid-layout__asi"><div class="StickyBoxWrapper-jfYB kNleGZ sticky-box"><div class="StickyBoxPrimary-dzWDWL cdhYoN sticky-box__primary"><div class="Contaer-bkChBi byNLHx"></div><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--rail"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--rail" data-no-id="qnme6"></div></div><div class="ConsumerMarketgUnThemedWrapper-iUTMTf jssHut nsumer-marketg-un nsumer-marketg-un--display-rail" role="prentatn" aria-hidn="te"><div class="nsumer-marketg-un__slot nsumer-marketg-un__slot--display-rail"></div><div 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ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="0fsllf"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK kHBDeH grid grid-margs grid-ems-2 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bjczjj grid-layout--adrail narrow wi-adrail"><div class="GridItem-buujkM stRKV grid--em grid-layout__ntent"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa dEQjuV body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p class="paywall">While Poppaea was tossg her chaste Christian rival to the lns, Colbert, real life, was menaced by a wolf the person of her -star Fredric March. “Freddie March was the worst womanizer I ever knew,” Colbert told Rex Reed. “His hands had 20 fgers, I swear, and they were always on my ass. I fally said, ‘If you don’t stop I’ll walk right out of the scene and tell Mr. DeMille what you’re dog.’ … So the mera rolled aga. I’m on top of the throne surround by four blacks—they lled them Nubians then, honey—and all the nuchs. The blacks and the nuchs were always shootg craps. Anyway, Mr. DeMille yelled ‘Actn,’ and all of a sudn I felt this hand right around my left cheek and I stopped and walked down to mera and mand to see Mr. DeMille!” Even when John Engstead was takg publicy shots for the movie, March uld not rist fondlg her rrière. One photo, “wh Freddie’s hand wrapped around my rear end,” Colbert said, found s way to the <em>Police Gazette.</em> “And the ptn read, ‘Even if the Mar haven’t land, Freddie March seems to have the suatn well hand.’” Afonted, she stormed to the stud boss’s office, and as a rult, Engstead said, “she was the first star at Paramount to get … approval of her photographs … and was all my flt.”</p><p class="paywall">March was not alone his lt for Colbert. “Everybody on the Paramount lot had a csh on her,” says producer A. C. Lyl, then an office boy. And once the public was treated to the tillatg sight of an unclothed Colbert olickg a bath of ass’s k, she attracted legns of new admirers. “Two men wh rdboard stirred up the k at the other end of the bathtub so would make wav,” she disclosed to Rex Reed, “and the k went below my nippl. DeMille would yell ‘Cut!’ till they got more k above the censorship level. I was sweatg like hell all that hot k!” DeMille, however, was forced to e the footage already shot when, after a dner break, everyone returned to the set to fd that the k had oled down and curdled to chee.</p><p class="has-dropp paywall">Colbert’s reer was given another need boost wh the help of Hollywood’s first power agent, Charl Feldman, who set up the al that would tapult Colbert to the loftit heights of the Hollywood empyrean. For months a script by Robert Risk lled <em>Night B</em>—the madp tale of a naway heirs who falls love wh the virile, sop-seekg journalist guardg her—had been passed around among the studs. MGM fally bought , and then trad and the servic of Clark Gable to Columbia, exchange for the e of Frank Capra for a picture that never materialized. Miriam Hopks and Constance Bent, appalled by the drab wardrobe selectns, had both turned down the movie. Dperate to start shootg, Columbia agreed to the terms—double her ual $25,000 fee and a shootg schle of no more than four weeks—mand by Colbert, who was not thrilled about ncelg a vatn wh Louis B. Mayer’s dghter Edie Goetz. Annoyed by her avarice, Capra rped that she had “a md as bright as a dollar, and a French appreciatn of s lter.” Capra and Colbert did not get along. “He was the one director she really hated,” says Colbert’s iend the wrer Leonard Gershe.</p><p class="paywall">Somehow or other, the ensemble managed to pull self together for the sake of the movie—which, of urse, was rechristened <em>It Happened One Night.</em> To everyone’s great astonishment, the stud found had churned out a smash h. The movie was nomated for five Amy Awards, and won all tegori: bt picture, bt actor, bt actrs, bt director, and bt wrg adaptatn, a feat not repeated until 1975’s <em>One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nt.</em> The 1934 Osr sweep of <em>It Happened One Night</em> was ma even more dramatic by the fact that a ntroversy broke out when neher Bette Davis’s performance <em>Of Human Bondage</em> nor Myrna Loy’s <em>The Th Man</em>had been nomated. Deferrg to protters, the amy spend normal votg pro-cr and allowed special wre- ballots. As a rult, Colbert harbored no hop of wng, and on the night of the ceremony she was tchg a tra for New York. “I was already aboard the Super Chief Los Angel,” Colbert remembered, “when three boys om Columbia htled me to a limoe and off to the old Biltmore Hotel downtown L.A. It was a very formal affair, and there I stood a brown travelg su and hat wh my fur over my arm.” Shirley Temple prented her wh the statuette, and the Super Chief was held until she returned to the statn.</p><p class="has-dropp paywall">An ocean of k has been spilt tryg to expla the endurg magic of <em>It Happened One Night</em>—still Colbert’s most famo role—much of centered, jtifiably, on the film’s pist appeal to a Deprsn dience. But Colbert nfid Leonard Gershe another reason for the spellbdg potency of the silver-screen chemistry. “I asked Cltte once, ‘Did you like Gable?’ And she gave me this funny look. ‘Darlg,’ she said. ‘I did go all the way wh him. Do that answer your qutn?’” Gershe’s story is rroborated by one other source. Barbara Satra says, “Mna Wallis, [producer]Hal Wallis’s sister, was a stg director at Warner’s, and she had all the stars go through her stg uch. When Mna told she had been wh one of Hollywood’s biggt sex symbols, we prsed for more tails. ‘Well,’ she said, holdg up her pkie, ‘he was like this.’ We were so disappoted! I repeated the story at lunch once when we were visg Barbados. After lunch Cltte grabbed me and took me behd a bh. ‘Mna is not the horse’s mouth—I am. He was not like this,’ she said, showg her ltle fger. ‘He was like <em>that!</em>’ And she spread her two hands wi apart. I gus Mna had been kiddg all along.”</p><p class="paywall">Wh <em>It Happened One Night,</em> the actrs had fally crystallized her star style, both physilly and technilly. Billy Wilr, who -wrote three of Colbert’s movi—<em>Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife</em> (1938), <em>Midnight</em> (1939), and <em>Arise, My Love</em> (1940)—says, “Cltte always knew where the joke was. She got the lghs.” Leonora Hornblow adds, “It was no accint that Cltte beme a star. She worked extremely hard at . She was not Hollywood’s greatt bety, but she had somethg more—a face that looked like no one else’s. A face that you <em>remembered</em>.”</p><p class="has-dropp paywall">Matag the Cltte Colbert look—unvaryg except historil rol—entailed an enormo amount of disciple, and more than a few power stggl. Her sistence that she be photographed only om her left si—sets had to be vised and shots tablished to mouflage a nearly visible bump on the right si of her nose—duced Mary Astor to ll Colbert’s right profile “the other si of the moon.” If anybody tried to tamper wh her immutable hairdo, makp, or hem length, she dismissed their attempts wh the words “I’ve been the Cltte Colbert bs a long time.” Paramount’s smetics wizard Wally Wtmore created the origal blueprt for her face makp. But before long, tappg her art stunt’s knowledge of lor and bsh, she surpassed the master. “I’m a good artist,” Colbert told wrer and photographer Michael Teague. “But every day I pat the same picture—my face.”</p><p class="paywall">Her hairdo was nceived by legendary Hollywood iffr Sydney Guilaroff, but soon enough Paramount’s tonsorial experts surrenred their shears, dy, and curlers to her. She never viated om her signature bangs, Leonard Gershe says, bee “she wanted to nceal her low forehead. She was self-nsc about . The basic Cltte was Lily Chcho, but glamorized and turned to an 8-by-10 glossy.”</p><p class="paywall">Her tramark whe Peter Pan llar—nspicuoly evint <em>It Happened One Night</em>—was a sartorial trick vented to elongate her short neck. (Durg rehearsals for the 1956 telest of his play <em>Blhe Spir,</em> Noël Coward told Colbert, who had been abradg his sensive nerv, “If you had a neck, I’d wrg .”) She tght Adolfo, who drsed her equently the last two s of her life, “how to make a llar so that she would not look buried a bloe,” he says. Colbert’s stum by Travis Banton for DeMille’s 1934 <em>Cleopatra,</em> wh their eccentric shoulr straps, were likewise engeered to disguise the same flaw.</p><p class="paywall">In 1935—the first year Colbert was named one of the top 10 stars at the box office—she was paired <em>The Gild Lily</em> wh Fred MacMurray, who would bee her -star six more pictur. “Arthur ed to say she was the only actrs who uld make Fred look sexy,” says Leonora Hornblow. She was also teamed that year wh Charl Boyer <em>Private Worlds,</em> the send of a tr of movi they did together—and Colbert, tranged om Norman Foster and goad by the meddlome Mme. Chcho, nearly ma the mistake of marryg him. “I had a mad csh on Charl, even though I uldn’t unrstand a goddamn word he said,” Colbert told Rex Reed. “He asked me to marry him several tim and I told him to go back to France and get a grip on himself. But then [ 1934] I went to New York for a s operatn and was so lonely I started to have send thoughts.” At last, givg , she phoned to accept his proposal—but she uldn’t reach him as he was “on lotn, Poland or someplace. Four days later I wasn’t feelg so bad, so I let pass. It’s jt as well.”</p><p class="has-dropp paywall">The chronic s ndn that nearly sent her to the altar wh Boyer also brought to her life the man who would bee her send hband, Joel Jay “Jack” Prsman, an ear-nose-and-throat physician and U.C.L.A. profsor. Colbert mataed she first met him his office as a patient—a tale fay lore ntradicts. “I always heard Aunt Cltte met Uncle Jack as a rult of a dner party she gave while she was still married to Norman Foster,” Co Lewis says. “My father, like my grandmother, never liked Norman. At this dner my father end up hlg Foster off, flatteng him out, and breakg his nose. Aunt Cltte took him to the bt surgeon town to have his nose fixed—and that turned out to be Jack Prsman.” Old prs clippgs, which dutifully reported every ailment Colbert suffered, noted that on Augt 25, 1933, a Dr. Prsman had assisted an appenctomy on the star. By this date, seems, the ear-nose-and-throat practner had begun to make a specialty of Colbert, if not of the appendix.</p><p class="has-dropp paywall">In Augt 1935, Colbert fally obtaed a Mexin divorce om Foster, who, one newspaper em noted, had been required durg their marriage to apply for a date “ the manner of an ordary suor.” Foster had not been stg home idly between “dat” wh his wife, however; as soon as their divorce was fal, he married Loretta Young’s sister Sally Blane, and went on to a rpectable reer as a director. “Cltte was termed to make her send marriage work,” Leonora Hornblow says. “She felt guilty about Norman bee she had never given the marriage a fair chance. But she also held her mother rponsible for g .” Leonard Gershe adds, “Cltte never really got over Norman. She loved the memory of their passn. It was the only time she ever really experienced . But if she had stayed the marriage wh Norman, she never would have bee Cltte Colbert. Beg Cltte is what subdued all her sexual drive.”</p><p class="paywall">To rce the wag time required by California law and to avoid publicy, Colbert and Prsman were married by a jtice of the peace Yuma, Arizona, on Christmas Eve 1935. Shortly before, Colbert had started buildg a $200,000 whe neo-Geian dream hoe at 615 North Farg Road Holmby Hills. Digned by the fashnable archect Wallace Neff, was rated wh the help of stumer Adrian, Billy Ha, and Hazel Ray Davis, an eclectic mélange of perds and mos—English, Che, and high Hollywood morne. She planned for the hoe to acmodate her mother, who lived there ially. When Edie Goetz learned of Colbert’s marriage plans, she mand of her iend, “Do you want this marriage to work?” Colbert rpond, “Of urse”—provokg Goetz to exclaim, “Well then, move your mother out of the hoe!” Embolned at last at age 32 to sever the apron strgs, Colbert built a hoe for her mother nearby and stalled her there style. “She kept her mother very expensively, wh a r and driver,” Helen O’Hagan says. Like a dutiful French hoewife, every Friday night Colbert assembled the entire clan for dner.</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-3 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p class="paywall">The marriage between Prsman and Colbert was “pannable,” Leonora Hornblow says. Both were wholly dited to their work, and highly distguished their fields. The son of a Philalphia fabric wholaler, Prsman had attend the Universy of Virgia and Harvard Medil School before gog to California, where he helped found U.C.L.A.’s Divisn of Head and Neck Surgery. His ft surgil touch was so renowned that when Samuel Goldwyn’s wife, Franc, elected to have her face lifted, she sisted on Dr. Prsman. She may have requted the kdly doctor for another reason as well. “Jack Prsman was the bt-lookg man, darlg,” Jean Howard says. “What we ed to ll a ‘charmer.’”</p><p class="paywall">In 1938—the year Colbert, wh an aggregate salary of $426,944, was named by the U.S. Treasury Department as the send-hight wage earner Hollywood (after Louis B. Mayer) and the fourth-hight-paid rporate employee Amer-i—the Prsmans fally found time for a belated honeymoon. Their four-month holiday, which took them to Italy, France, and St. Anton, Atria, for skig, was btally terpted by the arrival of Nazi troops Vienna. “German soldiers thronged the streets and people were heilg Hler all over the place,” Colbert said. “It ma me so sad and fur.”</p><p class="has-dropp paywall">Back Hollywood, Leonora Hornblow rells, “the mute she me home om the stud she was Mrs. Joel Jay Prsman. That was the name she ed on her statnery.” Early her marriage Colbert learned not to expect her hband to rt her to gala affairs or movie premier. “The last premiere I took him to—oh, was years ago,” Colbert told a reporter 1962, “I heard a loud snore. That was . A surgeon has a hard day. Mt he have to suffer at night, too?” Prsman eventually fell so far out of the Hollywood loop that one eveng when he acpanied his wife to a party the doctor spent most of the night talkg to a blon he had never before met. On the way home Colbert asked her hband if he was aware whose attentn he had managed to monopolize. “No, who was she?” he quired. “That,” she replied, “was Marilyn Monroe!”</p><p class="paywall">Though Louella Parsons, wh jtifitn, rated the Prsmans’ marriage “one of Hollywood’s most succsful,” the uple did experience their share of tribulatns. “They wanted very much to have children. But by the time they started tryg, was too late,” says Helen Prsman, the widow of Jack’s attorney brother, Harold. “It was very sad.” The problem, seems, was not jt that Colbert had postponed motherhood for the sake of her reer. Prsman may also have been renred sterile as a rult of ntractg the mumps at age 19. At one pot the uple nsired adoptn. “Some tws me on the market out Hollywood,” a iend remembers. “Through his medil nnectns, Jack heard about them. But at the last mute they changed their mds. Those tws turned out to be the on Joan Crawford took.”</p><p class="has-dropp paywall">Perhaps was Colbert’s tratn at beg prived of a child, or maybe was only the ual temptatns of Hollywood, that led her, jt twice, to ntemplate actns that might have jeopardized her marriage. Colbert always spoke admirgly of Ray Milland, wh whom she ma three films, and was probably wh as much quettish regret as llegial rpect that she relled him. While they were makg <em>Skylark</em> (1941), Milland, an irristible Lothar, proposned her. After some hatn Colbert fally nsented to an assignatn at her secretary’s apartment Wtwood. “On the way there, she said to herself, ‘No, I jt n’t do .’ And she turned around and drove home,” says a Hollywood source. “Cltte’s problem, you see, was that she jt uld not lie. It was not her character.”</p><p class="paywall">In the early 40s durg a trip to Sun Valley (where Colbert’s skig prows was renowned), she sudnly beme fatuated wh a powerful film-dtry executive. If, as one timate claims, she briefly ntemplated a liaison wh this man, she quickly me to her sens when Prsman beme a manr the Navy Medil Corps, statned as a flight surgeon on a Pacific battlhip. In the end, the iend nclus, “Cltte never, never cheated on Jack.”</p><p class="paywall">Hollywood folklorists, at least sce the 40s, have recurrently lked Marlene Dietrich’s name to Colbert’s. Columnist Liz Smh theoriz that the legend of a sapphic romance between the two Paramount divas probably n be traced back to a much-published photograph of Dietrich and Colbert slidg down a “chute-the-chute” together, the French actrs fortably wedged between her German unterpart’s bare and shapely legs. Snapped 1935 at a party Carole Lombard gave at a seasi amement park, the picture has evolved over the years to a kd of lbian talisman. Leonard Gershe says, “Cltte said some photographer phed her up there. Anyway, Marlene and Cltte didn’t even like each other. Dietrich scribed her as ‘that ugly Cltte Colbert, so shopgirl French.’” Jean Howard also rejects the mor pletely. “Cltte was <em>not</em> a physil girl.” As ristant to bunkg as most myths, the nard of Colbert and Dietrich’s supposed affair has assumed a life of s own. Jt two weeks after Colbert’s ath, the <em>Natnal Enquirer</em> ran a story, tossg Garbo’s name for good measure, headled secret cltte lbert took to her grave—she was a lbian.</p><p class="has-dropp paywall">Durg the war, Colbert—whose per-picture rate now hovered between $150,000 and $200,000—ma about two movi a year. Simultaneoly, she volunteered wh the Red Cross, participated the Hollywood Victory Caravan, and etted about relativ strand occupied France. In 1942’s <em>The Palm Beach Story,</em> Colbert proved herself at 39 still to be, Graham Greene’s words, “the most charmg light edy actrs on the screen.” Colbert’s one great wartime picture, for which she received an Amy Award nomatn, was David O. Selznick’s synoptic <em>Sce You Went Away</em> (1944), tend to apotheosize the women at the home ont the same way that his <em>Gone wh the Wd</em> had exalted the bell of the Civil War. For Hollywood aficnados, the enormoly stly parable ($3.257 ln) is bt remembered as the backdrop agast which producer Selznick, then 41 and married, lnched his tumultuo love affair wh 24-year-old Jennifer Jon—even as he oversaw the performance of Robert Walker, his paramour’s hband and the father of her two children, the same film. Further snarlg this tangled ske of emotns, Selznick, early the productn, ma an awkward pass at Colbert, wh the rult that the great filmmaker end up wrg a letter of apology to Prsman.</p><p class="paywall">Jennifer Jon reflects: “Consirg that she was a iend of Irene Selznick’s [David O.’s wife] and Edie Goetz [his sister--law], Cltte was always very charmg and lightful to me. When we were shootg the scene wh the three of walkg together a railroad statn—Cltte the middle, Shirley Temple and me on eher si—she looked down and said, ‘Well! There are three pairs of pretty good-lookg legs here.’ It gave me que a boost! I tell you, she was a grand lady—a mensch profsnally. She uldn’t have been iendlier to a neophyte—pecially, if you will, one who was a srlet woman.”</p><p class="has-dropp paywall">In 1944, after 14 years, Colbert’s ntract wh Paramount expired. Her last movie for the stud was a vapid edy, <em>Practilly Yours,</em> which upled her aga wh Fred MacMurray, and though Colbert acknowledged the stud’s generosy, she was exhilarated to be pennt at last. “I believe that I have reached a stage where nothg is gaed by a long-term ntract,” she remarked. “Now I am gog to do what I wish.”</p><p class="paywall">One of the bt cisns she ma after her liberatn om her stud was to take the starrg role <em>Tomorrow Is Forever</em> (1946), oppose Orson Well. Parisian playwright Pierre Barillet says he had heard that while enactg the film’s most melodramatic scene, Colbert leaned her lugubr face on Well’s knee as directed—only to disver that the actor, as a prank, had put a balloon si his pants and was pumpg up to make look as if he were gettg an erectn. “When I asked her about the episo,”Barillet says, “she refed to discs . Where sex was ncerned, she was very lite. Yet, at the same time, she loved to e slang words other ntexts.”</p><p class="paywall">Patricia Meda (Mrs. Joseph Cotten), who had a small part another of Colbert’s 1946 releas, <em>The Secret Heart,</em> says, “Cltte loved to swear! If you ask me, she was a mixture of a sailor and a duchs. We had been rehearsg together for a week. Came the day we were to shoot, I was fally lled onto the set. I said, ‘Good morng, Miss Colbert.’ She replied, ‘Who the fuck are you?’ I looked behd me and realized she was talkg to <em>me.</em> ‘I’m Patricia Meda. We’ve been rehearsg all week.’ ‘Well, what the Devil have you done wh your face?’ she mand. I explaed that I had jt e om the makp man. ‘Go wash your face!’ she shouted. I told her I uldn’t—he was so nice, he had worked so awfully hard. And she asked, ‘Do you want to be a star the makp room or on the screen?’ It was te—MGM had a set face that ma everyone look like Margaret O’Brien. Then, toward the end of the day they were dog a shot over my shoulr of Cltte’s face. At five, she says, ‘O.K., that’s . I’m out of here!’ The meraman said, ‘Miss Colbert, jt one last close-up.’ And she said, ‘They’ve seen close-ups of me for 20 years. Why not do one of what <em>I’ve</em> been lookg at?’—and she left. Cltte Colbert was BIG—and as hont as the California sun.”</p><p class="has-dropp paywall">Colbert had two good reasons for her proviso—not unual among stars—that she be off the set by five o’clock. First, as she was now past 40, she felt that her face would look fatigued by that hour. Send, she wanted to go home to Jack. Bee she was so flexible on this pot, however, she end up losg a job she badly need to mata her standg Hollywood. In 1947, buoyed up by her latt—and, as turned out, her last—mercial succs, a back-to-the-farm farce lled <em>The Egg and I</em> (the penultimate Colbert-MacMurray vehicle), Colbert was next led up to play the wife Frank Capra’s <em>State of the Unn</em> oppose Spencer Tracy. But Capra, refg to grant her the five p.m. cutoff time, brought Kathare Hepburn stead.</p><p class="paywall">Possibly the real culpr the <em>State of the Unn</em> bacle was neher Capra nor Hepburn, but Colbert’s brother. Te to form, Mme. Chcho had broken up her dghter’s thrivg workg relatnship wh Feldman by sistg that she employ her son as an agent stead. “My brother, Charl, God bls his soul, was my agent,” Colbert told Rex Reed. “And God save me.” Leonora Hornblow says potedly, “Charl was petent. His mother built him up so much he jt assumed everyone else was jealo of him. My hband told Cltte, ‘He is losg good opportuni for you.’ Everyone who knew her and red about her said the same thg.” Eventually, Colbert mtered the urage to fire him, but not before more damage was done.</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-4 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p class="paywall">The next blow to Colbert’s star stat me as a rult of an jury she staed while filmg <em>Three Came Home</em>(1950), a harrowg real-life acunt of a woman’s ternment a Japane prisoner-of-war mp. Colbert took the film’s grty realism so much earnt that for the sake of thenticy she allowed herself to appear sweaty and unkempt, and even permted the forbidn shots of her right profile. But she rried her qut for verisiu too far when, on the last day of shootg, she sisted on playg her own vlent rape scene rather than enlist a stuntwoman for the task. “I ptured a disc, cracked a vertebra, and land the hospal,” she told Rex Reed. It might all have been worth her while—she earned cril plds for her efforts—but for the fact that she was slated to beg shootg Twentieth Century Fox’s All About Eve immediately afterward, playg the role of Margo Channg, a character that had been wrten for her. “Fox uldn’t have been nicer,” Colbert told a reporter. “They waed two months for me, and Joe Mankiewicz, the director, was adorable.… Eventually they went wh Bette Davis, who was fantastic, as you well know.” Today is nearly impossible to image anyone but Bette Davis rnatg that superb role. Yet Joseph Mankiewicz’s stg of Anne Baxter as Eve Harrgton mak much more sense light of his tentn for Colbert to play the malevolent syphant’s mentor. “Joe’s ia origally was that Anne Baxter as a young girl looked very much like me,” Colbert said. “And that was the pot of , that this young girl had this fixatn about this actrs.… When Bette did the role, beme a whole different thg.… I cried for two years over that.”</p><p class="paywall">In 1982, at the Amerin Film Instute’s tribute to Frank Capra L.A. (Colbert and he had fally renciled), the actrs was wag for an elevator when Bette Davis sudnly stung her wh the barbed remark “I got even, didn’t I?” Colbert relled to Reed, “She never revered om the fact that 1934, when she was up for <em>Of Human Bondage</em>, I won the Osr for <em>It Happened One Night.</em> Then, years later, she got the role of Margo Channg, which would have been one of the plum rol of my reer. She had been stg on this thg for 50 years and I had fotten all about ! Oh well, as I have always said, the bt rol were bch, and she proved .”</p><p class="paywall">Takg advantage of a U.S. law that allowed a portn of e earned abroad to rema untaxed, Colbert went to Europe om 1951 to 1953 to make two movi, Outpost Malaya and Dghters of Dty. Though her film reer had slipped to an irreversible cle, fancially, at least, she was excellent shape. On weekends the Prsmans would fly to their Palm Sprgs untry hoe the Beechcraft Bonanza sgle-enge plane that Colbert had given her hband as a prent. They also bought a ranch Northern California, where the doctor voted himself to raisg show ttle. Colbert rented a ttage Cap-Ferrat, too, reasong that would look too ostentat if she traveled to France simply to buy her ctom-ma Anglisano sho Paris. “Cltte was extravagant,” says adman Peter Rogers. “I never, ever saw her qutn the price of anythg.”</p><p class="paywall">Solvent enough to turn down a ln-dollar broadst al wh NBC 1954, Colbert nohels was not above lendg her talents to the young medium of televisn. Among her several televised theatril engagements the 50s was Noël Coward’s Blhe Spir of 1956 (-starrg Lren Ball as the ghost wife), which ocsned the disgntled playwright’s famo remark about her neck. “The problem between her and Noël Coward was that he expected her to be letter-perfect each day at rehearsals, and Cltte sisted on holdg the script,” Leonard Gershe says. Tired of Coward’s relentls badgerg, Colbert one day said self-fense, “I know my part backwards.” To which he replied, “And that’s exactly how you’re readg .”</p><p class="paywall">That same year, Colbert ma her Broadway eback, fillg for Margaret Sullavan for two months Carolyn Green’s Jan, at the Plymouth Theater. “I’ve wanted to get back on the stage for a long time,” Colbert told the New York Journal-Amerin, “but you know my hband. He didn’t want me away.” Hband or no, once Colbert reverted to the theater, there was no turng back. In 1958 she was rned wh Charl Boyer Llie Stevens’s <em>The Marriage-Go-Round</em>, which ran for 450 performanc and toured 13 stat. She returned regularly to the theater up through the mid-80s. (Her last show was 1985’s <em>Aren’t We All?</em> wh Rex Harrison, which traveled throughout the untry and for five months Atralia.) “I was on the screen for 30 years and never did get ed to gettg up at five the morng,” she explaed. “In the theater you stay up late, and you sleep late the morng. It’s a lic life.”</p><p class="paywall">“Cltte was so smart—she knew the right moment to leave Hollywood,” says Leonard Gershe. “She arrived at that realizatn at a dner at the Goetz’ 1958. Natalie Wood me around and kissed all good night, sayg she was leavg bee she had to be makp at six a.m. I saw a look e over Cltte’s face—she had set her md. ‘What the hell do I need to be here for?’ she asked herself. ‘I’ll probably never have to be makp aga at six a.m.’” Observ Nancy Reagan, who first met Colbert 1950 at the hoe of MGM chief Dore Schary, “I admire Cltte. She had the sense to know when to pull back.”</p><p class="paywall">In 1958, while Colbert was Europe wag for her Paris wardrobe for <em>The Marriage-Go-Round</em>, she entered to a volatile and plited iendship wh a woman which she me to regret bterly. One eveng at a nightclub on Capri, Colbert stck up a nversatn wh a wealthy pater and photographer named Verna Hull, the dghter of Garbo’s psychiatrist, Dr. Vernon Herbst, and the stepdghter of a Sears Roebuck heirs. Hull’s openg le to Colbert was “I miss my r”—a Lln Contental that she had exchanged wh Sammy Davis Jr. for his Thunrbird. Colbert—who had been iendly wh Frank Satra and his Rat Pack ever sce the sger’s pal Pat DiCic latched onto the movie star on a tra ri to California—replied, “I drove that r once, down to Frank Satra’s Palm Sprgs. I liked so much I went out and bought one jt like blue.” They saw each other a send time, and, lighted by Hull’s backstage vis after the openg of <em>The Marriage-Go-Round</em> at the Plymouth Theatre, Colbert lled Jean Howard for Hull’s telephone number. From that moment on, the two beme separable. They pated together, traveled together, and even rented tw pentho at 136 East 64th Street, which the drs signer Sophie Gimbel of Saks Fifth Avenue (owned by her hband’s fay) found for them near her own town hoe. The iendship flowered bee of their mutual tert art, and bee Colbert, whose theatril obligatns now kept her apart om her hband for months at a time, “loathed beg alone— was a kd of paranoia. 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summary-em__ntent--no-bric"><a class="SummaryItemHedLk-civM fPFrPI summary-em-trackg__hed-lk summary-em__hed-lk" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-id="em-hed-3" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" href=" target="_self"><div data-ttid="ClampWrapper" class="ClampWrapper-kZxfkB hTTNGO clamp SummaryItemHedBase-hiFYpQ cQmBqp summary-em__hed"><div class="ClampContent-hilPkr jVhSBH"><div class="SummaryItemHedTag-TWblf gxaOcP" data-ttid="SummaryItemHed">Netflix’s <em>Murdgh Murrs</em> Is Officially Returng for Season 2: Exclive</div></div></div></a><div class="SummaryItemByleWrapper-boCfbi hYsZi summary-em__byle-date-in"><div class="SummaryItemBaseByle-fFbXkY gRtaxp summary-em__byle"><div class="summary-em__byle__ntent"><div data-ttid="BylWrapper" class="BylWrapper-KIudk irTIfE byl"><p class="ByleWrapper-jWHrLH iNSiTG byle byl__byle" data-ttid="ByleWrapper" emProp="thor" emType="><span emProp="name" class="ByleNamWrapper-jbHncj fuDQVo"><span data-ttid="ByleName" class="ByleName-kwmrLn cYaBaU byle__name"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BylePreamble-iJolpQ iUEiRd bIbWCO gnILss byle__preamble">By </span>Savannah Walsh</span></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></li><li><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ RecircMostPopularSummaryItem-jQxxiw bijeSB ad ad--asi"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--asi" data-no-id="u16s"></div></div></li></ul><div class="RecircMostPopularFooter-enPjgs eAuebe"></div></div></div></div><div class="StickyBoxPlaceholr-grPmrg dxAvXx"></div></div></div></div><div data-ttid="RowWrapper" class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="f87el"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK kHBDeH grid grid-margs grid-ems-2 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bjczjj grid-layout--adrail narrow wi-adrail"><div class="GridItem-buujkM stRKV grid--em grid-layout__ntent"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa dEQjuV body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p class="paywall">Around 1960, Hull, Colbert, Aled and Jeanne Vanrbilt, and Colbert’s old <em>Manslghter</em> director, Gee Abbott (a oime flame of Hull’s), went on holiday to Puerto Ri. On a whim, Hull and Colbert cut the vatn short and flew om that island to Barbados. Not long before, Colbert, seekg relief om her irrated s, had vised Noël Coward Jamai. She felt so well at Coward’s that she ma up her md to buy a hoe there. But then stage signer Oliver Msel, a Barbados rint, tervened, suggtg that she might fd his island even more to her taste. “The mute she got off the plane Barbados, she jt knew that was where she want-ed to spend the rt of her life,” says Leonard Gershe. Almost immediately Colbert found the hoe she wanted. Called Burwas and owned by a whe-haired Brish gentleman named Sir Rupert Briarcliff, was the island’s only plantatn hoe ontg the beach.</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-5 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p class="paywall">To help pay for the hoe that would bee Bellerive, Colbert accepted a role her last movie, <em>Parrish</em> (1961), -starrg Karl Maln and Troy Donahue. Every day Hull, who end up buyg the most hoe next door to Bellerive, would drive Colbert om Manhattan up to the movie’s lotn the Connecticut tobac fields. Sophie Gimbel created Colbert’s wardrobe for the movie, and was at this time that Gimbel’s young iend and protégée at Saks, Helen O’Hagan, beme acquated wh the actrs. “Workg wh Troy Donahue really fished her off wh the movi,” Peter Rogers says. She felt “he treated her like an old lady.”</p><p class="has-dropp paywall">Colbert planned for Bellerive to be the Shangri-la where she and Prsman—whose employer, U.C.L.A., enforced man-datory retirement at age 67—would fally be able to slow down and enjoy each other’s pany. They sold the Holmby Hills rince 1963 (many of the furnishgs om North Farg Road were stalled at Bellerive), and Prsman rented a small hoe on Readcrt Drive Beverly Hills. When he me to Bellerive, Prsman garned—Colbert had bought a plot of land across the street, which he planted wh u tre—and tkered wh his boat. “One day I was helpg Jack move his boat,” Che-art aler Bob Ellsworth rells. “I proposed that, after his sabbatil started, he should e wh me to Bangkok and have shipbuilrs there make him a new boat. His rponse was ‘What did Cltte say?’ I explaed I hadn’t asked her yet. He said, ‘No one our entire life has ever asked me first.’ I thk that says a lot about their marriage. It wasn’t that she was the boss—she was the star.”</p><p class="paywall">At Bellerive, Colbert was equently hosts to neighbors Pamela and Averell Harriman, De and John Hez, and Ronald and Marietta Tree and their iends Bill and Babe Paley. Slim Keh and Lillian Hellman vised often, as did Prcs Margaret, who stayed wh her chum Verna Hull. “Cltte was so warm and genero, she drew people to her like a hearth,” says Leonora Hornblow.</p><p class="paywall">At some pot durg Colbert’s iendship wh Hull, mors sprang up ncerng the exact nature of their relatnship. “Paris, London, New York—the whole world was talkg,” says one observer. Hull had even forewarned Colbert that people might misterpret their iendship, but somehow never registered wh the actrs as a real possibily. Leonora Hornblow says, “She felt so secure who she was, never occurred to her people actually <em>would</em> talk. When fally got back to her what people were sayg, she was appalled. She screamed! She said, ‘I thought everyone knew I liked men.’” And was there any tth to the speculatns? “Cltte was <em>not</em> someone you take liberti wh,” Hornblow says. “Not even wh a surgil mask and bber glov!” another iend exclaims. Gershe adds, “Cltte loved to flirt wh men but she liked women for pannship. The women Cltte’s life were never lovers—they were more like ladi--wag. Cltte was always cur about everyone else’s sex life. But for her was like listeng to fairy tal. I wonred whether wasn’t to pensate for the fact there was really nothg gog on her own life.” Partly on Gershe’s advice, she kept Hull her life—but soon, as Hornblow says, Colbert would “e the day she ever beme iends wh Verna.”</p><p class="has-dropp paywall">In 1966, when Frank Satra cid to spend one of his several honeymoons wh Mia Farrow at Bellerive, Colbert nverted a small outbuildg on the property to a gut ttage. Cltte threw the newlyweds a big party, and Satra—who Mia Farrow says “was always on his bt behavr wh Cltte”—oked a spaghetti-and-meatball dner. But after three days, Colbert said, Farrow and Satra “were barely speakg to each other. The night I found Mia wanrg on the beach, her hair soakg wet om the ra … I uld see the handwrg on the wall.” Colbert led Farrow up the outsi stairs to her bedroom and dried her hair. The problem, emerged, was that Farrow had jt been offered a part abroad the film <em>A Dandy Aspic,</em> and she didn’t know if Satra would acpany her if she accepted. “You <em>should</em> work,” Colbert advised her. “But don’t ever let Frank see you like this.” Farrow says, “Cltte was quick to mother me, soothe Frank. She seemed perfect. What did Cltte Colbert ever do wrong?”</p><p class="has-dropp paywall">By the holiday season of 1967, Prsman had at last moved om California permanently and joed his wife at Bellerive. But already, on the plane to Barbados, he was not well. Prsman was diagnosed wh liver ncer, and his ndn terrated rapidly. As he lay dyg, Colbert received a strange bullet om Frank Buono, her tate manager. Via a letter, Verna Hull had begged him to warn Colbert that Prsman might at any moment seize the gun om the Bellerive safe and kill her, possibly himself too, orr to take her wh him when he died. Offend and crlo, Colbert marched through the openg the fence that separated her property om Hull’s, exhortg her neighbor’s startled maid: “Tell your mistrs I will never see her or speak to her aga for the rt of my life!” And to make sure Hull knew she meant to stand by her words, she returned everythg Hull had ever given her durg their ne-year iendship.</p><p class="paywall">Prsman had never been happy about Hull—Mia Farrow says the doctor ed to refer to Hull as “the monster.” Probably he disliked her for the same reason he felt uneasy about sociale Jerry Zipk. A iend says, “Cltte was always quotg Zipk, referrg to him” a way that threatened not only Prsman’s own pre-emence her life but her own domn over herself. “The end of her iendship wh Hull was histrnic—and fal,” says the same observer. “But bee Cltte behaved like a woman srned,” the mors flared up aga, wh even greater vilence. Where once there had been only a fence, a wall went up separatg the two properti, and, as one wns said, “the island was divid two.”</p><p class="has-dropp paywall">To hasten her hband to California for treatment, Colbert asked Satra to send his Learjet to Barbados. As that vehicle was beg ed “to transfer his chums to the Rose Bowl,” Colbert relled to Rex Reed, Satra stead “sent a passenger plane” staffed wh a U.C.L.A. medil crew. It st her $27,500, she noted—and “a week later the prs praised him for flyg Dr. Joel Jay Prsman to U.C.L.A. at his own expense. Satra never nied . It was the only time I was ever upset by him.”</p><p class="paywall">Prsman died on Febary 26, 1968, two weeks after his 67th birthday, leavg his widow, her words, “pletely shattered.” Prsman’s body was flown back to Barbados and placed, at his requt, above ground a traverte msolm, signed by Colbert, the cemetery of St. Peter’s Church, not far om Bellerive. Her mother, her early 90s and firm, me to live wh her. She broke her hip, and was an obstrepero patient. When Mme. Chcho stubbornly refed to take food one day, Colbert’s maid, Marie, told her, “But Madame sists you mt eat somethg.” The dowager mand, “Who is this ‘Madame’ you keep referrg to?” Marie answered, “Your dghter.” To which the elrly woman replied, “I am the only Mme. Colbert. Peepee on my dghter!” Helen O’Hagan says, “All those years the mother was really livg virly through Cltte.” Leonard Gershe adds, “She felt all should have happened to <em>her.</em>” The redoubtable old matriarch fally died April 1970, “of boredom,” Colbert said, and her ash were laid to rt an elaborate stone urn near the foot of her son--law’s tomb.</p><p class="has-dropp paywall">Colbert’s brother, Charl, died the followg year, and for the first time her life Colbert was relieved—physilly and fancially if not spirually—of her burnsome fay. “It’s a strange feelg,” Colbert reflected, “when you’re sudnly ee and nobody really r where you go or what you do.” Seekg her roots, she took an apartment Paris on the Rue Raynouard, where she spent the tumn season om around 1970 to 1975, at the same time matag a Manhattan rental. “But she got bored and prsed Paris,” says Pierre Barillet. “All her iends were workg.”</p><p class="paywall">In 1974 she returned aga to the theater wh Jerome Chodorov’s <em>A Communy of Two,</em> but not before travelg to L.A. to have her neck lifted—the only plastic surgery she ever seems to have had. “When I saw her afterwards I told her she had wasted her money,” says Peter Rogers, for whose “What Be a Legend Most?” Blackglama advertisg mpaign she posed twice. “I uldn’t see any difference. Cltte somehow had already mastered the illn of youth.”</p><p class="paywall">Colbert’s preternatural agelsns was nstantly extolled the favorable notic she received for her plays. When she opened <em>The Kgfisher</em> wh Rex Harrison 1978, the New York <em>Daily News</em> ghed that she “was the lady that time fot.”</p><p class="paywall">An vatn to Bellerive beme, among top-drawer social typ, one of the most veted, stat-nferrg statns on the map, particularly after the Reagans’ Easter vis 1982. As Cltte was a great believer route, the activi at Bellerive durg the Print and First Lady’s vis progrsed very much acrdg to ctom. Colbert habually breakfasted alone by her bedroom, emergg jt before lunch fas-tidly ma up and meticuloly iffed—the face and hair required one hour. Twice a day she would swim the backstroke for half an hour, wearg a bathg p, a long-sleeved leotard (to protect her arms om the sun), and her full maquillage. Lunch was served the pagoda on Pierre Dx place mats, tea took place at five, drks were passed before dner, and the eveng guts ate their meal doors, where fger bowls and her Spo Darlgton or Crown Derby cha were rigur. “She’d get so nervo that everythg had to be impecble,” says Leonard Gershe. “She went to hysterics the day Brooke Astor, who was stayg wh Pamela Harriman, me over for tea—and Mrs. Astor never even went doors. She had a f, too, before Joan Colls and Rob Hurlstone vised 1992. But the mute she heard them g up the stairs, the actrs Cltte took over. Leonora whispered to me, ‘The curta’s gog up!’ She really was vulnerable.”</p><p class="has-dropp paywall">If Colbert happened to be alone at Belle-rive—“She hated seeg those blank spac on her gut lendar,” says stume-jewelry executive John Kleschmidt—she would ask Marie to move to the green bedroom oppose hers. She would sometim also requt that her iends the llectorsEia and Alighiero Micheli, who had their own hoe on Barbados, occupy the gut ttage for a week or 10 days to keep her pany. And durg her stays New York, where she now had a rental apartment on Fifth Avenue, Helen O’Hagan took to sleepg on the livg-room sofa so Colbert wouldn’t be alone. In 1984, Colbert upgrad to a two-bedroom apartment the same buildg, and O’Hagan moved . “I was workg at Saks and had to be bed much earlier than Cltte. But if she saw that I had fallen asleep, she’d wake me up orr to talk. She need somebody wh her all the time,” O’Hagan says. “There was a 27-year age difference between . So I was like her dghter. We were very lucky to fd each other at that time our liv.”</p><p class="paywall">Substutg them for her real k, Cltte drew to her sphere what she lled her “fay of iends.” To their amiable homag were add stutnal aclas om around the world. In 1980 she received Chigo’s Sarah Siddons Society award, and 1984, the same year as her Lln Center Film Society tribute, a buildg at the Kfman Astoria Studs Queens, where she had ma her first Paramount movi, was named for her. Her native untry rated her wh the Legn of Honor 1988, which she cherished at least as much as her Osr. And 1989 the Kennedy Center for the Performg Arts prented her wh an award for lifetime achievement the arts, a distctn which Nancy Reagan says she “had phed hard for” durg her hband’s admistratn. At the ceremony Gregory Peck mend Colbert as “the bt thg we’ve gotten om France sce the Statue of Liberty.”</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-6 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p class="paywall">Colbert had one last crack at actg, playg a blueblood matron who protects her homicidal dghter--law the 1987 NBC mi-seri <em>The Two Mrs. Grenvill,</em> based on the bt-sellg novel by Domick Dunne. “She tly fought for the part,” Dunne says. “It was the first time years a lead role for an olr woman was available. The producer wanted Loretta Young, but then she turned down. Gger Rogers, Joan Fontae, Bette Davis, Olivia Havilland, Jane Wyman—they all wanted .” Colbert triumphed over her petors, and the Goln Globe she won for her portrayal found a place near her Osr at Bellerive.</p><p class="has-dropp paywall">‘I‘ve had a lovely life,” Colbert remarked her 80s. “I’ve been blsed. The only bad thg is that my hband died much too soon.” But Colbert unrwent one last reversal: March of 1993 she suffered a bilatg stroke. O’Hagan put Colbert the hospal, where the actrs spent 17 days, and hired three private nurs to mister to her at home. After leavg work for seven weeks, O’Hagan fally took early retirement om Saks to re for her partially paralyzed iend two weeks out of every month. The extend “fay of iends” rallied. “We went down to spell Helen,” Liz Smh says. “Her post-stroke look was not bad at all,” says Kleschmidt. “Fortunately, she didn’t suffer any facial disfigurement. Her speech was a ltle slurred at first, but she got over the impediment. And she tried very, very hard, whout any succs, to learn to walk aga.” She ntued to enterta at Bellerive, though she often sat, the midst of nvivial gathergs, as aloofly mute as a sphx. Early 1996, producer A. C. Lyl wrote her a note fillg her on what had bee of such old Paramount croni as John Engstead and Wally Wtmore—and Colbert sent the reply, “I’m 92 and a wheelchair, but I look jt great. If you fd a good part for an actrs a wheelchair, please let me know.”</p><p class="has-dropp paywall">Early the eveng on Sunday, July 28, 1996—almost three and a half years after the stroke—O’Hagan, jt back Manhattan om a weekend northwtern Connecticut wh Bill Blass, got the ll “I had been fearg,” she says. “She was wag for me. She did not want to leave this world whout me next to her.” O’Hagan flew to Barbados and spent the night on the floor bi Colbert’s bed. On July 30, at 3:15 p.m., Colbert died while lookg out the wdow to the sea. Blah, the ok, llapsed a fat. Cathere, the send ok, threw herself on the floor, sobbg. The prit, Father Jim Grear, asked for everybody to jo hands. Colbert’s body was shipped to New York for crematn. As they watched Colbert’s remas enter the belly of an Amerin Airl aircraft, Michael Teague turned to O’Hagan and said, “I gus ’s the only time she’s ever flown the back of a plane.”</p><p class="paywall">Colbert’s ash were placed a mahogany box and posed si Dr. Prsman’s tomb—at a ro distance om Mme. Chcho’s urn. There is a space rerved there for Marie, to whom Colbert left $75,000. Her niece Co Lewis was remembered the will wh $150,000, and a tst worth more than $100,000 was bequeathed Prsman’s memory to U.C.L.A. Apart om some jewelry, patgs, and furnure—which were distributed among the “fay of iends”—the rt of the tate, the bulk of which is Belle-rive, was left to Helen O’Hagan, who “served a ln tim over,” Pierre Barillet says. (Last July, O’Hagan vated the hoe to make way for mogul David Geffen, who purchased Bellerive May for over $2 ln and then rold Augt to a midwtern uple.) The New York memorial service, anized by O’Hagan, at St. Vcent Ferrer, where the actrs had been nfirmed, attracted not only the timate circle but also such notable acquatanc and iends as Bill Blass, Liz Smh, Geofey Beene, and Domick Dunne. At Barillet’s smaller service for her at a church on Paris’s Fbourg St.-Honoré, Pamela Harriman, Mme. René Clair, and Lren Ball all paid their rpects.</p><p class="has-dropp paywall">Leonard Gershe remembers attendg a benef for the Italian Red Cross Venice 1983, graced by a royal flh of stars. “It was honor of Ingrid Bergman, on the first anniversary of her ath. Cltte and I were leavg the Grti Palace hotel one day for lunch, and there was such a csh of paparazzi, you uldn’t move. One photographer popped out of the hor, and shouted, right Cltte’s face, ‘Miss Colbert, I’m om <em>Oggi.</em> I n put you <em>Oggi.</em>’ Cltte replied, wh a charmg ltle se, ‘Baby, I don’t need you anymore.’ And she walked away so fast, all the photographers llapsed on one another like domo. In poker terms, Cltte knew exactly when to fold.” Unlike Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, who scend to mp self-parody makg kschy horror movi, or Garbo and Dietrich, who wound up reclive relics, only Colbert, until the end, “did a great job at life,” Co Lewis says. “She did everythg right.”</p><p class="paywall">Peter Rogers reflects, “She had a terrible, wonrful lt for life. She was not like the other movie queens of her era. Crawford, whom I also knew well, wanted to be a lady even more than a movie star. Cltte <em>was</em> a lady.” Leonora Hornblow agre: “The difference between her and the others is that she had a background. She had a strong fay sense—sometim to the triment of her happs. But she knew who she was. She was a real live person. There was somebody there.”</p><p class="has-dropp paywall">Helen O’Hagan ntu to receive Cltte Colbert fan mail. Most letters e om vote still not aware of her ath, who were not yet born when Colbert ma her last movie, <em>Parrish</em>. And Barbados, tourists on the beach still crawl unr the sea grap chokg the path leadg to Bellerive, hopg for a glimpse of the fabled hoe. Not long ago, durg a vis to St. Peter’s cemetery, O’Hagan enuntered a sunburned young uple on holiday om the North of England makg a solemn pilgrimage to the film star’s grave se. Des ago, mg on her fame, Colbert said, “To be celebrated is nothg. To be loved is everythg.”</p></div></div></div><div class="GridItem-buujkM fVLMby grid--em grid-layout__asi"><div class="StickyBoxWrapper-jfYB jxBcTH sticky-box"><div class="StickyBoxPrimary-dzWDWL cdhYoN sticky-box__primary"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--rail"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--rail" data-no-id="m143rm"></div></div><div class="ConsumerMarketgUnThemedWrapper-iUTMTf jssHut nsumer-marketg-un nsumer-marketg-un--display-rail" role="prentatn" aria-hidn="te"><div class="nsumer-marketg-un__slot nsumer-marketg-un__slot--display-rail"></div><div class="journey-un"></div></div></div><div class="StickyBoxPlaceholr-grPmrg dxAvXx"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK kHBDeH grid grid-margs grid-ems-2 PaywallInleBarrierWhWrapperGrid-fyrGfS kLQIUk grid-layout--adrail narrow wi-adrail"><div class="GridItem-buujkM stRKV grid--em grid-layout__ntent"><div class="body body__le-barrier article__body"><div class="ntaer ntaer--body"><div 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“Fuck Hut” Detail Too</div></div></div></a><div class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ SummaryItemDek-CRfsi iUEiRd ijSOpT jDyfzW summary-em__k">“I have to adm I read that and I was like, Go mom,” lghs Clea Newman Sorlund, speakg about her father’s posthumo memoir, <em>The Extraordary Life of an Ordary Man</em>. </div><div class="SummaryItemByleWrapper-boCfbi hYsZi summary-em__byle-date-in"><div class="SummaryItemBaseByle-fFbXkY gRtaxp summary-em__byle"><div class="summary-em__byle__ntent"><div data-ttid="BylWrapper" class="BylWrapper-KIudk irTIfE byl"><p class="ByleWrapper-jWHrLH iNSiTG byle byl__byle" data-ttid="ByleWrapper" emProp="thor" emType="><span emProp="name" class="ByleNamWrapper-jbHncj fuDQVo"><span data-ttid="ByleName" class="ByleName-kwmrLn cYaBaU byle__name"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BylePreamble-iJolpQ iUEiRd bIbWCO gnILss byle__preamble">By </span>Julie Miller</span></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="SummaryItemWrapper-iwvBff fKazuH summary-em summary-em--has-le summary-em--ARTICLE summary-em--no-in summary-em--text-align-left summary-em--layout-placement-text-below summary-em--layout-posn-image-left summary-em--layout-proportns-50-50 summary-em--si-by-si-align-center summary-em--si-by-si-image-right-mobile-false summary-em--standard SummaryCollectnGridSummaryItem-WColm cNQsbv" role="button" tabx="0"><div class="SummaryItemAssetContaer-gwhFFH VOyg summary-em__asset-ntaer"><a class="SummaryItemImageLk-dshqxb cPpCwE summary-em__image-lk summary-em-trackg__image-lk" href=" aria-hidn="te" tabx="-1" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-id="em-image-2" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" target="_self"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset SummaryItemRponsiveAsset-hjGIGg bDvSkO summary-em__image"><div data-tt="aspect-rat-ntaer" class="AspectRatContaer-bJHpJz hlQxkn"><div class="aspect-rat--overlay-ntaer"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa SummaryItemRponsiveAsset-hjGIGg bDvSkO summary-em__image rponsive-image"><noscript><source media="(max-width: 767px)" srcSet="" siz="100vw"/><source media="(m-width: 768px)" srcSet="" siz="100vw"/><img alt="Inventg Ivana Tmp: Her Improbable Rise and Tragic Death" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src="></noscript></picture></div></div></span></a></div><div class="SummaryItemContent-eiDYMl clSLtF summary-em__ntent"><div class="RubricWrapper-dKmCNX hXRWeY bric bric--disvery SummaryItemRubric-dguGKN lapGFj summary-em__bric"><span class="RubricName-fVtemz cLxcNi">Celebry</span></div><a class="SummaryItemHedLk-civM cxlTHI summary-em-trackg__hed-lk summary-em__hed-lk" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-id="em-hed-2" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" href=" target="_self"><div data-ttid="ClampWrapper" class="ClampWrapper-kZxfkB hTTNGO clamp SummaryItemHedBase-hiFYpQ khUTXM summary-em__hed"><div class="ClampContent-hilPkr jVhSBH"><div class="SummaryItemHedTag-TWblf gxaOcP" data-ttid="SummaryItemHed">Inventg Ivana Tmp: Her Improbable Rise and Tragic Death</div></div></div></a><div class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ SummaryItemDek-CRfsi iUEiRd ijSOpT jDyfzW summary-em__k">Ivana Marie Zelníčková ped om behd the Iron Curta to storm New York Cy and help create the twisted miracle of Donald Tmp. From her “greed is good” heyday to her post-divorce nouement vortg wh a seri of “eaky” Italian lovers, was Ivana, all along, who gild the Tmp name.</div><div class="SummaryItemByleWrapper-boCfbi hYsZi summary-em__byle-date-in"><div class="SummaryItemBaseByle-fFbXkY gRtaxp summary-em__byle"><div class="summary-em__byle__ntent"><div data-ttid="BylWrapper" class="BylWrapper-KIudk irTIfE byl"><p class="ByleWrapper-jWHrLH iNSiTG byle byl__byle" data-ttid="ByleWrapper" emProp="thor" emType="><span emProp="name" class="ByleNamWrapper-jbHncj fuDQVo"><span data-ttid="ByleName" class="ByleName-kwmrLn cYaBaU byle__name"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BylePreamble-iJolpQ iUEiRd bIbWCO gnILss byle__preamble">By </span>Mark Seal</span></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="SummaryItemWrapper-iwvBff fKazuH summary-em summary-em--has-le summary-em--ARTICLE summary-em--no-in summary-em--text-align-left summary-em--layout-placement-text-below summary-em--layout-posn-image-left summary-em--layout-proportns-50-50 summary-em--si-by-si-align-center summary-em--si-by-si-image-right-mobile-false summary-em--standard SummaryCollectnGridSummaryItem-WColm cNQsbv" role="button" tabx="0"><div class="SummaryItemAssetContaer-gwhFFH VOyg summary-em__asset-ntaer"><a class="SummaryItemImageLk-dshqxb cPpCwE summary-em__image-lk summary-em-trackg__image-lk" href=" aria-hidn="te" tabx="-1" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-id="em-image-3" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" target="_self"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset SummaryItemRponsiveAsset-hjGIGg bDvSkO summary-em__image"><div data-tt="aspect-rat-ntaer" class="AspectRatContaer-bJHpJz hlQxkn"><div class="aspect-rat--overlay-ntaer"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa SummaryItemRponsiveAsset-hjGIGg bDvSkO summary-em__image rponsive-image"><noscript><source media="(max-width: 767px)" srcSet="" siz="100vw"/><source media="(m-width: 768px)" srcSet="" siz="100vw"/><img alt="Brad Pt and Angela Jolie’s War of the Rosé" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src="></noscript></picture></div></div></span></a></div><div class="SummaryItemContent-eiDYMl clSLtF summary-em__ntent"><div class="RubricWrapper-dKmCNX hXRWeY bric bric--disvery SummaryItemRubric-dguGKN lapGFj summary-em__bric"><span class="RubricName-fVtemz cLxcNi">Hollywood</span></div><a class="SummaryItemHedLk-civM cxlTHI summary-em-trackg__hed-lk summary-em__hed-lk" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-id="em-hed-3" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" href=" target="_self"><div data-ttid="ClampWrapper" class="ClampWrapper-kZxfkB hTTNGO clamp SummaryItemHedBase-hiFYpQ khUTXM summary-em__hed"><div class="ClampContent-hilPkr jVhSBH"><div class="SummaryItemHedTag-TWblf gxaOcP" data-ttid="SummaryItemHed">Brad Pt and Angela Jolie’s War of the Rosé</div></div></div></a><div class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ SummaryItemDek-CRfsi iUEiRd ijSOpT jDyfzW summary-em__k">Miraval was more than jt their fay home. It was their fay bs: a hugely profable we label on an enchantg tate the South of France. When they spl followg a harrowg flight, an epic battle ensued.</div><div class="SummaryItemByleWrapper-boCfbi hYsZi summary-em__byle-date-in"><div class="SummaryItemBaseByle-fFbXkY gRtaxp summary-em__byle"><div class="summary-em__byle__ntent"><div data-ttid="BylWrapper" class="BylWrapper-KIudk irTIfE byl"><p class="ByleWrapper-jWHrLH iNSiTG byle byl__byle" data-ttid="ByleWrapper" emProp="thor" emType="><span emProp="name" class="ByleNamWrapper-jbHncj fuDQVo"><span data-ttid="ByleName" class="ByleName-kwmrLn cYaBaU byle__name"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BylePreamble-iJolpQ iUEiRd bIbWCO gnILss byle__preamble">By </span>Mark Seal</span></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ SummaryCollectnGridSummaryItem-WColm cNQsbv ad ad--read-more"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--read-more" data-no-id="v92cvb"></div></div><div class="SummaryItemWrapper-iwvBff fKazuH summary-em summary-em--has-le summary-em--ARTICLE summary-em--no-in summary-em--text-align-left summary-em--layout-placement-text-below summary-em--layout-posn-image-left summary-em--layout-proportns-50-50 summary-em--si-by-si-align-center summary-em--si-by-si-image-right-mobile-false summary-em--standard SummaryCollectnGridSummaryItem-WColm cNQsbv" role="button" tabx="0"><div class="SummaryItemAssetContaer-gwhFFH VOyg summary-em__asset-ntaer"><a class="SummaryItemImageLk-dshqxb cPpCwE summary-em__image-lk summary-em-trackg__image-lk" href=" aria-hidn="te" tabx="-1" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-id="em-image-4" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" target="_self"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset SummaryItemRponsiveAsset-hjGIGg bDvSkO summary-em__image"><div data-tt="aspect-rat-ntaer" class="AspectRatContaer-bJHpJz hlQxkn"><div class="aspect-rat--overlay-ntaer"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa SummaryItemRponsiveAsset-hjGIGg bDvSkO summary-em__image rponsive-image"><noscript><source media="(max-width: 767px)" srcSet="" siz="100vw"/><source media="(m-width: 768px)" srcSet="" siz="100vw"/><img alt="At Home Wh LeBron Jam and His Fay" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src="></noscript></picture></div></div></span></a></div><div class="SummaryItemContent-eiDYMl clSLtF summary-em__ntent"><div class="RubricWrapper-dKmCNX hXRWeY bric bric--disvery SummaryItemRubric-dguGKN lapGFj summary-em__bric"><span class="RubricName-fVtemz cLxcNi">Celebry</span></div><a class="SummaryItemHedLk-civM cxlTHI summary-em-trackg__hed-lk summary-em__hed-lk" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-id="em-hed-4" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" href=" target="_self"><div data-ttid="ClampWrapper" class="ClampWrapper-kZxfkB hTTNGO clamp SummaryItemHedBase-hiFYpQ khUTXM summary-em__hed"><div class="ClampContent-hilPkr jVhSBH"><div class="SummaryItemHedTag-TWblf gxaOcP" data-ttid="SummaryItemHed">At Home Wh LeBron Jam and His Fay</div></div></div></a><div class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ SummaryItemDek-CRfsi iUEiRd ijSOpT jDyfzW summary-em__k">The Jam—LeBron, Savannah, Bronny, Bryce, and Zhuri—pose for a first-ever fay photo extravaganza.</div><div class="SummaryItemByleWrapper-boCfbi hYsZi summary-em__byle-date-in"><div class="SummaryItemBaseByle-fFbXkY gRtaxp summary-em__byle"><div class="summary-em__byle__ntent"><div data-ttid="BylWrapper" class="BylWrapper-KIudk irTIfE byl"><p class="ByleWrapper-jWHrLH iNSiTG byle byl__byle" data-ttid="ByleWrapper" emProp="thor" emType="><span emProp="name" class="ByleNamWrapper-jbHncj fuDQVo"><span data-ttid="ByleName" class="ByleName-kwmrLn cYaBaU byle__name"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BylePreamble-iJolpQ iUEiRd bIbWCO gnILss byle__preamble">By </span>Dan Adler</span></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="SummaryItemWrapper-iwvBff fKazuH summary-em summary-em--has-le summary-em--ARTICLE summary-em--no-in summary-em--text-align-left summary-em--layout-placement-text-below summary-em--layout-posn-image-left summary-em--layout-proportns-50-50 summary-em--si-by-si-align-center summary-em--si-by-si-image-right-mobile-false summary-em--standard SummaryCollectnGridSummaryItem-WColm cNQsbv" role="button" tabx="0"><div class="SummaryItemAssetContaer-gwhFFH VOyg summary-em__asset-ntaer"><a class="SummaryItemImageLk-dshqxb cPpCwE summary-em__image-lk summary-em-trackg__image-lk" href=" aria-hidn="te" tabx="-1" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-id="em-image-5" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" target="_self"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset SummaryItemRponsiveAsset-hjGIGg bDvSkO summary-em__image"><div data-tt="aspect-rat-ntaer" class="AspectRatContaer-bJHpJz hlQxkn"><div class="aspect-rat--overlay-ntaer"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa SummaryItemRponsiveAsset-hjGIGg bDvSkO summary-em__image rponsive-image"><noscript><source media="(max-width: 767px)" srcSet="" siz="100vw"/><source media="(m-width: 768px)" srcSet="" siz="100vw"/><img alt="Margot Robbie Is Nobody’s Barbie: The Babylon Star on Navigatg Hollywood" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src="></noscript></picture></div></div></span></a></div><div class="SummaryItemContent-eiDYMl clSLtF summary-em__ntent"><div class="RubricWrapper-dKmCNX hXRWeY bric bric--disvery SummaryItemRubric-dguGKN lapGFj summary-em__bric"><span class="RubricName-fVtemz cLxcNi">Movi</span></div><a class="SummaryItemHedLk-civM cxlTHI summary-em-trackg__hed-lk summary-em__hed-lk" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-id="em-hed-5" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" href=" target="_self"><div data-ttid="ClampWrapper" class="ClampWrapper-kZxfkB hTTNGO clamp SummaryItemHedBase-hiFYpQ khUTXM summary-em__hed"><div class="ClampContent-hilPkr jVhSBH"><div class="SummaryItemHedTag-TWblf gxaOcP" data-ttid="SummaryItemHed">Margot Robbie Is Nobody’s Barbie: The <em>Babylon</em> Star on Navigatg Hollywood</div></div></div></a><div class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ SummaryItemDek-CRfsi iUEiRd ijSOpT jDyfzW summary-em__k">“The highs are really high and the lows are really, really low.”</div><div class="SummaryItemByleWrapper-boCfbi hYsZi summary-em__byle-date-in"><div class="SummaryItemBaseByle-fFbXkY gRtaxp summary-em__byle"><div class="summary-em__byle__ntent"><div data-ttid="BylWrapper" class="BylWrapper-KIudk irTIfE byl"><p class="ByleWrapper-jWHrLH iNSiTG byle byl__byle" data-ttid="ByleWrapper" emProp="thor" emType="><span emProp="name" class="ByleNamWrapper-jbHncj fuDQVo"><span data-ttid="ByleName" class="ByleName-kwmrLn cYaBaU byle__name"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BylePreamble-iJolpQ iUEiRd bIbWCO gnILss byle__preamble">By </span>Rebec Ford</span></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="SummaryItemWrapper-iwvBff fKazuH summary-em summary-em--has-le summary-em--ARTICLE summary-em--no-in summary-em--text-align-left summary-em--layout-placement-text-below 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siz="100vw"/><img alt="Olivia Wil on Don’t Worry Darlg, “Basels Rumors”&-And Everythg Else" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src="></noscript></picture></div></div></span></a></div><div class="SummaryItemContent-eiDYMl clSLtF summary-em__ntent"><div class="RubricWrapper-dKmCNX hXRWeY bric bric--disvery SummaryItemRubric-dguGKN lapGFj summary-em__bric"><span class="RubricName-fVtemz cLxcNi">Movi</span></div><a class="SummaryItemHedLk-civM cxlTHI summary-em-trackg__hed-lk summary-em__hed-lk" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-id="em-hed-6" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" href=" target="_self"><div data-ttid="ClampWrapper" class="ClampWrapper-kZxfkB hTTNGO clamp SummaryItemHedBase-hiFYpQ khUTXM summary-em__hed"><div class="ClampContent-hilPkr jVhSBH"><div class="SummaryItemHedTag-TWblf gxaOcP" data-ttid="SummaryItemHed">Olivia Wil on <em>Don’t Worry Darlg</em>, “Basels Rumors”—And Everythg Else</div></div></div></a><div class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ SummaryItemDek-CRfsi iUEiRd ijSOpT jDyfzW summary-em__k">Its Venice premiere may have ptivated the ter for all the wrong reasons—no, Harry Styl didn’t sp on Chris Pe!—but s fierce, “fuckg tough” director is proud of the film, s st (startg wh the “astoundg” Florence Pugh), her reer, her kids, and the choic she’s ma followg her spl wh Jason Suikis.</div><div class="SummaryItemByleWrapper-boCfbi hYsZi summary-em__byle-date-in"><div class="SummaryItemBaseByle-fFbXkY gRtaxp summary-em__byle"><div class="summary-em__byle__ntent"><div data-ttid="BylWrapper" class="BylWrapper-KIudk irTIfE byl"><p class="ByleWrapper-jWHrLH iNSiTG byle byl__byle" data-ttid="ByleWrapper" emProp="thor" emType="><span emProp="name" class="ByleNamWrapper-jbHncj fuDQVo"><span data-ttid="ByleName" class="ByleName-kwmrLn cYaBaU byle__name"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BylePreamble-iJolpQ iUEiRd bIbWCO gnILss byle__preamble">By </span>Julie Miller</span></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="SummaryItemWrapper-iwvBff fKazuH summary-em summary-em--has-le summary-em--ARTICLE summary-em--no-in summary-em--text-align-left summary-em--layout-placement-text-below summary-em--layout-posn-image-left summary-em--layout-proportns-50-50 summary-em--si-by-si-align-center summary-em--si-by-si-image-right-mobile-false summary-em--standard SummaryCollectnGridSummaryItem-WColm cNQsbv" role="button" tabx="0"><div class="SummaryItemAssetContaer-gwhFFH VOyg summary-em__asset-ntaer"><a class="SummaryItemImageLk-dshqxb cPpCwE summary-em__image-lk summary-em-trackg__image-lk" href=" aria-hidn="te" tabx="-1" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-id="em-image-7" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" target="_self"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset SummaryItemRponsiveAsset-hjGIGg bDvSkO summary-em__image"><div data-tt="aspect-rat-ntaer" class="AspectRatContaer-bJHpJz hlQxkn"><div class="aspect-rat--overlay-ntaer"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa SummaryItemRponsiveAsset-hjGIGg bDvSkO summary-em__image rponsive-image"><noscript><source media="(max-width: 767px)" srcSet="" siz="100vw"/><source media="(m-width: 768px)" srcSet="" siz="100vw"/><img alt="Plan, Tras and Automobil at 35: An Oral History of One of the Most Beloved Road Movi Ever Ma" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src="></noscript></picture></div></div></span></a></div><div class="SummaryItemContent-eiDYMl clSLtF summary-em__ntent"><div class="RubricWrapper-dKmCNX hXRWeY bric bric--disvery SummaryItemRubric-dguGKN lapGFj summary-em__bric"><span class="RubricName-fVtemz cLxcNi">Movi</span></div><a class="SummaryItemHedLk-civM cxlTHI summary-em-trackg__hed-lk summary-em__hed-lk" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-id="em-hed-7" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" href=" target="_self"><div data-ttid="ClampWrapper" class="ClampWrapper-kZxfkB hTTNGO clamp SummaryItemHedBase-hiFYpQ khUTXM summary-em__hed"><div class="ClampContent-hilPkr jVhSBH"><div class="SummaryItemHedTag-TWblf gxaOcP" data-ttid="SummaryItemHed"><em>Plan, Tras and Automobil</em> at 35: An Oral History of One of the Most Beloved Road Movi Ever Ma</div></div></div></a><div class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ SummaryItemDek-CRfsi iUEiRd ijSOpT jDyfzW summary-em__k">Starrg Steve Mart and John Candy, the John Hugh road trip edy had a nearly four-hour ntime at one pot. Hear om st, crew, and Hugh' fay about the classic. </div><div class="SummaryItemByleWrapper-boCfbi hYsZi summary-em__byle-date-in"><div class="SummaryItemBaseByle-fFbXkY gRtaxp summary-em__byle"><div class="summary-em__byle__ntent"><div data-ttid="BylWrapper" class="BylWrapper-KIudk irTIfE byl"><p class="ByleWrapper-jWHrLH iNSiTG byle byl__byle" data-ttid="ByleWrapper" emProp="thor" emType="><span emProp="name" class="ByleNamWrapper-jbHncj fuDQVo"><span data-ttid="ByleName" class="ByleName-kwmrLn cYaBaU byle__name"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BylePreamble-iJolpQ iUEiRd bIbWCO gnILss byle__preamble">By </span>Jason Bailey</span></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="SummaryItemWrapper-iwvBff fKazuH summary-em summary-em--has-le summary-em--ARTICLE summary-em--no-in summary-em--text-align-left summary-em--layout-placement-text-below summary-em--layout-posn-image-left summary-em--layout-proportns-50-50 summary-em--si-by-si-align-center summary-em--si-by-si-image-right-mobile-false summary-em--standard SummaryCollectnGridSummaryItem-WColm cNQsbv" role="button" tabx="0"><div class="SummaryItemAssetContaer-gwhFFH VOyg summary-em__asset-ntaer"><a class="SummaryItemImageLk-dshqxb cPpCwE summary-em__image-lk summary-em-trackg__image-lk" href=" aria-hidn="te" tabx="-1" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-id="em-image-8" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" target="_self"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset SummaryItemRponsiveAsset-hjGIGg bDvSkO summary-em__image"><div data-tt="aspect-rat-ntaer" class="AspectRatContaer-bJHpJz hlQxkn"><div class="aspect-rat--overlay-ntaer"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa SummaryItemRponsiveAsset-hjGIGg bDvSkO summary-em__image rponsive-image"><noscript><source media="(max-width: 767px)" srcSet="" siz="100vw"/><source media="(m-width: 768px)" srcSet="" siz="100vw"/><img alt="How Kg Charl and Prce William Plan to Protect the Monarchy Agast an Uncerta Future" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src="></noscript></picture></div></div></span></a></div><div class="SummaryItemContent-eiDYMl clSLtF summary-em__ntent"><div class="RubricWrapper-dKmCNX hXRWeY bric bric--disvery SummaryItemRubric-dguGKN lapGFj summary-em__bric"><span class="RubricName-fVtemz cLxcNi">Royals</span></div><a class="SummaryItemHedLk-civM cxlTHI summary-em-trackg__hed-lk summary-em__hed-lk" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-id="em-hed-8" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" href=" target="_self"><div data-ttid="ClampWrapper" class="ClampWrapper-kZxfkB hTTNGO clamp SummaryItemHedBase-hiFYpQ khUTXM summary-em__hed"><div class="ClampContent-hilPkr jVhSBH"><div class="SummaryItemHedTag-TWblf gxaOcP" data-ttid="SummaryItemHed">How Kg Charl and Prce William Plan to Protect the Monarchy Agast an Uncerta Future</div></div></div></a><div class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ SummaryItemDek-CRfsi iUEiRd ijSOpT jDyfzW summary-em__k">This sneak peek of <em>The New Royals</em> reveals fears around the Commonwealth and hope wh the fay—cludg whether Harry and Meghan might e back.</div><div class="SummaryItemByleWrapper-boCfbi hYsZi summary-em__byle-date-in"><div class="SummaryItemBaseByle-fFbXkY gRtaxp summary-em__byle"><div class="summary-em__byle__ntent"><div data-ttid="BylWrapper" class="BylWrapper-KIudk irTIfE byl"><p class="ByleWrapper-jWHrLH iNSiTG byle byl__byle" data-ttid="ByleWrapper" emProp="thor" emType="><span emProp="name" class="ByleNamWrapper-jbHncj fuDQVo"><span data-ttid="ByleName" class="ByleName-kwmrLn cYaBaU byle__name"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BylePreamble-iJolpQ iUEiRd bIbWCO gnILss byle__preamble">By </span>Katie Nicholl</span></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="SummaryItemWrapper-iwvBff fKazuH summary-em summary-em--has-le summary-em--ARTICLE summary-em--no-in summary-em--text-align-left summary-em--layout-placement-text-below 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