Claudette Colbert
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Oct 2, 2026
John DalyNARRATOR
That's tonight.
John DalyNARRATOR
In order of appearance, you'll hear Joseph Cotten, Ozzie and Harriet, Jack Benny and his gang, Amos 'n Andy, Sam Spade, Lum and Abner, Helen Hayes, Eve Arden, and hold tight now, Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Claudette Colbert, and Dinah Shore.
John DalyNARRATOR
Bing, Bob, Claudette, and Dinah will be heard in a special one-hour salute to baseball over most of these stations, which will also bring you the other stars and shows on this great CBS Sunday night lineup.
John DalyNARRATOR
Jack Benny, of course, will be heard on all of them.
Patrick RankinHOST
He played a con man known as The Fox, running a fake fortune-telling racket with a phony medium.
Patrick RankinHOST
When she dies, he recruits a young woman named Jean Oliver, played by Claudette Colbert, to take her place.
Patrick RankinHOST
It was not quite a gangster role, but it was close enough.
Patrick RankinHOST
Robinson playing a criminal, working a scam, and already showing the hard edge that Hollywood would soon want much more of.
Patrick RankinHOST
Lowering his voice, making his expressions smaller, and adjusting to scenes being filmed out of order.
Patrick RankinHOST
Robinson, worried the result would be terrible, skipped the preview.
Patrick RankinHOST
Claudette Colbert, who went, sent him a telegram afterward.
Patrick RankinHOST
"We weren't too bad, baby.
Karina LongworthHOST
There was a powerful woman, Louisa, but she wasn't a gangster Of course, a Hollywood movie of 1933 was not going to depict the Libby character as having to choose between her girlfriend and her husband, but it's also wild to see a lesbian heiress transformed into a gun-happy criminal man.
Karina LongworthHOST
Then came Torch Singer, starring Claudette Colbert as Sally, a single mother whose rich playboy boyfriend gallivants off to China before she can tell him she's carrying his child.
Karina LongworthHOST
As happens in Sing, Sinner, Sing, and in real life to Libby, the boyfriend's moneyed family rejects Sally and her child, leaving her with no choice but to give the baby up for adoption and reinvent herself as Mimi, a devil-may-care torch singer whose act is highly sexual and whose Prohibition Era nightlife antics have turned her into a notorious bad girl.
Karina LongworthHOST
Though the narrative mixes up or inverts certain sequences from real life, and there is no gunshot death in the movie, Mimi's whole act and general defiance of conventional morality seems modeled on Libby, who was notoriously synonymous with the term torch singer in 1933.
Karina LongworthGUEST
So like October 7th, I'm going to be in Houston showing Written on the Wind.
Karina LongworthGUEST
A couple of days later, I am in Savannah at the School of Art and Design showing Torch Singer, which is a Claudette Colbert pre-code film.
Karina LongworthGUEST
They're the only venue showing it.
Karina LongworthGUEST
It's a really special film.
Kathleen HowardGUEST
Long ago, I divided girl types of beauty into two basic categories, the kitten and the fox.
Kathleen HowardGUEST
The kitten type, roughly speaking, if one may speak roughly of these charming girls, is represented by Janet Gaynor and Claudette Colbert, the short face with a small, piquant nose.
Kathleen HowardGUEST
The fox type is the longer face with a straight nose, like Joan Crawford or Merle Oberon.
Kathleen HowardGUEST
The fox type looks best in sophisticated, tailored clothes, while the kitten may do very well indeed by going fluffy and feminine if she wants to, and all will be forgiven.
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Then enjoy mirth and music with Phil Harris and Alice Fay.
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Later, Theater Guild on the Air features Claudette Colbert and Gregory Rathoff in 20th Century.
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Jack BennyHOST
You see, I asked some girls up to the broadcast tonight myself.
Jack BennyHOST
I invited Claudette Colbert, Joan Dennis, and Carol Lombard.
Jack BennyHOST
Yes, I noticed those three vacant seats.
Jack BennyHOST
Well, you know how heavy traffic is today.
ArthurHOST
And that movie, you know, she is so... of her own nature do what she wants to her own whimsy uh that nobody else can keep up you know saying at one point i'm going to marry him he doesn't know it yet right she has her and there's something i think in the dna of streep's character here and in her performance here of what hepburn's doing in those early screwball comedies and so We'd go back a little earlier.
ArthurHOST
We'd look at Claudette Colbert.
ArthurHOST
We'd look at Man's Man, and it happened one night.
ArthurHOST
Clark Gable, good thing it was named.
Brandon DavisHOST
And it's amazing.
Brandon DavisHOST
I mean, especially, especially as you go through the book and you read about, you know, just Whether it's Dietrich or Colbert or Carol Lombard or women like this, and you think about just the moments in not only film history but cultural history that he was there at the inception of, just in terms of how women looked and carried themselves.
Brandon DavisHOST
I mean, it really is amazing when you think about just the – the androgynous sort of image that we have, you know, the Dietrich came about with, you know, it's just, it's just amazing that not only in terms of film, but in terms of just the culture at large and the way that he was creating images of women that, you know, the world itself really hadn't seen before.
Howard GutnerGUEST
Exactly.
13 MINS LATER
Brandon DavisHOST
So, I mean, these designs and these women, I mean, and what they're wearing, I mean, it's aspirational for women, you know, and families who are struggling to make ends meet, who go to the movies to escape and everything.
Brandon DavisHOST
It's, you know, they imagine themselves in these outfits and living a more cozier life than what they're living at home.
Howard GutnerGUEST
Yeah, and then they can go to Macy's Cinema Shop and buy a copy of the dress they saw Claudette Colbert wearing in Torch Singer or something.
Howard GutnerGUEST
Yeah.
Brandon DavisHOST
And it's amazing.
Brandon DavisHOST
I mean, especially, especially as you go through the book and you read about, you know, just You know, whether it's Dietrich or Colbert or Carol Lombard or women like this, and you think about just the moments in not only film history, but cultural history that he was there at the inception of, just in terms of how women looked and carried themselves.
Brandon DavisHOST
And it's, I mean, it really is amazing when you think about, you know, just the that the androgynous sort of image that we have, you know, the Dietrich came about with, you know, it's just, it's just amazing that not only in terms of film, but in terms of just the culture at large and the way that he was creating images of women that, you know, the world itself really hadn't seen before.
Brandon DavisHOST
Exactly.
13 MINS LATER
Brandon DavisHOST
So, I mean, these designs and these women, I mean, and what they're wearing, I mean, it's aspirational for women, you know, and families who are struggling to make ends meet, who go to the movies to escape and everything.
Brandon DavisHOST
It's, you know, they imagine themselves in these outfits and living a more cozier life than what they're living at home.
Howard GutnerGUEST
Yeah, and then they can go to Macy's Cinema Shop and buy a copy of the dress they saw Claudette Colbert wearing in Torch Singer or something.
Howard GutnerGUEST
Yeah.
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