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Claudette Colbert at the age of three
listening to her Grandpa sing in Paris.
When she was six her parents moved
to the United States
When Claudette was eight years of age
she received her first communion in
New York. She lived in the heart
of Manhattan
Leslie Howard and Claudette became
close friends when she was appearing
on the Chicago stage in 1926 and often
played tennis together
STEPPING STONES
THE GLAMOROUS TRUE LIFE STORY OF CLAUDETTE COLBERT
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Claudette' s latest film is It Happened One Night in which Columbia stars her with Clark Gable
here Was No doubt about it; Grandpa could sing.
Not good, perhaps, but loud. Very loud.
So loud that his powerful voice shook the living
room of the little farmhouse so that four-year-old
Claudette Chauchoin listened in fear
lest the white-washed ceiling should
tumble in upon her.
Claudette Chauchoin, Claudette Colbert to be, recalls the scene in the farmhouse as one of her first recollections. It is stamped deep in her memory, as these early childhood impressions usually are. Since those days, many things have happened to Claudette. She has become a star on both stage and screen, met success and failure, had the thrill of great personal success — but she still counts the sight of her tall, white-haired grandparent singing in the low-ceiled room, one of the most impressive of her life.
Grandpere Chauchoin had been educated for an operatic career in his youth, but his dream of becoming an opera star never matured. After marriage he settled down to the mare certain and profitable one of a French farmer. Grandpa sang with a voice far more powerful than musical, but to the little Claudette it was one of the most wonderful voices in the world. The future film star was born in Paris in 1907, in the section, just within the walls, called Sainte Mande. She remembers little of her early life in Paris except the long walks with her mother in the Bois de Boulogne which was very near her home. Sometimes it was her elder brother, Charles, who took her on these walks. On Sunday afternoons it was her father, Georges.
Papa Georges and Mama Jeanne had many things to talk about while Claudette and brother Charles were on their strolls in the park. Georges, never too successful as a business man, had met with two reverses in a row.
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