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THE WOMAN!
soggy sandwiches which have suffered from heing squashed between tin pie plates in the company of a hunk of equally soggy cake and a half of a canned pear! She did thus regale herself and she gained weight and mental poise while doing it. It was because she had wanted that part so much, because it was so important to her to make good in it.
She had been two weeks out of the hospital after a serious illness when she entered the surf for the first shot of that picture. In the swamp, for subsequent shots, there were alternately broiling sun and then soaking rain. Claudette, shivering in a sudden shower, collapsed in gales of mirth when she saw an earnest prop boy holding a large umbrella carefully over a tiny camp fire which would be required for the next shot. There were no umbrellas and no camp fires available for the cast !
Claudette's house is not exactly one of the show places of Hollywood. It isn't as large as some or as ornate as others. But it has a beautiful garden and inside it is as exquisitely appointed, as smooth-running, as a Swiss watch. It is a rented house and Claudette added a few individual touches here and there. But she had her bedroom entirely refurnished and redecorated according to her own taste. It is the most beautifully appointed room in the house. She must, perforce, spend a great deal of time resting when she is between pictures and she wants to have her surroundings as dainty as possible.
Since the signing of her spectacular contract, Claudette has approved designs for a house of her own and it is now in the process of construction. This should be a little nifty !
But the Claudette whom you might glimpse having breakfast from that gay little tray, wearing that frothy bed-jacket, in that super-chic bedroom, is scarcely the hardy young woman whom a number of people saw on the "Cleopatra" set, working at night in a sheer costume, when husky men assistants
I'linin to Shalitt
Pretty but lacking sparkle — that was Claudette when she entered pictures and for some time afterward. She considered her face a handicap.
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Miss Colbert has one gift that is rare in any circle these days and which is particularly rare in Hollywood. She is an intelligent and enthusiastic listener.
wearing heavy overcoats were complaining profanely about the cold and acquiring obvious sniffles. The fragile and pampered Colbert neither complained nor did she acquire sniffles. She had learned, by this time, to "take it."
She had another "taking it" lesson on "Cleopatra." When Cecil DeMille called her to discuss the rolehe said, tentatively, "You remember how Cleopatra died?"
"It was from the bite of a snake," Claudette recalled. Then she shuddered and cried, "You don't mean that I shall have to handle a live snake, do you?'
DeMille asked, softly, "If you should have to handle one, would that necessarily force you to give up the role?" [Continued on page 73]