ACTOR

Claudette Colbert

1903 - 1996

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Émilie Chauchoin (French: [emili ʃoʃwɛ̃]; September 13, 1903 – July 30, 1996), professionally known as Claudette Colbert ( kohl-BAIR, French: [klodɛt kɔlbɛʁ]), was an American actress. Colbert began her career in Broadway productions during the late 1920s and progressed to films with the advent of talking pictures. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Claudette Colbert has received more than 3,021,726 page views. Her biography is available in 72 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 68 in 2019). Claudette Colbert is the 651st most popular actor (down from 598th in 2019), the 1,171st most popular biography from France (down from 1,099th in 2019) and the 57th most popular French Actor.

Claudette Colbert was an American actress who is most famous for her role in the 1934 film It Happened One Night.

Memorability Metrics

  • 3.0M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 61.48

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 72

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.59

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 6.14

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Claudette Colbert ranks 651 out of 13,578Before her are Gert Fröbe, William Fichtner, Sissy Spacek, Naomi Watts, Dwayne Johnson, and Stefania Sandrelli. After her are Robert Englund, Karin Schubert, Ben Stiller, Loie Fuller, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Carmen Maura.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, Claudette Colbert ranks 58Before her are Giulio Natta, The French Angel, Yisrael Kristal, Vladimir Bartol, Alonzo Church, and Ernest Walton. After her are Abul A'la Maududi, Eliot Ness, George Davis Snell, Vincente Minnelli, Maud Lewis, and Raymond Radiguet. Among people deceased in 1996, Claudette Colbert ranks 42Before her are Mohammad Najibullah, Mohamed Farrah Aidid, Victor Ambartsumian, William Vickrey, António de Spínola, and Shūsaku Endō. After her are Georges Duby, Alain Poher, Fujiko Fujio, Timothy Leary, P. L. Travers, and Ernesto Geisel.

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In France

Among people born in France, Claudette Colbert ranks 1,171 out of 6,770Before her are Raymond VII, Count of Toulouse (1197), Louis William, Margrave of Baden-Baden (1655), B. H. Liddell Hart (1895), Paul Sérusier (1864), Sigebert II (602), and Maurice Duverger (1917). After her are Pierre Bouguer (1698), Antipope Gregory VIII (1100), Gundobad (500), Joan of England, Queen of Sicily (1165), Antoine César Becquerel (1788), and Anne de Montmorency (1493).

Among ACTORS In France

Among actors born in France, Claudette Colbert ranks 57Before her are Maurice Ronet (1927), Claude Jade (1948), Marion Cotillard (1975), Coluche (1944), Pierre Brice (1929), and Louis Jourdan (1921). After her are François Cluzet (1955), André Antoine (1858), Cléo de Mérode (1875), Charles Boyer (1899), Emmanuelle Béart (1963), and Nathalie Baye (1948).