Uncommonly early 8x10-inch sepia-tone portrait, boldly signed and inscribed in black fountain pen around 1934, the time she was onscreen in It Happened One Night. Some minor creasing to the upper area and left edge, most of which would matte and frame out; otherwise, in fine condition for its age. Elegant leading lady Claudette Colbert won an Oscar for her performance, opposite Clark Gable, in It Happened One Night (1934), and was also memorable in Imitation of Life (1934), Cleopatra (1934), Private Worlds (1935), Drums Along the Mohawk (1939), The Palm Beach Story (1942), and Since You Went Away (1944).

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