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"I understand what's best for me personally, after all I have already been in the Claudette Colbert business much longer than anybody." - Claudette Colbert The 1930s were the elevation of the traditional Hollywood era, known for luxurious studio productions by heavyweights like MGM, RKO, Warner Brothers, Paramount, and 20th Century Fox, that have been operating at the elevation of their powers. Every major studio possessed a long roster of deal players, and videos were released at such an instant pace it made for an especially competitive environment within the industry. Even while America continued to be in the throes of the Great Depressive disorder, the film industry persisted to flourish, and movies easily supplanted the theater as the key attraction for American entertainment. Indeed, it might be no exaggeration to declare that the film industry come to its zenith through the decade precisely because it offered an affordable (if very short-term) get away from the anxieties of the economic woes of the era. Even though competition, Hollywood's biggest celebrity at the package office in 1938 was French celebrity Claudette Colbert, who possessed already acquired an Oscar for Best Actress in It Happened One Night time (1934) and used her Broadway experience from the previous decade to be perhaps the industry's most famous screwball comedienne. The actual fact that Colbert possessed gotten that way was impressive, given that Hollywood enjoyed to cast international actresses in stereotypical assignments, and she once observed, "In the beginning, they wished to give me French assignments...That is why I used to state my name Col-bert just as it is spelled instead of Col-baire. I did so not need to be typed as 'that French woman.'"
