Claudette Colbert's Birth Card: The Jack of Clubs

In the record

Claudette Colbert (koʊlˈbɛər kohl-BAIR, September 13, 1903 – July 30, 1996), also known as Lily Claudette Chauchoin (ʃoʃwɛ̃ show-shwan), was a French-American stage and film actress. The birth-card coordinate for September 13 is the Jack of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1935 Best Actress — It Happened One Night win.

Academy Award record

• 1935 Best Actress — It Happened One Night

The Jack of Clubs coordinate

Claudette Colbert's birthday maps to the Jack of Clubs (The Creative Messenger). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about an Academy Award and not a verdict on Claudette Colbert. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You bring a new angle and you let someone pressure-test it before it ships.

Live Jack of Clubs meaning page

Claudette Colbert in the public record

She began her career in earnest on Broadway during the late 1920s and progressed to films with the advent of talking pictures. Initially associated with Paramount Pictures, Colbert had a string of successes as she gradually shifted to working as a freelance actress. With her Mid-Atlantic accent, versatility, stoic character, aristocratic demeanor, and flair for light comedy and emotional drama, Colbert became one of the popular stars of the 1930s and 1940s. In all, she was cast in more than 60 movies, in most of which she had top billing. Among her frequent co-stars were Fred MacMurray in seven films (1935–1949), and Fredric March in four (1930–1933). Colbert won the Academy Award for Best Actress for It Happened One Night (1934), and earned two other Oscar nominations, for Private Worlds (1935) and Since You Went Away (1944). Her other especially notable films include Midnight (1939) and The Palm Beach Story (1942). By the mid-1950s Colbert had turned from motion pictures to television and stage work; she earned a Tony Award nomination for The Marriage-Go-Round in 1959.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Claudette Colbert (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

Where the record meets the Jack of Diamonds

A card is a calendar coordinate, not a cause. What follows sets one line of the card's own published language beside one sentence of the sourced record, paired by a documented rule. It is a resemblance offered for the reader to weigh — not a claim about Claudette Colbert, and not a forecast of an Oscar.

You try a new approach to value and you finish enough of it to know if it works. You bring new ways of thinking about resources and success. You're the one who shifts how people relate to money. You inspire financial breakthroughs.

Initially associated with Paramount Pictures, Colbert had a string of successes as she gradually shifted to working as a freelance actress.

Paired on shared wording: shifted, working.

Also on the record

1. Her career began to wane in the early 1960s.
2. In the mid-1970s she experienced a resurgence in the theater, and received a Sarah Siddons Award for her Chicago theater work in 1980.
3. Her television appearance in The Two Mrs.
4. Grenvilles (1987) earned her a Golden Globe Award and an Emmy nomination.

Other winners with this card

• Elizabeth Taylor — 1961 Best Actress — BUtterfield 8; 1967 Best Actress — Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
• Ellen Burstyn — 1975 Best Actress — Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
• James Cagney — 1943 Best Actor — Yankee Doodle Dandy
• Jean Dujardin — 2012 Best Actor — The Artist
• Jennifer Lawrence — 2013 Best Actress — Silver Linings Playbook
• Joanne Woodward — 1958 Best Actress — The Three Faces of Eve
• Marie Dressler — 1932 Best Actress — Min and Bill
• Mikey Madison — 2025 Best Actress — Anora
• Simone Signoret — 1960 Best Actress — Room at the Top

FAQ

What is Claudette Colbert's birth card?

The Jack of Clubs. September 13 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

Does a birth card predict an Oscar?

No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast awards, character, or fate.

Where do Claudette Colbert's dates come from?

Birth date 1903-09-13 is the day-precision date on Claudette Colbert's Wikipedia infobox, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Winner identity comes from the Wikipedia Best Actor / Best Actress lists, which cite Oscars.org ceremony pages. Year-only dates and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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