Colette

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1873 age 0

   Born

2. 1954 age 81

   Died

3. 1958 age 81

   CreditGigiscreenwriter

• AFArthur Freed1 title
• ALAlan Jay Lerner1 title
• FLFrederick Loewe1 title
• CBCecil Beaton1 title
• VMVincente Minnelli1 title
• LCLeslie Caron1 title
• AFAdrienne Fazan1 title
• LJLouis Jourdan1 title
• MVMonique van Vooren1 title
• JAJohn Abbott1 title

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  Photo:Henri ManuelPublic domain

• When she raises her eyelids it's as if she were taking off all her clothes.

  Colette, CC BY-SA 4.0

• There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.

  Colette, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Nothing ages a woman like living in the country.

  Colette, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Life as a child and then as a girl had taught her patience, hope, silence; and given her a prisoner's proficiency in handling these virtues as weapons.

  Colette, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Let’s go out and buy playing-cards, good wine, bridge-scorers, knitting needles—all the paraphernalia to fill a gaping void, all that’s required to disguise that monster, an old woman.

  Colette, CC BY-SA 4.0

• It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

  Colette, CC BY-SA 4.0