Colbert was very particular about how she appeared on-screen, and believed her face was difficult to light and photograph. She insisted on having the right side of her face away from the camera when shooting close-up, because of a small bump from a broken nose as a child.Helen Dudar, "Claudette Colbert Revels in a Happy, Starry Past", The New York Times, October 27, 1991, p. A-1 This sometimes required movie sets to be redesigned. During the filming of Tovarich (1937), director Anatole Litvak favored co-starring Charles Boyer over her in the camera angles, so she got very frustrated.Quirk, p. 100-101.
Colbert was very particular about how she appeared on-screen, and believed her face was difficult to light and photograph. She insisted on having the right side of her face away from the camera when shooting close-up, because of a small bump from a broken nose as a child.Helen Dudar, "Claudette Colbert Revels in a Happy, Starry Past", The New York Times, October 27, 1991 p. A-1 This sometimes required movie sets to be redesigned. During the filming of Tovarich (1937) director Anatole Litvak favored co-starring Charles Boyer over her in the camera angles, so she got very frustrated.Quirk, p 100-101.