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On Christmas Eve, 1935, in Yuma, Arizona, Colbert married Dr. Joel Pressman, who eventually became a professor and chief of the head and neck surgery department of UCLA Medical School.
She married surgeon Dr. Joel Pressman soon after and remained married until his death in 1968. In recent years she divided her time between an apartment in New York and a 200-year-old plantation house in Speightstown, Barbados, where she entertained such guests as Frank Sinatra and Ronald Reagan.
Jul 31, 1996 · She remarried--to Dr. Joel Pressman, a surgeon who died in 1968--and appeared in “Under Two Flags,” which, while not a roaring success, reflected credit on the star.
Following her divorce from Norman Foster in 1934, she married the surgeon Joel Pressman, who, after his retirement from private practice, served on the faculty of the University of California at Los Angeles Medical School.
During the Second World War Colbert's husband, Joel Pressman, became a navy lieutenant and she spent much time selling war bonds and working for the war effort.
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They divorced in 1935, and in December of that year, Colbert married Dr. Joel Pressman, a surgeon at UCLA. [5] The marriage lasted 33 years, until Pressman's death of liver cancer in 1968.
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May 14, 2018 · On 24 December 1935, in Yuma, Arizona, Colbert married Dr. Joel J. Pressman, who had been her overseeing physician during some of her (lifelong) sinus problems. Pressman died of liver cancer on 26 February 1968. Colbert had no children.
Jul 31, 1996 · Claudette Colbert, the versatile stage and film star whose flair for light comedy cheered audiences during the Depression and for decades afterward, died yesterday at Belle-rive, her home on...
Apr 16, 1984 · She divides her year between her New York apartment and her house in Barbados, which she bought with her second husband, the surgeon Joel Pressman, who died in 1968 after 35 years of marriage.
