 In her comedy films, she invariably played shrewd and self-reliant women, but unlike many of her contemporaries, Colbert rarely engaged in physical comedy.Her characters were more likely to be observers and commentators.In 1928, Colbert married Norman Foster, an actor and director, with whom she co-starred in the Broadway show "The Barker", and in the film "Young Man of Manhattan" (1930), for which he received negative reviews as one of her weakest leading men.