LOS ANGELES – Locked in a room in Paris and forced to write a scandalous best-seller?
Allow Keira Knightley to introduce you to the story of “Colette,” a new biopic that hits theaters Friday in Los Angeles and New York.
The actress makes a movie star of Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, the avant-garde French author who ghostwrote under her husband’s name to uncharted success at the turn of the century.
After wresting free of her marriage and fighting for the rights to her work, Colette would go on to literary icon status, penning the 1920 novel “Chéri” and 1944’s “Gigi,” the latter adapted into a movie musical that won nine Oscars in 1959, including best picture.
Don’t know her story? Neither did Knightley, 33, until she picked up the “Colette” script.
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