By the early 1950s, Colbert had basically retired from the screen in favor of television and stage work, and she earned a Tony Award nomination for "The Marriage-Go-Round" in 1959. Her career tapered off in the early 1960s, but in the late 1970s it experienced a resurgence in theater, and she received a Sarah Siddons Award for her Chicago theater work in 1980. For her television work in "The Two Mrs. Grenvilles" (1987), she won a Golden Globe Award and received an Emmy Award nomination.