Colbert's first film, For the Love of Mike ( 1927 ), had been directed by Frank Capra, and it was such a disaster that she vowed to never make another with him.

The film, Colbert's only silent film role, was a box office failure.

Drums Along the Mohawk ( 1939 ) with Henry Fonda was Colbert's first color film.

Impressed by her performance in this film, but aware of Colbert's sensitivity, David O. Selznick approached her to play the lead role in Since You Went Away ( 1944 ).

The critic James Agee praised aspects of the film, but particularly Colbert's performance.

The bulk of Colbert's estate, estimated at $ 3. 5 million, was left to a friend, Helen O ' Hagan, a retired director of corporate relations at Saks Fifth Avenue, whom Colbert had met in 1961 on the set of the her last film.

Irene Dunne commented that she had lacked Colbert's " terrifying ambition " and noted that if Colbert " finished work on a film on a Saturday, she would be looking for a new project by Monday ".

The original idea was to have Baxter's character gradually come to mirror Colbert's over the course of the film.

In discussing Colbert's career, her contemporaries confirmed her drive.

Colbert's 149 yards in the Rose Bowl were a career high.

In 1930 she was cast in The Big Pond, which was filmed in both English and French, and Colbert's fluency in both languages.

Behind schedule after several actresses had refused the role, the studio accepted Colbert's demand that she be paid $ 50, 000 and that filming was to be completed within four weeks to allow her to take a planned vacation.

One example of Colbert's determination to control the way she was photographed occurred during the filming of Tovarich in 1937, when one of her favored cameramen was dismissed by the director, Anatole Litvak.

Although the Padres continued to struggle after Colbert's departure via trade to the Detroit Tigers in 1974, they did feature star outfielder Dave Winfield, who came to the Padres in 1973 from the University of Minnesota without having played a single game in the minor leagues.

The Shawnee Trail, followed the route from Colbert's Ferry, Indian Territory in the south, across the Cherokee, Choctaw, and Chickasaw Nations, to Baxter Springs, Kansas in the north.

Entitled The Best of The Colbert Report, the three-hour disc contains two " The Wørd " segments ( including " Truthiness " from the first episode and " Wikiality "), one " Threat Down ", various " Better Know a District " segments ( including Robert Wexler ), and interviews with Bill O ' Reilly, Willie Nelson, and Jane Fonda ( also included is Fonda's appearance with Gloria Steinem in a segment called " Cooking with Feminists "), as well as the special segments " Green Screen Challenge ", " Stephen Jr. – Flight of a Patriot ", " Indecision 2006: Midterm Midtacular ", and Colbert's " Meta-Free-Phor-All " with Sean Penn.

Jean-Baptiste Colbert's work in seventeenth century France exemplified classical mercantilism.

Colbert's policies were quite successful, and France's industrial output and economy grew considerably during this period, as France became the dominant European power.

As an actress, Crow has appeared on various television shows including NBC's 30 Rock, ABC's GCB and Cougar Town, Disney Channel's Hannah Montana Forever, and Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert's Rally to Restore Sanity and / or Fear.

* In December 2010, Stephen Colbert wrote and performed an " extended ending " to ' Send in the Clowns ' to composer Stephen Sondheim when he appeared on Colbert's program, The Colbert Report.

Louis XIV's minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert's oak Forest of Tronçais, planted for the future use of the French Navy, matured as expected in the mid-19th century: " Colbert had thought of everything except the steamship ," Fernand Braudel observed.

Commemorative plate on Colbert's birthplace in Paris, France.

The magazine Picturegoer criticized Foster's performance and noted him as one of Colbert's weakest leading men, writing, " He did not seem to get any sincerity into his love scenes.

Colbert's success allowed her to renegotiate her contract, raising her salary.

He wrote in a memo to Colbert's agent that they had rebuilt several sets " because of her refusal to have the right side of her face photographed, on top of which we have to pay her not only a fabulous salary, but also give her two days off a month, which works out to $ 5000 every four weeks for doing absolutely nothing, and now she's demanding three .... Tell her there's a war on and we all have to make some sacrifices.

Without Reservations grossed $ 3 million in the U. S., and the overall popularity of Colbert's films during 1946 led to her making a final appearance in the " Quigley Poll of the Top Ten Money Making Stars ".

She and her first husband lived apart, never sharing a home together in Hollywood, supposedly because Colbert's mother disliked Foster and would not allow him into their home.

Colbert's only surviving relative was a niece, Coco, her brother's daughter.

It stars Jack Warner as an England cricketer playing the last Test of his career, which is the last of an Ashes series ; the film contains cameo appearances from cricketers, including Jim Laker and Denis Compton, who were part of England's 1953 triumph.

She started her acting career in 1952 and, after appearing in 16 films, became world-famous due to her role in her then-husband Roger Vadim's controversial film And God Created Woman.

In a career spanning over 40 years, he is probably best known for his suspense and crime thriller films, including such box office successes as the horror film Carrie, Dressed to Kill, Scarface, The Untouchables, and Mission: Impossible.

Chaplin proceeded to direct every short film in which he appeared for Keystone, approximately one per week, which he remembered as the most exciting time of his career.

After working as assistant director on Resnais's Night and Fog in 1955, Marker made Sunday in Peking, a short documentary " film essay " that would characterize Marker's unique film style for most of his career.

After the events of May 1968, Marker felt a moral obligation to abandon his own personal film career and devote himself to SLON and its activities.

The concert was Montand's first public performance in four years and the film includes film clips from his long career as a singer and actor.

Guest's biggest role of the first two decades of his career is likely that of Nigel Tufnel in the 1984 mockumentary film This Is Spinal Tap.

At Biograph, Griffith's career in the film industry would change forever.

After the disappointment of a dramatic film career, Day returned to her musical / comedic roots in 1957's The Pajama Game with John Raitt.

Both columnist Liz Smith and film critic Rex Reed have mounted vigorous campaigns to gather support for an honorary Academy Award for Day to herald her film career and her status as the top female box-office star of all time.

With less time to spend songwriting as she focused on a burgeoning film career, during the early 1980s Parton recorded a larger percentage of material from noted pop songwriters, such as Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil, Rupert Holmes, Gary Portnoy and Carole Bayer Sager.

" Bowie's career has also been punctuated by various roles in film and theatre productions, earning him some acclaim as an actor in his own right.

* Little Miss Marker ( 1934 )— The film that made Shirley Temple a star, launched her career as perhaps America's most beloved child film star, and pushed her past Greta Garbo as the nation's biggest film draw of the year.

In 2003, Morris won the Best Documentary Oscar at the Academy Awards, for his film The Fog of War, about the career of Robert S. McNamara, who was famous for having been the Secretary of Defense who had led the nation into the Vietnam War under Presidents John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, and who was also crucially involved in having helped President Kennedy avoid a Third World War over the issue of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba.

She used her Miss America scholarship money to study acting at HB Studios in New York City before moving to Hollywood to pursue a film and television career.

Her film career began in earnest in 1937 when she appeared in the films Oh Doctor and Stage Door.

Wallach's film debut was in Elia Kazan's controversial 1956 Baby Doll, and he went on to a prolific career in films, although rarely in a starring role.

While a graduate student, one of his teachers was Dorothy Arzner, whose encouragement Coppola later acknowledged as pivotal to his film career.

Coppola's eldest son, Gian-Carlo, was in the early stages of a film production career when he was killed on May 26, 1986 in a speedboat accident.