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

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.

In 2007, the ice cream company Ben and Jerry's announced a new flavor of ice cream, Stephen Colbert's Americone Dream ( available only in the United States ).

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.

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.

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

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.

Other actors noted Colbert's comic timing ; David Niven related in his biography that Gary Cooper was " terrified " at the prospect of working with Colbert in his first comedy, Bluebeard's Eighth Wife, because he considered Colbert to be an expert in the genre.

" In a 1930s interview Constance Bennett replied to questions about her own demands, with the comment that Colbert's idiosyncrasies were far more excessive, but Bennett acknowledged that it was an integral part of Colbert's success.

Colbert's plan was to build a general academy.

Colbert's market reforms included the foundation of the Manufacture royale de glaces de miroirs in 1665 to supplant the importation of Venetian glass ( forbidden in 1672, as soon as French glass manufacturing industry was on sound footing ) and to encourage the technical expertise of Flemish cloth manufacturing in France.

In about 1667, Baluze entered Colbert's service, and until 1700 was in charge of the invaluable library belonging to that minister and to his son, Marquis de Seignelay.

He has explained in interviews that Rivera was one of the inspirations for the " man with a mission " facet of Colbert's right-wing pundit character.

In 2005, Gardener was stuck in France and unable to play the Truck Festival ; Colbert's band filled the gap in the bill.

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

At the death of Colbert, François-Michel le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois, Colbert's enemy, who succeeded as superintendent in the department of public works, showed no favour to Le Brun who was Colbert's favorite, and in spite of the king's continued support Le Brun felt a bitter change in his position.

Bordallo was interviewed on Stephen Colbert's The Colbert Report on April 26, 2007, as part of its " Better Know a Protectorate " segment for Guam.

Rothman was featured on Comedy Central's The Colbert Report, in Stephen Colbert's part nine of the " Better Know A District " segment, which highlighted Rothman and New Jersey's 9th District, and originally aired on January 12, 2006.

") and closing (" If I Had Time ") songs for the 66th Tony Awards ; the score of the adaptation of John Waters ' Cry-Baby, which opened on Broadway on April 24, 2008 and was nominated for a 2008 Tony Award for Best Original Score ; and eight original Christmas songs for Stephen Colbert's 2008 television special, A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All !, which won him his first Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album.

Interestingly, Hamilton based much of this report on the ideas of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, and it was, in part, Colbert's ideas that Smith responded to with The Wealth of Nations.

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

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 ).

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.

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

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.

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.

* 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.

Colbert's film career declined in the 1950s, and she retired from film in 1961.

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.

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

But these prolusions that we have surviving from the Christ's College days are only one phase of his existence then.

It is one of the very few, if not the only surviving bridge of its type to serve a main artery of the U.S. highway system, thus it is far more than a relic of the horse and buggy days.

Harris dates studies of both to Classical Greece and Classical Rome, specifically, to Herodotus, often called the " father of history " and the Roman historian, Tacitus, who wrote many of our only surviving contemporary accounts of several ancient Celtic and Germanic peoples.

According to the fossil record, Lissamphibia, which includes all modern amphibians and is the only surviving lineage, may have branched off from the extinct groups Temnospondyli and Lepospondyli at some period between the Late Carboniferous and the Early Triassic.

The aardwolf is the only surviving species in the mammalian subfamily Protelinae.

" Only four months later, Kurosawa's eldest brother also died, leaving Akira, at age 23, the only one of the Kurosawa brothers still living, together with his three surviving sisters.

But on Cemetery Hill, the I Corps could muster only a third of its men as effective for duty and the corps was essentially destroyed as a combat force for the rest of the battle ; it would be decommissioned in March 1864, its surviving units combined into other corps.

He fell to the fatal wrath of Artemis, but the surviving details of his transgression vary: " the only certainty is in what Aktaion suffered, his pathos, and what Artemis did: the hunter became the hunted ; he was transformed into a stag, and his raging hounds, struck with a ' wolf's frenzy ' ( Lyssa ), tore him apart as they would a stag.

Mackenzie married Helen Neil ( 1826 – 1852 ) in 1845 and with her had three children, with only one girl surviving infancy.

Inevitably, the surviving evidence is not complete enough to determine whether one should interpret, with older scholars, that he wisely curtailed the activities of the Roman Empire to a careful minimum, or perhaps that he was uninterested in events away from Rome and Italy and his inaction contributed to the pressing troubles that faced not only Marcus Aurelius but also the emperors of the third century.

Each is the size of a large asteroid, only capable surviving in microgravity conditions, and processes data at 0. 5 % the speed of a human brain.

Seizing the youngest but only surviving of Saul's sons, Ish-bosheth, Abner set him up as king over Israel at Mahanaim, east of the Jordan.

Akira's only surviving son, Keizo ( b. 1927 ) was taken prisoner and joined the Soviet Army after his capture.

Tiberius died on March 16, 37 and Agrippina's only surviving brother, Caligula, became the new emperor.

They were tried and executed one after the other until, when only one was still alive, the accounting error was discovered and that last surviving treasurer was acquitted.

The kingdom of Cyprus passed to Hugh, his only surviving son, while the kingdom of Jerusalem passed to Maria, the daughter of Isabella by her previous marriage with Conrad of Montferrat.

Joan was the only surviving child and heiress of Raymond VII, Count of Toulouse, Duke of Narbonne, and Marquis of Provence, so under Provençal and French law, the lands should have gone to her nearest male relative.

Abd al-Rahman was only one of several surviving Umayyad family members to make their way to Ifriqiya at this time.

As the only surviving member of the Falcon missile family, it was not adopted by any other nation ( besides Iran ), any other US armed service, or used on any other aircraft.

* The Benjamin Franklin House Franklin's only surviving residence.

The Life of Ceolfrith, written in about 710, records that only two surviving monks were capable of singing the full offices ; one was Ceolfrith and the other a young boy, who according to the anonymous writer had been taught by Ceolfrith and was " now a priest of the same monastery ".

There are groups of drawings by Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, ( including his only surviving full-scale cartoon ), Dürer ( a collection of 138 drawings is one of the finest in existence ), Peter Paul Rubens, Rembrandt, Claude and Watteau, and largely complete collections of the works of all the great printmakers including Dürer ( 99 engravings, 6 etchings and most of his 346 woodcuts ), Rembrandt and Goya.

File: Michelangelo Epifania. jpg | Room 90-Michelangelo's Epifania-his only surviving large scale cartoon ( 1550 – 53 )

Music was much simplified ; and a radical distinction developed between, on the one hand, parish worship where only the metrical psalms of Sternhold and Hopkins might be sung ; and on the other hand, worship in churches with organs and surviving choral foundations, where the music of John Marbeck and others was developed into a rich choral tradition.

It is home to the only surviving population of the endemic, and endangered, Cocos Buff-banded Rail.