The Academy of Sciences owes its origin to Colbert's plan to create a general academy.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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 ).

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.

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

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.

The only drawback now to the plan he'd decided on was that someone else might fail to do his work, too, and the teacher would have that person stay late along with Jack.

For lawyers, reflecting perhaps their parochial preferences, there has been a special fascination since then in the role played by the Supreme Court in that transformation -- the manner in which its decisions altered in `` the switch in time that saved nine '', President Roosevelt's ill-starred but in effect victorious `` Court-packing plan '', the imprimatur of judicial approval that was finally placed upon social legislation.

during long weeks the plan for his flight was rehearsed.

Tom was not willing to revise the play according to the plan the man suggested.

But perhaps this was a part of the eternal plan, that man's ambition when linked with God would be a driving, indefatigable force for good in the world.

Counsel for the Government invited Du Pont's views on this proposal before recommending a specific program, but stated that if the court desired, or if counsel for Du Pont thought further discussion would not be profitable, the Government was prepared to submit a plan within thirty days.

In spite of this catastrophe, the bridge was rebuilt on the same plan and opened again on July 17, 1827.

And then Eichmann was quoted as saying, in non-English, that Hitler's plan to exterminate the Jews was nonsense ''.

A titre personnel and a special office was created in the Ministry of the Interior to plan and to conduct the elections.

In other words, the promulgators of the murder plan made clear that physically exterminating the Jews was but an extension of the anti-Semitic measures already operating in every phase of German life, and that the new conspiracy counted on the general anti-Semitism that had made those measures effective, as a readiness for murder.

The plan was supported by Frederick P. Fish, counsel for the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce.

Again the plan was for me to go alone, but they wouldn't let me.

It was not very reasonable to believe that Lucien had procured unprocurable opium and come back to Honotassa with a formed plan to murder her.

At the same time reaction among anti-organization Democratic leaders and in the Liberal party to the Mayor's reported plan was generally favorable.

The resentment among Democratic organization leaders to the reported Wagner plan was directed particularly at the Mayor's efforts to name his own running mates without consulting the leaders.

On Monday, the Hughes concern was formally declared bankrupt after its directors indicated they could not draw up a plan for reorganization.

The plan for eliminating traffic hazards for pedestrians was developed by Dr. Constantinos A. Doxiadis, former Minister of Reconstruction in Greece and a consulting planner for the New Eastwick Corp..

He said the snow plan was put in effect too slowly in December.

During the Han dynasty, another Yin-Yang conception was applied to the Lo Shu, considering the latter as a plan of Ancient China.

Note that by Western standards this plan was `` upside down '', as it put North at the bottom and South at the top, with the other directions correspondingly altered ; ;

Something in the back of his mind was aware that the magnificence of the plan lay in his faith, that the idea would work because he believed in it, since his courage and virility were involved, because it was truly his.

Part of the time saved was spent on a preliminary estimate for a long-distance plan to free bound oxygen in the sands of Mars to make the planet more friendly to future human generations.

Amphibian Ark is an organization that was formed to implement the ex-situ conservation recommendations of this plan, and they have been working with zoos and aquaria around the world encouraging them to create assurance colonies of threatened amphibians.