He also cast leading actors such as Claudette Colbert, Gloria Swanson, Gary Cooper, Jetta Goudal, Robert Preston, Paulette Goddard and Charlton Heston in multiple pictures.

Colbert also worked to decrease internal barriers to trade, reducing internal tariffs and building an extensive network of roads and canals.

Boom Town was the third and final Gable-Tracy picture, also featuring Claudette Colbert, making it one of the most anticipated films of the year.

The base was greatly enlarged by Jean-Baptiste Colbert, the minister of Louis XIV, who also commissioned his chief military engineer Vauban to strengthen the fortifications around the city.

During production of her second sound film, The Lady Lies ( also in 1929 ), Colbert was appearing nightly in the play See Naples and Die.

Colbert had a supporting role rather than top billing in the film, which also featured a number of well known French cinema performers.

Colbert County is also home of the towns Sheffield and Muscle Shoals where many popular musicians such as Aretha Franklin and the Rolling Stones recorded music.

Number 1 ranked Mike Colbert was knocked out in the twelfth and also had his jaw broken by Hagler.

It was named for the Chickasaw leader Levi Colbert, who was also known as Itawamba.

Sheffield, at the Spring Creek boat launch and park area was also recognized as one of the Colbert County sites of embarkation, by riverboat and barge from the southern side of the Tennessee River en route to Waterloo, Alabama, on the north side, during the historical relocation of Eastern and Southern United States Indian Tribes, known as " The Trail Of Tears ".

Other former residents include Frank Lesser, a writer for the Comedy Central show The Colbert Report, and Nate Beeler, the editorial cartoonist for The Washington Examiner whose cartoons also appear in The San Francisco Examiner ; USA Today ; and The Los Angeles Times.

Colbert also worked to ensure that the French East India Company had access to foreign markets, so that they could always obtain coffee, cotton, dyewoods, fur, pepper, and sugar.

In January 1664 Colbert became the Superintendent of buildings ; in 1665 he became Controller-General of Finances ; in 1669, he became Secretary of State of the Navy ; he also gained appointments as minister of commerce, of the colonies and of the palace.

* Limerick railway station, also known as Colbert station

Warner Brothers also dressed Robert Colbert, a Garner look-alike, in Bret Maverick's outfit and called the character Brent, but Brent Maverick did not catch on with viewers and Colbert made only two episodes toward the end of the season, leaving the rest of the series run to Kelly ( alternating with reruns of episodes with Garner ).

Gardener has also toured as a solo artist, while Colbert, Gardener and Bell have played in a Bob Dylan tribute band called The Zimmermen.

Colbert has also started playing in a band again-as guitarist and vocalist.

Colbert also ordered the expulsion of the Jews from all the French islands.

Fénelon also became friendly with the Duc de Beauvilliers and the Duc de Chevreuse, who were married to the daughters of Louis XIV's minister of finance Jean-Baptiste Colbert.

On The Colbert Report, an alternative to the melting pot culture was posed on The Word called " Lunchables ," where separate cultures " co-exist " by being entirely separate and maintaining no contact or involvement ( see also NIMBY ).

Colbert also promptly recognized Le Brun's powers of organization, and attached him to his interests.

The Colbert Report has also parodied Mitt Romney by comparing him to Smiley.

* 1664 – 1707: Jacques-Nicolas Colbert ( also archbishop of Rouen )

Coward directed a 1956 American TV production, where he also starred as Charles, with Lauren Bacall as Elvira, Mildred Natwick as Madame Arcati and Claudette Colbert as Ruth.

Colbert was noticed by the theatrical producer Leland Hayward, who suggested her for a role in Frank Capra's film For the Love of Mike ( 1927 ), now believed to be lost.

Herbelot, however, was recalled to France by Colbert, and received from the king a pension equal to the one he had lost.

However, The Colbert Report lost two of its Primetime Emmy Award opportunities to The Daily Show — Colbert received one as a then-member of The Daily Shows writing staff.

Key questions included the offensive line, with few returning starters, and the receiving corps, which had lost previous year's senior Keary Colbert and the breakout star of 2003, Mike Williams.

* Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program, Stephen Colbert

Additionally, the show was nominated for two Television Critics Association Awards: Outstanding Individual Achievement in Comedy ( Stephen Colbert ), and Outstanding New Program of the Year.

In 2008, The Colbert Report was again nominated for four Primetime Emmy Awards for the third consecutive year, and for the same four categories as listed above and won for Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music, or Comedy Program.

On August 21, 2010, it was announced that The Colbert Report won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music, or Comedy Program for its episodes broadcast from Iraq.

Colbert studied on the 1 Year Diploma in Drum Performance at London's Drumtech after the split of Ride.

Since You Went Away won the Academy Award for Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture ( Max Steiner ) and was nominated for Best Picture, Best Actress in a Leading Role ( Claudette Colbert ), Best Actress in a Supporting Role ( Jennifer Jones ), Best Actor in a Supporting Role ( Monty Woolley ), Best Cinematography, Black-and-White ( Lee Garmes ), Best Film Editing, Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Black-and-White ( Mark-Lee Kirk, Victor A. Gangelin ), and Best Effects, Special Effects.

Colbert has the honour of having founded the Academy of Sciences ( now part of the Institut de France ), the Paris Observatory, which he employed Claude Perrault to build and brought Giovanni Domenico Cassini ( 1625 – 1712 ) from Italy to superintend, the Academies of Inscriptions and Medals, of Architecture and of Music, the French Academy at Rome, and Academies at Arles, Soissons, Nîmes and many other towns.

In the fine arts, the Académie de peinture et de sculpture (" Academy of Painting and Sculpture ") was founded by Cardinal Mazarin in 1648 and was soon followed by a number of other officially instituted academies: the Académie royale de danse (" Royal Academy of Dance ") in 1661 ; the Académie royale des inscriptions et médailles (" Royal Academy of Inscriptions and Medals ") in 1663 the Académie royale des inscriptions et belles-lettres (" Royal Academy of Inscriptions and Literature " or " Royal Academy of Humanities ") in 1716 ; the Académie royale des sciences (" Royal Academy of Sciences ") in 1666 ; the Académie d ' Opéra (" Academy of Opera ") in 1669 the Académie royale de musique (" Royal Academy of Music ") in 1672 and the Académie de musique in 1791 ; and the Académie royale d ' architecture (" Royal Academy of Architecture ") founded by Jean-Baptiste Colbert in 1671.

Barry and distributor Colbert Television Sales were not happy with the arrangement and almost immediately began courting non-CBS affiliates to pick up both Joker and Tic Tac Dough.

Manilow later appeared on the show to sign a peace treaty with Colbert, in which they agreed to joint custody of the award.

Manilow did another shortened performance of this song with Stephen Colbert when he was a guest on The Colbert Report on October 30, 2006.

This is similar to other entertainers who perform with a persona that shares their own name ( such as Stephen Colbert and Stephen Colbert ( character )).

Spoiled heiress Ellen " Ellie " Andrews ( Claudette Colbert ) marries fortune-hunter " King " Westley ( Jameson Thomas ) against the wishes of her extremely wealthy father ( Walter Connolly ) who has the marriage annulled.

Capra understood their dissatisfaction and tried to lighten the mood by having Gable play practical jokes on Colbert, who responded with good humor.

Upon seeing the chorus girl who was brought in as her body double, an outraged Colbert told the director, " Get her out of here.

* Jean-Baptiste Colbert ( 1619 – 1683 ), who served as the French minister of finance from 1665 to 1683 during the reign of King Louis XIV

In 1928, Colbert married Norman Foster, an actor and director, who appeared with Colbert in the Broadway show The Barker.

Colbert had one brother, Charles ( 1898 – 1971 ), who used the surname Wendling and served as her agent and business manager for a time.

Branson then made a cameo appearance on The Soup playing an intern working under Joel McHale who had been warned against getting into water fights with Stephen Colbert, and being subsequently fired.

Colbert, who then replaced Fouquet as superintendent of finances, arrested him.

The well-known television journalist Linda Ellerbee, who worked hard early in her career to eliminate a Texas accent, stated, " in television you are not supposed to sound like you're from anywhere "; political comedian Stephen Colbert worked hard as a child to reduce his South Carolina accent because of the common portrayal of Southerners as stupid on American television.

The town was named after Benjamin " Frank " Franklin Colbert ( 1826 / 1828-1893 ), a Chickasaw and great-grandson of the Scots trader James Logan Colbert and his Chickasaw wife Minta Hoye, who had five sons.

The town was originally included in the Chickasaw Nation, and is believed to be named after the great Chickasaw chief and warrior, Itawamba Minco, who later acquired the name of Levi Colbert.

Jean-Baptiste Colbert (; 29 August 1619 – 6 September 1683 ) was a French politician who served as the Minister of Finances of France from 1665 to 1683 under the rule of King Louis XIV.

* Stephen Colbert parodies Sábado Gigante on The Colbert Report occasionally with " Colberto Reporto Gigante " hosted by " Esteban Colberto " ( clearly Colbert wearing a white suit and a fake mustache ), and featuring " chicas " who dance around him while he " discusses " an issue — frequently immigration — with Colbert.

But the fear of being cut off in their retreat by St. John of Calchetas, for those who had just occupied Tudela, and a large body of cavalry managed to sneak between Santa Quiteria and Cabezo Malla ( Lefebvre was with the cavalry of Colbert and Polish lancers, which certainly surprised the staff of Brown in his march to Cascante ) were forced to abandon so advantageous positions.