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.

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 generally respected for her professionalism, with the New York Times stating that she was known for giving " 110 percent " to any project she worked on, and she was highly regarded for learning the technical aspects of studio lighting and cinematography that allowed her to maintain a distinctive film image.

MacMurray worked with directors Billy Wilder and Preston Sturges and actors Barbara Stanwyck, Humphrey Bogart, Marlene Dietrich and, in seven films, Claudette Colbert, beginning with The Gilded Lily ( 1935 ).

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.

Colbert worked to create a favourable balance of trade and increase France's colonial holdings.

Colbert worked to develop the domestic economy by raising tariffs and by encouraging major public works projects.

Colbert worked incessantly hard until his final hours.

Host Stephen Colbert invited Young to appear during the writer's strike, because, many years earlier, Young and Colbert's father had worked together, but on opposite sides, to mediate a Charleston, South Carolina, hospital workers ' strike.

Notables included Ernest Hemingway who worked on For Whom the Bell Tolls in room # 206, Clark Gable, Errol Flynn, Claudette Colbert, Bing Crosby and Gary Cooper.

He sends his secretary, Roger Colbert, out to track down the missing Anne Chaplet, convinced she has worked out the threat to the Protestants.

Although Claudette Colbert and Sturges had both worked on The Big Pond ( 1930 ) and the 1934 version of Imitation of Life, The Palm Beach Story was the only time they worked together on a movie Sturges wrote and directed.

* 1619 – Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French politician ( d. 1683 )

In France, Colbert planted oak forests to supply the French navy in the future.

But, the recently appointed French Secretary of State, Jean-Baptiste Colbert, was trying to promote farming in the colony and was opposed to exploration and trapping.

The law, originally conceived by French Finance Minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert prior to his death in 1683, was finalized by his son the Marquis de Seignelay and presented to the King for his signature in 1685.

This French mercantilism was best articulated by Jean-Baptiste Colbert ( in office, 1665 – 1683 ), though policy liberalised greatly under Napoleon.

French finance minister and mercantilist Jean-Baptiste Colbert served for over 20 years.

The height of French mercantilism is closely associated with Jean-Baptiste Colbert, finance minister for 22 years in the 17th century, to the extent that French mercantilism is sometimes called Colbertism.

Under Colbert, the French government became deeply involved in the economy in order to increase exports.

It was dissolved in 1658 and its assets were acquired by the Company of Cape Vert and Senegal, itself expropriated following the creation by Colbert in 1664 of the French West India Company.

However, Jean-Baptiste Colbert, the French foreign minister, successfully argued that whether France accepted all or a part of the Spanish Empire, it would still have to fight Austria, which did not accept the nature of the partition described by the Treaty of London.

* August 29 – Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French minister of finance ( d. 1683 )

* September 6 – Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French minister of finance ( b. 1619 )

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

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.

He informed the French ambassador Colbert de Croissy that to his regret he had to terminate the English war effort and told the Dutch via the Spanish consul in London, the Marquess del Fresno, that, his main war aim, to install his noble nephew as stadtholder, having been attained, there was no longer any objection on his side to concluding a lasting peace between the two Protestant brother nations, if only some minor " indemnities " could be paid.

French expatriate Claudette Colbert requested him in the psychiatric drama Private Worlds ( 1935 ).

During Louis XIV's reign, his minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert brought French luxury industries, like textile and porcelain, under royal control and the architecture, furniture, fashion and etiquette of the royal court ( particularly at the Château de Versailles ) became the preeminent model of noble culture in France ( and, to a great degree, throughout Europe ) during the latter half of the seventeenth century.

In December 1665, Rochefort was chosen by Jean-Baptiste Colbert as a place of " refuge, defense and supply " for the French navy.

Laws were passed to enforce this concept, such as the English Navigation Acts, and edicts issued by French Minister of Finance Jean-Baptiste 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.

In addition, Colbert founded the French merchant marine.

To maintain the character of French goods in foreign markets, as well as to afford a guarantee to the home consumer, Colbert had the quality and measure of each article fixed by law, punishing breaches of the regulations by public exposure of the delinquent and by destruction of the goods concerned, and, on the third offense, by the pillory.