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" Through the filming, Capra claimed, Colbert " had many little tantrums, motivated by her antipathy toward me ," however " she was wonderful in the part.
Colbert arrived wearing a two-piece traveling suit which she had the Paramount Pictures costume designer, Travis Banton, make for her trip.
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 studied at Washington Irving High School where her speech teacher, Alice Rossetter, encouraged her to audition for a play she had written.
She had been using the name Claudette instead of nickname Lily since high school, and for her stage name she added her maternal grandmother's maiden name, Colbert.
Through the filming, Colbert felt that the script was weak, and Capra claimed, Colbert " had many little tantrums, motivated by her antipathy toward me ," however " she was wonderful in the part.
Colbert arrived wearing a two-piece traveling suit which she had the Paramount Pictures costume designer, Travis Banton, make for her trip.
In 1940, Colbert refused a seven-year contract that would have paid her $ 200, 000 a year, as she had found that she could command a fee of $ 150, 000 per film as a freelance artist.
In later life, Colbert said, " I just never had the luck to play bitches.
Colbert had a supporting role rather than top billing in the film, which also featured a number of well known French cinema performers.
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.
Colbert once commented that she had sacrificed for the sake of her career.
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 writer A. Scott Berg described Colbert as one of Paramount Studio's greatest assets, as she had " proved deft in all genres " and had " helped define femininity for her generation with her chic manner.
Claudette Colbert, for whom the part had been written, had severely injured her back, and she was unable to continue.
Number 1 ranked Mike Colbert was knocked out in the twelfth and also had his jaw broken by Hagler.
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.
In August 2007, Branson announced on The Colbert Report that he had named a new aircraft Air Colbert.
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.
" The comment resulted in a local uproar, with the Canton, Georgia, mayor insisting Colbert had never visited the town along with an invitation for him to do so.

Colbert and one
Nate Colbert is one of two major-league baseball players ( Stan Musial is the other ) to have hit five home runs in a doubleheader, a feat he accomplished as a Padre.
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.
Colbert established one of the most successful film careers of any actress of her generation, and was considered a dependable and bankable star.
The film gave Niven one of his first significant parts, and he wrote that Colbert took a nurturing role towards him and " was the soul of fun and a most generous performer ," although he noted that her insistence that she be filmed only from her left side created difficulties for the cameramen.
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 ".
Fouquet's life ( and his rivalry with Colbert ) is one of the background plots / stories in the historical novel Imprimatur by Rita Monaldi and Francesco Sorti.
Colbert himself became a member of the Académie française ; and proposed one very characteristic rule with the intention of expediting the great Dictionary, in which he had a great interest: no one could count as present at any meeting unless he arrived before the hour of commencement and remained till the hour for leaving.
Since, Bell and Colbert made an appearance at one of Gardener's early shows ; Bell later shared two nights of acoustic sets with Gardener in November 2003 when Gardener made a tour stop in Bell's current home of Stockholm.
He had then already been given a pension by Jean-Baptiste Colbert after he solved one of Jacques Ozanam's problems.
Claudette Colbert was one actress who apparently preferred not to work with Head, while her relationship with flamboyant film director Mitchell Leisen was by all accounts quite tense.
Game designer Daniel Kaufman remembers " the famous backward-firing guns " as one of the adventure's highlights, and Stephen Colbert, who played Dungeons & Dragons as a child, chose this adventure as his personal favorite.
By the end of the segment, Colbert — normally one of the most composed of the show's correspondents — was laughing so hard he could barely speak.
At one point Gruenwald owned a replica of Captain America's shield the same shield now owned by Stephen Colbert.
Allison then drew his own revolver and fired one shot, striking Colbert in the head.
Similar incidents took place including one in which French pursuit was so close there was not time enough for Paget, commander of the British rear guard, to complete the hanging of three British soldiers, as an example, for the pillaging a Spanish town. The gallant French cavalry General Colbert, considered the most handsome man in the French army, was killed while in hot, close pursuit across the bridge at the village of Cacabello by a remarkably long-range rifle shot fired by Thomas Plunket of the 95th Rifles after driving off the British 15th Hussars and riding down the Riflemen, capturing about 50.
He appeared as a guest on The Colbert Report on December 6, 2006 ; during his time in the studio, he gave Mr. Colbert one of his famous hugs.
Several live television adaptions were produced, including one in 1952, a BBC film for television, starring Morton Lowry as Tony Cavendish and Charmion King as Julia, renamed as ' Theatre Royal ' and one in 1954, with Fredric March reprising his role as Tony, Helen Hayes as Fanny, and Claudette Colbert as Julie.
Stephen Colbert gives heavily biased viewpoints on topics such as Warren G. Harding ( who is often considered one of the worst American presidents ).
Joey had talked to owner Art Rooney and GM Kevin Colbert about signing a one day contract so that he could " have the honor " of retiring as a Pittsburgh Steeler.
Each of the nurses has a past or present love story with a soldier, with the longest term and most interesting romance the one between the characters played by Colbert and George Reeves.

Colbert and brother
With her brother as her manager, Colbert was able to secure roles in prestigious films, and this period marked the height of her earning ability.
* Charles Colbert, marquis de Croissy ( 1625 1696 ), French diplomat, brother of Jean-Baptiste Colbert
The architect of the Paris Observatory was Claude Perrault whose brother, Charles, was secretary to Colbert and superintendent of public works.
He won the Colbert prize ( Prix de Rome ), as had his brother, which gave him a four-year scholarship at the French Academy in Rome ; but refusing to submit to the rules of the academy, he soon left it, and according to legend for some time wandered homeless through the streets of Rome, though he soon found work in the atelier of Pierre Legros.
The town owes the rise of its prosperity to the settlement of weavers there by Édouard Colbert, count of Maulévrier, a brother of the great Jean-Baptiste Colbert.
Like his elder brother Jean Baptiste Colbert, began his career in the office of the minister of war Le Tellier.

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