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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

He did an interview with Stephen Colbert and then performed " American Tune ".

Novello has appeared as Sarducci on many television shows since then, including Married ... with Children, Blossom, It's Garry Shandling's Show, Unhappily Ever After, Square Pegs and The Colbert Report.

On August 5, 2008, Colbert apologized to citizens of Canton, Kansas, then continued the running gag by directing his mock derision in successive weeks towards Canton, South Dakota and Canton, Texas.

It then downgrades to a divided four-lane highway just north of Colbert.

Employed at Vaux-le-Vicomte, Le Brun ingratiated himself with Mazarin, then secretly pitting Colbert against Fouquet.

He had then already been given a pension by Jean-Baptiste Colbert after he solved one of Jacques Ozanam's problems.

Since then, the credits of The Colbert Report jokingly refer to him as " Dr. Stephen T. Colbert, D. F. A.

On Colbert's own show The Colbert Report, he has made numerous character breaks when performing alone, giggling over things such as his own suggestion of " Filliam H. Muffman " as a tabloid nickname for the relationship of William H. Macy and Felicity Huffman ; a news story about a giant inflatable dog turd that escaped its moorings and wrought destruction in England ; and various prop malfunctions, including a condom he blew up and then accidentally popped and a bottle of Manischewitz spilled behind his " news " desk.

Allison then drew his own revolver and fired one shot, striking Colbert in the head.

However, the McCanles Gang legend seems to be traceable to an incident between " Duck Bill " Hickok, as he was then known, and a local rancher David Colbert McCanles, a former sheriff of Watauga County, North Carolina who was known as a local bully and had earlier had an argument with Hickok over the latter " stealing " his mistress Sarah ( Kate ) Shull.

Also on The Colbert Report during his September 27th, 2010 show, Colbert asks " if God can turn himself into a burning bush, then why can't he take the form of Fudgie the Whale?

In the prologue Claudette Colbert appears bound and gagged in a closet, but then a second later in a wedding dress, seen by a maid who faints at every disturbance.

The first, led by then land owner James Beverly Colbert, was felled by the Great Depression.

In 1950, Baxter was chosen to co-star in All About Eve, largely because of a resemblance to Claudette Colbert, who was originally set to star in the film, but dropped out and was replaced by Bette Davis.

Colbert died in 1683, and had been replaced by Le Pelletier, an adherent of Louvois, in the controller-generalship of finances, and by Louvois himself in his ministry for public buildings, which he took that he might be the minister able to gratify the king's two favourite pastimes, war and building.

Colbert, however, was dissatisfied with his work and replaced him.

James Stella was replaced by keyboardist and vocalist Ron Stockert, Lee Graziano was replaced by Andre Fischer ( former drummer with Curtis Mayfield and Jerry Butler, and Fischer along with Colbert recruited the eighteen-year-old Chaka Khan ( née Yvette Stevens ) from a south-side club called the " Pumpkin Room " where she sang with a local Chicago group called Lock and Chain led by drummer Scotty Harris.

It was dynamited and replaced in 1995, though a portion of the bridge was saved as a historical attraction and relocated to a park in Colbert, Oklahoma.

Colbert, perhaps seeking to succeed Fouquet, fed the king's displeasure with adverse reports upon the deficit, and made the worst of the case against Fouquet.

Supported by the young king Louis XIV, Colbert aimed the first blow at the man accused of being the greatest of the royal embezzlers, the superintendent Nicolas Fouquet.

He had accumulated an immense private fortune ( though nothing compared to the avaricious acquisition of wealth of Concini, Richelieu, Mazarin, Fouquet, and Colbert ) possessing in addition to his see the revenues of seven abbeys.

Porthos warns Fouquet in time, and he cedes Belle-Isle to the king, allaying all suspicions and humiliating Colbert.

Meanwhile, the struggle for power continues between Fouquet and Colbert.

Colbert, junior to Fouquet and hoping to supplant him, is jealous and turns the king against Fouquet ; the king contemplates having Fouquet arrested, but defers his decision.

Both Fouquet and Colbert in their turn recognized his abilities ; he was one of the first members ( 1663 ) of the Academy of Inscriptions.