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...didn't show a trace of fear while being strapped into the chair. Took it just as calmly. As a matter of fact, he asked only one question. Just before they turned on the juice, he glanced at the official electrocutioner and said, 'By the way, bud, is this AC or DC?' " JOHN HARDEN
...hardly over the worst of this crisis when, along with the stockmarket, the Evening World collapsed, and Bud's job, and his money. So, for a second time, did his daughter. Some of her friends believe that her whole career has been an effort to vindicate her father. Anita Colby seems occasionally to feel so, and says with passionate intensity: "I have always had dignity. No matter how long I live I will always have it. I will keep scandal away. I will not go out with the town playboy...
When the Counihans moved to Washington, where Bud worked for Hearst and the sisters had to finish their education at a public high school, Anita was profoundly humiliated by her family's reduced circumstances. One of the most important evenings of her life was the one, at a Georgetown prom, when she saw the reigning model of the day make a conquest of the floor. She decided immediately, she remembers, that if that was how it was done, she would do it. That decision led her swiftly onward & upward to New York and a job as a Powers model...
...friend, Quentin Reynolds, almost the only friend she had in New York then, took her to a 53rd Street bistro just coming into vogue, the Stork Club. There, while Reynolds waited for a friend, Anita haltingly sipped an orangeade. The people she met were all fond of Bud Counihan; they found it, now, remarkably easy to be fond of his girl Anita. In a matter of weeks her friends had increased from one to 201; in a matter of months, Bud's beautiful daughter was the toast of the town...
Colby does the preliminary planning on clothes for every picture, making sketches which give the designer the gist of what Selznick is looking for. ( She had five years of art study; Bud Counihan is still convinced her real talent lies in art.) She has well in mind, before she starts, what each star can wear: "Bergman is something so beautiful you must play it down. You cannot overpower Ingrid with clothes." "Make Fontaine smart, feminine and refined." "Keep Shirley looking sweet sixteen with soft hair, pigtails and girlish pinafores...