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Anita ("The Face") Colby, ex-Cover Girl No. 1, was named "the most beautiful woman in America." Picker: publicity-wise Harry Conover, Manhattan model-peddler. Also named: 1) Cinemactress Maureen O'Hara, "the perfect-feature girl;" 2) Ingrid Bergman (who acts for David Selznick, who employs Miss Colby as adviser), "the prettiest woman on the screen...
Hardest hit by the deal were David O. Selznick and United Artists, who up to last week seemed to have the inside track on Rank. United Artists still had distribution rights to eight Rank pictures, including Caesar and Cleopatra, one of the most expensive pictures ($5,000,000) ever made. But from now on, United World gets first pick of all Rank pictures, regardless of what other dickering Rank may do with Selznick or any other U.S. firm...
...trouble started in the rush of her first success when Dark Victory and Wuthering Heights made it clear that she would soon become a major star. David Selznick wanted her for the title role in Hitchcock's smash Rebecca, but she turned it down. She was under contract to Warner for half of each year; if she worked for Selznick, he would own the other half. She preferred to spend it with her husband, in Ireland. That sort of independence is neither admired nor understood in Hollywood. It didn't exactly enhance her stock, either, when she returned...
Hollywood rumor had it that David Selznick had his eye on 50% of RKO's stock. But his eyes were big. Floyd Odlum's Atlas Corp., which owns 46% of RKO, has shown no inclination to sell even one of its 1,300,000 shares...
...July 15, RKO announced that it had completed a production and distribution deal involving several upcoming pictures with Selznick partner Rank...