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Inside Hollywood. Anita Colby's current title is Feminine Director of the Selznick Studios.* But the designation is flagrantly inadequate. The Face, who has a brain to match, has been better described as one part Hedy Lamarr, one part Machiavelli, one part Sammy Click...
...Selznick, she combines and uses the talents of ace trouble shooter, saleswoman, fixer, promoter, talent scout, fashion ex pert, beauty expert and housemother. Ingrid Bergman would prefer not to be photographed unless Colby is on hand. Jennifer Jones thinks twice about blowing her nose without reporting to Colby. Inde pendent of Publicity Chief Don King, she works closely with Selznick, handling all deals public and personal which call for grade-A finesse. Her social and journalistic contacts in both New York and Hollywood are peerless; she calls Winchell Walter and Lyons Lennie. To all the people on earth who most...
...returned to Hollywood and to immediate offers from Warner, Lester Cowan, M.G.M. and David 0. Selznick. But Selznick alone met her terms-willing as she was to swap careers at a discount. He agreed to pay her $250 a week for the first six months, $350 (her present salary) for the second, plus an expense account which includes her clothes, a titanic item,* and everything else that has anything remotely to do with business...
...care & feeding of females - in this case Selznick actresses - is one of Colby's most important functions. Joan Fontaine, for instance, has long felt that Selznick has exploited her. Colby, if she does not cajole Miss Fontaine into coming to terms about a new contract, will at least set up the very best possible arrangement for her boss. Selznick meanwhile will know exactly what is going on in Miss Fontaine's mind (unless Miss Fontaine is mighty careful) by virtue of sitting in vicariously on the kind of female conversations which generally take place in the powder room...
...explains Colby, "to make these gals catch on fast, and to save them the grief and uncertainty." With poised, older stars like Bergman and Fontaine the problem is the same in essence but different in approach. With Jennifer Jones the problem is more immediate and pressing. Selznick has tied up an awful lot of money in her. Colby is his one-woman finishing school; she tutors Selznick stars and stock players as if she were a combination of Hattie Carnegie, Elizabeth Arden, Emily Post, John Powers and the Warden at Vassar...