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Anita Colby, née Counihan, was 30 last August. She has never married, and the chances are that she never will. This is obviously not for lack of looks. Years ago her good friend Quentin Reynolds gave her a permanent nickname : The Face. Her good friend Voldemar Vetluguin, a one time editor of Redbook, has called it "the most beautiful face this side of Paradise." (He added: "And the sharpest tongue this side of Hell.") And until she got tired of the work, this seraphic property made her the highest-paid model in America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Cover Girl | 1/8/1945 | See Source »

...Cover Girl Caravan." It was Vetluguin, however, who had the original idea for Cover Girl, which proved to be the turning point of her career. But without Colby there probably would have been no such musical film. Good models were not anxious to exchange the security of New York for the risks of Hollywood. Magazine publishers, remembering an unfortunate B-picture called The Powers Girl, were leary of the whole idea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Cover Girl | 1/8/1945 | See Source »

...idea was born when M.G.M.'s Voldemar Vetluguin persuaded M.G.M.'s Louis B. Mayer that books with a million readers are better movie material than Broadway plays seen by only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: MGMunificence | 11/1/1943 | See Source »

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