Anita Colby
Birthday: 5 August 1914, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
Birth Name: Anita Counihan
Height: 170 cm
Anita Colby was born on August 5, 1914 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA as Anita Counihan. She is known for her work on Cover Girl (1944), Brute Force (1947) and Mary of Scotland (1936). She w ...Show More
[following her role in Brute Force (1947)] I don't want to act. I want to get into the executive end Show more
[following her role in Brute Force (1947)] I don't want to act. I want to get into the executive end of the [film] business. Hide
[about her early acting career, prior to her staff job at "Harper's Bazaar"] I said I was going to b Show more
[about her early acting career, prior to her staff job at "Harper's Bazaar"] I said I was going to be a top model, and I was. Then I had five offers from Hollywood. I went out there and found everything easy. I was earning more than Lucille Ball and Joan Fontaine. I was sure I was going to be a star any day, so I didn't do any work. Suddenly I awoke to the fact that I wasn't getting anywhere. Brokenhearted, I went back to New York, determined never to go to Hollywood again. Hide
[on how she became a model] I was 19 and dancing at the Georgetown prom. In came a cover girl, and w Show more
[on how she became a model] I was 19 and dancing at the Georgetown prom. In came a cover girl, and would you believe it, all the other girls were left stranded on the wall. All the men went for that cover girl! I vowed then and there that I would be a cover girl, though I didn't have the least idea how to go about it. I was in an elevator in New York a little later and Harry Conover--he was then a model but now he has his own agency--asked me if I was a model. I was flattered and said I'd like to be. So he sent me to ['John Robert Powers' qv)] and I became a model. Hide
Anita Colby's FILMOGRAPHY
as Actor (3)
