Evening star., 1948-11-14
Mink, Sable
Days Reborn
In Hollywood
Fur Buying Speaks
Of New Prosperity
In Film Capital
By SheiIoh Srohom
By SheiIoh Grohom
HOLLYWOOD.

AS the fur flies in Hollywood, so
goes the economic trend. If stu
dios and stars are spending for
sables and ermine-lined swimming
pools, then times are good.
I guess things must be picking
up . bit now because Esther Will
liams wears q mink bathing suit IN
"Neptune's Daughter" and Lois
Collier is starring in Miss Mink
of l949." Lois is "gowned" all
through the picture by AL Teitel-
baum, the most expensive furrier
in Beverly Hills. In addition, Lois
gets a mink bedspread and a mink
lined bathtub at a cost of $2,500!
The newest fur wrinkle in Holly
wood Is red mole! Loretta Young
has just bought one, but most stars
prefer black mink, silver blue mink,
white mink and ermine. Betty
Hutton bought a white ermine full
length coat for her daughter, Lind
say, aged 2! And Lana Turner re-
Gently purchased a mans tie-for
herself-made of white ermine. Yes,
life is looking up in Hollywood.
Belinda Pays Of.
When Jane Wyman attended the
premiere of Johnny Belinda"
which many people here believe will
win her the Academy award, she
dented her bank balance with q
special blue mink coat at $l2,500.
The furrier who sold it to her told
me, I'm the old days she used to
rent her furs. It's nice to see her
get q break" He means that with
Johnny Belinda" James future
really is set, and she can AFFORD all
the furs she deserves.
Greer Carson always dashed to
Duffy and Kroll," her favorite fur
riers, when she was up for an Acad-
emy Award. Betty Davis, when she
was nominated for her first Oscar"
bought her first mink coat. Every
one predicted she would win, and
she wanted to look every inch q
movie queen when she accepted the
award. When her name was an
nounced, however, Bette was 80
excited that she rolled up the coat,
tossed it under the table and dashed
up to accept the statuette minus her
mink!
It's a tossup who owns the most
furs in Hollywood-Joan Crawford
or Ann Sheridan. When Ann won
her long fight against Warner
Brothers, she celebrated by buying
six fur pieces in one glorious fur
binge. Ann prefers mink and mar
tens mainly-she has one black
mink number that set her back $12,-
500.
Furs Set at $150,000
Joan Crawford has whole closet
in her big home dressing room, stuff
fed with nothing but furs. In addi-
ton to the publicized white mink.
she has a black mink full-length
coat, a dark mink cape, long white
ermine cape, short ermine stole.
a long broadtail coat and her latest
extravaganza-a huge stone marten
stole. The collection Is valued at
$50, 900!
The younger stars can't afford TO
buy top furs and most of them are
too shrewd to put themselves in hook
especially when they or their
studios can rent furs for them.
When Wanda Hendrix went to New
York for Paramount, they rented her
q mink coat at cost Of $500. Ann
Blyth wore the same coat in one
of her pictures at a cost OF $500
week. And this particular mink has
earned its cost several times having
worked in 10 pictures to date.
Shelley Winters movie fame now
is greater than the money she earns.
At the moment, Shelley has two fur
pieces but away at the furriers-a
silver-blue mink stole and Q long
mink coat.
In the older old days, Cecil B. De
Mile thought nothing of buying a
SIS, 900 chinchilla coat for Gloria
Swanson to wear in a picture, and q
little cajoling brought the coat into
her personal wardrobe. Today
studios put the fur coats they buy
into wardrobe; or, If they are too
expensive, they rent them for the
picture only.
Anita Colby, the lovely girl with
brains, was in the store few weeks
ago trying on a $4,000 white mink
coat. She pranced and postured.
she hemmed and hawed. Finally
she sighed: TITS beautiful and all
that, but I want q plain working
girls mink coat!"
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