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THE BRITISH IN HOLLYWOOD
"We've talked about it," she says, " and yes, you could say I'm in love with him. But we can't think about marrying until my divorce is final."
" If you do marry him," I say, "you will probably be a millionairess, won't you?"
"I don't know," says Miss Collins. "I haven't asked him how much money he's got. But he must have a lot. I think we'll be comfortable."
Obviously Miss Collins has no cause to be dissatisfied with Hollywood. What she wants happens to be precisely what Hollywood can give her plenty of.
That Diana Dors should have decided, after being there only a few days, that Hollywood was her metier did not surprise me either. She brings to the place something it desperately needs — flamboyance — and gets from it something she needs almost as much — money.
The stories are that she is going to be paid £53,000 a picture — and that with earnings from TV and radio she can expect to make £1,000,000 over the next five years. Even if these figures are exaggerated, as such figures tend to be, half the quoted amount is still a lot of money.
I have a considerable affection for Diana, but it is necessary to point out in this context that the great romance of her life has been with her bank balance. She lavishes upon it all her tenderness and loving care. She is devoted to it. She adores every tiny digit in it.
You do not need radar, a geiger-counter, second-sight, sixth-sense or stereoscopic spectacles to determine what it is that Diana Dors has got. You just need reasonably normal eyesight. But it would help to have an electronic brain to work out how it is that she gets so much — £53,000 a picture in Hollywood if the reports are true — for what she has got.
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