Rita Hayworth in Gilda.
I have to admit that this is not a film I know, but I feel I should know it.
Glenn Ford and Rita Hayworth made five films together, but it is usually only Gilda that people talk about.
Their first film was before World War II, The Lady in Question where both are young Columbia contract players who were in the same film and no effort was made to bill them as a team.
The Loves of Carmen which was made after Gilda was a disaster for Glenn Ford, though Rita Hayworth was at her best.
The above advertisement is being offered for sale at quite a large price which surprised me. Apparently it is an original poster from the film release.
Affair in Trinidad was a good effort to recapture the magic of Gilda after Rita’s stormy marriage to Aly Khan and the last film The Money Trap was a Glenn Ford film where Rita has a brief role as an old girl friend. However she still made an impact
Rita Hayworth also made films such as Only Angels Have Wings and The Strawberry Blonde.
The Lady From Shanghai – for which ex-husband Orson Welles hacked off her flame-red hair then bleached the remnants platinum blonde – was the film in which she was at her most heartbreakingly beautiful.
Rita Hayworth was one of the USA s most beloved stars. Glamorous and talented, she gaves many wonderful moments on stage and screen and delighted audiences from the time she was a young girl. In her later years, Rita became known for her struggle with Alzheimer’s disease.
She died in 1987
She had been born in New York and died in New York
I will remember her for being in Separate Tables – from the Terence Rattigan play
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