Rita Hayworth
by Gerald Peary
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Bewitching beauty Rita Hayworth was one of the few sex symbols from her era to earn a volume in the 1970's film studies series published by Pyramid Books. Although Lana Turner and Ava Gardner also received volumes, such major contemporaries as Betty Grable, Dorothy Lamour, Hedy Lamarr, Jane Russell, and Ann Sheridan did not. This 1976 volume (published 11 years before her death, although her film career was unknowingly over at the time) is loaded with beautiful photos and excellent commentary from author Gerald Peary about her various motion pictures and performances. I particularly admired the classy way he approached Rita Hayworth both as an actress and a woman, noting her "finest, most dignified hour" was holding her head high when her romance with Aly Khan seemed to be on the verge of being turned into a Ingrid Bergmanesque career-stopping scandal by the prudish bloodhounds of the Hollywood press.
Rita Hayworth as an actress may not have been a rival to Davis or Stanwyck but she of course had a wonderful screen presence, an appealing personality, and gave many quite credible and solid performances. Peary ends his upbeat look at her career with his echoing Rita's late career wish to appeal in a mature love story (he prematurely includes in her filmography a 1976 entry entitled CIRCLE that apparently never got beyond the pre-production stage). It would have been sweet if it could have happened but in that youth-oriented era it was rather improbable but Rita Hayworth certainly never needed a late career capper anyway to earn her place among the cinema's greatest stars.
See the complete filmography of Rita Hayworth on the website: IMDB ...
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