Rita hayworth biography
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Rita Hayworth
American actress, dancer, pin-up girl (–)
Rita Hayworth (born Margarita Carmen Cansino; October 17, &#;&#; May 14, ) was an American actress, dancer, and pin-up girl.[1][2][3][4][5][6] She achieved fame in the s as one of the top stars of the Golden Age of Hollywood, and appeared in 61 films in total over 37 years. The press coined the term "The Love Goddess" to describe Hayworth, after she had become the most glamorous screen idol of the s. She was the top pin-up girl for GIs during World War II.[7]
Hayworth is widely known for her performance in the film noirGilda, opposite Glenn Ford, in which she played the femme fatale in her first major dramatic role. She is also known for her performances in Only Angels Have Wings (), The Strawberry Blonde (), Blood and Sand (), The Lady from Shanghai (), Pal Joey (), and Separate Tables (). Fred Astaire, with whom she made two fil
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Margarita Carmen Cansino was born in Brooklyn on October 17, The world would come to worship her as the sex emblem Rita Hayworth, star of movies like Gilda, You Were Never Lovelier, and Separate Tables. But as Barbara Leaming writes in her heartbreaking biography If This Was Happiness, what happened to her as the child Margarita would scar Hayworth forever.
A magnificent dancer and entertainer, Hayworth lit up when performing. “She learned steps faster than anyone I’d ever known,” her costar Fred Astaire said, according to Leaming. “I’d show her a routine before måltid. She’d be back right after middag and have it down to perfection. She apparently figured it out in her mind while she was eating.” Yet once the work was done, costar James Cagney remembered, she’d simply “go back to her chair and sit there and not communicate”—a possible indication of the trauma that lay beneath her glitzy persona.
Married five times, Hayworth would have affairs with Howard Hughes, Victor Ma
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xenomorphlover's review
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darkemotionalreflectivesadmedium-paced
Decent biography. Informative and clear. Really makes you feel for Rita and everything she went through.
Content Warnings
Content Warnings
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship
Minor: Drug abuse, Drug use, Sexual assault, and Alcohol
francesca_penchant's review
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Profound book. Profoundly sad. Profound investigation of unhappiness.
The thesis that runs through this book is how the physical, emotional, and incestuous abuse that Hayworth's father inflicted in her teen years stamped the rest of her life.
Rita Hayworth was naturally shy and introverted, but was forced to dance from the age of 12 to earn money for her family. She traveled on the road with her father to perform alluring Spanish dances with him as a partner. To make matters worse, she was expected to take care of her father's sexual needs in her mother's absence.
The rest of her life