Rita Hayworth (born Margarita Carmen Cansino ; October 17, 1918 - May 14, 1987) is an American actress and dancer. He achieved fame during the 1940s as one of the top stars of the era, appearing in a total of 61 films for 37 years. The press coined the term "The Love Goddess" to describe Hayworth after he became the most glamorous 1940s screen idol. She was the top pin-up girl for GI during World War II.
Hayworth is probably best known for his appearance in the 1946 film noir, Gilda, in front of Glenn Ford, where he played femme fatale in his first major dramatic role. Fred Astaire, with whom he made two films, calls him his favorite dance partner. His greatest success was at Cover Girl's Technicolor musical (1944), with Gene Kelly. She is listed as one of the top 25 female movie stars of all time in the survey of the American Film Institute, AFI's 100 Years... 100 Stars.
In 1980, Hayworth was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, which caused his death at the age of 68. Public disclosure and discussion of his illness drew the attention of Alzheimer's, and helped increase public and private funding for Alzheimer's research.
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Hayworth was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1918 as Margarita Carmen Cansino, the eldest of two dancers. His father, Eduardo Cansino Sr., is from Castilleja de la Cuesta, a small town near Seville, Spain.
His mother, Volga Hayworth, is an Irish-British American who has performed with Ziegfeld Follies. The couple married in 1917. They also had two sons: Eduardo Jr. and Vernon. Uncle from Vinton Hayworth's mother's side is also an actor.
Margarita's dad wanted him to be a professional dancer, while his mother wished he would become an actress. The father's grandfather, Antonio Cansino, is famous as a classical Spanish dancer. He popularized bolero, and the world famous dance school in Madrid. Hayworth later recalled, "Ever since I was three and a half... once I was able to stand on my own, I was given a dance lesson." He said, "I really do not like it... but I did not have the courage to tell my dad, so I started taking lessons, practicing, practicing, practicing, it was my teenage years."
She attended dancing classes every day for several years at a Carnegie Hall complex, where she was taught by her uncle Angel Cansino. Before her fifth birthday she was one of the Four Cansinos featured in the Broadway production of The Greenwich Village Follies at Winter Garden Theater. In 1926 at the age of eight, he was featured at La Fiesta, a short film for Warner Bros..
In 1927, his father took the family to Hollywood. She believes that dancing can be featured in movies and her family can be a part of it. He founded his own dance studio, where he taught stars such as James Cagney and Jean Harlow. During the Great Depression, he lost all his investments because commercial interest in his dance class faded.
In 1931, Eduardo Cansino partnered with his 12-year-old daughter to form an action called Dancing Cansinos. Because under California law Margarita was too young to work in nightclubs and bars, her father took her with him to work across the border in Tijuana, Mexico. In the early 1930s, it was a popular tourist spot for people from Los Angeles. Because he worked, Cansino never graduated from high school, but he finished ninth grade at Hamilton High School in Los Angeles.
Cansino (Hayworth) took a small part in the Cruz Diablo film (1934) at the age of 16, which caused the other bit parts in the movie Di Caliente (1935) with Mexican actress Dolores del RÃÆ'o. She danced with her father in nightclubs like the Foreign Clubs and Caliente. Winfield Sheehan, head of Fox Film Corporation, saw him dance at the Caliente Club and quickly arranged for Hayworth to do a screen test a week later. Impressed by his screen persona, Sheehan signed for a short-term, six-month contract on Fox, under the name of Rita Cansino, the first of two name changes during his film career.
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Initial career
During his time at Fox, Hayworth was billed as Rita Cansino and appeared in a mediocre role, often acting as an exotic alien. At the end of 1934, aged 16, he performed a series of dances in the movie Spencer Tracy Dante's Inferno (1935), and was placed under a contract in February 1935. He had his first speaking role as an Argentine girl at > Under the Pampas Month (1935). He plays an Egyptian girl in Charlie Chan in Egypt (1935), and a Russian dancer in Paddy O'Day (1935). Sheehan is taking care of him to lead in the 1936 Technicolor film Ramona , hoping to make it into the new Dolores del RÃÆ'o Fox Film.
At the end of his six-month contract, Fox has joined 20th Century Fox, with Darryl F. Zanuck serving as executive producer. Ignoring Sheehan's attention to him and giving Loretta Young an edge in Ramona, Zanuck does not renew Cansino's contract. Sensing the potential of the screen, the salesman and promoter Edward C. Judson, with whom he would elope in 1937, got a freelance job for him in some small studio films and part of Columbia Pictures's Meet Nero Wolfe feature (1936). Head of studio Harry Cohn signed it with a seven-year contract and tried him out in a small role.
Cohn argues that his image is too Mediterranean, which makes it limited to "exotic" roles that are fewer in number. He sounded saying his last name sounded too Spanish. Judson acts on Cohn's advice: Rita Cansino becomes Rita Hayworth when she adopts her mother's maiden name, to worry about her father. With a name that emphasizes its British-American ancestry, people are more likely to regard it as a classic "American".
With the encouragement of Cohn and Judson, Hayworth changed his hair color to deep red and had electrolysis to raise his hairline and expand his forehead appearance.
Hayworth appeared in five minor pictures of Columbia and three small independent films in 1937. The following year, he appeared in five Columbia B films. In 1939, Cohn pressured Howard Hawks director to use Hayworth for a small but important role as a human trap in aviation drama Just Angels Have Wings, where he played against Cary Grant and Jean Arthur.
With the box-office success of this film, fan letters to Hayworth began to flow into Columbia's publicity department. Cohn began to see Hayworth as his new and first official star. The studio has never officially had a star under a contract, except Jean Arthur, who tried to break his relationship with her.
Cohn started building Hayworth in 1940 with features like Music in My Heart , Missions in Questions , and Angels Over Broadway . That year, she was first featured in the cover story of Life magazine. Cohn lent Hayworth to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to appear on Susan and God across from Joan Crawford. When loaned to Warner Bros., Hayworth appeared as the second female lead in The Strawberry Blonde (1941), opposite James Cagney. Because the movie was a huge success at box-office, Hayworth's popularity increased and he soon became one of Hollywood's hottest actresses. So impressed was Warner Bros., they tried to buy Hayworth's contract from Columbia, but Cohn refused to release him.
His success led to a supporting role in Blood and Sand (1941) opposite Tyrone Power and Linda Darnell with Fox, the studio that had dropped it six years earlier. In one of his most famous screen roles, Hayworth plays the DoÃÆ' Â ± a Sol des Muire, the first of many screen sirens.
He returned victorious to Columbia Pictures, and played in Musical You're Never Get Rich (1941) in front of Fred Astaire in one of Columbia's highest-budget films ever. The photo was so successful, the studio produced and released another Astaire-Hayworth picture the following year, You Were Never Lovelier . Astaire biographer Peter Levinson writes that the dancing combination of Astaire and Hayworth is "an absolute magnet on the screen". Although Astaire made 10 films with Ginger Rogers, her other main dancing partner, Hayworth's sensuality goes beyond Rogers' cool technical skills. "Rita's youthful delight blends perfectly with Fred's maturity and elegance," Levinson said.
When Astaire was asked who her favorite dance partner was, she tried not to answer the question, but later admitted it was Hayworth: "Well, I'll give you a name", she said. "But if you let it, I'll swear I'm lying.It's Rita Hayworth." Astaire commented that, "Rita danced with perfection and trained individuality... She's better off when she's 'in' than in practice." Biographer Charlie Reinhart explains the effect he has on Astaire's style:
There's some kind of backup about Fred. It was charming. This was brought to the dance. With Hayworth there is no backup. He is very explosive. And that's why I think they are completely complementary.
In August 1941, Hayworth was featured in a photo icon of Life where he posed in a dress with a black lace corset. Photos of Bob Landry make Hayworth one of the two best pin-up girls from World War II; the other is Betty Grable, in a 1943 photo. For two years, Hayworth's photo is the most requested pin-up photo in circulation. In 2002, the satin satin jacket worn for the photo sold for $ 26,888.
In March 1942, Hayworth visited Brazil as a cultural ambassador for the Good Governor's Roosevelt policy, under the auspices of the Office of Inter-American Affairs Coordinator.
Top of the year in Columbia
Hayworth has a top bill in one of his most famous films, Technicolor Cover Girl music, released in 1944. The film set him as Columbia's top star in the 1940s, and it gave him the first difference from just six women danced on screen with Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire. "I think the only gems in my life," Hayworth said in 1970, "are the photos I made with Fred Astaire... And Cover Girl too."
For three consecutive years, starting in 1944, Hayworth was named one of the best movie attractions in the world. He is proficient in ballet, tap, ballroom, and Spanish routine. Cohn continues to show Hayworth's dance talents. Columbia featured in Technicolor Tonight and Every Night (1945) with Lee Bowman and Down to Earth (1947) with Larry Parks.
Her sexy and glamorous appeal was most noted in the film Noir Charles Vidor Gilda (1946) with Glenn Ford, which caused some censors to worry. The role, in which Hayworth wears black satin and performs a legendary one-finger striptis, "Put The Blame On Mame", makes it a cultural icon as a femme fatale .
While Gilda was launched, it was widely reported that an atomic bomb scheduled for testing in Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands of the Pacific Ocean would have Hayworth's image, a reference to his bomb status. Although the cue was no doubt meant as a compliment, Hayworth was very offended. Orson Welles, later married to Hayworth, recalls his anger in an interview with Barbara Leaming's biography: "Rita often flies into terrible anger all the time, but the most upset is when she knows that they will put her on an atomic bomb. , he's very angry.... He wants to go to Washington to hold a press conference, but Harry Cohn will not let him because it's not patriotic. "Welles tried to persuade Hayworth that the whole business was not a publicity stunt on Cohn's part, that it was just a tribute to him from crew.
On June 30, 1946, Welles said Orson Welles Commentaries, Welles said of the upcoming test, "I want my daughter to tell her daughter that the grandmother's picture is in the last atomic bomb ever.
The fourth blasted atomic bomb was decorated with Hayworth photos cut from the June issue of Esquire magazine. On top of that was labeled the device nickname, "Gilda", in two-inch black letters.
Hayworth's appearance in the 1947 Welles film The Lady from Shanghai is critically acclaimed. The film's failure at the box office was partly due to Hayworth's short-cut red hair and the bleached platinum blonde for the role. Cohn was not consulted and was very angry that Hayworth's image changed.
Also in 1947, Hayworth was featured in Winthrop Sargeant's cover story of Life by Winthrop Sargeant which resulted in him being nicknamed "The Love Goddess". The term was adopted and used later as the title of biographical film and a biography of him. In a 1980s interview, Hayworth said, "Everyone is naked, but I'm not, I've never made a naked movie I do not have to do that I dance, I'm provocative, I guess, in some ways. not fully exposed. "
The next film, The Loves of Carmen (1948) with Glenn Ford, was the first film produced jointly by Columbia and Hayworth production companies, The Beckworth Corporation (named after Rebecca, his daughter with Welles). This was the biggest moneymaker in Columbia that year. He received a percentage of the profits from this and all subsequent films until 1954, when he dismissed Beckworth to pay off debts.
Princess Hollywood
In 1948, at the height of his fame, Hayworth went to Cannes and was introduced to Prince Aly Khan. They started dating for a year, and married on May 27, 1949. Hayworth left Hollywood and sailed to France, breaking his contract with Columbia.
Since Hayworth is already one of the most celebrated celebrities in the world, dating and marriage it receives enormous press coverage around the world. Since he was still legally married to both Orson Welles husband, Hayworth also received some negative reactions to his courtship with the prince, causing some American fans to boycott his image. The marriage marks the first time a Hollywood actress has become a princess. On December 28, 1949, Hayworth gave birth to his only daughter, Princess Yasmin Aga Khan.
Although Hayworth was keen to start a new life abroad, away from Hollywood, Aambhan's lifestyle and tasks too quickly proved too difficult for Hayworth. She struggles to fit in with her friends, and finds it hard to learn French. Aly Khan is also known among the playboys, and it is alleged that she has been unfaithful to Hayworth during the marriage.
In 1951, Hayworth sailed with his two daughters to New York. Although the couple made reconciliation for a short time, they formally divorced in 1953.
Return to Colombia
After the collapse of her marriage to Khan, Rita Hayworth was forced to return to Hollywood to star in her comeback image Affair in Trinidad (1952) which again paired it with Glenn Ford. Director Vincent Sherman recalls that Hayworth seemed "somewhat afraid of another image approach". He continues to quarrel with Columbia boss Harry Cohn, and is placed on suspension during filming. Nevertheless, the picture was highly publicized. The photo earned more than $ 1 million more than the previous blockbuster movie, Gilda .
He continues to star in a series of successful photos. In 1953, he had two films released: Salome with Charles Laughton and Stewart Granger, and Miss Sadie Thompson with Josà ©  © Ferrer and Aldo Ray. He was out of the big screen for four years, mainly due to a tumultuous marriage with singer Dick Haymes. During his marriage to Haymes, he was involved in a lot of negative publicity, which significantly reduced his appeal. By the time he returned to the screen for Fire Down Below (1957), Kim Novak had become Columbia's top female star. His last musical was Pal Joey (1957). After the film, Hayworth left Columbia for good.
She received good reviews for her performance in Separate Table (1958), with Burt Lancaster and David Niven, and The Story on Page One (1960). He continued to work throughout the 1960s. In 1962, his planned Broadway debut at Step on a Crack was canceled for health reasons that were kept secret. The Money Trap (1964) paired it, for the last time, with a good friend of Glenn Ford. He continued to act in movies until the early 1970s. He made comedy television appearances on Laugh In and The Carol Burnett Show in the 1970s. His final film is The Wrath of God (1972).
Struggle with Columbia Pictures
Hayworth has had a strained relationship with Columbia Pictures for years. In 1943, he was suspended without pay for nine weeks because he refused to appear in Once Upon a Time . During this period in Hollywood, contract players can not choose their film; they receive a salary rather than receive a fixed amount per image.
In 1947, Hayworth's new contract with Columbia gave a $ 250,000 salary plus 50% of movie profits.
In 1951, Columbia claimed to have $ 800,000 invested in the property for him, including the film he was out on that year. Hayworth left Hollywood to marry Prince Aly Khan and was suspended for failing to report to work on the film Affair in Trinidad. In 1952, Hayworth refused to report to work because he objected to his script.
In 1955, he sued Columbia Pictures to be released from his contract, but demanded a salary of $ 150,000, alleging that the filming failed to begin when it was agreed. He said, "I was in Switzerland when they sent me a script for Affair in Trinidad and I threw it across the room, but I did drawings, and Pal Joey , I went back to Columbia because I want to work and first, look, I have to finish the damn contract, which is how Harry Cohn has me! "
"Harry Cohn thought of me as one of the people he could use, and made a lot of money," Hayworth said in 1972. "And I did make a lot of money for him, but not much for me."
Years after his film career ended and long after Cohn died, Hayworth still hated his treatment by him and Columbia. He spoke candidly in a 1968 interview:
I used to hit time clocks in Columbia. Every day of my life. That's how it feels. I am under an exclusive contract, like they have me... I think he has my clothing... He is so possessive of me as a person, he does not want me to go with anyone, have friends. No one can live like that. So I fight with him... You want to know what I think about Harry Cohn? He is a monster.
Hayworth hates the fact that the studio has failed to train him to sing or even encourage him to learn to sing. Although he often sings in many of his movies, he is usually nicknamed. Because the public does not know his secret, he is embarrassed to be asked to sing by troops at USO events.
"I want to learn to sing," Hayworth complained, "but Harry Cohn keeps saying, 'Who needs that?' and the studio will not pay for it.They make me so intimidated that I can not do it.They always say, 'Oh no, we can not let you do it.There's no time for that, it should be done now!' I am under contract, and that's it. "
Hayworth sang acoustic guitar version "Put Blame on Mame" at Gilda . The other songs in the picture were dubbed by Anita Ellis.
Cohn has a reputation as a taskmaster, but he has his own critique of Hayworth. He has invested heavily in him before he embarked on a reckless relationship with married Aly Khan, and that could lead to a counterattack against his career and the success of Columbia. For example, an article in the British magazine The People called for a boycott of Hayworth movies: "Hollywood should be told its stained reputation will degenerate if it returns this reckless woman somewhere between them." the stars. "
Cohn expressed his frustration in a 1957 interview with Time magazine: "Hayworth may be worth ten million dollars today easily! He has 25% of the profits with his own company and has hit him after being beaten and he has to get married and had to get out of business and take the suspension because he fell in love again! In five years, on two pictures a year, at 25%! Think what he can do! But he did not make a picture "He took two or three suspension! He's involved with different characters! Unpredictable!"
Public image
Hayworth was a top glamor girl in the 1940s, pin-up girl for military soldiers and beauty icons for women. At 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m) and  £ 120 (54 kg), he is high enough to be a concern for dancing partners like Fred Astaire. She reportedly changed her hair color eight times in eight films.
In 1949, Hayworth's lips were voted best in the world by the Artists League of America. She has a modeling contract with Max Factor to promote Tru-Color lipstick and Pan-Stick make-up.
Personal life
Marriage and family
In 1941, Hayworth said he was the antithesis of the character he played. "I am naturally very embarrassed... and I suffer from low self-esteem." His provocative role in Gilda , in particular, is responsible for those who expect him to be what he is not. Hayworth once said, with a bit of bitterness, "Men sleep with Gilda, but wake up with me."
Two younger sisters Hayworth, Eduardo Cansino Jr. (October 13, 1919 - March 11, 1974) and Vernon Cansino, both in World War II. Vernon left the United States Army in 1946 with several medals, including Purple Heart, and later married Susan Vail, a dancer. Eduardo Jr. follow Hayworth into acting; he is also under contract with Columbia Pictures. In 1950, he made his screen debut on Captain Kidd's Great Adventure.
Hayworth married and divorced five times. He said, "Basically, I am a kind and gentle person, but I am interested in a meaningful personality."
Edward Charles Judson
In 1937, when Hayworth was 18, he married Edward Judson, a motorcycle taxi driver who became a promoter more than twice his age. They married in Las Vegas. He has played a major role in launching his acting career. A shrewd businessman, he dominated and became his manager for months before he applied. "He helped me with my career," Hayworth admitted after the divorce, "and help himself to my money." He alleges that Judson forced him to transfer large amounts of his wealth to him, and he promised to pay him $ 12,000 under threat that he would commit "massive physical damage".
He filed for divorce on February 24, 1942, with complaints of atrocities. He noted to the press that his work took him to Oklahoma and Texas when he lived and worked in Hollywood. Judson was as old as his father, who was angry about marriage, which caused a rift between Hayworth and his parents to divorce. Judson had failed to tell Hayworth before they married that he had previously been married twice. When he leaves her, he really has no money; he asked his friend, Hermes Pan, if he could eat at his house.
Orson Welles
Hayworth married Orson Welles on September 7, 1943, during the run of The Mercury Wonder Show . None of his colleagues knew about the planned marriage (before the judge) until he announced it the day before. For a civil ceremony, he wore a cream suit, a wrinkled white blouse, and a veil. A few hours after they got married, they returned to work in the studio. They had a daughter, Rebecca, born on December 17, 1944, and died at the age of 59 on October 17, 2004. They fought in their marriage, with Hayworth saying that Welles did not want to be bound:
During the entire period of our marriage, he showed no interest in building a house. When I suggested to buy a house, she told me that she did not want responsibility. Mr. Welles told me that he should not get married in the first place; that it interferes with his freedom in his way of life.
Nevertheless, Hayworth calls Welles "the greatest love of his life". On November 10, 1947, he was granted a divorce which became the final the following year.
Prince Aly Khan
In 1948, Hayworth left his film career to marry Prince Aly Khan, son of Sultan Mahommed Shah, Aga Khan III, leader of the Islamic Shia Ismaili sect. They married on May 27, 1949. Her bridal wedding dress had been influenced by Dior's "New Look", which was launched in 1947.
Aly Khan and her family are heavily involved in horse racing, possessing and horse racing. Hayworth was not interested in this sport, but became a member of the Thoroughbred Del Mar Club. His son, Double Rose, won several races in France and finished second in the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe in 1949.
In 1951, while still married to Hayworth, Khan was seen dancing with actress Joan Fontaine at the nightclub where she and Hayworth met. Hayworth threatened to divorce her in Reno, Nevada. In early May, Hayworth moved to Nevada to establish an official residence to qualify for a divorce. He lives in Lake Tahoe with their daughter, saying there is a threat that the boy will be kidnapped. Hayworth filed for divorce from Khan on September 2, 1951, on the basis of "extreme cruelty, wholly mental in nature".
Hayworth once said he might convert to Islam, but not. During the battle of prisoners of their daughter, Princess Yasmin Aga Khan, born December 28, 1949, the prince said she wanted him raised as a Muslim; Hayworth wants the child raised as a Christian. Hayworth declined his offer of $ 1 million if he would make Yasmin a Muslim from the age of seven and allow him to go to Europe to visit with him for two or three months each year, stating:
Nothing will make me let go of Yasmin's chance to live here in America among our valued freedoms and customs. While I respect the Muslim faith, and all other religions, it is my sincere hope that my daughter was raised as a normal, healthy American girl in the Christian faith. There is no amount of money around the world that deserves to sacrifice this child's privilege to live as a normal Christian girl here in the United States. There is nothing else in the world that can be compared to its sacred opportunity to do so. And I will give it to Yasmin no matter what the cost.
In January 1953, Hayworth was given a divorce from Aly Khan on the basis of extreme mental cruelty. Princess Hayworth, Yasmin, played in court while her case was heard, finally climbed into the lap of Judge.
Dick Haymes
When Hayworth and Dick Haymes first met, he was still married and his singing career faded. When he appeared at the club, he got a bigger audience. Haymes desperately needed money, because his two ex-wives took legal action against him for the support of an unpaid child. His financial problems are so bad he can not go back to California without being arrested. On July 7, 1954, his ex-wife, Nora Eddington, got a warrant for his arrest, because he owed him $ 3,800 with allowances. Less than a week earlier, his ex-wife, Joanne Dru, also received a warrant because he said he owed $ 4,800 in support payments to their three children. Hayworth finally paid most of Haymes's debt.
Haymes was born in Argentina, and has no solid evidence of American citizenship. Not long after he met Hayworth, US officials began the process of requesting him to be deported to Argentina for being an illegal alien. He hopes Hayworth can influence the government and keep him in the United States. When he accepts responsibility for his citizenship, a bond is formed that leads to marriage. The two married on September 24, 1953, at Sands Hotel, Las Vegas, and their wedding processions passed through the casino.
From the start of their marriage, Haymes was deeply indebted to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). When Hayworth took time off from attending his comeback show in Philadelphia, the audience dropped sharply. $ 5,000 Haymes's weekly salary is attached by the IRS to pay $ 100,000 in bills, and he can not pay the pianist. Haymes's ex-wife demands money while Hayworth publicly complains of his own lack of allowance from Aly Khan. At one point, the couple were effectively imprisoned in a hotel room for 24 hours in Manhattan at the Madison Hotel when the sheriff's deputy waited outside threatening to arrest Haymes for his debt. At the same time, Hayworth fought hard with Khan, where he reported death threats against their children. While living in New York, Hayworth sent children to live with their nanny in Westchester County. They were found and photographed by reporters from Secret magazine.
After two tumultuous years together, Haymes beat Hayworth in public in 1955 at the Cocoanut Grove nightclub in Los Angeles. Hayworth packed his bag, walked out, and never came back. The attacks and crises shook him, and his doctor ordered him to stay in bed for several days.
Hayworth lacked money after his marriage to Haymes. He failed to get child support from Aly Khan. He sued Orson Welles for the repayment of child support which he claimed was never paid. This effort does not work and adds to the stress.
James Hill
Hayworth began his relationship with film producer James Hill, whom he married on February 2, 1958. He placed it in one of his last major films, Split Tables . The film is very popular and highly praised, although The Harvard Lampoon named her the worst actress of 1958 for her performance. On September 1, 1961, Hayworth filed for divorce, accusing extreme mental cruelty. Hill later wrote Rita Hayworth: A Memoir, in which she stated that their marriage failed because she wanted Hayworth to continue filming, while she wanted them both to retire from Hollywood.
In his autobiography, Charlton Heston writes about Hayworth's brief marriage to Hill. One night, Heston and his wife Lydia joined the couple for dinner at a Spanish restaurant with director George Marshall and actor Rex Harrison, Hayworth's fellow at The Happy Thieves. Heston writes that the event "turned into the most embarrassing night of my life", illustrates how Hill piles up "indecent harassment" against Hayworth until "reduced to a helpless tear, his face buried in his hands". Heston wrote that the others sat dumbfounded, watching the "marriage massacre," and, although he was "very tempted to throw it off" (Hill), he went with his wife Lydia after she stood up, almost in tears. Heston wrote, "I am ashamed to walk away from Miss Hayworth's insult, I never see her again."
Health
Orson Welles noted Hayworth's problem with alcohol during their marriage, but he never believed that the problem was alcoholism. "It certainly imitates alcoholism in all shallow ways," he recalled in 1983. "He flew into this rage, never to me, never once, always in Harry Cohn or his father or his mother or his brother. furniture and he got in the car and I had to get in the car and try to control it He would drive on the hills of suicide The night was horrible, horrible And I just saw this beautiful girl destroy her self I admire Yasmin.
Yasmin Aga Khan talks about his mother's long struggle with alcohol:
I remember as a child that she has a drink problem. He has trouble handling business ups and downs... As a child, I think, 'He has a drink problem, and he's an alcoholic.' It was very clear, and I thought, 'Well, not much I can do. I can, sort of, stand up and watch. 'It's very difficult, seeing your mother, through her emotional problems and drinking and then behaving that way... Her condition gets so bad. It's getting worse and he's having alcohol problems and landing at the hospital.
In 1972, the 54-year-old Hayworth wanted to retire from acting, but he needed money. At Robert Mitchum's suggestion, he agreed to film The Wrath of God . The experience shows her poor health and her deteriorating mental condition. Since he can not remember the lines, the scene is shot one line at a time. In November, he agreed to complete another British film, Tales That Witness Madness, but because of his deteriorating health, he left the set and returned to the United States. He never returns to acting.
In March 1974, her two brothers died within a week of each other, causing her great sadness and causing heavy drunkenness. In January 1976, at London's Heathrow Airport, Hayworth was expelled from a TWA flight after experiencing an outburst of anger while traveling with his agent. This event attracted a lot of negative publicity; an annoying photo was published in the newspaper the next day. Hayworth's alcoholism conceals symptoms that are eventually understood as Alzheimer's disease.
"It was an explosion," said Yasmin Aga Khan. "He's going to be furious, I can not tell you.I think it's alcoholism - alcohol dementia.We all think of it.The letters take that, of course.You can not imagine the relief just to get a diagnosis.We have the last name , Alzheimer's! Of course, it did not really come until the last seven or eight years.He was not diagnosed with Alzheimer's until 1980. There were two decades of hell before that. "
Biographer Barbara Leaming writes that Hayworth was prematurely aged because of his addiction to alcohol and also because of the many pressures in his life. "Despite the make-up and red-shoulder hair, there's nothing to hide the destruction of drinks and stress," he wrote of Hayworth's arrival in New York in May 1956 to begin work at
Alzheimer's disease has been forgotten by the medical community since its discovery in 1906. The medical historian Barron H. Lerner writes that when Hayworth's diagnosis was published in 1981, he became "the first public face of Alzheimer's, helping ensure that future patients do not undiagnosed... Unbeknownst to him, Hayworth helps to forecast conditions that can still embarrass victims and their families. "
In July 1981, Hayworth's health deteriorated to the point that a judge in the Los Angeles Superior Court ruled that he should be placed under the care of his daughter, Princess Yasmin Aga Khan of New York City. Hayworth lives in an apartment in The San Remo in Central Park West adjacent to his daughter, who arranged for her mother's care during her final years. When asked how her mother was, Yasmin replied, "She's still beautiful, but it's a shell."
In 1983, Rebecca Welles arranged to see her mother for the first time in seven years. Speaking to his life companion, Roger Hill, Orson Welles expressed his concern about the effects of visiting his daughter. "Rita hardly knows me now," Welles said. He remembers seeing Hayworth three years earlier at an event held by Reagan for Frank Sinatra. "When it was over, I came to his desk, and I saw that he was very beautiful, very calm looking, and did not know me at first.After about four minutes of talking, I could see that he realized who I was, and he started crying with quiet. "
In an interview he gave the night before his death in 1985, Welles called Hayworth "one of the sweetest and sweetest women who ever lived".
Political view
Hayworth is a lifelong Democrat who is an active member of the Hollywood Democratic Committee and is active in the Franklin Delano Roosevelt campaign during the 1944 presidential election.
Religion
Hayworth is a Roman Catholic whose marriage to Prince Aly Khan is considered "forbidden" by Pope John XXIII.
Death
Rita Hayworth plunged into semicoma in February 1987. She died at the age of 68 years due to complications associated with Alzheimer's disease three months later on May 14, 1987, at her home in Manhattan. President Ronald Reagan, who was once one of Hayworth's contemporaries in Hollywood, issued a statement:
Rita Hayworth is one of the beloved stars of our country. Glamorous and talented, she gave us many wonderful moments on stage and screen and audiences delighted since she was young. In his last years, Rita became famous for his struggle with Alzheimer's disease. Her courage and openness, and her family, is a great public service in bringing the world's attention to a disease that we all hope will recover soon. Nancy and I are saddened by Rita's death. He is the friend we will miss. We express our deep sympathy to his family.
A funeral ceremony was held on May 18, 1987, at the Good Shepherd Church in Beverly Hills. Pallbearers included actors Ricardo MontalbÃÆ'¡n, Glenn Ford, Cesar Romero, Anthony Franciosa, choreographer Hermes Pan, and a family friend, Phillip Luchenbill. He was buried in Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City. The headstone includes Yasmin's sentiments: "For yesterday's friendship and reunion tomorrow."
Accolades
Hayworth received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress - Drama Drama for her performance at Circus World (1964).
In 1978, at the Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C, Hayworth was presented with the first National Screen Heritage Award from the National Film Society, a group that published the American Classic Screen magazine (1976-1984).
In 1999, Hayworth was recognized as one of the 25 greatest female stars of Hollywood Classic cinema in the survey of the American Film Institute, AFI's 100 Years... 100 Stars.
Legacy
Public disclosures and discussions about Hayworth's disease drew international attention to Alzheimer's disease, which was little known at the time, and it helped increase federal funding for Alzheimer's research.
The Rita Hayworth Gala, a benefit to the Alzheimer's Association, is held annually in Chicago and New York City. The program was founded in 1985 by Princess Yasmin Aga Khan, in honor of her mother. She is the hostess for the event and the main sponsor of the Alzheimer's disease and awareness program awareness. In August 2017, a total of over $ 72 million was raised through events in Chicago, New York, and Palm Beach, Florida.
On October 17, 2016, a press release from the Springer Associates Public Relations Agency announced that former manager and friend Rita Hayworth, Budd Burton Moss, started a campaign to ask the United States Postal Service to issue a memorial stamp featuring Hayworth. Springer Associates also announced that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will be lobbyed in the hope of having an honorary Academy Award issued to honor Hayworth. The press release added that Hayworth's daughter, Princess Yasmin Aga Khan, Alzheimer Association of Greater Los Angeles, and many prominent stage and screen figures support the Moss campaign. The press release declared the target date for the fulfillment of the stamp and the Academy Award on October 17, 2018, on what would be the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Hayworth.
Movie and television credits
Cultural reference
The Movie Remember Better When I Paint (2009) illustrates how Hayworth took a painting while struggling with Alzheimer's and producing works of art.
Hayworth is often mentioned in the 2005 Get Behind Me Demon 2005 album by White Stripes. When asked about some references to the actress, songwriter Jack White said he became "all the metaphors that include" for the album.
See also
- Rita Hayworth - Wikipedia book
References
Further reading
- McLean, Adrienne L (2004). Become Rita Hayworth: Labor, Identity, and Hollywood Stardom . ISBNÃ, 0-8135-3389-9.
- Peary, Gerald (1976). Rita Hayworth: A Pyramid Illustrated History of the Movies . ISBNÃ, 0-515-04116-5.
- Ringgold, Gene (1974). The Film of Rita Hayworth: The Legend and Career of the Goddess of Love . ISBNÃ, 0-8065-0439-0.
- Roberts-Frenzel, Caren (2001). Rita Hayworth: A Photographic Retrospective . ISBNÃ, 0-8109-1434-4.
- Moss, Budd Burton (2015). HOLLYWOOD: Sometimes Reality Is Better Than Dream . ISBN 978-1-943625-33-8
External links
- Rita Hayworth on the Internet Broadway Database
- Rita Hayworth on IMDb
- Rita Hayworth in the TCM Movie Database
- Rita Hayworth in the Search of the Mausoleum
- Photo of Rita Hayworth in Down to Earth by Ned Scott
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