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12 unusual facts about Rita Hayworth


Agostino Giuntoli

Musical artists and dancers showcased their work, including a young Rita Hayworth dancing in the chorus line.

César Manrique

Manrique visited and learned from famous people including Rita Hayworth, King Hussein of Jordan, Helmut Kohl, Spanish Prime Minister Felipe González, Luis Ibáñez, Andy Warhol, Barbara Rosse and Alfredo Kraus.

Coco Palms Resort

The Wedding Chapel was donated by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to Coco Palms in the mid-1950s after using it in the film Miss Sadie Thompson, which starred Rita Hayworth.

Elie Siegmeister

He also composed for Hollywood (notably, the film score of They Came to Cordura, starring Gary Cooper and Rita Hayworth, 1959) and Broadway (Sing Out, Sweet Land, 1944, book by Walter Kerr).

Emilio Schuberth

His work was loved by many international stars like Princess Soraya, Rita Hayworth, Ingrid Bergman, Bette Davis, Brigitte Bardot, Sofia Loren, Gina Lollobrigida and Anna Magnani.

Hilgos Foundation

The film includes a moving interview with Yasmin Aga Khan, actress Rita Hayworth‘s daughter; Hayworth developed early-onset Alzheimer’s and also had painted.

Hsu Ta Tung

His daughters Daisy Hsu and Rita Fan were born in Shanghai, with the latter named after American film star Rita Hayworth, who was then very popular in Shanghai.

Jan Wahl

In addition, he was an on-set script doctor (uncredited) for The Wrath of God (1972) starring Robert Mitchum and Rita Hayworth during its filming in Mexico; and was an early consultant on what became Fraggle Rock.

Joe Leahy

Other radio and television shows for which he did uncredited background music included those for Orson Welles, Rita Hayworth Eddie Cantor, Tony Martin, Ethel Waters, Constance Bennett and many others.

Joseph Stephen Crane

Starring Rita Hayworth and Lee Bowman, this World War II musical was nominated for two Academy Awards in 1946.

Negligee

Although the evening-dresses style of nightwear made moves towards the modern negligee style—translucent bodices, lace trimming, bows, exemplified in 1941 by a photo of Rita Hayworth in Life—it was only after World War II that nightwear changed from being primarily utilitarian to being primarily sensual or even erotic; the negligee emerged strongly as a form of lingerie.

The Goon Show running jokes

Bluebottle:"Cor, dolly mixture - thinks - with these-type sweets I could influence certain girls at playtime - that Brenda Pugh might be another Rita Hayworth."


B. B. Kahane

He later resigned from RKO in August 1936, and joined Columbia as vice-president in 1938 and produced Charles Vidor's The Lady in Question (1940), the first joint film of Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford.

Broadway Rhythm

The movie was originally slated to star Eleanor Powell and Gene Kelly but Louis B. Mayer and MGM loaned Kelly out to Columbia to play opposite Rita Hayworth in Cover Girl (1944).

Jo Eisinger

Among them are Oscar Wilde (1960), starring Sir Ralph Richardson and Robert Morley, The Rover (L'Avventuriero), (1967), from a novel by Joseph Conrad and starring Rita Hayworth and Anthony Quinn, and The Jigsaw Man (1984), starring Laurence Olivier and directed by Terence Young.

Pepsodent

Famous Hollywood guest stars such as Cary Grant, Orson Welles, Judy Garland, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Paulette Goddard, Dorothy Lamour, Rita Hayworth, Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Basil Rathbone, Gary Cooper, Veronica Lake, Ginger Rogers, Edward G. Robinson, Hedda Hopper, and many more would be on hand to trade comedic barbs with Hope.

Russell Harty

The show lasted until 1981 and some of his more memorable interviews included show business legends Rita Hayworth, Veronica Lake, David Carradine, John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson.

The Bribe

Laughton and Price are splendidly hammy villains and Gardners nightclub singer is an innocent femme fatale in the manner of Rita Hayworth's Gilda.

The Lady in Question

The Lady in Question is a 1940 American comedy drama film directed by Charles Vidor and starring Brian Aherne, Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford.

The Mercury Wonder Show

The Mercury Wonder Show was a 1943 magic-and-variety stage show by the Mercury Theatre, produced by Orson Welles and Joseph Cotten, directed by Welles, and starring Welles, Cotten, Agnes Moorehead and Rita Hayworth (with Hayworth's part later filled in by Marlene Dietrich).

William A. Seiter

Among the many stars directed by Seiter during his long career were Shirley Temple, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Henry Fonda, Margaret Sullavan, Jack Haley, Deanna Durbin, Jean Arthur, John Wayne, Fred MacMurray, Lucille Ball, Rita Hayworth and the Marx Brothers.