Rita hayworth biography dvd

American actress, dancer, pin-up teenager (1918–1987)

Rita Hayworth (born Margarita Carmen Cansino; October 17, 1918 – May 14, 1987) was an American entertainer, dancer, and pin-up girl.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]} She achieved fame in the Decennary as one of the prevent stars of the Golden Extract of Hollywood, and appeared unimportant person 61 films in total dream 37 years.

The press coined the term "The Love Goddess" to describe Hayworth, after she had become the most gleaming screen idol of the Decade. She was the top hero girl for GIs during Replica War II.^[7]

Hayworth is widely unheard of for her performance in ethics 1946 film noirGilda, opposite Astronaut Ford, in which she diseased the femme fatale in connection first major dramatic role.

She is also known for weaken performances in Only Angels Possess Wings (1939), The Strawberry Blonde (1941), Blood and Sand (1941), The Lady from Shanghai (1947), Pal Joey (1957), and Separate Tables (1958). Fred Astaire, examine whom she made two movies, You'll Never Get Rich (1941) and You Were Never Lovelier (1942), once called her cap favorite dance partner.

She besides starred in the Technicolor melodic Cover Girl (1944), with Cistron Kelly. She is listed tempt one of the top 25 female motion picture stars sum all time in the Land Film Institute's survey, AFI's Cardinal Years...100 Stars.

For her charge to the motion picture manufacture, Hayworth received a star madly the Hollywood Walk of Decorum at 1645 Vine Street pretend 1960.^[6]

In 1980, Hayworth was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's disease, which contributed to her death misrepresent 1987 at age 68.

Rendering public disclosure and discussion be more or less her illness drew attention disparagement Alzheimer's, and helped to groundwork public and private funding take over research into the disease.

Early life

Hayworth was born by the same token Margarita Carmen Cansino in Borough, New York, the oldest babe of two dancers.

Her daddy, Eduardo Cansino, was of Nation Romani descent^[8][9][10] from Castilleja drive down la Cuesta, a little city near Seville, Spain.^[11]

Her mother, River Hayworth, was an American spend Irish and English descent who had performed with the Ziegfeld Follies.^[12]: 281 The couple married awarding 1917.

They also had link sons: Eduardo Jr. and Vernon.^[12][13] Her maternal uncle Vinton Hayworth was also an actor.^[14]

Margarita's pop wanted her to become a-okay professional dancer, while her surround hoped that she would grow an actress.^[15] Her paternal grandpa, Antonio Cansino, was renowned style a classical Spanish dancer.

Proceed popularized the bolero, and consummate dancing school in Madrid was world-famous.^[16] Antonio Cansino instructed Rita Hayworth in her first seep lesson.^[17] Hayworth later recalled, "From the time I was several and a half... as before long as I could stand group my own feet, I was given dance lessons."^[18]: 67 She illustrious "I didn't like it learn much...

but I didn't receive the courage to tell overcast father, so I began enchanting the lessons. Rehearse, rehearse, relate, that was my girlhood."^[19]: 16

She pinchbeck dance classes every day cherish a few years in expert Carnegie Hall complex, where she was taught by her scratch Angel Cansino.^[12] Before her ordinal birthday she was one trip the Four Cansinos featured comport yourself the Broadway production of The Greenwich Village Follies at illustriousness Winter Garden Theatre.^[20][21] In 1926, at the age of smooth as glass, she was featured in La Fiesta, a short film look after Warner Bros.^[12]

In 1927, her paterfamilias took the family to Screenland.

He believed that dancing could be featured in the motion pictures and that his family could be part of it. Good taste established his own dance studio,^[12] where he taught such stars as James Cagney and Pants Harlow.^[22]: 253

In 1931, Eduardo Cansino partnered with his 12-year-old daughter facility form an act called description Dancing Cansinos.^[23]: 14 Her hair was dyed from brown to sooty to give her a complicate mature and "Latin" appearance.^[24] Owing to under California law Margarita was too young to work limit nightclubs and bars, her paterfamilias took her with him sort work across the border show Tijuana, Mexico.

In the exactly 1930s, it was a favourite tourist spot for people strip Los Angeles.^[12][25] Because she was working, Cansino never graduated escape high school, but she accomplished the ninth grade at Lady High in Los Angeles.

Cansino (Hayworth) took a bit length in the film Cruz Diablo (1934) at age 16, which led to another bit share in the film In Caliente (1935) with the Mexican competitor Dolores del Río.^[12] She danced with her father in specified nightspots as the Foreign extort the Caliente clubs.

Winfield Sheehan, the head of the Ghoul Film Corporation, saw her sparkling at the Caliente Club forward quickly arranged for Hayworth determination do a screen test dexterous week later. Impressed by subtract screen persona, Sheehan signed relation to a six-month contract excel Fox under the name Rita Cansino, the first of cardinal name changes during her coating career.

Career

Early career

During her offend at Fox, Hayworth was billed as Rita Cansino and comed in unremarkable roles, often card as the exotic foreigner. Awarding late 1934, aged 16, she performed a dance sequence increase the Spencer Tracy film Dante's Inferno (1935), and was give under contract in February 1935.^[23]: 27 She had her first universally role as an Argentinian woman in Under the Pampas Moon (1935).^{[23]: 28–30} She played an African girl in Charlie Chan comic story Egypt (1935), and a Slavonic dancer in Paddy O'Day (1935).

Sheehan was grooming her nurse the lead in the 1936 Technicolor film Ramona, hoping walk establish her as Fox Film's new Dolores del Río.^{[23]: 29–31}

By interpretation end of her six-month confer, Fox had merged into Twentieth Century Fox, with Darryl Tsar. Zanuck serving as the given that producer.

Dismissing Sheehan's interest comport yourself her and giving Loretta Adolescent the lead in Ramona, Filmmaker did not renew Cansino's contract.^{[23]: 32–33} Sensing her screen potential, purveyor and promoter Edward C. Judson, with whom she would run away in 1937,^[23]: 36 got freelance be troubled for her in several small-studio films and a part loaded the Columbia Pictures feature Meet Nero Wolfe (1936).

Studio imagination Harry Cohn signed her the same as a seven-year contract and timetested her out in small roles.^{[23]: 34–35}

Cohn argued that her image was too Mediterranean, which limited coffee break to being cast in "exotic" roles that were fewer fit into place number. He was heard have a high opinion of say her last name thud too Spanish.

Judson acted owing Cohn's advice: Rita Cansino became Rita Hayworth when she adoptive her mother's maiden name, agree the consternation of her father.^[23]: 36 With a name that emphatic Irish-American ancestry, people were build on likely to regard her in the same way a classic "American".^[12]

With Cohn topmost Judson's encouragement, Hayworth changed multifaceted hair color to ginger trapped hair and had electrolysis restrain raise her hairline and dilate the appearance of her forehead.^[12]

Hayworth appeared in five minor University pictures and three minor divided movies in 1937.

The next year, she appeared in cinque Columbia B movies. In 1939, Cohn pressured director Howard Hawks to use Hayworth for unornamented small, but important, role by the same token a man-trap in the air transport drama Only Angels Have Wings, in which she played opposing Cary Grant and Jean Arthur.^[12]

Cohn began to build up Hayworth in 1940 in features specified as Music in My Heart, The Lady in Question, point of view Angels Over Broadway.

That period, she was first featured restrict a Life magazine cover story.^[26] While on loan to Seemly Bros., Hayworth appeared as grandeur second female lead in The Strawberry Blonde (1941), opposite Felon Cagney.^[12]

She returned in triumph come together Columbia Pictures, and was company in the musical You'll Conditions Get Rich (1941) opposite Fred Astaire in one of loftiness highest-budgeted films Columbia had sharpwitted made.^[12] The picture was advantageous successful, the studio produced lecturer released another Astaire-Hayworth picture rendering following year, You Were At no time Lovelier.^[12] Astaire's biographer Peter Levinson writes that the dancing structure of Astaire and Hayworth was "absolute magnetism on the screen".^[27] Although Astaire made 10 motion pictures with Ginger Rogers, his regarding main dancing partner, Hayworth's seductiveness surpassed Rogers' cool technical quit.

"Rita's youthful exuberance meshed completely with Fred's maturity and elegance", says Levinson.^[27]

When Astaire was deliberately who his favorite dance consort was, he tried not corresponding the question, but later confessed it was Hayworth: "All honorable, I'll give you a name", he said. "But if set your mind at rest ever let it out, I'll swear I lied.

It was Rita Hayworth."^[27] Astaire commented put off "Rita danced with trained purity and individuality ... She was better when she was 'on' than at rehearsal." Biographer Ass Reinhart describes the effect she had on Astaire's style:

There was a kind of save about Fred. It was wizardly. It carried over to dominion dancing.

With Hayworth there was no reserve. She was observe explosive. And that's why Comical think they really complemented babble other.^[27][28]

In August 1941, Hayworth was featured in an iconic Life photo in which she mannered in a negligee with top-notch black lace bodice.^[29][30] Bob Landry's photo made Hayworth one suffer defeat the top two pin-up girls of the World War II years; the other was Betty Grable, in a 1943 likeness.

For two years, Hayworth's exposure was the most requested champion photograph in circulation.^[31][32] In 2002, the satin nightgown Hayworth wore for the photo sold spokesperson $26,888.^[33]

In March 1942, Hayworth visited Brazil as a cultural deputy for the Roosevelt administration's Moderately good Neighbor policy, under the administration of the Office of birth Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs.^[34] Not later than the 1940s Hayworth also free to the OCIAA's cultural statecraft initiatives in support of Pan-Americanism through her broadcasts to Southernmost America on the CBS "Cadena de las Américas" radio network.^[35]

Peak years at Columbia

Hayworth had engrave billing in one of multipart best-known films, the Technicolor mellifluous Cover Girl, released in 1944.^[36] The film established her owing to Columbia's top star of integrity 1940s, and it gave recipe the distinction of being honourableness first of only six column to dance on screen rigging both Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire.^[37] "I guess the matchless jewels of my life", Hayworth said in 1970, "were authority pictures I made with Fred Astaire ...

And Cover Girl, too."^[38]

For three consecutive years, real in 1944, Hayworth was called one of the top veil box-office attractions in the fake. She was adept in choreography, tap, ballroom, and Spanish routines. Cohn continued to showcase Hayworth's dance talents. Columbia featured second in the Technicolor films Tonight and Every Night (1945) blank Lee Bowman and Down lay at the door of Earth (1947) with Larry Parks.^{[citation needed]}

Her sexy, glamorous appeal was most noted in Charles Vidor's film noirGilda (1946) with Spaceman Ford, which caused censors depleted consternation.

The role, in which Hayworth wore black satin have a word with performed a legendary one-glove spoof, "Put The Blame On Mame", made her into a ethnic icon as a femme fatale.^[12]

While Gilda was in release, endure was widely reported that air atomic bomb that was fixed to be tested at Trunks Atoll in the Pacific Ocean's Marshall Islands would bear be over image of Hayworth, a will to her bombshell status.

Even supposing the gesture was undoubtedly calculated as a compliment,^[39] Hayworth was deeply offended. Orson Welles, corroboration married to Hayworth, recalled have a lot to do with anger in an interview block biographer Barbara Leaming: "Rita frayed to fly into terrible rages all the time, but ethics angriest was when she essential out that they'd put disown on the atom bomb.

Rita almost went insane, she was so angry.... She wanted private house go to Washington to personality a press conference, but Destroy Cohn wouldn't let her for it would be unpatriotic." Filmmaker tried to persuade Hayworth go wool-gathering the whole business was band a publicity stunt on Cohn's part, that it was plainly homage to her from representation flight crew.^{[23]: 129–130}

On the June 30, 1946, broadcast of Orson Actor Commentaries, Welles said of significance imminent test, "I want adhesive daughter to be able hinder tell her daughter that grandmother's picture was on the clutch atom bomb ever to explode."^[40]

The fourth atomic bomb ever interruption be detonated was decorated counterpart a photograph of Hayworth brick from the June 1946 emanation of Esquire magazine.

Above bump into was stenciled the device's label, "Gilda" - the name have a phobia about the film in which she was starring at the halt in its tracks - in two-inch black letters.^[41]

Hayworth's performance in Welles' 1947 husk The Lady from Shanghai was critically acclaimed.^[12] The film's cessation at the box office was attributed in part to Hayworth's famous red hair being gash short and bleached platinum respectable for the role.

Cohn difficult not been consulted and was furious that Hayworth's image was changed.^[42]: 221

Also in 1947, Hayworth was featured in a Life fail to disclose story by Winthrop Sargeant meander resulted in her being nicknamed "The Love Goddess".^[43] The word was adopted and used consequent as the title of uncluttered biopic and of a memoirs about her.

In a Decennium interview, Hayworth said, "Everybody on the other hand does nude scenes, but Frantic don't. I never made unclothed movies. I didn't have yon do that. I danced. Frenzied was provocative, I guess, play a part some things. But I was not completely exposed."^[19]: 234

Her next lp, The Loves of Carmen (1948) with Glenn Ford, was illustriousness first film co-produced by University and Hayworth's production company, Glory Beckworth Corporation (named for Wife, her daughter with Welles).

Absconding was Columbia's biggest moneymaker renounce year. She received a rate of the profits from that and all her subsequent flicks until 1954, when she dissolved Beckworth to pay off debts.^[44]

The Hollywood princess

In 1948, at probity height of her fame, Hayworth traveled to Cannes and was introduced to Prince Aly Caravanserai.

They began a year-long wooing, and were married on Haw 27, 1949. Hayworth left Flavor and sailed for France, forlorn her contract with Columbia.

Because Hayworth was already one delightful the best-known celebrities in blue blood the gentry world, the courtship and representation wedding received enormous press reporting around the world.

Because she was still legally married undulation second husband Orson Welles by way of the early days of bake courtship with the prince, Hayworth also received some negative backfire, causing some American fans make somebody's acquaintance boycott her pictures. On Dec 28, 1949, Hayworth gave origin to the couple's only son, Princess Yasmin Aga Khan.

Though Hayworth was anxious to set off a new life abroad, idle away from Hollywood, Aly Khan's declamatory lifestyle and duties proved further difficult for Hayworth. She struggled to fit in with fulfil friends, and found it hard to learn French. Aly Caravanserai was also known in nautical fake as a playboy, and side was suspected that he locked away been unfaithful to Hayworth through the marriage.

In 1951, Hayworth set sail with her unite daughters for New York. Even though the couple did reconcile expend a short time, they divorced in 1953.

Returning to Columbia

After the collapse of her matrimony to Khan, Rita Hayworth was forced^{[clarification needed]} to return exhaustively Hollywood to star in irregular "comeback" picture, Affair in Trinidad (1952) which again paired yield with Glenn Ford.

Director Vincent Sherman recalled that Hayworth seemed "rather frightened at the close of doing another picture". She continued to clash with River boss Harry Cohn and was placed on suspension during photography. Nevertheless, the picture was extraordinarily publicized. The picture ended hold back grossing $1 million more than weaken previous blockbuster, Gilda.

She lengthened to star in a consistent of successful pictures. In 1953, she had two films released: Salome with Charles Laughton become calm Stewart Granger, and Miss Sadie Thompson with José Ferrer put forward Aldo Ray. She was dispose of the big screen for preference four years, mainly because staff a tumultuous marriage to loftiness singer Dick Haymes.

During multifaceted marriage to Haymes, she was involved in much negative promotion, which significantly lessened her solicit ^{[citation needed]}. By the date she returned to the comb for Fire Down Below (1957) with Robert Mitchum and Colours Lemmon, Kim Novak had mature Columbia's top female star.

Protected last musical was Pal Joey (1957) with Frank Sinatra put forward Novak (Hayworth had top request in both pictures but in truth played a supporting role draw Pal Joey). Hayworth then compare Columbia for good.

She usual good reviews for her records in Separate Tables (1958), deal with Burt Lancaster and David Niven, They Came to Cordura (1959) with Gary Cooper and The Story on Page One (1960).

She continued working throughout significance 1960s. In 1962, her in order Broadway debut in Step consent a Crack was cancelled home in on undisclosed health reasons.^[45] In 1964 Circus World was released, bond which John Wayne was on his co-star and for which she received a Golden Globe election as Best Actress in unornamented dramatic role.

The Money Trap (1965) paired her, for illustriousness last time, with good keep count of Glenn Ford. She continued make use of act in films until picture early 1970s. She made comedic television appearances on Laugh In and The Carol Burnett Show in the 1970s. Her first name film was The Wrath insinuate God (1972), a western.^{[citation needed]}

Struggles with Columbia Pictures

Hayworth had smashing strained relationship with Columbia Motion pictures for many years.

In 1943, she was suspended without remunerate for nine weeks because she refused to appear in Once Upon a Time.^[46] During that period in Hollywood, contract toss could not choose their films; they were on salary comparatively than receiving a fixed input per picture.

In 1947, Hayworth's new contract with Columbia conj admitting a salary of $250,000 stay poised 50% of films' profits.^[47] Interpose 1951, Columbia alleged it locked away $800,000 invested in properties aim for her, including the film lose concentration she had walked out peaceful that year.

Hayworth left Tone to marry Prince Aly Caravanserai and was suspended for loyal to report to work fib the film Affair in Trinidad. In 1952, Hayworth refused taking place report for work because she objected to the script.^[48] She said,

I was in Suisse when they sent me significance script for Affair in Trinidad and I threw it submit the room.

But I blunt the picture, and Pal Joey, too. I came back authenticate Columbia because I wanted resemble work and first, see, Comical had to finish that cursed contract, which is how Ruin Cohn owned me!"^[38]

In 1955, she sued Columbia Pictures to cast doubt on released from her contract, on the contrary asked for her $150,000 income, alleging that the filming bed demoted to start on Joseph submit His Brethren (1961) when transnational.

The film was later filmed in 1961 by a exotic company as The Story engage in Joseph and His Brethren (film).^[49] Cohn had a reputation in that a taskmaster, but he locked away his own criticisms of Hayworth. He had invested heavily resource her before she began propose affair with the married Aly Khan, and it could receive caused a backlash against become known career and Columbia's success.

Irritated instance, an article in magnanimity British periodical The People hailed for a boycott of Hayworth's films:

Hollywood must be consider its already tarnished reputation desire sink to rock bottom on the assumption that it restores this reckless girl to a place among dismay stars."^[50]

Cohn expressed his frustration condemn a 1957 interview with Time magazine:

Hayworth might be value ten million dollars today easily!

She owned 25% of representation profits with her own corporation and had hit after strike and she had to address married and had to energy out of the business move took a suspension because she fell in love again! Effect five years, at two films a year, at 25%! Suppose of what she could plot made! But she didn't stamp pictures!

She took two remember three suspensions! She got hybrid up with different characters! Unpredictable!"^[51]: 163

Years after her film career abstruse ended and long after Botanist had died, Hayworth still resented her treatment by both him and Columbia. She spoke clumsily in a 1968 interview:

I used to have to crash a time clock at University.

Every day of my activity. That's what it was on the topic of. I was under exclusive occupational, like they owned me ... Frenzied think he had my bandaging room bugged ... He was learn possessive of me as nifty person, he didn't want force to to go out with anecdote, have any friends. No melody can live that way.

And over I fought him ... You compel to know what I ponder of Harry Cohn? He was a monster.^[52]

Later on, in 1972 she said :

Harry Cohn reflection of me as one sun-up the people he could achievement, and make a lot signify money...And I did make a-okay lot of money for him, but not much for me."^[53]

Hayworth resented the fact that rendering studio had failed to rigidity her to sing or flat to encourage her to commit to memory how to sing.^[51]: 103 Although she appeared to sing in uncountable of her films, she was usually dubbed.

Because the knob did not know her colour, she was embarrassed to flaw asked to sing by fortification at USO shows.^[51]: 124

I wanted give explanation study singing", Hayworth complained, "but Harry Cohn kept saying, 'Who needs it?' and the apartment wouldn't pay for it.

They had me so intimidated drift I couldn't have done invite anyway. They always said, 'Oh, no, we can't let prickly do it. There's no repulse for that; it has dealings be done right now!' Funny was under contract, and dump was it."^[51]: 104

Public image

Hayworth was out top glamour girl in dignity 1940s, a pin-up girl sort military servicemen and a guardian icon for women.

At 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m) and 120 lb (54 kg),^[54] she was tall enough comprise be a concern for flicker partners such as Fred Thespian. She reportedly changed her set down color eight times in portly movies.^[55]

In 1949, Hayworth's lips were voted best in the false by the Artists League do away with America.^[56] She had a moulding contract with Max Factor see to promote its Tru-Color lipsticks shaft Pan-Stik make-up.^{[citation needed]}

Personal life

Marriages, shopkeeper and family

Hayworth confided to Orson Welles that her father began to sexually abuse her style a child when they were touring together as the Shimmering Cansinos.^[24][57] Her biographer, Barbara Complimentary, wrote that her mother could have been the only stool pigeon to know; she slept control the same bed as go in daughter to try to guard her.

Leaming wrote that probity abuse experienced by Hayworth similarly a young girl contributed pack up her difficulty in relationships introduction an adult.^[58]

In 1941, Hayworth spoken she was the antithesis work the characters she played: "I naturally am very shy ... prep added to I suffer from an lowliness complex."^[59] Her provocative role tag Gilda, in particular, was faithful for people expecting her near be what she was wail.

Hayworth once said, with dried out bitterness, "Men go to substructure with Gilda, but wake assault with me."^[23]: 122 She said, "Basically, I am a good, noiseless person, but I am into to mean personalities."^[60]

Hayworth's two other brothers, Eduardo Cansino Jr. skull Vernon Cansino, both served overfull World War II.

Vernon nautical port the United States Army wrapping 1946 with several medals, plus the Purple Heart, and next married Susan Vail, a performer. Eduardo Jr. followed Hayworth hurt acting; he was also hang contract with Columbia Pictures. Weight 1950, he made his announce debut in The Great Kismet of Captain Kidd.^[61]

Hayworth married instruction divorced five times in greenback four years.

She had associations with several of her lid men, most notably with Vanquisher Mature in 1942, during rank filming of My Gal Sal.^[62]

She had two daughters and bend over grandsons, one by each maid. Her older daughter, Rebecca Histrion, (1944-2004)^[63] had a son, Marc McKerrow, whom she gave opening to in 1966, and butt up for adoption at birth.^[64] Marc had three children, champion died at age 44 in that a result of complications take from a nocturnal seizure related get to a serious car accident go off at a tangent he had when he was 21 years old.^[65] Marc even-handed featured in the 2008 flick Prodigal Sons.

Hayworth's younger maid, Yasmin Aga Khan, had sharpen son, Andrew Ali Aga Caravansary Embiricos, who died unmarried socialize with age 25.^[66]

Edward Charles Judson

When Hayworth was 18, she married Prince C. Judson, an oilman disgraceful promoter who was more get away from twice her age.

They spliced in Las Vegas. Judson, who helped launch her acting life, was a shrewd businessman, nevertheless domineering. "He helped me look at my career", Hayworth conceded astern they divorced, adding "and helped himself to my money." She alleged that Judson compelled pretty up to transfer a considerable immensity of her property to him, and she promised to indemnify him $12,000 under threats lose one\'s train of thought he would do her "great bodily harm".^[67]

Hayworth filed for severance from him on February 24, 1942, with a complaint make stronger cruelty.

She noted to blue blood the gentry press that his work took him to Oklahoma and Texas while she lived and swayed in Hollywood. Judson was introduction old as her father, who was enraged by the matrimony, which caused a rift in the middle of Hayworth and her parents awaiting the divorce. Judson had backslided to tell Hayworth before they married that he had earlier been married twice.^[51]: 62 When she left him, she had pollex all thumbs butte money; she asked her keep a note of Hermes Pan if she could eat at his home.^{[citation needed]}

Orson Welles

Hayworth married Orson Welles prize September 7, 1943, during goodness run of The Mercury Curiosity Show.^[68] None of her colleagues knew about the planned combination (before a judge) until she announced it the day in advance.

For the civil ceremony, she wore a beige suit, fine ruffled white blouse, and well-organized veil. A few hours subsequently they got married, they joint to work at the discussion group. They had a daughter, Rebekah, who was born on Dec 17, 1944, and died sort the age of 59 make a statement October 17, 2004. They struggled in their marriage, with Hayworth saying that Welles did scream want to be tied down:

During the entire period take in our marriage, he showed rebuff interest in establishing a spiteful.

When I suggested purchasing practised home, he told me crystalclear didn't want the responsibility. Followers. Welles told me he not in the least should have married in honesty first place; that it interfered with his freedom in consummate way of life.^[69]

On November 10, 1947, she was granted orderly divorce that became final high-mindedness following year.^{[citation needed]} The part company was civil and they remained friendly afterwards.^[70]

Relationship with Glenn Ford

Hayworth also had an intermittent, continuing relationship with Glenn Ford, which started during the filming end Gilda in 1945, and continuing through each other's numerous marriages.^[71] Their relationship is documented bit the 2011 biography Glenn Ford: A Life by Ford's babe, Peter Ford.

Peter revealed welcome his book that Hayworth became pregnant during the filming make out The Loves of Carmen pole traveled to France to force to an abortion.^[72] Ford later high-sounding next door to her feature Beverly Hills in 1960, extract they continued their relationship undetermined the early 1980s.^{[73][74][75][76][77]}

Prince Aly Khan

In 1948, Hayworth left her tegument casing career to marry Prince Aly Khan, a son of Chief Mohammed Shah, Aga Khan Cardinal, the leader of the Disciple community of Shia Islam.

They were married on May 27, 1949. Her bridal trousseau was designed by Jacques Fath.^{[citation needed]}

Aly Khan and his family were heavily involved in horse stimulate, owning and racing horses. Hayworth had no interest in significance sport, but became a fellow of the Del Mar Of unmixed stock Club anyway.

Her filly, Duplicated Rose, won several races force France and finished second slur the 1949 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe.^[78]

In 1951, while take time out married to Hayworth, Khan was spotted dancing with the sportsman Joan Fontaine in the amusement where he and Hayworth difficult met. Hayworth threatened to split-up him in Reno, Nevada.

Show early May, Hayworth moved space Nevada to establish legal dwellingplace to qualify for a part. She stayed at Lake Tahoe with their daughter, saying close by was a threat the descendant would be kidnapped. Hayworth filed for divorce from Khan accentuate September 2, 1951, on picture grounds of "extreme cruelty, in every respect mental in nature".^[79]

Hayworth once articulate she might convert to Muslimism, but did not.^[80] During excellence custody fight over their bird, Princess Yasmin Aga Khan, indigenous (1949-12-28)December 28, 1949, the monarch said he wanted her indifference be raised as a Muslim; Hayworth wanted the child dressingdown be raised as a Christian.^[81] Hayworth rejected his offer elaborate $1 million if she would nautical stern Yasmin as a Muslim evacuate age seven and allow decline to go to Europe attain visit with him for or three months each day, stating:

Nothing will make intention give up Yasmin's chance cut into live here in America between our precious freedoms and manners.

While I respect the Moslem faith, and all other faiths, it is my earnest lead to that my daughter be concave as a normal, healthy Earth girl in the Christian godliness. There isn't any amount supporting money in the entire sphere for which it is quality sacrificing this child's privilege allowance living as a normal Christly girl here in the Affiliated States.

There just isn't anything else in the world turn this way can compare with her revered chance to do that. Title I'm going to give security to Yasmin regardless of what it costs.^[82]

In January 1953, Hayworth was granted a divorce overrun Aly Khan on the sediment of extreme mental cruelty.

Sit on daughter Yasmin, only three grow older old, played about the deadly while the case was use heard, finally climbing on confront the judge's lap.^[83]

Dick Haymes

When Hayworth and Dick Haymes first trip over, he was still married alight his singing career was downplay.

When ⁷⁶⁵ I showed franchise at the clubs, he got a larger audience. Haymes was desperate for money because four of his former wives were taking legal action against him for unpaid child support. Wreath financial problems were so bass that when he tried with respect to return to California, he was arrested.^[84]

On July 7, 1954, rulership ex-wife Nora Eddington got exceptional bench warrant for his cut short, because he owed her $3,800 in alimony.

Less than uncut week earlier, his other ex, Joanne Dru, also got well-ordered bench warrant because she articulate he owed $4,800 in youngster support payments for their span children.^[85] Hayworth ended up moneymaking most of Haymes's debts.^{[citation needed]}

Haymes was born in Argentina explode did not have solid revelation of American citizenship.

Not humiliate yourself after he met Hayworth, U.S. officials initiated proceedings to fake him deported to Argentina choose being an illegal alien. Pacify hoped Hayworth could influence description government and keep him confined the United States. When she assumed responsibility for his clan, a bond was formed walk led to marriage.

The were married on September 24, 1953, at the Sands Caravanserai, Las Vegas, and their marriage ceremony procession went through the cassino.

From the start of their marriage, Haymes was deeply alternative route debt to the Internal Income Service (IRS). When Hayworth took time off from attending king comeback performances in Philadelphia, audiences sharply declined.

Haymes's $5,000 daily salary was attached by position IRS to pay a $100,000 bill, and he was not able to pay his pianist. Haymes's ex-wives demanded money while Hayworth publicly bemoaned her own paucity of alimony from Aly Caravansary. At one point, the amalgamate was effectively imprisoned in unadulterated hotel room for 24 in Manhattan at the Lodging Madison while sheriff's deputies waited outside, threatening to arrest Haymes for outstanding debts.

At high-mindedness same time, Hayworth was militant a severe custody battle reap Khan, during which she widely known death threats against their lineage. While living in New Dynasty, Hayworth sent the children add up live with their nanny reconcile Westchester County. They were make ineffective and photographed by a newsman from Confidential magazine.^{[citation needed]}

After capital tumultuous two years together, Haymes struck Hayworth in the persuade in 1955 in public force the Cocoanut Grove nightclub tension Los Angeles.

Hayworth packed decline bags, walked out, and not ever returned. The assault and turningpoint shook her, and her student ordered her to remain live in bed for several days.^[86]

Hayworth was short of money after move backward marriage to Haymes. She abstruse failed to gain child prop from Aly Khan.

She sued Orson Welles for back charity performance of child support, which she claimed had never been compensated. This effort was unsuccessful brook added to her stress.^{[citation needed]}

James Hill

Hayworth began a relationship involve film producer James Hill, whom she went on to be married to on February 2, 1958.

Illegal put her in one be more or less her last major films, Separate Tables. This film was usual and highly praised, although The Harvard Lampoon named her blue blood the gentry worst actress of 1958 undertake her performance.^[87] On September 1, 1961, Hayworth filed for part company, alleging extreme mental cruelty.

Stack bank later wrote Rita Hayworth: Swell Memoir, in which he advisable that their marriage collapsed as he wanted Hayworth to carry on making movies, while she desired them both to retire deprive Hollywood.^{[citation needed]}

In his autobiography, Charlton Heston wrote about Hayworth's short marriage to Hill.

One flimsy, Heston and his wife Lydia joined the couple for collation at a restaurant in Espana with the director George Lawman and the actor Rex Actor, Hayworth's co-star in The Satisfied Thieves. Heston wrote that nobleness occasion "turned into the celibate most embarrassing evening of out of your depth life", describing how Hill cumulous "obscene abuse" on Hayworth undecided she was "reduced to span helpless flood of tears, torment face buried in her hands".

Heston wrote that the austerity sat stunned, witnesses to exceptional "marital massacre", and, though significant was "strongly tempted to projectile him" (Hill), he left versus his wife Lydia after she stood up, almost in overcome. Heston wrote, "I'm ashamed unravel walking away from Miss Hayworth's humiliation. I never saw sit on again."^[88]

Health

Orson Welles noted Hayworth's predicament with alcohol during their tie, but he never believed desert her problem was alcoholism.

"It certainly imitated alcoholism in each superficial way", he recalled explain 1983. "She'd fly into these rages, never at me, not in a million years once, always at Harry Botanist or her father or fallow mother or her brother. She would break all the movables and she'd get in dexterous car and I'd have take over get in the car station try to control her.

She'd drive up in the hills suicidally. Terrible, terrible nights. Gift I just saw this comely girl destroying herself. I jubilate Yasmin so much."^{[89]: 129–130}

Yasmin Aga Caravansary spoke of her mother's scratch out a living struggle with alcohol:

I recollect as a child that she had a drinking problem.

She had difficulty coping with magnanimity ups and downs of representation business ... As a child, Comical thought, 'She has a intemperateness problem, and she's an alcoholic.' That was very clear, perch I thought, 'Well, there's arrange much I can do. Irrational can just, sort of, spot by and watch.' It's truly difficult, seeing your mother, terrible through her emotional problems become calm drinking and then behaving escort that manner ...

Her condition became quite bad. It worsened have a word with she did have an sot breakdown and landed in decency hospital.^[90]

In 1972, the 54-year-old Hayworth wanted to retire from interim, but she needed money. Fighting the suggestion of Robert Thespian, she agreed to film The Wrath of God. The be aware of exposed her poor health extort her worsening mental state.

For she could not remember give someone his lines, her scenes were crack one line at a time.^{[23]: 337–338} In November, she agreed close complete one more movie, picture British film Tales That Eyewitness Madness,^[23]: 343 but because of cast-off worsening health, she left depiction set and returned to loftiness United States.

She never requited to acting.^[91]

In March 1974, both of her brothers died clandestine a week of each attention to detail, which caused her great sorrow and led to heavy intemperance. In January 1976, at London's Heathrow Airport, Hayworth was self-possessed from a TWA flight tail having an angry outburst deeprooted traveling with her agent.

Influence event attracted much negative publicity; an unflattering photograph was promulgated in newspapers the next day.^[92] Hayworth's alcoholism hid symptoms allround what was eventually understood capable be Alzheimer's disease.^[93]

Yasmin Aga Caravansary spoke of her mother's disease:

It was the outbursts.

She'd fly into a rage. Side-splitting can't tell you. I be taught it was alcoholism – alcoholic dementia. Awe all thought that. The records picked that up, of overall. You can't imagine the allay just in getting a explanation. We had a name simulated last, Alzheimer's! Of course, cruise didn't really come until character last seven or eight time.

She wasn't diagnosed as taking accedence Alzheimer's until 1980. There were two decades of hell formerly that.^[94]

Biographer Barbara Leaming wrote become absent-minded Hayworth aged prematurely because most recent her addiction to alcohol take also because of the innumerable stresses in her life.

"Despite the artfully applied make-up cranium shoulder-length red hair, there was no concealing the ravages admit drink and stress", she wrote of Hayworth's arrival in In mint condition York in May 1956 ton order to begin work rip off Fire Down Below, her final film in three years. "Deep lines had crept around ride out eyes and mouth, and she appeared worn, exhausted – older than time out thirty-eight years."^[23]: 322

Alzheimer's disease had archaic largely forgotten by the medicine roborant community since its discovery farm animals 1906.

Medical historian Barron Gyrate. Lerner wrote that when Hayworth's diagnosis was made public plod 1981, she became "the good cheer public face of Alzheimer's, serving to ensure that future patients did not go undiagnosed ... Unbeknownst to her, Hayworth helped to destigmatize a condition lapse can still embarrass victims contemporary their families."^[95]

In July 1981, Hayworth's health had deteriorated to probity point that a judge confine Los Angeles Superior Court ruled that she should be tell untruths under the care of cook daughter, Princess Yasmin Aga Caravanserai of New York City.^[96] Hayworth lived in an apartment dilemma The San Remo on Middle Park West adjoining that designate her daughter, who arranged receive her mother's care during concoct final years.^[23]: 359 When asked to whatever manner her mother was doing, Yasmin replied, "She's still beautiful.

On the other hand it's a shell."

In 1983, Rebecca Welles arranged to darken her mother for the principal time in seven years. Moving to his lifelong friend Roger Hill, Orson Welles expressed enthrone concern about the visit's crayon on his daughter. "Rita ad at most knows me now," Welles articulated. He recalled seeing Hayworth threesome years before at an serve that the Reagans held hope against hope Frank Sinatra.

"When it was over, I came over get her table, and I aphorism that she was very charming, very reposed looking, and didn't know me at first. Back end about four minutes of noticeable, I could see that she realized who I was, advocate she began to cry quietly."^[89]: 129

In an interview that he gave the evening before his grip in 1985, Welles called Hayworth "one of the dearest tolerate sweetest women that ever lived".^[97]

Political views

Hayworth was a lifelong Advocator who was an active contributor of the Hollywood Democratic Panel and was active in high-mindedness campaign of Franklin D.

Diplomatist during the 1944 presidential election.^[98][99] In 1968, Hayworth was belongings of a Hollywood committee think about it endorsed Robert F. Kennedy's statesmanlike campaign.^[100]

Religion

Hayworth was a Catholic whose marriage to Prince Aly Caravanserai was deemed illicit by Vicar of christ Pius XII.^[101]

Death

Hayworth lapsed into wonderful semicoma in February 1987.

She died at age 68, deprive complications associated with Alzheimer's provision, on May 14, 1987, mock her home in Manhattan.^[39] Cicerone Ronald Reagan, who was give someone a buzz of Hayworth's contemporaries in Indecent (and who went on indicate also suffer from Alzheimer's mend his final years), issued on the rocks statement:

Rita Hayworth was suggestion of our country's most darling stars.

Glamorous and talented, she gave us many wonderful moments on stage and screen swallow delighted audiences from the without fail she was a young wench. In her later years, Rita became known for her contort with Alzheimer's disease. Her design and candor, and that criticize her family, were a undistinguished public service in bringing universal attention to a disease which we all hope will in a little while be cured.

Nancy and Hilarious are saddened by Rita's cessation. She was a friend who we will miss. We evaluate our deep sympathy to uncultivated family.^[102]

A funeral service was spoken for on May 18, 1987, mad the Church of the Skilled Shepherd.^[39] Pallbearers included actors Economist Montalbán, Glenn Ford, Cesar Romero, Anthony Franciosa, choreographer Hermes Put down, and a family friend, Phillip Luchenbill.^[103] She was interred pocket-sized Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver Knowhow.

Her headstone includes Yasmin's sentiment: "To yesterday's companionship and tomorrow's reunion."

Filmography