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Rita Hayworth (Margarita Carmen Cansino) (1918-1987) Noir Filmography Gilda (Columbia, 1946) All film noirs need deceit, betrayal, dialogue hard
as diamonds--and dames even harder than that. But Gilda is the only one
with the dame front and center, and for good reason. Rita Hayworth shimmers in
the 1946 classic, which spins on a tortured plot involving the title character (Hayworth);
her imperious husband (George Macready), a ruthless casino owner and head of an
Argentine tungsten cartel (!); and Johnny Farrell (Glenn Ford), Gilda's ex-lover
and now her
Gilda Buy the DVD from Amazon.com Gilda Buy the DVD from Amazon.com Lady from Shanghai (Columbia, 1948) Legend has it that Orson Welles more or less conned studio boss Harry Cohn over the phone into making this movie by grabbing the title from a nearby paperback. In any case, The Lady from Shanghai is one of Welles's most fascinating works, a bizarre tale of an Irish sailor (Welles) who accompanies a beautiful woman (Rita Hayworth) and her handicapped husband (Everett Sloane) on a cruise and becomes involved in a murder plot. But never mind all that (the aforementioned legend also claims that Cohn offered a reward to anyone who could explain the plot to him). The film is really a dream of Welles's driving preoccupations on- and offscreen at the time: the elusiveness of identity, the mystique of things lost, and most of all the director's faltering marriage to Hayworth. In the tradition of male filmmakers who indirectly tell the story of their love affairs with leading ladies, Welles tells his own, photographing Hayworth as a deconstructed star, an obvious cinematic creation, thus reflecting, perhaps, a never-satisfied yearning that leads us back to the mystery of Citizen Kane. --Tom Keogh The Lady from Shanghai Buy the DVD from Amazon.com The Lady from Shanghai Buy the VHS cassette from Amazon.com Affair in Trinidad (Columbia, 1952)
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Rita Hayworth Links of Interest Rita Hayworth at Glamournet.com Mike Harney's Rita Hayworth Page Mark Edmond's Rita Hayworth Page
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