Rita and Douglas Fairbanks Jr, photographed for Angels Over Broadway (1940)


Douglas Fairbanks, Jr and Rita worked together for one movie, Angels Over Broadway (1940). It wasn’t a big commercial success, but the critics loved it, and Rita was singled out in many reviews.
Douglas Fairbanks Jr said about filming with her: “Rita was so new and so shy..that even I hesitated to use any expletive more earthy than ‘darn’ or ‘gosh’, in her presence.”
Rita Hayworth, helping men to better manners since 1918 ;).
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Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Rita Hayworth - publicity portrait from the 1940 film “Angels over Broadway”
In the Ben Hecht-scripted Angels over Broadway. Douglas Fairbanks Jr. plays a poker hustler working in cahoots with good-time girl Rita Hayworth. Alcoholic playwright Thomas Mitchell, having saved embezzler John Qualen from suicide, decides to enter Fairbanks’ high-stakes game, using Qualen as an easy-mark “bait.” Mitchell’s clever schemes to beat Fairbanks come acropper, but Fairbanks has a sudden change of heart and decides it’s more fun to perform good deeds.
a very good movie and Rita is adorable in it.
