JUST FOR RITA
Rita and Prince Aly Khan on their wedding day.
“We`ve travelled together, lived together—we`re everything to each other. I`m strict, they respect me, but I also respect them and we have fun.”
(on her two daughters Rebecca and Yasmin)
Los Angeles… Wearing dark glasses, Rita Hayworth confers with her attorney Maury L. Spanier, after leaving her crooner husband Dick Haymes. The actress was quoted as saying that their separation is a trial one to give them time to “think things out”. She refused to elaborate on a report that…
ugh yes…that asshole beat her in public. And I’m sure he did it on other occasions too.
As Jacques Doniol-Valcroze has rightly observed, the average American moviegoer couldn’t forgive Welles for killing off Rita. Even worse, he let her die like a bitch on the floor of a hellish chamber while he walked out indifferently, eager to have things over and done with, without even obeying the elementary rule that the heroine should be paid the courtesy of dying in the arms of the rugged sailor. For some years, the misogyny of the American cinema has become a commonplace of intellectual criticism. Rita Hayworth was undoubtedly one of its first victims, and remains, through Welles’ genius, its most glorious martyr. - André Bazin, “Orson Welles: A Critical View”
(via presentinglilymars)
