Biography of rita hayworth
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xenomorphlover's review
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darkemotionalreflectivesadmedium-paced
Decent biography. Informative and klar. Really makes you feel for Rita and everything she went through.
Content Warnings
Content Warnings
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship
Minor: Drug abuse, Drug use, sexuell assault, and Alcohol
francesca_penchant's review
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Profound book. Profoundly sad. Profound investigation of unhappiness.
The thesis that runs through this book is how the physical, emotional, and incestuous abuse that Hayworth's father inflicted in her teen years stamped the rest of her life.
Rita Hayworth was naturally shy and introverted, but was forced to dance from the age of 12 to earn money for her family. She traveled on the road with her father to perform alluring Spanish dances with him as a partner. To man matters worse, she was expected to take care of her father's sexuell needs in her mother's absence.
The rest of her life
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Rita Hayworth
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Who Was Rita Hayworth?
American film bombshell Rita Hayworth originally trained as a dancer, but she hit stardom as an actress with her appearance in The Strawberry Blonde (). She is best known for her performance in Charles Vidor's Gilda (). Her career ended with Ralph Nelson's The Wrath of God (). Hayworth died of Alzheimer's disease on May 14,
Early Years
Hayworth was born Margarita Carmen Cansino on October 17, , in New York City. She changed her last name to Hayworth early on in her acting career on the advice of her first husband and manager, Edward Judson.
Hayworth hailed from show business stock. Her father, the Spanish-born Eduardo Cansino, was a dancer, and her mother, Volga, had been a Ziegfeld Follies girl. Soon after their daughter was born, they shortened her name to Rita Cansino. By the time Hayworth was 12, she was dancing professionally.
Still a young girl, Hayworth moved with her family to Los Angeles and eventually joined her fat
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Margarita Carmen Cansino was born in Brooklyn on October 17, The world would come to worship her as the sex symbol Rita Hayworth, star of movies like Gilda, You Were Never Lovelier, and Separate Tables. But as Barbara Leaming writes in her heartbreaking biography If This Was Happiness, what happened to her as the child Margarita would scar Hayworth forever.
A magnificent dancer and entertainer, Hayworth lit up when performing. “She learned steps faster than anyone I’d ever known,” her costar Fred Astaire said, according to Leaming. “I’d show her a routine before lunch. She’d be back right after lunch and have it down to perfection. She apparently figured it out in her mind while she was eating.” Yet once the work was done, costar James Cagney remembered, she’d simply “go back to her chair and sit there and not communicate”—a possible indication of the trauma that lay beneath her glitzy persona.
Married five times, Hayworth would have affairs with Howard Hughes, Victor Ma