“Men go to bed with Gilda, but wake up with me.”
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Rita Hayworth
Rita Hayworth was an American actress, dancer, and pin-up girl. She achieved fame in the 1940s as one of the top stars of the Golden Age of Hollywood, and appeared in 61 films over 38 years. The press coined the term "The Love Goddess" to describe Hayworth after she became the most glamorous screen idol of the 1940s. She was the second top pin-up girl for GIs during World War II, after Betty Grabl…
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entertainment · American actress, dancer, pin-up girl (1918–1987) · film actor · dancer · stage actor · television actor · model · actor · pin-up model · producer · musician · also Rita Hayworth, Margarita Carmen Cansino, Margarita Cansino, Hayworth
Born 17 October 1918 · Died 14 May 1987 · Q42745
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2026· 3 entries
“Everybody else does nude scenes, but I don”
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Yahoo: The Public Was Left Reeling By Rita Hayworth's Prince Aly Divorce, But She Thrived Without Him
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2024· 1 entry
New York Daily News: RICHARD JOHNSON: Rita Hayworth’s daughter opens up about mom’s Alzheimer’s struggle at benefit
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2023· 1 entry
KTVZ: Rita Hayworth: The life story you may not know
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2022· 2 entries
The Cheat Sheet: Rita Hayworth Had to Change More Than Just Her Name When She Began in Hollywood
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Newsweek: From Rita Hayworth to Meghan Markle—American Women Who Became Princesses
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2018· 3 entries
The Independent: Rita Hayworth at 100: The Hollywood star trapped by her greatest role
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The centennial of Hayworth's birth
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Yahoo: Rita Hayworth Left a Long Legacy: An Appreciation on Her 100th Birthday
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2016· 1 entry
A press release from the Springer Associates Public Relations Agency announced that Rita Hayworth's former manager and friend, Budd Burton Moss, initiated a campaign to solicit the United States Postal Service to issue a
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2014· 1 entry
Time: LIFE With Rita Hayworth: Hollywood Legend, Pinup Icon
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2002· 1 entry
The satin nightgown Hayworth wore in the photo sold for $26,888
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2001· 1 entry
Released album “Chansons de films”.
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1999· 1 entry
Hayworth was acknowledged as one of the top-25 greatest female stars of Classic Hollywood cinema in the American Film Institute's survey, AFI's 100 Years
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1995· 1 entry
Released album “Songs - Moviestar Collection”.
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1987· 7 entries
Died 1987-05-14.
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“Men fell in love with Gilda, but they wake up with me.”
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“Just because I was married to Aly Khan, people think I'm rich. Well, I'm not. I never got a dime from Aly or from any of my husbands.”
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“Movies were much better in the days when I was doing them.”
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“Nobody makes up my mind for me. They used to at Columbia.”
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“Everybody else does nude scenes, but I don't. I never made nude movies. I didn't have to do that. I danced. … I was provocative, I guess in some things. But I was not completely exposed.”
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“Dancing in Tijuana when I was 13 — that was my "summer camp." How else do you think I could keep up with Fred Astaire when I was 19?”
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1985· 3 entries
Welles called Hayworth "one of the dearest and sweetest women that ever lived"
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In an interview he gave the evening before his death in 1985, Welles called Hayworth "one of the dearest and sweetest women that ever lived".
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By Yasmin Aga Khan, in honor of her mother
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1983· 2 entries
Lynda Carter, who was of a similar Irish and Hispanic ancestry, played and danced as Hayworth in a TV biopic Rita Hayworth: The Love Goddess
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Rebecca Welles arranged to see her mother for the first time in seven years
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1981· 2 entries
Became "the first public face of Alzheimer's, helping to ensure that future patients did not go undiagnosed
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Lerner wrote that when Hayworth's diagnosis was made public in 1981, she became "the first public face of Alzheimer's, helping to ensure that future patients did not go undiagnosed ...
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1980· 1 entry
Hayworth was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's disease, which contributed to her death in 1987 at age 68
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1972· 2 entries
In 1972, Hayworth wanted to retire from acting, but she needed money.
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Hayworth wanted to retire from acting, but she needed money
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1970· 3 entries
“were the pictures I made with Fred Astaire ... And Cover Girl, too.”
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Released album “Rita Hayworth”.
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"were the pictures I made with Fred Astaire
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1968· 1 entry
Hayworth was part of a Hollywood committee that endorsed Robert F
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1964· 1 entry
Circus World was released, in which John Wayne was her co-star and for which she received a Golden Globe nomination as Best Actress in a dramatic role
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1962· 1 entry
Her planned Broadway debut in Step on a Crack was cancelled for undisclosed health reasons
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1961· 2 entries
Hayworth filed for divorce, alleging extreme mental cruelty
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By a foreign company as The Story of Joseph and His Brethren (film)
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1960· 1 entry
And they continued their relationship until the early 1980s
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1955· 2 entries
Sued Columbia Pictures to be released from her contract, but asked for her $150,000 salary, alleging that the filming failed to start on Joseph and His Brethren (1961) when agreed
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In public at the Cocoanut Grove nightclub in Los Angeles
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1954· 1 entry
His ex-wife Nora Eddington got a bench warrant for his arrest because he owed her $3,800 in alimony
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1953· 3 entries
At the Sands Hotel, Las Vegas, and their wedding procession went through the casino
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Made his screen debut in The Great Adventures of Captain Kidd
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Had two films released: Salome with Charles Laughton and Stewart Granger, and Miss Sadie Thompson with José Ferrer and Aldo Ray
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1951· 3 entries
On the grounds of "extreme cruelty, entirely mental in nature"
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While still married to Hayworth, Khan was spotted dancing with the actress Joan Fontaine in the nightclub where he and Hayworth had met
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Columbia alleged it had $800,000 invested in properties for her, including the film she had walked out on that year
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1949· 1 entry
Hayworth's lips were voted best in the world by the Artists League of America
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1948· 2 entries
Hayworth left her film career to marry Aly Khan, a son of Sultan Mohammed Shah, Aga Khan III, the leader of the Ismaili community of Shia Islam
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At the height of her fame, Hayworth met Aly Khan
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1947· 3 entries
Was granted a divorce that became final the next year
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Hayworth was featured in a Life cover story by Winthrop Sargeant that resulted in her being nicknamed "The Love Goddess"
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Hayworth's new contract with Columbia provided a salary of $250,000 plus 50% of films' profits
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1946· 2 entries
Broadcast of Orson Welles Commentaries, Welles said of the imminent test, "I want my daughter to be able to tell her daughter that grandmother's picture was on the last atom bomb ever to explode
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With several medals, including the Purple Heart, and later married Susan Vail, a dancer
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1945· 1 entry
And continued through their numerous marriages
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1944· 2 entries
And died at the age of 59 on October 17, 2004
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Hayworth was named one of the top movie box-office attractions in the world
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1943· 2 entries
During the run of The Mercury Wonder Show
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Was suspended without pay for nine weeks because she refused to appear in Once Upon a Time
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1941· 3 entries
Hayworth said she was the antithesis of the characters she played: "I naturally am very shy
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In 1941, Hayworth said she was the antithesis of the characters she played: "I naturally am very shy ... and I suffer from an inferiority complex." Her provocative role in Gilda, in particular, made people expect her to be what she was not.
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“I naturally am very shy ... and I suffer from an inferiority complex.”
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1940· 1 entry
In features such as Music in My Heart, The Lady in Question, and Angels Over Broadway
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1939· 1 entry
Cohn pressured director Howard Hawks to use Hayworth for a small, but important, role as a man-trap in the aviation drama Only Angels Have Wings, in which she played opposite Cary Grant and Jean Arthur
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1937· 1 entry
Got freelance work for her in several small-studio films and a part in the Columbia Pictures feature Meet Nero Wolfe (1936)
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1936· 1 entry
At age 18, Hayworth married Edward C
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1931· 1 entry
Eduardo Cansino partnered with his 12-year-old daughter to form an act called the Dancing Cansinos
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1926· 1 entry
At the age of eight, she was featured in La Fiesta, a short film for Warner Bros
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1918· 1 entry
Born 1918-10-17.
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