For Lovely Rita

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Rita Hayworth, 1950

Glenn Ford and Rita in promotional shot for The Loves Of Carmen(1948).

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Rita Hayworth on the Columbia Pictures lot, circa 1944.

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Rita Hayworth, c. 1939.

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Rita Hayworth, c. 1939.

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Dearest Angel Girl:

…I suppose most of us are lonely in this big world, but we must fall tremendously in love to find it out. The cure is the discovery of our need for company — I mean company in the very special sense we’ve come to understand since we happened to each other — you and I. The pleasures of human experience are emptied away without that companionship — now that I’ve known it; without it joy is just an unendurable as sorrow. You are my life — my very life. Never imagine your hope approximates what you are to me. Beautiful, precious little baby — hurry up the sun! — make the days shorter till we meet. I love you, that’s all there is to it.

Your boy,

Orson

Dearest Baby:

I knew it would be lonely — but this is even lonelier that I let myself fear …I’m too blue for anything but the sonorous repetition of my love for you – Oh how much there is of it …I worked ’till midnight …and what happened to me …Ms. Parsons (NY gossip columnist) sat at a table by the door so I made Lennie (Leonard Lyons – columnist for The N.Y. Post) write an avadavat to my innocence – in case she prints I’m out on the town without you.

- Excerpts from letters by Orson Welles to Rita Hayworth (x)

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Rita Hayworth, circa mid 1940’s

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Rita Hayworth being taught how to bullfight, c. 1940’s.

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Rita Hayworth in promotional shot for Affair In Trinidad(1951).

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George Tobias, Rita Hayworth and Errol Flynn in Pasadena, California, circa 1940.

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Early 1940’s

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Rita and her eldest daughter Rebecca Welles on vacation in Switzerland, c. late 1940’s.

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Miss Sadie Thompson (1953)

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Rita Hayworth on the set of Affair In Trinidad(1951).

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