For Lovely Rita

”[…] Rita Hayworth is different. She made you believe in both her beauty and her ability whenever she was on screen. I did a test of her and instead of attempting to convey wanton lust with just her eyes or even her entire face, she used her entire body to do it - and do it with an animal grace that no actress I have ever known has come close to equaling.”

- Rouben Mamoulian (director of Blood and Sand)

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Men fell in love with Gilda and woke up with me.

- Rita Hayworth

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Circa 1942

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17/30 vintage Rita Hayworth’s ads: Rita for Royal Crown Cola.

Gene Tierney and Rita Hayworth, c. 1941

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16/30 vintage ads: Rita Hayworth for Lux Soap, c. 1948.

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Rita in 1945

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“I’d like to have made one of those big splashy Technicolor musicals with Rita Hayworth.” - Cary Grant

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“Often she would arrive for fittings from dance rehearsals and her feet still bleeding. But she never complained, or refused to do anything.”

- Jean Louis

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15/30 vintage ads of Rita Hayworth.

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“There were great scenes with Glenn Ford, slapping each other and kissing each other. It was a marvelous big mess!” (- Rita Hayworth)

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Rita and her father on the set of The Loves Of Carmen (1948)

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Rita in 1945.

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Rita Hayworth in promotional shot for Cover Girl(1944).

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