For Lovely Rita

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Rita Hayworth, circa 1951

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Rita in her pool, 1945

Rita Hayworth and Kim Novak behind the scenes of Pal Joey (1957).

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One remembers the copper-haired beauty whose photos adorned GI’s barrack walls: it was five months before Pearl Habror, in July of 1940, when Rita, wearing a diaphanous lace nightgown, posed for the shot that became the world’s favorite pinup. “I am proud of that photo”, she once said, “not only because the servicemen told me I looked good, but because of what the photo meant to so many of them: a link with home.“  - Extract from Photoplay magazine (June 1974 issue)

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Rita Hayworth, summer of 1953

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Rita Hayworth and Gene Kelly in Cover Girl (1944)

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Rita advertising hats in 1941.

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Rita Hayworth, circa 1941.

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Rita Hayworth and Charles Laughton fooling around between the takes of Salome (1952)

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Rita Hayworth on the Russell Harty Show, 1976