For Lovely Rita

The Lady From Shanghai (1947)

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Rita Hayworth in The Lady From Shanghai (1947).   (submitted to forlovelyritahayworth.tumblr.com by: autotech.usa@hotmail.com)

Rita Hayworth having fun behind the scenes of The Lady From Shanghai on Errol Flynn’s boat, Acapulco, Mexico, circa 1947.

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Rita in promotional shot for The lady from Shanghai (1947).

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The Lady From Shanghai (1947)

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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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I told you, you know nothing about wickedness.

- The Lady From Shanghai (1947)

Rita Hayworth drinking a glass of milk on the set of The Lady From Shanghai, c. 1947.

The Lady From Shanghai (1947)

Rita Hayworth and daughter Rebecca Welles behind the scenes of The Lady From Shanghai, c. 1947.

Rita Hayworth as Elsa Bannister in Orson Welles’ The Lady From Shanghai (1947).

Rita Hayworth : The Actress

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unafodenss:

“That’s one of the dearest, sweetest women that ever lived… I was in, uh, South America and I saw that picture and vowed that, uh, I was gonna see that girl. It was awfully hard to get her on the phone… We were a long time together. I think, I was lucky enough to be with her longer than any of the other men in her life. And uh, she is a dear person, she was a wonderful wife and an extraordinary girl in every way.”  -Orson Welles

(on why she divorced Orson) “I can’t take his genius anymore.” -Rita Hayworth

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Time together: 1943 - 1948

Rita Hayworth behind the scenes of The Lady From Shanghai , c. 1947.

Poster of The Lady From Shanghai (1947).