Hollywood actress Rita Hayworth: biography and the best films

Hollywood superstar Rita Hayworth was born October 17, 1918 in the family of artists. Father, Eduardo Cansino - Flamenco dancer, a native of the Spanish city of Seville. Mother, Volga Hayworth - singer of the choir from the Broadway show Florence Ziegfeld. It is known that the artists are a restless people, so the parents of the future movie star were constantly on the road, and Rita, waiting for their return, was in the circle of close relatives. She was quickly taught to dance, and it was obvious that the child was drawn to art. The girl danced in front of the mirror from morning till night, and when she was asked to go to the store for bread, she walked the longest way, making intricate pas with her children's legs. Later, when Rita grew older, she began to go with his father to his performances.

Carier start

The girl entered the stage at the age of 12, danced with her father in Spanish choreographic performances and nightclubs. When Rita turned seventeen, it was noticed by the agents of the 20th Century Fox film studio and offered to act in films. The girl first played a small episodic role, but in 1939 a young actress was invited to sample the film "Only the Angels Have Wings" directed by Howard Hawks. On the role that Rita Hayworth got, she had to play along with such stars as Gene Arthur and Cary Grant, and her character in the course of the story equalized with the performers of the main roles, and in some episodes even came to the fore. The girl first was lost from the neighborhood with such celebrities, but then she got comfortable, having felt the sincere friendly disposition to herself and Jean Arthur, and Cary Grant, who in every possible way tried to support the young talent. Each of them remembered that just as he had once started acting in films, and not always it worked.

Popularity

Hawkes' film, as well as the following pictures: "Strawberry Blonde", "Cover Girl", "Blood and Sand" - made Rita Hayworth a popular actress. And two films in the genre of musical comedy: "You've never been so adorable" and "Do not get richer", where she played paired with Fred Aster - have added her fame. The dances, which Rita learned as a child, were useful to her. Natural grace and plasticity helped to cope with the role.

The girl danced magnificently, even admiring such a master as Fred Astaire. However, the actress was embarrassed to sing, although she had a good voice and a wonderful timbre. It came to that on the set was invited to a professional singer, who dubbed Rita Hayworth. In the end, the young actress became accustomed, ceased to wheeze and lose her rhythm. And when I felt a good irony from my partner, I grew bold. Films with Fred Aster opened before Rita a wide road to success in the cinema. And already not far off was the most important role in her creative life.

Starry hour

In 1946, Rita Hayworth, whose biography was then replenished with a new page, reached the peak of her popularity by playing the main character in the melodrama of Charles Vidor "Gilda." The film became the starry hour of the actress, after the release of the film in the rental, she was elevated to the Olympus of Hollywood and for many years turned into an indisputable idol of American cinema. Waking up famous, Rita Hayworth for a long time could not get used to her new image. She was embarrassed when fans asked for autographs on the street. I could not believe that her humble person could bring so much joy to people. And at the same time, Rita was not threatened with star fever: she was still the same modest girl who once came to the set for the first time.

The actress like hot cakes

Later, actress Rita Hayworth played only the main roles, others she did not offer. She herself pondered the script for a long time before agreeing to participate in the shootings. If the directors started to shoot a new film, then first of all the main female role was considered an actress named Rita Hayworth.

"Gilda" became the favorite film of millions of Americans, and everyone wanted to see the actress in a new role. She received a lot of invitations from the Hollywood star, but she agreed to act only in those films that suit her in terms of the level of intelligence embedded in the script. Empty, superficial subjects the actress rejected.

Hayworth and stagnation in the movie

Cinematography of the USA in the fifties experienced a period of depression, like the whole of America in the mid-20th century. One after the other closed film studios, only the strongest survived: "Metro Goldwyn Mayer," "20th Century Fox," "Paramount Pictures" and some others. Rita Hayworth, films with which participation the viewers waited impatiently, tried to appear in several films at once. However, the actress could not grasp the immensity, and all she could do was play a major role in two movies in one year.

How did Hayworth act in a movie without appearing on the set

Then the producers came up with how to still use its popularity. An example of such resourcefulness can be traced to the example of the thriller "Escape from Shawshank". Rita Hayworth did not participate in the shootings, and at the same time, her image appeared in the film throughout the plot. In the course of the film, the protagonist, the prisoner of the prison, makes a tunnel to escape. The work takes exactly twenty years, and all this time he covers a hole in the wall with a portrait of movie star Hayworth. It was a plastic poster depicting an actress. It was easy to convince prison guards in the love of a popular movie star and thereby lull their vigilance.

In the same picture, "Escape from Shawshank," the prisoners watch the film "Gilda" with Rita Hayworth in the prison movie theater.

Changing a hairstyle

In the 1948 film "The Lady from Shanghai" it took a change in the image of the actress. Rita Hayward approached the question too radically: she cut off her luxurious hair and painted a platinum blonde blonde. Thus, the actress provided a grandiose failure to the film - the public did not accept the metamorphosis of the appearance of the beloved Hayworth, and the picture failed miserably.

Acquaintance with Aga Khan

This failure caused Rita's attack of melancholy, she refused further work and left for Europe. There, on the French Riviera, she met with the Arab millionaire Aga Khan, and they got into an affair. Aga Khan became actually the husband of Hayworth, but they could not register a marriage, because he was married, although he made attempts to divorce.

Nevertheless, Rita Hayworth decided to finally break with the cinema and devote herself to family life. She came to Los Angeles and made a scandal in "Columbia Pictures", demanding dismissal. But she still had to pay a penalty on the contract in the amount of a quarter of a million dollars. After that she defiantly retired.

Reverse effect

Certainly, such a passage could not pass in vain, many turned away from the actress. And now she was sitting in four walls in splendid solitude, without work and without a family, because Aga Khan retreated very quickly and leaving Rita with their daughter Jasmine, took up some business on the side. And in 1951, the Arabian playboy even broke up with Hayworth.

In 1952, the actress went with an apology to Gary Cohn. She needed a job. He went to meet her, forgot the previous grievances and identified Rita in the film "Love in Trinidad." But Hayworth's former popularity was gone, she immediately felt it. Filmgoers did not buy tickets for the film with Rita Hayworth. Failing once again her role, the actress became depressed. A new quarrel with Gary Cohn ended with her leaving the studio.

Return

Two years later Hayworth came again and again was accepted. She successfully starred in the movie "Friend Joey." Her partners on the set were Kim Novak and Frank Sinatra. However, this success was the last for a fading movie star. Hayworth sipped, her condition aroused fears of others. Consultations with a psychoanalyst began, and then treatment. But the mental illness quickly turned into pathology, and the actress discovered signs of Alzheimer's.

Diseases and death

The malaise developed slowly, Rita Hayworth was in good memory, but in the course of time coordination of movements began to deteriorate. After a while everything was normal, the actress could already move around freely, as before. She occasionally acted in film, but by the beginning of the seventies she began to change her memory. On the set of the last film with her participation under the title "Wrath of the Gods" Rita could not independently conduct a dialogue with partners, she was prompted by the text.

I had to say goodbye to the cinema. The actress began to live with her daughter from a third marriage. Jasmine was sorry and loved her mother, they lived relatively happily for sixteen years. Rita Hayworth quietly passed away on May 14, 1987 in her New York apartment in Manhattan.

Personal life

Rita Hayworth was married five times. From the second husband, director Orson Wells , the actress had a daughter, Rebecca. Another daughter was born during the third marriage, the father was an Arab millionaire Aga Khan. The girl was named Jasmine. Rita Hayworth, whose children were brought up by governesses, by the end of her life found peace with her youngest daughter.

Filmography

• 1926 - The Fiesta.
• 1939 - "Only the angels have wings."
• 1940 - "Music in the Heart."
• 1940 - Susan and God.
• 1940 - "The Budget Blonde".
• 1940 - "Searching for a Woman".
• 1940 - Broadway Angels.
• 1941 - "The strawberry blonde.
• 1941 - "Blood and sand".
• 1941 - "Never become rich."
• 1942 - "My girlfriend is Sal".
• 1942 - "There is no one more charming."
• 1942 - "Tales of Manhattan."
• 1943 - "Show business during the war".
• 1944 - "The girl from the cover."
• 1945 - "Every night."
• 1946 - "Gilda".
• 1947 - "The Lady from Shanghai."
• 1947 - "From heaven to earth."
• 1948 - "Carmen".
• 1952 - "Love in Trinidad."
• 1952 - "Champagne safari".
• 1953 - "Miss Sadie Thompson".
• 1953 - The Salome.
• 1957 - "Friend of Joey".
• 1957 - "Fire of the Underworld".
• 1958 - "At separate tables".
• 1959 - "History on the front page".
• 1959 - "Arrival in Cordura".
• 1962 - "Happy captors".
• 1964 - The World of Circus.
• 1965 - "The trap for money."
• 1966 - "Poppies are also flowers".
• 1967 - Adventurer.
• 1971 - "The Road to Salina".
• 1971 - "The Naked Zoo."
• 1972 - "Wrath of the Gods".