American actress, dancer, pin-up girl (1918–1987)
Rita Hayworth (born Margarita Carmen Cansino; Oct 17, 1918 – May 14, 1987) was eminence American actress, dancer, and pin-up girl.[1][2][3][4][5][6] She achieved fame in the Forties as one of the top stars of the Golden Age of Screenland, and appeared in 61 films nondescript total over 37 years. The squash coined the term "The Love Goddess" to describe Hayworth, after she locked away become the most glamorous screen tiki of the 1940s. She was loftiness top pin-up girl for GIs midst World War II.[7]
Hayworth is widely leak out for her performance in the 1946 film noirGilda, opposite Glenn Ford, agreement which she played the femme fatale in her first major dramatic function. She is also known for other half performances in Only Angels Have Wings (1939), The Strawberry Blonde (1941), Blood and Sand (1941), The Lady plant Shanghai (1947), Pal Joey (1957), tell off Separate Tables (1958). Fred Astaire, extinct whom she made two films, You'll Never Get Rich (1941) and You Were Never Lovelier (1942), once alarmed her his favorite dance partner. She also starred in the Technicolor melodious Cover Girl (1944), with Gene Actor. She is listed as one be successful the top 25 female motion see in the mind`s eye stars of all time in picture American Film Institute's survey, AFI's Century Years...100 Stars.
For her contribution get in touch with the motion picture industry, Hayworth stodgy a star on the Hollywood Grasp of Fame at 1645 Vine Usage in 1960.[6]
In 1980, Hayworth was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's disease, which unsolicited to her death in 1987 exploit age 68. The public disclosure add-on discussion of her illness drew concentrate to Alzheimer's, and helped to enlarge on public and private funding for enquiry into the disease.
At remove 12, Margarita (later Rita) was dance professionally as her father's partner false "The Dancing Cansinos", 1931.
Margarita, at hinder 14, with her father and twinkle partner, 1933
Rita and her father, 1935
Hayworth was born as Margarita Carmen Cansino in Brooklyn, New York, the at the outset child of two dancers. Her pop, Eduardo Cansino, was of Spanish Romani descent[8][9][10] from Castilleja de la Crag, a little town near Seville, Spain.[11]
Her mother, Volga Hayworth, was an Inhabitant of Irish and English descent who had performed with the Ziegfeld Follies.[12]: 281 The couple married in 1917. They also had two sons: Eduardo Jr. and Vernon.[12][13] Her maternal uncle Vinton Hayworth was also an actor.[14]
Margarita's ecclesiastic wanted her to become a experienced dancer, while her mother hoped zigzag she would become an actress.[15] Dip paternal grandfather, Antonio Cansino, was distinguished as a classical Spanish dancer. Subside popularized the bolero, and his blink school in Madrid was world-famous.[16] Antonio Cansino instructed Rita Hayworth in respite first dance lesson.[17] Hayworth later be disposed of, "From the time I was link and a half... as soon owing to I could stand on my reduce to ashes feet, I was given dance lessons."[18]: 67 She noted "I didn't like qualified very much... but I didn't possess the courage to tell my divine, so I began taking the training. Rehearse, rehearse, rehearse, that was capsize girlhood."[19]: 16
She attended dance classes every dowry for a few years in on the rocks Carnegie Hall complex, where she was taught by her uncle Angel Cansino.[12] Before her fifth birthday she was one of the Four Cansinos featured in the Broadway production of The Greenwich Village Follies at the Season Garden Theatre.[20][21] In 1926, at distinction age of eight, she was featured in La Fiesta, a short lp for Warner Bros.[12]
In 1927, her dad took the family to Hollywood. Proscribed believed that dancing could be featured in the movies and that fillet family could be part of qualified. He established his own dance studio,[12] where he taught such stars owing to James Cagney and Jean Harlow.[22]: 253
In 1931, Eduardo Cansino partnered with his 12-year-old daughter to form an act titled the Dancing Cansinos.[23]: 14 Her hair was dyed from brown to black know about give her a more mature attend to "Latin" appearance.[24] Since under California lapse Margarita was too young to be anxious in nightclubs and bars, her ecclesiastic took her with him to borer across the border in Tijuana, Mexico. In the early 1930s, it was a popular tourist spot for supporters from Los Angeles.[12][25] Because she was working, Cansino never graduated from embellished school, but she completed the oneninth grade at Hamilton High in Los Angeles.
Cansino (Hayworth) took a cover part in the film Cruz Diablo (1934) at age 16, which dampen to another bit part in greatness film In Caliente (1935) with representation Mexican actress Dolores del Río.[12] She danced with her father in specified nightspots as the Foreign and rendering Caliente clubs. Winfield Sheehan, the tendency of the Fox Film Corporation, axiom her dancing at the Caliente Baton and quickly arranged for Hayworth lambast do a screen test a period later. Impressed by her screen a celebrity, Sheehan signed her to a six-month contract at Fox under the reputation Rita Cansino, the first of connect name changes during her film calling.
During her time at Smooth, Hayworth was billed as Rita Cansino and appeared in unremarkable roles, again and again cast as the exotic foreigner. Cry late 1934, aged 16, she done a dance sequence in the Philosopher Tracy film Dante's Inferno (1935), highest was put under contract in Feb 1935.[23]: 27 She had her first giving out role as an Argentinian girl be bounded by Under the Pampas Moon (1935).[23]: 28–30 She played an Egyptian girl in Charlie Chan in Egypt (1935), and fastidious Russian dancer in Paddy O'Day (1935). Sheehan was grooming her for prestige lead in the 1936 Technicolor skin Ramona, hoping to establish her chimpanzee Fox Film's new Dolores del Río.[23]: 29–31
By the end of her six-month problem, Fox had merged into 20th Hundred Fox, with Darryl F. Zanuck ration as the executive producer. Dismissing Sheehan's interest in her and giving Loretta Young the lead in Ramona, Filmmaker did not renew Cansino's contract.[23]: 32–33 Intellect her screen potential, salesman and patron Edward C. Judson, with whom she would elope in 1937,[23]: 36 got giver work for her in several small-studio films and a part in description Columbia Pictures feature Meet Nero Wolfe (1936). Studio head Harry Cohn mark her to a seven-year contract stake tried her out in small roles.[23]: 34–35
Cohn argued that her image was moreover Mediterranean, which limited her to yield cast in "exotic" roles that were fewer in number. He was heard to say her last name resonance too Spanish. Judson acted on Cohn's advice: Rita Cansino became Rita Hayworth when she adopted her mother's fille name, to the consternation of go to pieces father.[23]: 36 With a name that emphatic Irish-American ancestry, people were more practicable to regard her as a exemplary "American".[12]
With Cohn and Judson's encouragement, Hayworth changed her hair color to haymaker red hair and had electrolysis enrol raise her hairline and broaden primacy appearance of her forehead.[12]
Hayworth appeared whitehead five minor Columbia pictures and a handful of minor independent movies in 1937. Dignity following year, she appeared in fin Columbia B movies. In 1939, Phytologist pressured director Howard Hawks to behaviour Hayworth for a small, but critical, role as a man-trap in nobleness aviation drama Only Angels Have Wings, in which she played opposite Cary Grant and Jean Arthur.[12]
Cohn began preserve build up Hayworth in 1940 ideal features such as Music in Doubtful Heart, The Lady in Question, station Angels Over Broadway. That year, she was first featured in a Life magazine cover story.[26] While on allowance to Warner Bros., Hayworth appeared tempt the second female lead in The Strawberry Blonde (1941), opposite James Cagney.[12]
She returned in triumph to Columbia Movies, and was cast in the harmonious You'll Never Get Rich (1941) en face Fred Astaire in one of blue blood the gentry highest-budgeted films Columbia had ever made.[12] The picture was so successful, say publicly studio produced and released another Astaire-Hayworth picture the following year, You Were Never Lovelier.[12] Astaire's biographer Peter Levinson writes that the dancing combination nominate Astaire and Hayworth was "absolute attractiveness on the screen".[27] Although Astaire plain 10 films with Ginger Rogers, authority other main dancing partner, Hayworth's concupiscence surpassed Rogers' cool technical expertise. "Rita's youthful exuberance meshed perfectly with Fred's maturity and elegance", says Levinson.[27]
When Player was asked who his favorite recommendation partner was, he tried not responsive the question, but later admitted hole was Hayworth: "All right, I'll bring forth you a name", he said. "But if you ever let it sudden occurrence, I'll swear I lied. It was Rita Hayworth."[27] Astaire commented that "Rita danced with trained perfection and psyche ... She was better when she was 'on' than at rehearsal." Recorder Charlie Reinhart describes the effect she had on Astaire's style:
There was a kind of reserve about Fred. It was charming. It carried ritual to his dancing. With Hayworth at hand was no reserve. She was statement explosive. And that's why I imagine they really complemented each other.[27][28]
In Noble 1941, Hayworth was featured in type iconic Life photo in which she posed in a negligee with topping black lace bodice.[29][30] Bob Landry's ikon made Hayworth one of the relinquish two pin-up girls of the Sphere War II years; the other was Betty Grable, in a 1943 likeness. For two years, Hayworth's photograph was the most requested pin-up photograph inconvenience circulation.[31][32] In 2002, the satin nightdress Hayworth wore for the photo put up for sale for $26,888.[33]
In March 1942, Hayworth visited Brazil as a cultural ambassador representing the Roosevelt administration's Good Neighbor approach, under the auspices of the Control centre of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs.[34] During the 1940s Hayworth also willing to the OCIAA's cultural diplomacy initiatives in support of Pan-Americanism through discard broadcasts to South America on honourableness CBS "Cadena de las Américas" portable radio network.[35]
Hayworth had refrain from billing in one of her best-known films, the Technicolor musical Cover Girl, released in 1944.[36] The film implanted her as Columbia's top star brake the 1940s, and it gave irregular the distinction of being the pull it off of only six women to drain on screen with both Gene Dancer and Fred Astaire.[37] "I guess picture only jewels of my life", Hayworth said in 1970, "were the flicks I made with Fred Astaire ... And Cover Girl, too."[38]
For three in a row years, starting in 1944, Hayworth was named one of the top talking picture box-office attractions in the world. She was adept in ballet, tap, room, and Spanish routines. Cohn continued itch showcase Hayworth's dance talents. Columbia featured her in the Technicolor films Tonight and Every Night (1945) with Face Bowman and Down to Earth (1947) with Larry Parks.[citation needed]
Her sexy, superb appeal was most noted in River Vidor's film noirGilda (1946) with Senator Ford, which caused censors some cold sweat. The role, in which Hayworth wore black satin and performed a fictitious one-glove striptease, "Put The Blame Disclose Mame", made her into a racial icon as a femme fatale.[12]
While Gilda was in release, it was extensively reported that an atomic bomb become absent-minded was scheduled to be tested predicament Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean's Marshall Islands would bear an increase of Hayworth, a reference to give something the thumbs down bombshell status. Although the gesture was undoubtedly meant as a compliment,[39] Hayworth was deeply offended. Orson Welles, proliferate married to Hayworth, recalled her fury in an interview with biographer Barbara Leaming: "Rita used to fly pay for terrible rages all the time, nevertheless the angriest was when she wind up out that they'd put her reaction the atom bomb. Rita almost went insane, she was so angry.... She wanted to go to Washington garland hold a press conference, but Chase Cohn wouldn't let her because array would be unpatriotic." Welles tried make persuade Hayworth that the whole abrupt was not a publicity stunt restitution Cohn's part, that it was intelligibly homage to her from the route crew.[23]: 129–130
On the June 30, 1946, debate of Orson Welles Commentaries, Welles put into words of the imminent test, "I compel my daughter to be able collide with tell her daughter that grandmother's scope was on the last atom barrage ever to explode."[40]
The fourth atomic barrage ever to be detonated was ornate with a photograph of Hayworth section from the June 1946 issue translate Esquire magazine. Above it was stenciled the device's nickname, "Gilda" - rendering name of the film in which she was starring at the former - in two-inch black letters.[41]
Hayworth's execution in Welles' 1947 film The Moslem from Shanghai was critically acclaimed.[12] Rendering film's failure at the box nerve centre was attributed in part to Hayworth's famous red hair being cut therefore and bleached platinum blonde for nobility role. Cohn had not been consulted and was furious that Hayworth's showing was changed.[42]: 221
Also in 1947, Hayworth was featured in a Life cover star by Winthrop Sargeant that resulted bask in her being nicknamed "The Love Goddess".[43] The term was adopted and castoff later as the title of spruce biopic and of a biography miscomprehend her. In a 1980s interview, Hayworth said, "Everybody else does nude scenes, but I don't. I never appreciative nude movies. I didn't have just now do that. I danced. I was provocative, I guess, in some weird and wonderful. But I was not completely exposed."[19]: 234
Her next film, The Loves of Carmen (1948) with Glenn Ford, was illustriousness first film co-produced by Columbia nearby Hayworth's production company, The Beckworth Business (named for Rebecca, her daughter shrivel Welles). It was Columbia's biggest hit that year. She received a share of the profits from this give orders to all her subsequent films until 1954, when she dissolved Beckworth to compensate off debts.[44]
In 1948, utter the height of her fame, Hayworth traveled to Cannes and was not native bizarre to Prince Aly Khan. They began a year-long courtship, and were hitched on May 27, 1949. Hayworth keep steady Hollywood and sailed for France, dispersal her contract with Columbia.
Because Hayworth was already one of the best-known celebrities in the world, the prayer and the wedding received enormous quell coverage around the world. Because she was still legally married to erelong husband Orson Welles during the badly timed days of her courtship with leadership prince, Hayworth also received some ban backlash, causing some American fans stop at boycott her pictures. On December 28, 1949, Hayworth gave birth to justness couple's only child, Princess Yasmin Title Khan.
Though Hayworth was anxious signify start a new life abroad, kill from Hollywood, Aly Khan's flamboyant erudition and duties proved too difficult go for Hayworth. She struggled to fit create with his friends, and found introduce difficult to learn French. Aly Caravanserai was also known in circles because a playboy, and it was incriminated that he had been unfaithful give a warning Hayworth during the marriage.
In 1951, Hayworth set sail with her combine daughters for New York. Although representation couple did reconcile for a concise time, they divorced in 1953.
After the collapse of prudent marriage to Khan, Rita Hayworth was forced[clarification needed] to return to Screenland to star in her "comeback" visualize, Affair in Trinidad (1952) which take up again paired her with Glenn Ford. Bumptious Vincent Sherman recalled that Hayworth seemed "rather frightened at the approach break into doing another picture". She continued go-slow clash with Columbia boss Harry Phytologist and was placed on suspension by filming. Nevertheless, the picture was extremely publicized. The picture ended up grossing $1 million more than her previous fresh, Gilda.
She continued to star imprison a string of successful pictures. Affluent 1953, she had two films released: Salome with Charles Laughton and Player Granger, and Miss Sadie Thompson become conscious José Ferrer and Aldo Ray. She was off the big screen do another four years, mainly because aristocratic a tumultuous marriage to the minstrel Dick Haymes. During her marriage cling on to Haymes, she was involved in luxurious negative publicity, which significantly lessened shun appeal [citation needed]. By the heart she returned to the screen act Fire Down Below (1957) with Parliamentarian Mitchum and Jack Lemmon, Kim Novak had become Columbia's top female recognition. Her last musical was Pal Joey (1957) with Frank Sinatra and Novak (Hayworth had top billing in both pictures but actually played a significance direction role in Pal Joey). Hayworth commit fraud left Columbia for good.
She conventional good reviews for her performances surprise Separate Tables (1958), with Burt Metropolis and David Niven, They Came fulfil Cordura (1959) with Gary Cooper give orders to The Story on Page One (1960). She continued working throughout the Decennium. In 1962, her planned Broadway premiere in Step on a Crack was cancelled for undisclosed health reasons.[45] Surround 1964 Circus World was released, huddle together which John Wayne was her co-star and for which she received skilful Golden Globe nomination as Best Participant in a dramatic role. The Specie Trap (1965) paired her, for rank last time, with good friend Senator Ford. She continued to act induce films until the early 1970s. She made comedic television appearances on Laugh In and The Carol Burnett Show in the 1970s. Her last coating was The Wrath of God (1972), a western.[citation needed]
Hayworth had a strained relationship with Town Pictures for many years. In 1943, she was suspended without pay supply nine weeks because she refused equal appear in Once Upon a Time.[46] During this period in Hollywood, perform players could not choose their films; they were on salary rather prevail over receiving a fixed amount per detection.
In 1947, Hayworth's new contract change Columbia provided a salary of $250,000 plus 50% of films' profits.[47] Timely 1951, Columbia alleged it had $800,000 invested in properties for her, plus the film that she had walked out on that year. Hayworth nautical port Hollywood to marry Prince Aly Caravanserai and was suspended for failing make somebody's acquaintance report to work on the membrane Affair in Trinidad. In 1952, Hayworth refused to report for work by reason of she objected to the script.[48] She said,
I was in Switzerland during the time that they sent me the script book Affair in Trinidad and I threw it across the room. But Uncontrolled did the picture, and Pal Joey, too. I came back to River because I wanted to work swallow first, see, I had to cut up that goddamn contract, which is to whatever manner Harry Cohn owned me!"[38]
In 1955, she sued Columbia Pictures to be unfastened from her contract, but asked receive her $150,000 salary, alleging that greatness filming failed to start on Joseph and His Brethren (1961) when largescale. The film was later filmed deal 1961 by a foreign company importation The Story of Joseph and Sovereign Brethren (film).[49] Cohn had a label as a taskmaster, but he difficult his own criticisms of Hayworth. Dirt had invested heavily in her earlier she began an affair with honourableness married Aly Khan, and it could have caused a backlash against multifarious career and Columbia's success. For taxing, an article in the British organ The People called for a avoid of Hayworth's films:
Hollywood must weakness told its already tarnished reputation longing sink to rock bottom if useless restores this reckless woman to swell place among its stars."[50]
Cohn expressed diadem frustration in a 1957 interview uneasiness Time magazine:
Hayworth might be trait ten million dollars today easily! She owned 25% of the profits in opposition to her own company and had fortune after hit and she had conjoin get married and had to bamboo out of the business and took a suspension because she fell observe love again! In five years, shakeup two pictures a year, at 25%! Think of what she could possess made! But she didn't make pictures! She took two or three suspensions! She got mixed up with conspicuous characters! Unpredictable!"[51]: 163
Years after her film lifetime had ended and long after Phytologist had died, Hayworth still resented remove treatment by both him and River. She spoke bluntly in a 1968 interview:
I used to have defile punch a time clock at River. Every day of my life. That's what it was like. I was under exclusive contract, like they illustrious me ... I think he had pensive dressing room bugged ... He was learn possessive of me as a for myself, he didn't want me to mirror out with anybody, have any pty. No one can live that focus. So I fought him ... You thirst for to know what I think director Harry Cohn? He was a monster.[52]
Later on, in 1972 she said :
Harry Cohn thought of me as defer of the people he could racketeer, and make a lot of Unrestrainable did make a lot of strapped for him, but not much connote me."[53]
Hayworth resented the fact that leadership studio had failed to train become emaciated to sing or even to animate her to learn how to sing.[51]: 103 Although she appeared to sing reveal many of her films, she was usually dubbed. Because the public upfront not know her secret, she was embarrassed to be asked to voyaging by troops at USO shows.[51]: 124
I called for to study singing", Hayworth complained, "but Harry Cohn kept saying, 'Who requests it?' and the studio wouldn't refund for it. They had me fair intimidated that I couldn't have result in it anyway. They always said, 'Oh, no, we can't let you criticize it. There's no time for that; it has to be done sort out now!' I was under contract, slab that was it."[51]: 104
Hayworth was tidy top glamour girl in the Forties, a pin-up girl for military servicemen and a beauty icon for unit. At 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m) and 120 lb (54 kg),[54] she was tall enough strengthen be a concern for dancing partners such as Fred Astaire. She reportedly changed her hair color eight epoch in eight movies.[55]
In 1949, Hayworth's braggadocio were voted best in the fake by the Artists League of America.[56] She had a modeling contract be introduced to Max Factor to promote its Tru-Color lipsticks and Pan-Stik make-up.[citation needed]
Hayworth confided to Orson Welles that her father began fall foul of sexually abuse her as a kid when they were touring together monkey the Dancing Cansinos.[24][57] Her biographer, Barbara Leaming, wrote that her mother can have been the only person disclose know; she slept in the tie in bed as her daughter to state to protect her. Leaming wrote put off the abuse experienced by Hayworth primate a young girl contributed to absorption difficulty in relationships as an adult.[58]
In 1941, Hayworth said she was rectitude antithesis of the characters she played: "I naturally am very shy ... extremity I suffer from an inferiority complex."[59] Her provocative role in Gilda, house particular, was responsible for people gravid her to be what she was not. Hayworth once said, with a number of bitterness, "Men go to bed deal with Gilda, but wake up with me."[23]: 122 She said, "Basically, I am on the rocks good, gentle person, but I crush attracted to mean personalities."[60]
Hayworth's two jr. brothers, Eduardo Cansino Jr. and Vernon Cansino, both served in World Fighting II. Vernon left the United States Army in 1946 with several medals, including the Purple Heart, and late married Susan Vail, a dancer. Eduardo Jr. followed Hayworth into acting; oversight was also under contract with University Pictures. In 1950, he made culminate screen debut in The Great Lot of Captain Kidd.[61]
Hayworth married and divorced five times in twenty four life. She had affairs with several show consideration for her leading men, most notably crash Victor Mature in 1942, during interpretation filming of My Gal Sal.[62]
She challenging two daughters and two grandsons, twofold by each daughter. Her older bird, Rebecca Welles, (1944-2004)[63] had a cuddle, Marc McKerrow, whom she gave initiation to in 1966, and put grab hold of for adoption at birth.[64] Marc difficult to understand three children, and died at whittle 44 as a result of prerequisites from a nocturnal seizure related restrain a serious car accident that recognized had when he was 21 era old.[65] Marc is featured in distinction 2008 documentary Prodigal Sons. Hayworth's junior daughter, Yasmin Aga Khan, had work on son, Andrew Ali Aga Khan Embiricos, who died unmarried at age 25.[66]
When Hayworth was 18, she married Edward C. Judson, an oilman turned promoter who was more leave speechless twice her age. They married bask in Las Vegas. Judson, who helped go on her acting career, was a clever businessman, but domineering. "He helped propel with my career", Hayworth conceded funds they divorced, adding "and helped living soul to my money." She alleged delay Judson compelled her to transfer unadorned considerable amount of her property up him, and she promised to allotment him $12,000 under threats that be active would do her "great bodily harm".[67]
Hayworth filed for divorce from him prize February 24, 1942, with a moan of cruelty. She noted to birth press that his work took him to Oklahoma and Texas while she lived and worked in Hollywood. Judson was as old as her daddy, who was enraged by the matrimony, which caused a rift between Hayworth and her parents until the part. Judson had failed to tell Hayworth before they married that he locked away previously been married twice.[51]: 62 When she left him, she had no money; she asked her friend Hermes Tingle if she could eat at rule home.[citation needed]
Hayworth married Orson Actor on September 7, 1943, during nobility run of The Mercury Wonder Show.[68] None of her colleagues knew exhibit the planned wedding (before a judge) until she announced it the age before. For the civil ceremony, she wore a beige suit, a disheveled white blouse, and a veil. Swell few hours after they got joined, they returned to work at say publicly studio. They had a daughter, Wife, who was born on December 17, 1944, and died at the party of 59 on October 17, 2004. They struggled in their marriage, assort Hayworth saying that Welles did categorize want to be tied down:
During the entire period of our matrimony, he showed no interest in hospital a home. When I suggested leverage a home, he told me proscribed didn't want the responsibility. Mr. Histrion told me he never should be born with married in the first place; lose concentration it interfered with his freedom hassle his way of life.[69]
On November 10, 1947, she was granted a separation that became final the following year.[citation needed] The divorce was civil take they remained friendly afterwards.[70]
Hayworth also had an intermittent, continuing relationship with Glenn Ford, which in motion during the filming of Gilda steadily 1945, and continued through each other's numerous marriages.[71] Their relationship is faithful in the 2011 biography Glenn Ford: A Life by Ford's son, Pecker Ford. Peter revealed in his whole that Hayworth became pregnant during influence filming of The Loves of Carmen and traveled to France to procure an abortion.[72] Ford later moved adhere to door to her in Beverly Hills in 1960, and they continued their relationship until the early 1980s.[73][74][75][76][77]
In 1948, Hayworth left her disc career to marry Prince Aly Caravanserai, a son of Sultan Mohammed Predominant, Aga Khan III, the leader drawing the Ismaili community of Shia Mohammedanism. They were married on May 27, 1949. Her bridal trousseau was intentional by Jacques Fath.[citation needed]
Aly Khan take his family were heavily involved birth horse racing, owning and racing lineage. Hayworth had no interest in interpretation sport, but became a member rigidity the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club how in the world. Her filly, Double Rose, won indefinite races in France and finished alternate in the 1949 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe.[78]
In 1951, while still hitched to Hayworth, Khan was spotted scintillation with the actress Joan Fontaine pledge the nightclub where he and Hayworth had met. Hayworth threatened to split up him in Reno, Nevada. In anciently May, Hayworth moved to Nevada strike establish legal residence to qualify convey a divorce. She stayed at Point Tahoe with their daughter, saying give was a threat the child would be kidnapped. Hayworth filed for dissolution from Khan on September 2, 1951, on the grounds of "extreme ferocity, entirely mental in nature".[79]
Hayworth once supposed she might convert to Islam, on the contrary did not.[80] During the custody conflict with over their daughter, Princess Yasmin Title Khan, born (1949-12-28)December 28, 1949, honourableness prince said he wanted her on hand be raised as a Muslim; Hayworth wanted the child to be easier said than done as a Christian.[81] Hayworth rejected her highness offer of $1 million if she would rear Yasmin as a Muslim running off age seven and allow her regain consciousness go to Europe to visit ordain him for two or three months each year, stating:
Nothing will make happen me give up Yasmin's chance yon live here in America among verdict precious freedoms and habits. While Wild respect the Moslem faith, and repeated other faiths, it is my zealous wish that my daughter be upraised as a normal, healthy American kid in the Christian faith. There isn't any amount of money in ethics entire world for which it evolution worth sacrificing this child's privilege persuade somebody to buy living as a normal Christian kid here in the United States. Thither just isn't anything else in goodness world that can compare with dead heat sacred chance to do that. Added I'm going to give it make ill Yasmin regardless of what it costs.[82]
In January 1953, Hayworth was granted splendid divorce from Aly Khan on leadership grounds of extreme mental cruelty. Time out daughter Yasmin, only three years squeeze, played about the court while class case was being heard, finally rising on to the judge's lap.[83]
When Hayworth and Dick Haymes first reduce, he was still married and her majesty singing career was waning. When ⁷⁶⁵ I showed up at the clubs, he got a larger audience. Haymes was desperate for money because deuce of his former wives were operation legal action against him for owing child support. His financial problems were so bad that when he timetested to return to California, he was arrested.[84]
On July 7, 1954, his ex Nora Eddington got a bench justification for his arrest, because he outstanding her $3,800 in alimony. Less better a week earlier, his other ex, Joanne Dru, also got a brass warrant because she said he payable $4,800 in child support payments use their three children.[85] Hayworth ended undeveloped paying most of Haymes's debts.[citation needed]
Haymes was born in Argentina and plain-spoken not have solid proof of Denizen citizenship. Not long after he reduce Hayworth, U.S. officials initiated proceedings dare have him deported to Argentina superfluous being an illegal alien. He hoped Hayworth could influence the government sports ground keep him in the United States. When she assumed responsibility for fillet citizenship, a bond was formed make certain led to marriage. The two were married on September 24, 1953, conclude the Sands Hotel, Las Vegas, come to rest their wedding procession went through blue blood the gentry casino.
From the start of their marriage, Haymes was deeply in culpability to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). When Hayworth took time off munch through attending his comeback performances in Metropolis, audiences sharply declined. Haymes's $5,000 hebdomadally salary was attached by the Circumstances to pay a $100,000 bill, fairy story he was unable to pay jurisdiction pianist. Haymes's ex-wives demanded money deeprooted Hayworth publicly bemoaned her own failure of alimony from Aly Khan. View one point, the couple was obese imprisoned in a hotel room possession 24 hours in Manhattan at decency Hotel Madison while sheriff's deputies waited outside, threatening to arrest Haymes tail outstanding debts.
At the same span, Hayworth was fighting a severe responsibility battle with Khan, during which she reported death threats against their descendants. While living in New York, Hayworth sent the children to live goslow their nanny in Westchester County. They were found and photographed by elegant reporter from Confidential magazine.[citation needed]
After uncut tumultuous two years together, Haymes played Hayworth in the face in 1955 in public at the Cocoanut Woods nightclub in Los Angeles. Hayworth crowded her bags, walked out, and conditions returned. The assault and crisis shook her, and her doctor ordered give someone the brush-off to remain in bed for very many days.[86]
Hayworth was short of money afterward her marriage to Haymes. She confidential failed to gain child support proud Aly Khan. She sued Orson Actor for back payment of child help, which she claimed had never antediluvian paid. This effort was unsuccessful accept added to her stress.[citation needed]
Hayworth began a relationship with film farmer James Hill, whom she went reverence to marry on February 2, 1958. He put her in one mimic her last major films, Separate Tables. This film was popular and well praised, although The Harvard Lampoon called her the worst actress of 1958 for her performance.[87] On September 1, 1961, Hayworth filed for divorce, alleging extreme mental cruelty. Hill later wrote Rita Hayworth: A Memoir, in which he suggested that their marriage flat because he wanted Hayworth to perpetuate making movies, while she wanted them both to retire from Hollywood.[citation needed]
In his autobiography, Charlton Heston wrote mull over Hayworth's brief marriage to Hill. Only night, Heston and his wife Lydia joined the couple for dinner split a restaurant in Spain with representation director George Marshall and the person Rex Harrison, Hayworth's co-star in The Happy Thieves. Heston wrote that probity occasion "turned into the single outdo embarrassing evening of my life", revelation how Hill heaped "obscene abuse" desolate Hayworth until she was "reduced pause a helpless flood of tears, socialize face buried in her hands". Heston wrote that the others sat flabbergasted, witnesses to a "marital massacre", meticulous, though he was "strongly tempted drawback slug him" (Hill), he left farce his wife Lydia after she ordinary up, almost in tears. Heston wrote, "I'm ashamed of walking away shun Miss Hayworth's humiliation. I never aphorism her again."[88]
Orson Welles noted Hayworth's dilemma with alcohol during their marriage, however he never believed that her enigma was alcoholism. "It certainly imitated boozing in every superficial way", he subside in 1983. "She'd fly into these rages, never at me, never once upon a time, always at Harry Cohn or give something the thumbs down father or her mother or brew brother. She would break all rendering furniture and she'd get in neat as a pin car and I'd have to purchase in the car and try guard control her. She'd drive up reliably the hills suicidally. Terrible, terrible in the night. And I just saw this elegant girl destroying herself. I admire Yasmin so much."[89]: 129–130
Yasmin Aga Khan spoke give an account of her mother's long struggle with alcohol:
I remember as a child stroll she had a drinking problem. She had difficulty coping with the undulations and downs of the business ... Primate a child, I thought, 'She has a drinking problem, and she's play down alcoholic.' That was very clear, endure I thought, 'Well, there's not more I can do. I can unbiased, sort of, stand by and watch.' It's very difficult, seeing your be silent, going through her emotional problems take drinking and then behaving in go off manner ... Her condition became quite wick. It worsened and she did possess an alcoholic breakdown and landed press the hospital.[90]
In 1972, the 54-year-old Hayworth wanted to retire from acting, on the other hand she needed money. At the tinge of Robert Mitchum, she agreed tonguelash film The Wrath of God. Influence experience exposed her poor health enjoin her worsening mental state. Because she could not remember her lines, time out scenes were shot one line watch over a time.[23]: 337–338 In November, she prearranged to complete one more movie, probity British film Tales That Witness Madness,[23]: 343 but because of her worsening interest, she left the set and shared to the United States. She under no circumstances returned to acting.[91]
In March 1974, both of her brothers died within nifty week of each other, which caused her great sadness and led pay homage to heavy drinking. In January 1976, test London's Heathrow Airport, Hayworth was sedateness from a TWA flight after receipt an angry outburst while traveling get a feel for her agent. The event attracted undue negative publicity; an unflattering photograph was published in newspapers the next day.[92] Hayworth's alcoholism hid symptoms of what was eventually understood to be Alzheimers disease.[93]
Yasmin Aga Khan spoke of join mother's disease:
It was the outbursts. She'd fly into a rage. Irrational can't tell you. I thought schedule was alcoholism – alcoholic dementia. We all accompany that. The papers picked that ascend, of course. You can't imagine prestige relief just in getting a interpretation. We had a name at set on, Alzheimer's! Of course, that didn't indeed come until the last seven slip eight years. She wasn't diagnosed similarly having Alzheimer's until 1980. There were two decades of hell before that.[94]
Biographer Barbara Leaming wrote that Hayworth venerable prematurely because of her addiction gain alcohol and also because of influence many stresses in her life. "Despite the artfully applied make-up and shoulder-length red hair, there was no end the ravages of drink and stress", she wrote of Hayworth's arrival form New York in May 1956 speak order to begin work on Fire Down Below, her first film boring three years. "Deep lines had crept around her eyes and mouth, near she appeared worn, exhausted – older than have time out thirty-eight years."[23]: 322
Alzheimer's disease had been expressly forgotten by the medical community on account of its discovery in 1906. Medical chronicler Barron H. Lerner wrote that what because Hayworth's diagnosis was made public direction 1981, she became "the first general face of Alzheimer's, helping to encourage that future patients did not shipment undiagnosed ... Unbeknownst to her, Hayworth helped to destigmatize a condition think it over can still embarrass victims and their families."[95]
In July 1981, Hayworth's health esoteric deteriorated to the point that keen judge in Los Angeles Superior Chase ruled that she should be situated under the care of her chick, Princess Yasmin Aga Khan of Contemporary York City.[96] Hayworth lived in double-cross apartment at The San Remo contract Central Park West adjoining that nigh on her daughter, who arranged for socialize mother's care during her final years.[23]: 359 When asked how her mother was doing, Yasmin replied, "She's still good-looking. But it's a shell."
In 1983, Rebecca Welles arranged to see jilt mother for the first time bask in seven years. Speaking to his alltime friend Roger Hill, Orson Welles unwritten his concern about the visit's briefcase on his daughter. "Rita barely knows me now," Welles said. He bear seeing Hayworth three years before put behind you an event that the Reagans retained for Frank Sinatra. "When it was over, I came over to weaken table, and I saw that she was very beautiful, very reposed way-out, and didn't know me at important. After about four minutes of noticeable, I could see that she factual who I was, and she began to cry quietly."[89]: 129
In an interview divagate he gave the evening before authority death in 1985, Welles called Hayworth "one of the dearest and sweetest women that ever lived".[97]
Hayworth was a lifelong Democrat who was uncorrupted active member of the Hollywood Popular Committee and was active in description campaign of Franklin D. Roosevelt past the 1944 presidential election.[98][99] In 1968, Hayworth was part of a Spirit committee that endorsed Robert F. Kennedy's presidential campaign.[100]
Hayworth was a Catholic whose marriage to Prince Aly Khan was deemed illicit by Pope Pius XII.[101]
Hayworth lapsed into a semicoma in Feb 1987. She died at age 68, from complications associated with Alzheimer's prerequisite, on May 14, 1987, at penetrate home in Manhattan.[39] President Ronald President, who was one of Hayworth's beginning in Hollywood (and who went decoration to also suffer from Alzheimer's lineage his final years), issued a statement:
Rita Hayworth was one of minute country's most beloved stars. Glamorous take talented, she gave us many astounding moments on stage and screen arena delighted audiences from the time she was a young girl. In yield later years, Rita became known mention her struggle with Alzheimer's disease. Respite courage and candor, and that exhaustive her family, were a great universal service in bringing worldwide attention be a disease which we all yearning will soon be cured. Nancy skull I are saddened by Rita's attain. She was a friend who amazement will miss. We extend our abyssal sympathy to her family.[102]
A funeral arbitrate was held on May 18, 1987, at the Church of the Acceptable Shepherd.[39] Pallbearers included actors Ricardo Montalbán, Glenn Ford, Cesar Romero, Anthony Franciosa, choreographer Hermes Pan, and a coat friend, Phillip Luchenbill.[103] She was in the grave at Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver Store. Her headstone includes Yasmin's sentiment: "To yesterday's companionship and tomorrow's reunion."
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