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"Maybe I'll live so long that I will forget. "
"This girl is my wife! 'Says a tall face modeled in chewing gum with a round nose that softens a piercing look. While filming of It's All True , Orson Welles holds between his fingers a number Life magazine containing the picture of a starlet at Columbia studios.
velvet eyelids, lips hemmed, cascading hair, shoulders sensual, Rita Hayworth in negligee lace and satin set the goal as a promise of happiness. This picture in black and white signed Bob Landry havoc among the IM World War II. In 1942, he ignites the desire of the rebel artist highbrow Hollywood beauties fond of latin lingerie.
Rita Hayworth
Bob Landry
The pin-up who has smiled not even a quarter of a century already ... 21 years of business! Daughter of Eduardo Cansino, the creator of English Dancing Cansinos and Volga Hayworth, a former dancer with the Ziegfeld Follies worn on the bottle, Margarita Carmen is the oldest of two brothers. His predisposition for the boards earned him up for 4 years on the stage of Carnegie Hall, but also to quit school, erected as a puppet show without a soul.
Orson Welles with vanity and bust of Shakespeare
Cecil Beaton
Attracted by the Eldorado cinema, Eduardo sum his family to leave New York. The Cansino cross America in a caravan. Branch Hill Hollywood promise of fortune and glory!
In full krack of 1929, Eduardo rejuvenates aging and Margarita. The domestic tyrant and his daughter so docile occur in pairs. If the shyness of the girl makes clear in life, she electrified the stage, goes into a trance, such a shining light that eclipses his father. It then happens to Eduardo to strike to strengthen his authority and even to slip the night in bed with her daughter since they are partners.
The existence of Rita Hayworth will be forever marked by this incestuous experience. It would take the men in her life as the center of the universe. Strive to become the instrument of their fantasies. Then, in a burst of survival, it will leave them all. A little more destroyed each time.
Gitane in dark destiny
The Loves of Carmen Charles Vidor (1948)
Rita incendiary
When Orson Welles, romantic before the Lord began a courtship, Rita Hayworth flees like the plague as he impresses. Him, a prodigy raised in a wealthy family in the pioneering spirit. She, a quasi-bohemian fallen from a nest dominated by violence and ignorance.
A table to delight the heart of Rita!
The actress comes to divorce to Eddie Judson , her first husband. Eduardo greedy as mackerel and even more, he's Margarita Carmen Cansino, which transforms into Rita Hayworth. Too dark, too chubby, too narrow forehead, it imposes a strict diet, is pulling his molars to sculpt the shade of her cheeks, subjected to electrolysis sessions.
This barbaric method of burning the skin to reshape the hairline. The front of the girl expands and lets the light as if by magic. Her jet-black hair is dyed red and forms a halo around a flaming face to the perfect structure.
Carmen before Rita after
To complete its work in beauty, Pygmalion throws his wife into the arms of Harry Cohn, the president of Columbia. She refuses to be this hard and rough looking for a star for its iconic studios. Harry Cohn did not forgive this insult to the actress. Failing to possess physically, he will make his prisoner. Engage spies for the chase, will install microphones in homes and into the wells of the star.
Rita Hayworth yields to the advances of Orson Welles after a flurry of phone calls and a series of dinners in one-to-head. She succumbed to the genius of barely 30 years old when she realizes they share the same desire: to break the yoke Hollywood. Welles most famous for his compositions as for his acting achievements shunned by the public hates the American film industry since RKO was amputated Citizen Kane and The Magnificent Ambersons .
Citizen Kane (1940)
Hayworth, a product of the 'dream factory, hope everything behind for a Meals on life with a loving husband, a gaggle of children and a battery of scrubbing pans. When Orson asks for the hand of Rita, she rejoices. In the aftermath of a marriage Express, the press dubbed the sexiest couple in the year 1943: Beauty and the Brain.
Gilda nuclear
After the adventures of radio, theater and cinema, Orson decides to enter politics. To participate in the war effort, he created the Mercury Wonder Show. A show in a tent with, the poster, Mr. and Mrs. Welles in the number of the woman cut in pieces!
Harry Cohn feels Rita Hayworth escape. It forbade him to perform on stage due to filming. Under contract, the actress is obliged to bow. Death in the soul, it links two musical films including one with Gene Kelly, then turns Gilda King Vidor.
The scene of striptease most dressed in the history of cinema is the effect of a bomb. Propelled to the front page of every newspaper in the world, sex is sacred symbol Goddess of Love . His glory shines so brightly that the bomb dropped on Bikini Atoll is named Gilda. Belle is horrified at the idea of being associated with genocide. Brain who is already President of the United States is amused by this advertisement. A First Lady of the explosive is not displease him all that morality is safe because Rita is pregnant!
During pregnancy, Orson travels America. His neglected wife drowns his sorrows in alcohol and is surrounded by friends "caring" that reveal the escapades of her husband after the adrenaline rush of meetings. A little Rebecca was born in a home where alternating scenes of jealousy and reconciliation as jousting, as Welles says to the press, just make love to Gilda to appease his demons ...
film And God created Gilda
On a whim, the star filed for divorce. Harry Cohn was glad to see him return to his creature. To better carry out its review on the couple, he lent $ 250 000 to Orson Welles. In return, the developer has committed to shoot a film for Columbia, a beautiful gift for breaking Rita: The Lady from Shanghai .
The legendary couple calls a cohort of photographers. They assist in direct Supreme massacre: the incendiary hair of the Goddess of love is transformed into a short cut platinum blonde!
Harry Cohn lack of strangulation. Delighted to avenge his producer, Belle bends without blinking at all the fantasies of his brain. Secretly hopes Rita regain Orson. It does this without difficulty on the Zaca the yacht loaned and driven by Errol Flynn during filming.
Elsa meurtrière
Si l’intrigue d’ If I should die before I wake , roman de Sherwood King scénarisé by William Castle, is the most conventional, the thinness of its leaves hatch about a way to baroque creativity Orson Welles in an atmosphere of film noir frontier of horror.
moral themes dear to the filmmaker's ethics permeate this work deadly. Good and evil does not reside only in the hands of the protagonists, but also appear to be organized by the command of a superior force which the camera would be a merciless eye to the iris shrill.
The famous dives wellesiennes destabilize the characters dizzying. They stalk their shenanigans by equating them to the decadence of a capitalist world where Welles plays with the codes of Hollywood movies to better pervert. A glamorous silhouette kiss exchanged before an aquarium phosphorescent invaded by monsters. A boat is not moving on the ocean, but through swamps infested with snakes and crocodiles, predators on the prowl.
Elsa Bannister and Michael O'Hara
Elsa Bannister, the character of Rita Hayworth, is erased from all smiles and remains elusive in the infinity of reflections. Orson Welles chose to abandon his heroine in the desert Luna Park in San Francisco.
manipulative, monstrous, she screams like a bitch "I do not want to die! "On a dirty floor. Rita is a dancer Hayworth then the actress. Shambles, rampant, the star most desirable is transformed into martyrdom on the altar of the grinding machine of Hollywood!
Letting loose die Elsa Bannister in a hall of mirrors of junk, part of Orson Welles in the list of men who helped to destroy the woman. At the end of the film, Arthur Bannister draws blank in the mirrors. This character disorder spouse alone meets the perversities of Eduardo Cansino, Eddie Judson and Harry Cohn.
image multiplied Bannister around Rita Hayworth intertwines the devastating influences of her father, her first husband and his producer. Visions Vampiric which only the character played by Michael O'Hara Orson Welles manages to escape. Crushed by guilt, he flees to the edge of the horizon while his voiceover wellesienne purely distance between this image and its interpretation own experiences, whispers about Elsa / Rita: "Maybe I'll live long enough to forget. Maybe I'll die trying. .
Diva Alzheimer
The Lady from Shanghai , butchered by Columbia on the orders of Harry Cohn furious about the vision of rushes, is a dismal failure. The brain does not care. He settled his account at Hollywood. File it in Italy, joined the Old World, where his genius seems to be better understood. Belle's quick to follow. She settled on the Riviera.
stalked by the paparazzi, she goes out with men to stir up the jealousy of Orson. Among her suitors, a playboy prince charming: Aly Khan. It clings . Rita ultimately cede.
the eve of his third marriage, Belle sets a final visit to his brain. But the heart of any director in his Macbeth stopped beating at the same pace. The die is cast. Rita Hayworth is not First Lady but princess. The fairy tale is short because the prince is an inveterate womanizer!
People of yesteryear: Rita Hayworth and Aly Khan
Orson Welles, at long, sentimental journey will follow his ex-wife. Wrecks two marriages with Dick Haymes and James Hill, men who see Rita as a lucrative business.
At that time, the actress denied the role of Maria Vargas The Barefoot where Joseph L. Mankiewicz inspired by his personal life. She also declined the offer of Fred Zinnemann, who intends Karen Holmes in From Here to men .
The Brain became ogre
cyclothymia, the performer Gilda alternates between angry outbursts and silence phases. The failure of memory allocated to alcohol gradually away from the studios.
In 1980, his second daughter Yasmin Aga Khan (1) the results to a specialist. The diagnosis is definite. The star is suffering from a degenerative unknown: Alzheimer's disease.
La Belle in the shadow of herself
Rita Hayworth by Douglas Kirkland
Some before his death in 1987, Rita Hayworth meets Orson Welles in a palace hall. The giant has become an ogre wearing a broad brimmed hat and a huge black cloak. He approaches the greatest love of his life. The features and look tired, Rita fixed interrogative. It is said that the ogre could not restrain his tears in front of Belle, who had forgotten everything. Until his brain.
(1): In 1981, Yasmin Aga Khan founded the Alzheimer's Association who always organizes galas to raise money and opininon alert the world about the disease.
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RITA 'S TOUCH
The magic light of Orson Welles and costumes designed by Jean-Louis makes a woman Rita Hayworth YSL early. Dress code to decrypt: peas, satin, nodes on the evening dresses and especially the famous cloak aboard Zaca !
In 1990, David Fincher makes the video clip Vogue. Tribute in black and white to a golden age of Hollywood, where Madonna adopts the short cut and platinum blonde is (among others) look very "Lady from Shanghai" revisited by Jean-Paul Gaultier. Choreographed by Karole Armitage punk ballerina, Madonna cites the name of Rita Hayworth.
Gilda in turn inspired the Walt Disney Studios in 1988 Who Framed Roger Rabbit ? Robert Zemeckis. Miss Hayworth turns into toon and become the fatal bomb Jessica Rabbit.
In 1994, Frank Darabont turns The Shawshank Redemption, a movie based on the novel by Stephen King: Rita Hayworth and redemption of Shawskank . A scene and a poster of Gilda allows Andy Dufresne Tim Robbins alias to imagine and to hide his escape.
Ditto for the great David Lynch in 2000. The construction of the double character of Rita / Camilla Rhodes played by Laura Harring inspired by the Goddess of love in Mullholand Drive.
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