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Description
Order Number
00097058
Title
Rita
Hayworth
and
Kirk
Douglas
Collection ID
Herald Examiner Collection
Location/Accession
HE
box
7494
Date
1952
Physical Description
1
photographic
print
:b&w
;24
x
20
cm
. on
sheet
26
x
21
cm
.
Notes
Title
supplied
by
cataloger
.
Historical Data
Rita
Hayworth
(Margarita
Carmen
Cansino
1918-1987)
was a
film
actress
and
dancer
who
performed
publicly
for the
first
time
at the
age
of
six
with her
father
,
dancer
Eduardo
Cansino
,
Sr
. By the
age
of
8
she was
featured
in her
first
film
for
Warner
Bros.
, and by
age
16
was
working
with
Dolores
del
Rio
. The
first
performances
of her
career
were
under
her
birth
name
,
Margarita
Carmen
Cansino
, and
Rita
Cansino
. In
1936
,
Harry
Cohn
,
studio
head
for
Columbia
and her
then-husband
,
Edward
C
.
Judson
began
working
on her
physical
transformation
,
which
would be
dramatic
and
prove
to be
fruitful
.
Rita
had
electrolysis
to
raise
her
hairline
,
changed
her
hair
color
to
dark
red
, and
changed
her
name
to
Rita
Hayworth
,
taking
on her
mother's
maiden
name
. The
transformation
complete
, the
exotic
foreigner
had
now
become
a
classic
"
American
"
pin-up
. As
Rita
Cansino
, she
made
fourteen
pictures
. As
Rita
Hayworth
, she
made
fifty-one
, and
became
one
of the
eras
top
stars
,
winning
critical
acclaim
for
many
of her
films
. She was
featured
on the
cover
of
Life
magazine
five
times
. Her
personal
life
proved
to be
tumultuous
from the
beginning
. She
married
five
times
, with
all
unions
ending
in
divorce
:
Edward
Charles
Homgren
Judson
(1937-1942)
,
Orson
Welles
(1943-1948)
,
Prince
Aly
Khan
(1949-1953)
,
Dick
Haymes
(1953-1955)
and
James
Hill
(1958-1961)
; she had
two
daughters
,
Rebecca
Welles
(1944)
and
Yasmin
Aga
Khan
(1949)
.
Sadly
,
Hayworth
struggled
with
alcohol
throughout
her
life
and had
difficulty
coping
with the
ups
and
downs
of the
business
and with her
personal
life
,
causing
her
once
stellar
career
to
spiral
downward
.
Unfortunately
her
alcoholism
hid
symptoms
of
Alzheimer's
disease
(discovered
in
1980)
,
which
went
undiagnosed
for
approximately
20
years
. In
February
1987
,
Hayworth
lapsed
into a
semi
coma
. She
died
a
few
months
later
on
May
14
,
1987
from
Alzheimer's
disease
, and was
interred
in
Holy
Cross
Cemetery
,
Culver
City
.
Description
Photograph
caption
dated
March
14
,
1952
reads
, "The
eyes
of
film
colonists
radiated
like
klieg
lights
last
night
when
they
saw
Rita
Hayworth
out
on a
date
with
Kirk
Douglas
. Here they are
dancing
at
Ciro's
. "
Please
boys
,
no
more
pictures
" she
pleaded.
"
Subject
Hayworth, Rita,--1918-1987.
Douglas, Kirk,--1916-2020.
Ciro's (Nightclub).
Motion picture actors and actresses--United States.
Nightclubs--California--West Hollywood.
Dance--California--West Hollywood.
Interiors--California--West Hollywood.
West Hollywood (Calif.).
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs.
Format
Photographic prints
Reproduction Information
Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at
http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html
for additional information.
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Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
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