Maria Acuna - The Official Rita Hayworth Appreciation Thread

[Glebb]

Posted: 11/6/04 at 12:34am

Rita Hayworth is gorgeous!

"Dearly beloved..."


Post Your Love For Rita.

Updated On: 11/6/04 at 12:34 AM

[Broadway Matt]

Posted: 11/6/04 at 12:38am

well, she's no J.Lo **ducks**

[Marquise]

Posted: 11/6/04 at 12:39am

lol BroadwayMatt. i agree Rita Hayworth was gorgeous, but i've always been partial to exotic looking women.

[Westopher]

Posted: 11/6/04 at 2:30am

...and the Shawshank Redemption was a great story.

[Glebb]

Posted: 11/6/04 at 8:07am

Good Morning all.

[Glebb]

Posted: 11/6/04 at 11:22am

Best shoulders ever.

[Mary_Ethel]

Posted: 11/6/04 at 11:29am

Fred Astaire once commented that of all his female dance partners, Hayworth was the most challenging and versatile to work with.

The two films she did with Astaire, YOU'LL NEVER GET RICH and YOU WERE NEVER LOVELIER, are considered classics.

She also did fine work in COVER GIRL with Gene Kelly.

Unfortunately, she could NOT sing and always had to be dubbed.

[Glebb]

Posted: 11/6/04 at 11:30am

Still perfect.

[Mary_Ethel]

Posted: 11/6/04 at 11:35am

Hayworth was suppossed to replace Lauren Bacall as Margo in APPLAUSE when Bacall's contract expired, but for reasons unknown to me, withdrew at the last minute.

[Mary_Ethel]

Posted: 11/6/04 at 11:41am

Unfortunately, she was named 'Least Cooperative Actress' (the Sour Apple Award) by the Golden Apples Awards TWICE (1948, 1952).

I guess she wasn't a darling of the media for some reason.

[Glebb]

Posted: 11/6/04 at 11:45am

She's enchanting as Maria Acuna in YOU WERE NEVER LOVELIER.

I wonder what it must have been like to have been in the actual audience when that film played on the big silver screen.

[Mary_Ethel]

Posted: 11/6/04 at 11:50am

Well, Glebb, if you were in the audience in a movie theater in 1942, you probably would have seen:

1) A Cartoon

2) A Newsreel

3) Coming Attractions

4) A Plea from FDR to Buy War Bonds

5) A Contest the Theater was running where the prize was a new set of dishes

and THEN:

6) YOU WERE NEVER LOVELIER

[Glebb]

Posted: 8/11/05 at 7:57pm

Some Rita love is long past due.

[BluCat500]

Posted: 8/11/05 at 7:58pm

[Glebb]

Posted: 8/11/05 at 8:28pm

Thanks BluCat500. That's love. :)

[popcultureboy]

Posted: 8/11/05 at 9:19pm

Interesting that she was awarded a Sour Apple twice. Maybe she learned from it because nobody in the cast and crew of Oz has a bad word to say about her. She provides a commentary with Tom Fontana on an episode of the season 4 DVD set and she's a riot on it.

[Glebb]

Posted: 12/21/05 at 8:58pm

Was thinking of Rita.

[Marquise]

Posted: 12/21/05 at 10:29pm

yes! Let's hear it for one HOT LATINA!

[Glebb]

Posted: 12/21/05 at 10:31pm

She's radiant magic.

[Glebb]

Posted: 6/21/06 at 10:10pm

Put the blame on Mame.

[Glebb]

Posted: 9/1/06 at 9:24pm

What the hell.
It's Friday night.
Let's celebrate!

[justme2]

Posted: 9/1/06 at 10:02pm

This poor woman had early symptoms of alzthimers (sic) disease by the mid fifties, and she probably had to leave the Applause chance due to her memory loss. She was tragically aware of her memory going, and suffered greatly in the press because of her "drunken" appearances, which were really disorientation episodes.

But....watch her sparkle in her very early "soundies" for the studies (1930's short films centered on dance and comedy bits and the like). She was a magical dancer, with moves to die for. She was an earthy actress, and made you believe she lived the life she was portraying. In performances such as "Gilda", that is. The 50's movies were not that good, and she suffered through films like "Sadie Thompson", trying to keep up with the rest of the cast when she was in reality slowly losing her memory and mindset.

Cheers to her for her wonderful, sexy legacy. Her daughter Yasmin is a devoted supporter for Alzhimers (sic, again) research and cared for her mother throughout her final, sad, lost years.