Rita Hayworth was one of the most famous, beautiful, and photographed women of her generation. Rita Hayworth: Pyramid Illustrated History of the Movies is 154 pages full of Rita Hayworth pictures. It was published four years after her last movie, The Wrath of God (1972), so it represents her complete body of work.
Most of the photos are stills captured during the filming of her 61 movies or publicity shots to promote them. But the book also includes a few cute photos from her youth between 1927 and 1932 before she became famous. There is also one candid of her smoking at a dinner table with Orson Welles (1943) before they got married; walking with husband Aly Khan (1952); and another with husband Dick Haymes and daughter Yasmin (1954).
Hayworth fans will recognize many of the photos from the height of her popularity in the 1940s. But they will also enjoy the shots from her early work as a young starlet in late 1930s movies. There are also interesting images from her less popular movies as a mature woman in the 1960s and 1970s.
The structure of the book is a biographical summary of her early life with a few pictures; then it proceeds chronologically offering mini movie reviews with at least one picture from each film for the rest of her career. The book ends with the complete Rita Hayworth Filmography.
You see her with the movie partners for her most famous roles. She is dancing with Fred Astaire in the two movies they did together (1941 and 1942); and standing beside Glenn Ford in Gilda (1946).
Jamie Waters writes about Rita Hayworth for RitaHayworth.com, which has a Rita Hayworth Pictures section.
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