Imaginary Wish List: Rita Hayworth
The pin-up girl of the 1940s, Rita Hayworth was a captivating beauty with long red hair, whose face was painted onto the Atomic Bomb. Born Margarita Cansino and given her stage name by Columbia Pictures’ King Harry Cohn, she starred in 61 films over a stretch of 37 years, and played opposite Fred Astaire, Cary Grant and Glenn Ford. But it was the men off-screen that fixated the press. Hayworth’s romantic life was minutely documented: a marriage to Orson Welles , a love affair, marriage, and divorce from Prince Aly Khan, and subsequent marriages to Dick Haymes and James Hill were splashed across headlines. An on- and off-screen sensation, who was known for her roles in Gilda, The Strawberry Blonde and The Wrath of God, here’s what we imagine Rita Hayworth would wear today.
