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Love Goddesses: Rita Hayworth and Marilyn

15 Sunday Mar 2015

Posted by marina72 in Art and Photography, Film, Marilyn Monroe

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Fred Karger, Harry Cohn, Helen Hunt, Howard Hawks, Jack Cole, Johnny Hyde, Marilyn Monroe, Orson Welles, Rita Hayworth

Rita Hayworth, photographed by Bob Landry (1941)

Rita Hayworth, photographed by Bob Landry (1941)

In August 1941 – less than four months before the bombing of Pearl Harbour plunged America into World War II – Rita Hayworth graced the cover of Life magazine. She was pictured in a white bikini, grinning as photographer Bob Landry caught her eating lunch on a Los Angeles beach.  But this delightfully natural image made less impact than another picture inside the magazine.

Here, Landry depicted a far more seductive Rita, either relaxing in her own bedroom as the caption claimed, or on a studio prop bed. And the white silk negligee that she wore may have been borrowed from Columbia’s wardrobe department. Gazing boldly at the camera, Hayworth seemed to promise more than the artful illusion of glamour. Continue reading →

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