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Born On This Day: Marion Davies 1897-1961

03 Sunday Jan 2016

Posted by marina72 in Anniversaries, Film, Jeanne Eagels, Theatre

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Citizen Kane, Her Cardboard Lover, Jeanne Eagels, Jeanne Eagels: A Life Revealed, Marion Davies, MGM, Orson Welles, The Cardboard Lover, William Randolph Hearst

491px-MarionDavies-Hat-1920Marion Cecilia Douras was born in Brooklyn on January 3, 1897, the youngest daughter of Judge Bernard Douras. She left school to model for commercial illustrators, and made her Broadway debut as ‘Marion Davies’ in Chin Chin (1914.) Continue reading →

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 →

Being Rita Hayworth

21 Thursday Aug 2008

Posted by marina72 in Books, Film

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Adrienne L. McLean, Gilda, Harry Cohn, Orson Welles, Rita Hayworth

Being Rita Hayworth: Labor, Identity And Hollywood Stardom by Adrienne L. McLean is not a typical celebrity biography. Indeed, McLean suggests that our concept of what it was like to ‘be’ Rita Hayworth is a notional one, based on the image Hayworth created for herself, and ever-changing perceptions of what her image means to us. This book is not an attempt to reveal the events of Hayworth’s life or her offscreen personality, though inevitably both will impact on our understanding of her, and her enduring cultural relevance. Continue reading →

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