"She never got a moment's pleasure out of being a famous movie star. "She hated being a movie star!" Welles said.
Welles and Hayworth at their wedding in 1943. He would go into politics, and she would do anything other than the acting career she'd been pushed into. 'The only happiness I had'īoth eager to escape the spotlight, Hayworth and Welles moved to a mansion and planned their escape from the pressures of Hollywood. There would be no honeymoon – Hayworth said she had to "get back to the studio" – but for a time they would be one of the happiest pairs in Hollywood. "I never saw a happier, more tickled, more delighted, adorable couple in the world," secretary Shifra Haran told Leaming RELATED: The tragic end to Sir David Attenborough's 47-year marriage They tied the knot on September 7, 1943, while Hayworth was on a lunch break from her film Cover Girl. The pair fell fast, and by 1943 had decided to marry. He welcomed her into his circle of friends, often pretending to read her mind so she would have to correct him and get her talking. Actor, producer, writer and director Orson Welles poses with actress and wife Rita Hayworth on the set of the Columbia Pictures film 'The Lady from Shanghai' in 1947. Enter Orson Wellesĭirector and actor Orson Welles had seen Hayworth's pinup spreads long before he ever met her, and like most people he assumed the real woman would be just like her femme fatale image.īut the truth surprised him instead of a seductress, the real Hayworth was a timid young actress still trying to find her place. Less than two years later, she would marry again – this time to the man she called the "great love" of her life. In 1942, Hayworth would finally divorce Judson, citing cruelty, and reconcile with her family.
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She appeared in a series of films, soon starring alongside Fred Astaire and becoming a household name for her sensual magnetism and talent. (The LIFE Images Collection via G)Īs her star began to rise, Hayworth would change her name from her "exotic"-sounding birth name to Rita Hayworth, a more "American" sounding name. Actress Rita Hayworth in sheer-topped black & white nightgown as she kneels on the satin sheets of her bed at home. When she refused to sleep with one - Columbia studio boss Harry Cohn, who had just signed her at the time – Hayworth unknowingly inspired a grudge Cohn would hold for decades. Judson was even willing to "pimp" his wife out to influential men in Hollywood, encouraging her to have sex with them to earn favour in the industry.
Soon, Hayworth was known as "the most cooperative girl in Hollywood". He also had her change her appearance, using painful treatments to move her hairline back before dying it auburn, so she looked "less Latin". (Corbis via Getty Images)ĭespite Hayworth's quiet nature and shyness, Judson forced her to do just about anything to drum up publicity. "He helped me with my career," Hayworth would say after their marriage ended, "and helped himself to my money." American actors Cary Grant and Rita Hayworth on the set of Only Angels Have Wings, 1939. Judson wanted his wife to be a star not because she wanted it, but because he had plenty to gain from her success. "For five years he treated me as if I had no mind or soul of my own." A painful rise to stardom "I married him for love, but he married me for an investment," Hayworth later said, according to Barbara Leaming's 1989 biography If This Was Happiness. Her family were furious about the match, as Judson was twice her age, and his intentions were far from pure. RELATED: The true story of Audrey Hepburn's two greatest romances In 1937, at not even 20 years old, Hayworth married her first husband Eddie Judson. The family moved closer to the Mexican border, travelling often to Tijuana where Hayworth's father soon had them performing in swanky nightclubs.Īnd her days of performing were only just beginning. American actor Rita Hayworth (1918 - 1987) and her father, Spanish-born dancer Eduardo Cansino (1895 - 1968), linking their arms together.
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