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If This Was Happiness

by Barbara Leaming
Anna Fields
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Rita Hayworth was the epitome of 1940s Hollywood glamour. A huge box-office star, her sultry figure was pasted by GIs on to the first atom bomb ever detonated. Yet behind the smoldering image lay a tragic secret that wrecked her private life. A pathologically shy child, Rita was thrust at an early age into the sordid limelight as her vaudevillian father's dancing partner, suffering sexual and physical abuse at his hands. A desperate need for protection led her into five disastrous marriages, including those to Orson Welles and Prince Aly Khan. At the age of forty-two, Alzheimer's disease began to ravage her mind, cutting short her career at its peak. This is a haunting and sympathetic tribute to a talented but insecure beauty who was created, and ultimately destroyed, by the movies.

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Publisher: Blackstone Publishing Edition: Unabridged

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  • ISBN: 9781483054421
  • File size: 382964 KB
  • Release date: September 3, 2009
  • Duration: 13:17:50

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  • ISBN: 9781483054421
  • File size: 383014 KB
  • Release date: September 3, 2009
  • Duration: 13:17:44
  • Number of parts: 12
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Biography & Autobiography Nonfiction

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English

Rita Hayworth was the epitome of 1940s Hollywood glamour. A huge box-office star, her sultry figure was pasted by GIs on to the first atom bomb ever detonated. Yet behind the smoldering image lay a tragic secret that wrecked her private life. A pathologically shy child, Rita was thrust at an early age into the sordid limelight as her vaudevillian father's dancing partner, suffering sexual and physical abuse at his hands. A desperate need for protection led her into five disastrous marriages, including those to Orson Welles and Prince Aly Khan. At the age of forty-two, Alzheimer's disease began to ravage her mind, cutting short her career at its peak. This is a haunting and sympathetic tribute to a talented but insecure beauty who was created, and ultimately destroyed, by the movies.

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Biography & Autobiography Nonfiction