Word: hayworth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tonight and Every Night (Columbia) reaffirms leggy, red-topped Rita Hayworth's eminence as the most chromogenic of Hollywood's musical actresses; the warm Hayworth skin tones (of which there is a generous but decorous display) are delectably accented by its tasteful Technicolors. The film is also a richly hued dilation on two of Hollywood's favorite themes: the indomitability of the British and the inherent tenderness of show business...
...Music Box Theater (motto: "We never missed a show"). From a fatherly old stage carpenter on the fly gallery he hears the history of the little music hall's gallant struggle to carry on during the blitz, and the love story of its leading lady, Rosalind Bruce (Miss Hayworth), and a handsome R.A.F. squadron leader (Lee Bowman...
...setting of colorful and imaginatively jivey musical numbers, this ingenuous little tale might easily, and happily, have been pretty well lost. That it is not lost is due in part to plausible and polished performances by Bowman and Hayworth, but mostly to British-born Producer Victor Saville's excellent direction. With a shrewd use of every sentimental prop that greasepaint and a war-torn London can provide, Saville has told his story simply, with a minimum of gush, and considerable authenticity...
Died. Volga Haworth Cansino, 47, partner in the onetime famed Cansino dancing team until birth (Oct. 17, 1918) of Daughter Rita Hayworth, who cinemadopted her mother's maiden name; of a heart ailment; in a Santa Monica hospital...
Rebecca Welles, six-week-old daughter of Rita Hayworth and Orson Welles (see PRESS), showed signs of having inherited her parents' camera appeal, did some photogenic cooing at her mother...