Word: hayworth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hollywood's Brothers Epstein (Julius & Philip) from James Hagan's 1933 Broadway hit One Sunday Afternoon* directed by Raoul Walsh, Strawberry Blonde is a blithe, sentimental, turn-of-the-century buggy ride. Cagney makes the hero a tough but obviously peachy fellow. But the strawberry humdinger, Rita Hayworth, takes the picture away from him, and dark-eyed Olivia de Havilland, with her electric winks, each followed by a galvanizing "Exactly!" takes it away from both of them. The Warners' lot reports that the de Havilland winks shattered Cagney's control a dozen times during production...
...romance-a drama of strange but real little folk lost in the depths of the big city. The characters are a grifter, a cafe entertainer, a drunken Pulitzer Prize playwright, and a thief, all thrown together by accident. Doug Fairbanks, Jr. as the ex-bellhop sucker-plucker and Rita Hayworth as the girl who graduated from the gutter give convincing performances in the romantic leads. And Thomas Mitchell does as fine a job with his role of the universal friend in need as Eddie Dowling did in the almost identical role in "Time of Your Life." The plot revolves around...
...Lady in Question" gives audience a look at much-boomed Rita Hayworth. The boom looks very much like the South Sea Bubble of L' Affaire Sheridan. The real substance of the picture is Brian Aherne, who, adorned with a paunch and soup-strainer, puts on a fine characterization not in line with his usual dashing roles. But still and all, the film is B minus stuff...
...wrote, produced, directed Angels Over Broadway, another of his preoccupations with the regeneration of moral strays who have felt the cooling shadow of death. The three strays are a tippling, has-been playwright (Thomas Mitchell), a dapper drugstore cowboy (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.), a lady of the evening (Rita Hayworth). In a Broadway honky-tonk they tie up with a small-time larcenist (John Qualen) about to commit suicide rather than face punishment for filching $3,000 to pamper his faithless wife. Before the evening is over they unite to win Qualen another $3,000, get themselves into some tense brushes...