Word: hayworth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lady From Shanghai (Welles, Hayworth) at 4, 7:10, 10:25; The Big Heat...
...best film noir showing this weekend is not part of the festival: Orson Welles's The Lady From Shanghai. Rita Hayworth, whose performance in Gilda so defined the fascinatingly sensual but dangerous woman of the period that her picture was painted an atom bomb, lures Welles into a deadly and mysterious web of murder and corporate intrigue. The film's atmosphere, evoking a sinister world whose logic is not apparent at the surface, is exactly what Polanski was trying to achieve in Chinatown. Welles's eccentric camera angles are carried to new extremes which accentuate the uncertain character of reality...
...Lady From Shanghai (Orson Welles-Rita Hayworth) Friday and Saturday...
...walk-on part at Los Angeles International Airport went smoothly enough; walking off the jumbo jet in London, however, proved to be Actress Rita Hayworth's undoing. When her plane landed at Heathrow Airport after the ten-hour flight, the flaming redhead star of such '40s films as Gilda and Blood and Sand, now 57, flatly refused to disembark. "Miss Hayworth started shouting and waving her arms about," said an airline official. "She did not want to leave the plane." When she finally agreed to go more than a half-hour later, aides quickly spirited her away...
...other reasons than to inspire the finest film and slide work ever done for an opera production in New York, and to observe Soprano Carol Neblett as Marietta. With a full, sexily luscious dramatic soprano and a figure to match, Neblett is fast becoming the Rita Hayworth of American opera singers. As for the music, the sad thing is that though Korngold was a master of the various orchestral styles prevalent around 1920, and often used them with ingenuity and some originality, he never grew beyond that point...