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...nostalgia surrounding Rogers-Astaire tends to bleach out other partners. But if Rita Hayworth, Cyd Charisse and Lucille Bremer melted more quickly into his arms, they did so with unsurpassed lyricism. Indeed, it is with Charisse during the Dancing in the Dark sequence of The Band Wagon that he attained romantic apotheosis. That film brought him to another kind of culmination. He always liked to shed his top hat, white tie and tails and make magic with homely props -- a golf club, a hat rack, a handful of firecrackers. In Band Wagon, glum and lonesome, he entered an amusement arcade...
...waisted (and pathologically tardy) Elizabeth Taylor, but by that Ruritanian dazzler Princess Diana (called "Lay-dee Dee" by the French), escorted by her Prince. Yet even the royals could not dodge the toxic waft of melancholy. On the day of their visit, French TV announced the death of Rita Hayworth, whose signature film Gilda had played at Cannes' first postwar festival, in 1946. The news was a poignant reminder that the only immortality is on the screen, and that a cinema that lives in the past faces a bleak future...
...auto salesman who at once saw what was wrong: her real appeal was not Latin but all-American. After lightening her hair, he introduced her to Harry Cohn, the shrewd, tyrannical head of Columbia Pictures, who substituted her Irish mother's surname, with a slight variation, and inserted young Hayworth into her first important picture, Howard Hawks' Only Angels Have Wings...
Offstage, Hayworth was -- and was to remain -- shy, unassuming and almost passive. But something magical happened when the cameras began to roll; her vitality warmed the set. "I don't really think she knew how intensely sexy she seemed to others," said Hawks. Hayworth was sweet and lovable in Cover Girl (1944), but she was also the timeless temptress in Gilda (1946), doing a wild rendition of Put the Blame on Mame for Glenn Ford, as well as Fred Astaire's exquisitely gracious partner in You Were Never Lovelier...
...parts. She began to look tired, and a line from Fire Down Below (1957) -- "Armies have marched over me" -- seemed sadly appropriate. By the early '80s, Alzheimer's disease was diagnosed, and Yasmin, who has been active in raising funds for Alzheimer's research, was appointed her conservator. Hayworth was perhaps the best judge of her life. "I haven't had everything from life," she once remarked. "I've had too much...