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...Hollywood history are missing. The segment devoted to MGM musicals offers not highlights but footlights; Astaire's nonpareil work with Ginger Rogers is stinted (Pick Yourself Up, but not Never Gonna Dance); Cyd Charisse never gets to wrap her mile-long gams around any mere male; and Rita Hayworth doesn't exist. This is filmed dance with one leg tied behind its back. Still, hobble as it does, That's Dancing! provides young moviegoers with the chance to see old masters playing God's music with their feet...
Those who saw russet-tressed, incandescent Rita Hayworth dance before the movies drafted her knew she was a dancer to partner even the great Astaire. But few of them would have expected her to keep up with his wry, off-beat brand of comedy. She fills both assignments in You'll Never Get Rich. Offscreen she is easygoing and sometimes inert. Before the camera she is bright as a dollar...
...Miss Hayworth is not unappreciative of her potent effect on males. One of her prime functions, Rita thinks, is to be glamorous. Says she: "After all, a girl is-well, a girl. It's nice to be told you're successful...
...families of the patients. The affliction's rising incidence threatens to make it a nightmare for the country at large. By far the leading cause of mental deterioration among the elderly, AD affects between 5% and 10% of all people over 65. Among them: former Movie Star Rita Hayworth, 64. Because most AD patients must eventually be placed in institutions, the disease puts tremendous demands on the nation's health-care resources. Alzheimer's victims constitute 50% to 60% of the 1.3 million people in nursing homes, accounting for more than half...
When the curtain rises on Jerome Robbins' new ballet, Variations on I'm Old Fashioned, the audience sees a movie screen. A four-minute film clip from You Were Never Lovelier (1942) shows Fred Astaire dancing with the breathtakingly lovely Rita Hayworth, then 24. They start off slowly, pick up momentum, then get rambunctious, in an elegant way. Passing through the French doors at the end of the sequence, they even bump shoulders briefly before gliding off into one of the many mansions reserved for the gods of dance...