Word: orson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cannes, Elsa Maxwell introduced Rita Hayworth (ne´e Cansino in New York) to Prince Aly Khan, a demigod to five million Moslems of the Ismaili sect, and heir to one of the biggest fortunes in the world.* Though Rita was still the wife of onetime Wonder Boy Orson Welles, and Aly had not yet severed his marital tie with British-born Joan Yarde-Buller (exwife of Brewing Heir Thomas Loel Guinness), the lovers showed all the symptoms of sophomores in the throes of their first passion...
Embarrassing questions kept following them. In December Rita's divorce from Orson became final; two weeks later, in New York, she hustled aboard the Britannic with her daughter Rebecca, 4, firmly in tow. Aly Khan was also aboard. Mother & daughter spent Christmas at Aly's County Kildare estate near Dublin. From Ireland, Rita and Rebecca went via London to Switzerland, where they visited with Aly and his two sons, Karim Aga, 12, and Amyon Mohammed, 11. After two weeks of skiing, the party pulled up again on the Riviera. There the engagement was announced, two months before...
...Citizen Kane" was Orson Welles' baby. He was the first person ever commissioned by a studio to write, direct, produce and star in a single film, and the result of his multiple activity became a movie classic...
...Cannes, France, Aly Khan called in reporters and handed around typewritten statements announcing his engagement to Rita Hayworth (he is still married to his first wife; Rita's divorce from Orson Welles became final last November). Said he: "I am going to marry Miss Hayworth as soon as I am free to do so." Cinemactress Hayworth, Aly's house guest in various resorts since they met on the Riviera last summer, quietly announced that she was "in full agreement" with his announcement...
...Havana, but only for a visit, went beauteous Rita Hayworth. Her friend, the Aly Khan, happened to come along in the same plane from Mexico City, but Rita said it was only a coincidence (he is still married to wife No. 1; her divorce from husband No. 2, Orson Welles, has just become final). Rita's trip, she announced, was merely "to see the sights and rest." On its front page, the local Prensa Libre burbled: "She weighs 118 pounds, all curves and the most extraordinary sex appeal ever imagined. She and the Khan traveled all over Europe...