Word: yasmin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...biography leaves little to the imagination. Divorced from Welles and entrusted with the care of their daughter, Hayworth wanted a peaceful, anonymous existence. And then she married . . . Aly Khan, already fabled in the tabloids for his wealth and promiscuity. Before long she ran back to America, with another daughter, Yasmin, in tow. And then she married Dick Haymes, a failing nightclub singer with big problems in the area of unpaid alimony and back taxes...
Amid all these messes, she made some memorable movies, including Gilda and Miss Sadie Thompson. But the final years were awful. She abandoned her last film role in 1972. Eight years later, she was diagnosed as having Alzheimer's disease, and Yasmin cared for her until her death in 1987. Leaming's prose can gush ("the incomparable Hermes Pan," "the fabulous Eartha Kitt") and regularly descends to write-by-the-numbers cliche. But the material is poignant, another reminder of the chasm that can exist between public images and private pain...
...came Orson Welles, but "Orsie," with whom she had a daughter Rebecca, was devoted mostly to Orsie. "I'm tired of being a 25% wife," she later said. In 1949, with the whole world looking on, she wed the playboy Aly Khan, with whom she had her second daughter Yasmin. The match lasted only two years, but she remembered him fondly: "The world was magical when you were with him." There were two more marriages (to Crooner Dick Haymes and Producer James Hill), neither happy. "They fell in love with Gilda and woke up with me," was her rueful commentary...
...career began to fade. Though she had proved herself a capable actress, she was given few 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...
...MARRIED. Yasmin Aga Khan, 35, daughter of Actress Rita Hayworth and the late Prince Aly Khan; and Basil Embiricos, 36, Greek economist and shipping heir; both for the first time; in New York City. The civil ceremony was scheduled far in advance of Muslim and Greek Orthodox rites, which will be held in late June, because of the failing health of Hayworth, a victim of Alzheimer's disease...