I don't know the studio - I'm leaning toward Columbia - but they've very nearly achieved the impossible: making Rita Hayworth look dreadful. I frankly wouldn't have thought it possible to dress anyone so radiant so entirely badly, but there you go. It looks like she's being attacked by a sparkly art deco tarantula. And why would anyone take some of the most beautiful hair ever seen on screen and torture it into a poodle 'do?So many mysteries...
didn't she piss harry off a lot?
ReplyDeleteThe hair-don't does make her look haughty and regal, to match her facial expression. Perhaps the producer had a thing for the dominatrix look.
ReplyDeleteI just learned a piece of trivia looking at a 1960 issue of Life....supermodel Bettina was Aly Khan's last mistress before his death. He certainly had good taste in women in the looks department.
At first glance I thought it was Lucille Ball. And that's not right!
ReplyDeleteI thought the very same thing, Thom.
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