Remember the classic shot of a beautiful woman in The Shawshank Redemption throwing her hair, disguised as the poster character hanging from the digging hole?
Ellis (Morgan Freeman) said to Andy (Tim Robbins), "Wait, she's going to play, and I like the scene where she threw her hair the most." Then, in the next picture, a girl looks up and straightens up in the ripples of her fiery hair, revealing a feminine face.
The old movie that Ellis watched countless times was called Gilta, and the beauty in it was Rita Hayworth.
Rita Hayworth became popular throughout the United States in 1946 for her passionate, debauched and sexy screen charm in the film Gilda, sometimes referred to as the "Goddess of Love" or "American Eros", and was famous for her outstanding dance skills. In 1998, she was named the 19th "Greatest Actress of a Hundred Years" by the American Film Institute.
Rita Hayworth, whose original name was Margarita Carmen Cancino, is a Spaniard born in 1918 in Brooklyn, New York City.
His father, Eduardo Cancino, was a Spanish dancer, and his mother, Walga Haworth, performed in the famous "Ziggy Cabaret" at that time. Due to her family's academic background, Rita became a professional dancer at the age of twelve, performing with her father, by which time the family had moved to Los Angeles for three years. At the age of thirteen, when she was performing in a Mexican nightclub, she caught the attention of Winfield Sheehan, the owner of Fox Film, and finally jumped to the screen four years later.
In 1935, Rita performed her debut film "Under the Moonlight of the South American Prairie", and later participated in some of Fox's films under her real name, usually as a dancer. Soon after, Fox merged with Twentieth Century, when Rita had just begun to get the opportunity to play more important roles in some B-grade films, but was dismissed by the studio due to the ouster of her boss. After that, he filmed in some small companies and gradually became obscure.
According to some reports, when Rita Hayworth was 18, her father married her to a 40-year-old businessman, Eddie Judson. The latter took a hard look at the face that was likely to appreciate, forced her to raise her hairline with painful electrolysis, and in order to make her look more like an authentic woman of every country, dyed one of her black hair into an intense red hair, and changed her name to Rita Hayworth.
Finally, he pushed her into the bed of Columbia boss Harry Cohen. By the time she became a star, she would have to give Judson a share of the money every month.
Under such all-out promotion, Litai finally won the opportunity to play the heroine in some B-grade films.
The film that really brought Rita Hayworth to the top of the film world was Howard Hex's Angel Wings (1939), starring Caleb Glenn and Jane Arthur, in which Rita played a relentless wife, although only the second heroine, but impressive.
In the early 1940s, a series of blockbuster films gradually pushed Rita Hayworth's popularity to a peak. This batch of landmark works includes a bewildering sexy woman in "Blue Blood and Yellow Sands" (1941); dancing with the dance king Freastan in "Golden Dream" and "Peach Blossom Palace" (1942), and dancing with another dance king, Kim Kelly, in Cover Girl (1944).
Rita Hayworth's photographs in Life Magazine were in short supply, becoming the most popular poster girl for American soldiers sent overseas, and even the first atomic bomb to be thrown into the Bikini Island test site was plastered with a photo of Rita, which showed its sexy "power".
The masterpiece that allowed Rita Hayworth to establish her status as the "God of Love" in Hollywood was Gilda the Slut (1946). Rita sang and danced in the film, showing her charming skills and becoming a "sexy queen" unmatched at that time. In 1942, Rita fell in love with Vidomatur, who was with whom she played in Not a Bad Guy (1942), and divorced her original partner.
Soon, at the remarriage ceremony the following year, the groom was replaced by the famous talent of the time, Orson Welles.
However, the marriage came and went quickly. By the time Rita performed ors > of Miss Shanghai, <, directed by Orson (1948), the two were separated, so the film was done under a distinctly low pressure.
She also starred in films such as < Rouge Tiger > (1948).
In May 1948, Rita Hayworth again visited Europe by cruise ship. On board, Rita falls in love with the Arab-Muslim prince Ali Khan. Their romantic act was reported in the press, and there was a strong reaction, because Ali Khan had not yet divorced. A year later, the two finally got married in France. But the marriage lasted only two years, and Ali Khan was later killed in a car accident.
"A man falls in love with Gilta, but wakes up and leaves Rita Hayworth", Rita's classic quote reflects her dreams and reality. As some film critics have said: She never learned to protect herself.
Rita was profligate in Europe and the economy was struggling to sustain herself, so she returned to Hollywood and asked Columbia to reinstate her contract. The boss Cohen remembered the old feelings, answered the request, let Li Tai once again starred in the < spy network demon Ji ji > (1952), "Holy Blood Red Face" (1953), < Army Red Pink > (1954) and other films, although the roles are quite suitable for Rita's play, but her charming charm has been damaged for several years, so the reaction is very flat.
In 1971, Rita once wanted to start the second spring of her acting career from stage plays, but she couldn't remember the long lines and had to give up. When things were not going well, she began to drink heavily and her health deteriorated.
In 1981, the court ruled that Litai had lost the ability to take care of herself and handed her over to her second daughter, Yasmin Aga Khan. At the age of sixty-eight, Rita Hayworth finally grew up.