Tuesday, August 22, 2006
Star of the Day - Rita Hayworth
Today's start is Rita Hayworth, nicknamed "The Love Goddess", another star of Separate Tables (see David Niven below) which is unfortunatly not playing today either. But, you can see her sizzle in her most famous movie Gilda with Glenn Ford. Glenn Ford stars alongside Hayworth in Charles Vidor's erotic drama as a luckless gambler rolling dice on the Argentinean waterfront who accepts a job proposition from an elegantly dressed, mysterious Buenos Aires casino owner, Ballin Mundson (George Macready). Johnny (Ford) quickly becomes Mundson's indispensable right-hand man. But their intimate trust is soon shattered in the form of a beautiful woman from Johnny's past, Gilda (Hayworth). Gilda has married Mundson after a one-day courtship and now it is Johnny's duty to keep tabs on the straying newlywed. Gilda tortures former-flame Johnny by flirting with a string of available men. Hayworth plays the role of the jaded temptress to the hilt, even vamping at one point, "if I'd been a ranch, they would have called me the Bar Nothin'!" It was that often racy, sordid aspect of the film expressed in dialogue and Gilda's sexually provocative demeanor that caused a Variety critic of the time to note Gilda's "intriguing, low-down quality."
Gilda demonstates that sexy doesn't mean baring all. During the famous strip-tease scene, Gilda removes....her gloves! Amazingly, Hayworth played her sexiest role pregnant!
Labels: movies
