Thread by @dean_frey

Remembering Rita Hayworth on her birthday 🎂
📷 John Florea, 1947
"If you watch Hayworth closely, you can see a woman playing with feminine artifice, constantly at work on the performance—and destruction—of carefully posed allure."
- @PamHutch

Rita Hayworth by Bob Landry, December 1945
For a Life magazine story about Gilda, & Columbia's $60,000 wardrobe purchase for the film.

Anselmo Ballester's poster for William Dieterle's Salome, 1953, with Rita Hayworth, Stewart Granger & Charles Laughton. A Technicolor movie with a Technicolor poster.

"Celebrities are most interesting when they’re mating."
- Mike Nichols
Rita Hayworth & Orson Welles, The Lady From Shanghai, 1947. The still photographer on the set was Ned Scott.

Coffee with Rita Hayworth & Errol Flynn ☕️
📷 Ivan Dmitri, 1940

The most glamorous one can be and still be playing #PingPong: Rita Hayworth 🏓

Rita Hayworth by A. L. Whitey Schafer, 1938
"A whole different personality came out for the camera. It was an amazing transformation - or, rather, an amazing combination. You couldn’t believe the two were the same person!"
- Hermes Pan

Rita Hayworth by Philippe Halsman, 1950
"The complexity of her performances on-screen includes a subtly ironic quality that suggests a knowing self-awareness, a disarming ability to act inside quotation marks."
- @PamHutch

Watch me pull a rabbit out of a hat! 🎩🪄
Orson Welles with Rita Hayworth, August 1943. The two were married the next month.
📷 Gene Lester

Philippe Halsman
Rita Hayworth being photographed by George Hoyningen-Huene, 1943
Every time I see a shot like this I'm struck by how hard everyone works for a portrait, & not always just the subject & the photographer.

Rita Hayworth with her husband the Aga Khan at a Jacques Fath fashion show
📷 Robert Capa, 1951

Jack Lemmon, Rita Hayworth & Robert Mitchum
📷 Jack Mitchell, 1956
"I’ve never really thought of myself as a sex goddess, more as a comedienne who could dance."

Rita Hayworth dancing with Kirk Douglas, Ciro's, March 14, 1952
"Please boys, no more pictures."
@laplphotos

Rita Hayworth by A. L. "Whitey" Schafer, 1940s
"Nothing is too difficult for her. She watches, goes home, practices up, and the next day she’s got it perfect."
- Fred Astaire

Philippe Halsman's photographs of Rita Hayworth show a different side of her. Is this relaxed, informal shot from 1943 closer to the real Rita, or is this just another role from a superb actress?

Rita Hayworth & Fred Astaire rehearse for a scene in You Were Never Lovelier, 1942.
📷 Earl Theisen
"I guess the only jewels of my life were the pictures I made with Fred Astaire."

Xavier Cugat's cartoon of Rita & Fred dancing in You Were Never Lovelier, 1942. With Adolphe Menjou & Cougie himself.