I've always been amazed at Rita Hayworth's rise to fame during the 1940s.
She was much like Marilyn Monroe.
I remember Marilyn's Monroe's shocking pink dress in the 1953 movie, "Gentleman Prefer Blondes."
I love the film Some Like It Hot.
the 1946 film noir, "Gilda", opposite Glenn Ford, in which she played the "femme fatale" in her first major dramatic role. Fred Astaire, with whom she made two films, called her his favorite dance partner. Her greatest success was in the Technicolor musical "Cover Girl" (1944), with Gene Kelly. She is listed as one of the top 25 female motion picture stars of all time in the American Film Institute's survey, AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars.
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Marilyn Monroe's pink dress
Marilyn Monroe wore a shocking pink dress in the 1953 film "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes", directed by Howard Hawks. The dress was created by costume designer William "Billy" Travilla and was used in one of the most famous scenes of the film, which subsequently became the subject of numerous imitations, significantly from Madonna in the music video for her song "Material Girl".
History.
When the costume designer William Travilla, known simply as Travilla, began working with Marilyn Monroe,