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.
I haven't seen that one. Rita Hayworth starred in "Gilda." Talk about brilliance.
It is a good film!    Who was her co-star?
Glen Ford played the young thug opposite of her.
Wow!    He has been in a lot of movies for a long time.
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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actress with the ability to make you care about her, to make you feel what she feels... Whatever she's doing while she performs that song ['Makin' Whoopee'] isn't merely singing; it's whatever Rita Hayworth did in "Gilda" and Marilyn Monroe did in "Some Like It Hot", and I didn't want her to stop." "The New Yorker" thought that she recalled "the grinning infectiousness of Carole Lombard, the radiance of the very young Lauren Bacall, and Pfeiffer