I've been watching a lot of her lately.
"I think all women have a certain elegance about them which is destroyed when they take off their clothes."
"No one can be Gilda twenty-four hours a day."
[when asked what had held up her dress in Gilda (1946)] "Two things."
"Most men fell in love with Gilda and wakened with me."
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Such a classy beauty
ReplyDelete"I think all women have a certain elegance about them which is destroyed when they take off their clothes." Well, this would certainly be true in my case...
ReplyDeleteThe strip-tease in Gilda is the single greatest minute in American cinema. I saw it on the afternoon movie when I was ten and was warped for life.
ReplyDeletePrisoner of her time in certain ways, I think
ReplyDeleteB- I particular loved that quote too and there is certainly something to mystery.
ReplyDeleteMagnaverde, I suspect you are among many. It still resonates and she did more with the swinging of a glove and the tossing of a head than anyone.
ReplyDeleteJez. I agree, yet she held the cards, I think women had to & many still have to work with their strongest weapons. You are you know -a JezeBel! pgt
ReplyDeleteFrancine-I do agree, she had something- whether in movies are in candid shots. I definitely think her Beauty was of the devastating kind.
ReplyDelete"I think all women have a certain elegance about them which is destroyed when they take off their clothes." Funny how the removal of a glove
ReplyDeletecan have all the titillation of a striptease and maintain that certain elegance.
Loved these film clips, thanks Gaye.
And if, like me, you're a fan of candy-coated airhead pop music, check out the totally charming "Wings"-era song "Dear Rita Hayworth" by the New Vaudeville Bend, which, by the time I first heard it, was over thirty years old.
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After hearing it, my brother said "If your diet was as sugary as the music you listen to, you wouldn't have a tooth left in your mouth." We are, at least, in agreement about RH.
"Most men fell in love with Gilda and wakened with me."
ReplyDeleteSuch sad statement..., such sad realization.
Ahh! I LOVED this post and the clips are just brilliant. I watched a US documentary on Sky's Biography channel recently on Rita. It was very sad at the end and it made me cry xx
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