Rita Hayworth Quotes & Trivia

Quotes

After all, a girl is - well, a girl. It's nice to be told you're successful at it.

All I wanted was just what everybody else wants, you know, to be loved.

Every man I knew went to bed with Gilda... and woke up with me.

Increasingly, stars are recruited from the ranks of professional models, with the result that today's starlets are better dressed and better groomed than ever before, though it is doubtful if they are better actresses.

We are all tied to our destiny and there is no way we can liberate ourselves.

Trivia

Rita was considered for the role of Brigid O'Shaughnessy in The Maltese Falcon (1941).

Rita was featured twice on the cover of Time Magazine, on November 10, 1941, and September 1, 1989.

Rita appeared in magazine and newspaper ads for Maybelline in 1941.

Rita was given the Sour Apple award at the Golden Apple awards for Least Cooperative actress twice, in 1948 and 1952.

Rita was nominated for the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture Actress in a Drama for Circus World (1964).

Rita co-starred twice with Fred Astaire in You'll Never Get Rich (1941) and You Were Never Lovelier (1942).

Rita was named the 19th Greatest Female Lead Actor by the American Film Institute on June 16, 1999.

Rita was married five times; to: Edward C. Judson (1937-1943), Orson Welles (1943-1948, one daughter Rebecca Welles), Prince Aly Khan (1949-1953, one daughter Princess Yasmin Aga Khan), Dick Haymes (1953-1955), and James Hill (1958-1961).

Rita was featured on the cover of Life Magazine 5 times; on July 15, 1940, August 11, 1941, January 18, 1943, November 10, 1947, and February 19, 1971.

Rita accidentally knocked out two of her co-star Glenn Ford's teeth in filming their fight scene for Gilda (1946).

Her nickname was The Love Goddess.

Rita is one of the bombshells shown in The Shawshank Redemption (1994), based on Steven King's novella, "Rita Hayworth And The Shawshank Redemption."