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Inside Rita Hayworth’s Long Road to Fame: ‘She Had a Lot More Strength’ Than Fans Realized
Rita Hayworth endured a harsh road to fame, but she 'had a lot more strength' than fans realized, biography author Adrienne McLean exclusively tells Closer.
As Rita Hayworth, she would become a favorite pinup of soldiers during World War II and one of the most popular actresses of Hollywood’s Golden Age, with films including Cover Girl, My Gal Sal and Gilda. “It’s easy to say that she was a victim,” Adrienne McLean, author of Being Rita Hayworth: Labor, Identity, and Hollywood Stardom, exclusively tells Closer. “After Eduardo had drunk and gambled away their earnings, he would send her out to catch fish for dinner,” wrote Barbara Leaming in the biography If This Was Happiness.
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