People talk a lot about the way that Rita Hayworth looked. She was the Hollywood “love goddess,” with a sensational figure, a dazzling smile, and hair that fell in long, auburn waves. The pinup so iconic that her posters were used as avatars of escapist fantasy in Bicycle Thieves (1948), and as a cover-up for a more literal escape in Stephen King’s jailbreak novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption.
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| Rita Hayworth by Robert Coburn |
The bombshell so voluptuous they pasted her image onto an actual atom bomb. What people don’t talk about enough is what she did on-screen, in front of the camera, to create that effect. That’s partly because we have been told that Rita Hayworth was a fabrication, made by other hands.
Those hands belonged to the father who made her his dance partner when she was still a schoolgirl; the Svengali-like first husband, Eddie Judson, who pushed her into the movies; and to Harry Cohn, who ruled over her career, her image, and more at Columbia. Perhaps also to Orson Welles, her second husband and one-time director, or to Fred Astaire, who said she was his best dance partner in the movies.
Take a look at these glamorous photos to see the beauty of Rita Hayworth through Robert Coburn’s lens in the 1940s and 1950s.
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| Rita Hayworth by Robert Coburn from Affair in Trinidad, 1952 |
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| Rita Hayworth by Robert Coburn from Affair in Trinidad, 1952 |
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| Rita Hayworth by Robert Coburn from Gilda, 1946 |
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| Rita Hayworth by Robert Coburn from Gilda, 1946 |
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| Rita Hayworth by Robert Coburn from Gilda, 1946 |
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| Rita Hayworth by Robert Coburn from Gilda, 1946 |
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| Rita Hayworth by Robert Coburn from Gilda, 1946 |
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| Rita Hayworth by Robert Coburn from Gilda, 1946 |
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| Rita Hayworth by Robert Coburn from Gilda, 1946 |
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| Rita Hayworth by Robert Coburn from The Lady from Shanghai, 1947 |
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| Rita Hayworth by Robert Coburn from The Lady from Shanghai, 1947 |
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| Rita Hayworth by Robert Coburn from The Lady from Shanghai, 1947 |
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| Rita Hayworth by Robert Coburn from The Lady from Shanghai, 1947 |
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| Rita Hayworth by Robert Coburn from The Lady from Shanghai, 1947 |
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| Rita Hayworth by Robert Coburn from The Lady from Shanghai, 1947 |
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| Rita Hayworth by Robert Coburn from The Lady from Shanghai, 1947 |
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| Rita Hayworth by Robert Coburn from The Lady from Shanghai, 1947 |
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| Rita Hayworth by Robert Coburn from The Lady from Shanghai, 1947 |
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| Rita Hayworth by Robert Coburn, 1952 |
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| Rita Hayworth by Robert Coburn |
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| Rita Hayworth by Robert Coburn |
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| Rita Hayworth by Robert Coburn |
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| Rita Hayworth by Robert Coburn |
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| Rita Hayworth by Robert Coburn |
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| Rita Hayworth by Robert Coburn |
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| Rita Hayworth by Robert Coburn |
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| Rita Hayworth by Robert Coburn |
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| Rita Hayworth by Robert Coburn |
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| Rita Hayworth by Robert Coburn |
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| Rita Hayworth from Cover Girl by Robert Coburn, 1944 |
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| Rita Hayworth from Cover Girl by Robert Coburn, 1944 |
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| Rita Hayworth from Cover Girl by Robert Coburn, 1944 |
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| Rita Hayworth from Cover Girl by Robert Coburn, 1944 |
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| Rita Hayworth from Cover Girl by Robert Coburn, 1944 |
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| Rita Hayworth from Cover Girl by Robert Coburn, 1944 |
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| Rita Hayworth from Cover Girl by Robert Coburn, 1944 |
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| Rita Hayworth from My Gal Sal by Robert Coburn, 1942 |
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| Rita Hayworth from Salome by Robert Coburn, 1953 |
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| Rita Hayworth from The Loves of Carmen by Robert Coburn, 1948 |
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| Rita Hayworth from Tonight and Every Night by Robert Coburn, 1940 |
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