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Article: Hayworth: The Glory of A Goddess;Ever and Always, the Stuff Our Dreams are Made Of
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- The Washington Post
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- May 16, 1987
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She was the Mona Lisa of pinups-not just a seductive image, but
the very image of seduction. Bright, lithe, willowy, radiant, Rita
Hayworth flitted and floated through films as though suspended from
wires. In the days when movies were larger than life, she was
clearly and magically too beautiful to be real.
Rita Hayworth vanished from the public eye long before her death
yesterday, at the age of 68, in her daughter's Manhattan apartment.
Alzheimer's disease had made her largely a recluse; sponsors of a
recent charity gala, held in her honor, never imagined that she might
be able to appear. But the Rita Hayworth created by the play of
light upon a silvery screen still exists, still ...