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Article: Rita Hayworth dies; '40s `love goddess,' Alzheimer's victim
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- May 16, 1987
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HOLLYWOOD Rita Hayworth, a shy Spanish dancer who became the
movie world's "love goddess" of the 1940s only to rebel against the
studio system that created her, is dead at the age of 69.
Miss Hayworth was a victim of the debilitating Alzheimer's
disease, which robbed her of speech and memory during the last years
of her life. She died Thursday night in the New York City apartment
of Princess Yasmin Khan Embiricos, her daughter from her storybook
1949 marriage to Prince Aly Khan.
Her glamor was such that during World War II a photo of Miss
Hayworth kneeling on a bed in a negligee ranked with film actress
Betty Grable's leggy swimsuit pose as the GIs' favorite pinup.
Columnists, many ...