The Fateful Forties – just like that one glossy magazine called those years a few years ago. Indeed, that era combined war, cinema and jazz. New Hollywood stars made TV appearances. Do you remember everyone’s favorite film “The Shawshank Redemption”? The protagonist sits in a prison cinema and looks at the screen, where the charming Gilda, played by Rita Hayworth, appears, flips her hair and the audience admiringly sighs. Yes, she really was an attractive woman. How beautiful she was in her role! Romantic, wearing a light dress with straight shoulders, performing guitar songs, playful in the costume of a cowboy girl at the carnival in honor of the victory over Germany and the fatal beauty in a black silk dress and long gloves, dancing almost a striptease for those years.
She was the first Hollywood actress to become a princess after marriage. Her third husband was Prince Aly Khan. Hayworth’s bridal outfit was surprisingly modest and elegant. Maybe it was the influence of Eastern traditions.
Rita was wearing a blue dress with long sleeves and an airy hat with wide flaps. Such a plain and full dress was not similar to those chic outfits from the movies, but it looked so captivatingly simple and sincere.
Rita had a second daughter, Princess Yasmin Khan, with Aly Khan. However the marriage did not last long – only for two years.
