Movies starring Rita Hayworth

Only Angels Have Wings (1939)

121 mins     Adventure , Drama, Romance      

The storyline to "Only Angels Have Wings" has 3 main elements you have the Dutchman who runs a postal service deep in Baranca where he is struggling for money and so requires Geoff Carter to run the air mail service which ris...

Cover Girl (1944)

107 mins     Comedy, Musical, Romance      

"Cover Girl" can be summed up by making a few quick observations. The first of which is that as the star of the movie Rita Hayworth unfortunately doesn't have a great deal to do in this movie other than looking gorgeous from ...

Gilda (1946)

110 mins     Drama, Romance      

I read a review the other day by someone who clearly was a fan of film-noir as they pointed out that the movie they were watching was full of the snappy dialogue you don't hear in movies anymore. They went on to bemoan this f...

The Lady from Shanghai (1947)

87 mins     Crime, Drama      

If you read that synopsis for "The Lady from Shanghai" or others which you can find online it makes it easy to understand with Michael ending up a Patsy, set up for a murder. The thing is that "The Lady from Shanghai" ends up...

Miss Sadie Thompson (1953)

91 mins     Drama, Musical, Romance      

I recently got to watch "Rain" the 1932 adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham story and for a movie 80 years old I was impressed, it had some great performances and even greater atmosphere. So when I sat down to watch "Miss Sadie...

Salome (1953)

103 mins     Drama      

I've watched "Salome" I think it is 3 times now and have come to the conclusion that each day on set someone tossed a coin to decide what sort of movie they were making that day. It is the only way I can explain how in one sc...

Pal Joey (1957)

111 mins     Drama, Musical, Romance      

Whilst "Pal Joey" wasn't written with Frank Sinatra in mind it could quite easily have been because it is not only a perfect movie to highlight his talents as a singer and actor but also sees him playing a character which fee...

Fire Down Below (1957)

116 mins     Adventure , Drama      

There are a number of actresses who could cause a fire down below and Rita Hayworth in her prime is certainly one of them. But then the "Fire Down Below" in this title has a double meaning as it is a movie of two halves. And ...

They Came to Cordura (1959)

123 mins     Adventure , Drama      

Big name stars, big open spaces, soldiers doing battle these are all ingredients for an epic movie and they are ingredients which "They Came to Cordura" possesses yet it lacks something as rather than being epic it is ultimat...

The Magnificent Showman (1964)

135 mins     Drama      

The Magnificent Showman (1964) John Wayne stars as Matt Masters, a circus showman, who takes his circus to Europe to try and find Lili (Rita Hayworth) the woman he loved and whose daughter he has been raising if she was his o...