American Decades

Magazine cover

By: Robert Landry

Date: August 11, 1941

Source: Landry, Robert. "Rita Hayworth." Photograph, August 11, 1941. Life Cover Collection Website. Available online at http://www.life.com/Life/search/covers/1941/cv081141.html; website home page: http://www.life.com/Life/search/covers (accessed March 8, 2003).

About the Artist: Rita Hayworth (1918–1987) was born in Brooklyn, New York. She achieved stardom in a series of movie musicals, including You'll Never Get Rich (1941) and You Were Never Lovelier (1942), both with Fred Astaire, and Cover Girl (1944). She also appeared in some of the classic film noirs (movies featuring corrupt characters, bleak urban settings, and lots of shadows), most notably Gilda (1945)....