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Rita Hayworth, a Memoir

出版	Simon and Schuster, 1983
ISBN	06714327379780671432737
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=2elkAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋"This is a love story starring Rita Hayworth--not as "Salome" or "Gilda" or "The Lady from Shanghai," but as herself. And her leading man here is neither Burt Lancaster nor Gene Kelly but a man who adored her in real life--her last husband, producer James Hill. ln this delightful and poignant memoir, Hill relates the day-to-day details of his courtship and marriage to the real woman behind the image of "The Love Goddess," and unveils an entirely unexpected and enchanting side of her that no one has ever seen till now. By the time James Hill met Rita Hayworth, she was a world-famous movie queen whose tempestuous off-screen love affairs filled the scandal sheets. (She had been married and divorced twice--once to Orson Welles--and was now carrying on an international romance with Prince Aly Khan.) Yet it never occurred to Hill to be daunted by his competition. And from his first meeting with Hayworth, one of the many imbroglios that both brought them together and kept them apart, he was enthralled. Hill was captivated by the same qualities that attracted Hayworth's millions of fans: her beauty her charm, her glamour. But he also saw in her what no one else did: her unpredictability, her wistful sadness, her vulnerability--and her comic genius, an aspect of her talent which had never been explored, and which he became increasingly obsessed with tapping. What he did not see, until it was too late, was that Rita Hayworth hated the film image that had been created for her. She longed to escape the screen--and the tenacious hold of the men who ran her life and career--for another existence in which she could devote herself to her painting and experience the youth she had never enjoyed. Had Hill in fact reneged on his promise to give her that new life--the one thing she wanted most? Had he in fact become the most manipulative of all the men in her life? ln this wonderful and intimate love story, the author pays tribute to a very special chapter in his life, and to a very special woman. Through it, the reader discovers Rita Hayworth not as a pinup girl or a celluloid vamp, but as a warm, sensitive, strong, wickedly humorous and frequently misunderstood woman."--Dust jacket.