Download or read book Rita Hayworth s Shoes written by Francine LaSala and published by Diversion Books. This book was released on 2012-01-05 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What fun! This novel has it all–romance, laughs, a dollop of mystery. I was entertained from start to finish… And I want those shoes!" –NY Times bestselling author Eileen Goudge "Like hanging out with your funniest friend over a glass of champagne, Rita Hayworth’s Shoes is both hilarious and thought-provoking. LaSala knows how to combine humor and romance for a story the reader can jump inside and enjoy." –NY Times bestselling author Patti Callahan Henry Amy Miller gets dumped on her wedding day and everyone knows it's for the best, as her relationship with David had eaten away at her for years. Except for Amy... When her best friend, Jane Austen-Rabinowitz, and Jane's sagacious six-year-old daughter, Zoe, convince Amy to treat herself to an extravagantly priced, super-cute pair of shoes, which purportedly once belonged to a siren of the silver screen, she balks at first, but their allure soon wears her down. Once they are hers, her life turns around. She gets refocused on her career and meets a true kindred spirit, the also-jilted English professor, Decklin Thomas. She's not attracted to Deck at first. But when circumstances lead to them spending more time together, they bond, and Amy starts to believe she may have found her soul mate. But when Deck's former wife goes missing, again, the perfect romance may not be what it seems... Sparkly and witty as a 1940s screwball comedy, and filled with quirky characters and lots of delightful surprises, Rita Hayworth's Shoes is a story of bouncing back, a heartwarming and potentially heartbreaking romance, and even a mystery rolled into one fun, hilarious page-turner.
Download or read book Being Rita Hayworth written by Adrienne L. McLean and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Being Rita Hayworth' considers the ways in which this actress has been treated by film scholarship over the years to accomplish its own goals, sometimes at her expense.
Download or read book If this was Happiness written by Barbara Leaming and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 1989 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rita Hayworth The Glamour and the Glory written by ChatStick Team and published by ChatStick Team. This book was released on 2024-06-13 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 🎬 Discover Hollywood’s Timeless Enchantress: Rita Hayworth: The Glamour and the Glory 🌟 Step into the golden era of cinema with this captivating biography of Rita Hayworth, the epitome of Hollywood glamour and an enduring symbol of the 20th century film legacy. This comprehensive narrative, titled "A Journey Through the Life of a Screen Legend: The Rise, Triumphs, and Eternal Legacy of Hollywood's Iconic Star," crafted by the ChatStick Team, explores the life and career of one of the most iconic figures in film history. Explore Rita's transformation from a dancer in New York to a leading lady in Hollywood, her groundbreaking roles, and her profound impact both on and off the screen. 🌹 This book goes beyond the silver screen to reveal the real stories of her life, including her struggles with fame and personal hardships, presenting a holistic view of her contributions to the arts and society. Perfect for Readers Who Cherish: In-depth biographies of film legends Insights into classic Hollywood and its cultural impact Stories of influential women in the arts Rita Hayworth: The Glamour and the Glory is more than a biography—it's an inspiring saga of resilience and beauty, capturing the essence of a bygone era. This meticulously researched book is a must-have for anyone fascinated by film history, iconic women, and timeless stories of grace and struggle. 📚 Add it to your collection today and be inspired by the legend of Rita Hayworth!
Download or read book LIFE written by and published by . This book was released on 1943-01-18 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.
Download or read book Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption written by Stephen King and published by Scribner. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King’s beloved novella, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption—the basis for the Best Picture Academy Award–nominee The Shawshank Redemption—about an unjustly imprisoned convict who seeks a strangely satisfying revenge, is now available for the first time as a standalone book. A mesmerizing tale of unjust imprisonment and offbeat escape, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption is one of Stephen King’s most beloved and iconic stories, and it helped make Castle Rock a place readers would return to over and over again. Suspenseful, mysterious, and heart-wrenching, this iconic King novella, populated by a cast of unforgettable characters, is about a fiercely compelling convict named Andy Dufresne who is seeking his ultimate revenge. Originally published in 1982 in the collection Different Seasons (alongside “The Body,” “Apt Pupil,” and “The Breathing Method”), it was made into the film The Shawshank Redemption in 1994. Starring Morgan Freeman and Tim Robbins, this modern classic was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and is among the most beloved films of all time.
Download or read book Crispin written by and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Different Seasons written by Stephen King and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the stories “The Body” and “Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption”—set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine A “hypnotic” (The New York Times Book Review) collection of four novellas—including the inspirations behind the films Stand By Me and The Shawshank Redemption—from Stephen King, bound together by the changing of seasons, each taking on the theme of a journey with strikingly different tones and characters. This gripping collection begins with “Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption,” in which an unjustly imprisoned convict seeks a strange and startling revenge—the basis for the Best Picture Academy Award-nominee The Shawshank Redemption. Next is “Apt Pupil,” the inspiration for the film of the same name about top high school student Todd Bowden and his obsession with the dark and deadly past of an older man in town. In “The Body,” four rambunctious young boys plunge through the façade of a small town and come face-to-face with life, death, and intimations of their own mortality. This novella became the movie Stand By Me. Finally, a disgraced woman is determined to triumph over death in “The Breathing Method.” “The wondrous readability of his work, as well as the instant sense of communication with his characters, are what make Stephen King the consummate storyteller that he is,” hailed the Houston Chronicle about Different Seasons.
Download or read book Carmen written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since Prosper Mérimée and Georges Bizet (with his librettists Meilhac and Halévy) brought the figure of the Spanish Carmen to prominence in the nineteenth century an astonishing eighty or so film versions of the story have been made. This collection of essays gathers together a unique body of scholarly critique focused on that Carmen narrative in film. It covers the phenomenon from a number of aspects: cultural studies, gender studies, studies in race and representation, musicology, film history, and the history of performance. The essays take us from the days of silent film to twenty-first century hip-hop style, showing, through a variety of theoretical and historical perspectives that, despite social and cultural transformations—particularly in terms of gender, sexuality and race—remarkably little has changed in terms of basic human desires and anxieties, at least as they are represented in this body of films. The conception of Carmen’s independent sexuality as a source of danger both to men (and occasionally women) and to respectable society has been a constant. Nor has sexual and ethnic otherness lost its appeal. On the other hand, the corpus of Carmen films is more than a simple recycling of stereotypes and each engages newly with the social and cultural issues of their time.
Download or read book Rita Hayworth written by John Kobal and published by Berkley. This book was released on 1983-08-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rita Hayworth written by John Kobal and published by New York : W.W. Norton. This book was released on 1978 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rita Hayworth written by John Kobal and published by London : W. H. Allen. This book was released on 1977 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Life of Rita Hayworth written by Susan Barrington and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-11-20 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rita Hayworth (born Margarita Carmen Cansino; October 17, 1918 - May 14, 1987) was an American actress and dancer. She achieved fame during the 1940s as one of the era's top stars, appearing in a total of 61 films over 37 years. The press coined the term "love goddess" to describe Hayworth after she had become the most glamorous screen idol of the 1940s. She was the top pin-up girl for GIs during World War II. Hayworth is perhaps best known for her performance in the 1946 film noir, Gilda, opposite Glenn Ford, in which she played the femme fatale in her first major dramatic role. Fred Astaire, with whom she made two films, called her his favorite dance partner. Her greatest success was in the Technicolor musical Cover Girl (1944), with Gene Kelly. She is listed as one of the top 25 female motion picture stars of all time in the American Film Institute's survey, AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars. In 1980, Hayworth was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, which contributed to her death at age 68. The public disclosure and discussion of her illness drew attention to Alzheimer's, and helped to increase public and private funding for Alzheimer's research.
Download or read book The Cigar That Fell In Love With a Pipe written by David Camus and published by SelfMadeHero. This book was released on 2014-04-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imprisoned by her husband and forced to roll cigars despite a nicotine allergy, Conchita Marquez falls in love with a sailor while on a journey to cure her ailment that leads to their becoming trapped in Orson Welles's drawing room.
Download or read book The Films of Rita Hayworth written by Gene Ringgold and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rita Hayworth written by Arthur Wilhelm and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-10-30 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rita Hayworth: From American Love Goddess to the Face of Alzheimer's is a tribute to an actress who epitomized glamour and beauty during the 20th century. Shy, retiring, and insecure in private life, she exploded onto the silver screen as a captivating beauty who mesmerized film audiences with her tantalizing performances. This tribute follows her life and career from early childhood through five marriages and an impressive film career during which she appeared in 61 films over a period of 37 years. Born into a family of Spanish dancers, she became her father's dance partner at age 13, made her screen debut at age 17, and survived a studio makeover that attempted to deny her Hispanic heritage. With the advent of World War II, she gained recognition as Fred Astaire's dance partner and American GI's most popular pin-up girl. This tribute considers how each of her films was reviewed by critics at the time of their release and how they are viewed in contemporary 21st century. Hailed by the press in the 1940s as the "love goddess," Rita Hayworth sought to find happiness against overwhelming odds. The book gives attention to analyzing film noir and Rita Hayworth's femme fatale roles regarding homosexuality and women's liberation. It also recognizes the significant roles that two gay choreographers played in creating Rita Hayworth's iconic image. Finally, bringing understanding and compassion to Rita Hayworth's struggle with Alzheimer's disease will bring support for finding a cure and offering hope to today's victims and their families.
Download or read book Rita Hayworth written by Caren Roberts-Frenzel and published by . This book was released on 2001-09 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There Never was a woman like Gilda!" Thus ran the tag line for Rita Hayworth's most famous film -- and the same could be said about the star herself. Fifty years after the peak of her popularity, the world is still captivated by Rita Hayworth.
