If This Was Happiness by Barbara Leaming

If This Was Happiness by Barbara Leaming

Following her biographies of Orson Welles and Roman Polanski, the author offers an account of the life and film career of the Love Goddess whose smouldering image hid a tragic secret which fame and love affairs with glamorous men could do nothing to heal. If this was happiness, said Orson Welles, imagine what the rest of her life had been! Margarita Cansino was a shy child, thrust into the sordid limelight by her ambitious father as his dancing partner. His exploitation and abuse set a pattern for life. Her name was changed to Rita Hayworth and her film career took off, but her personal life remained a failure: five disastrous marriages, including those to Welles and Aly Khan, short-lived love affairs with men such as David Niven and Howard Hughes, a drawn-out custody battle for her daughter Yasmin accompanied by accusations of child neglect, and finally the long slide into Alzheimer's disease, agonizingly mis-diagnosed as alcoholism.

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ISBN 13	9780747407164
ISBN 10	0747407169
Titre	If This Was Happiness
Auteur	Barbara Leaming
État	Non disponible
Type de reliure	Paperback
Éditeur	Little, Brown Book Group
Année de publication	1990-12-06
Nombre de pages	432
Note de couverture	La photo du livre est présentée à titre d'illustration uniquement. La reliure, la couverture ou l'édition réelle peuvent varier.
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