The Boston Globe, November 30th, 1989
IF THIS WAS HAPPINESS: A Biography of Rita Hayworth By Barbara Leaming Viking, 351 pp., $21.95 Rita Hayworth always maintained that her turbulent, ill-fated marriage to Orson Welles was the happiest time of her life. "If this was happiness, imagine what the rest of her life had been!" Welles told Barbara Leaming, who was his biographer and now is Hayworth's too. In spite of her beauty, her grace, her screen success, her many marriages and love affairs, Hayworth's life was indeed a terrible mess. Leaming's insightful, carefully researched account of it makes riveting, if depressing, reading. Le...
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