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Hayworth + the Electrolysis-

posted 15 years ago by Myth-and-Mayhem
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I couldn't stop starring at her hairline during the film... :-)

Took a look a pictures of her before & I've gotta say I like the way she looked after they broadened her forehead. Is that bad?

She really does look much more glamorous. She had a tiny forehead before. I almost felt they went too far on the temples, too much of a squared edge, a softer rounder edge might have been better... no?

Anyone else feel the same or differently?

"...the young man would love it too, but he can't afford it."

[–] zuzupetal_99 15 years ago

LOL, the only thing I really knew about Rita going into this film, is that she had to undergo the painful electolysis on her hairline. Although she is completely stunning and you can't take your eyes off her, I too, kept looking at her hairline! I haven't seen pictures of her before the procedure, but I think they did a good job on her b/c it looks natural to me & you wouldn't guess that it wasn't!

"Are you going to your grave with unlived lives in your veins?" ~ The Good Girl

[–] Myth-and-Mayhem 15 years ago

Here's some links!!

It's a different person...

http://thisrecording.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/dahlias_cansino.jpg

http://emol.org/film/archives/hayworth/Hayworth-Rita-Cansino.jpg

"...the young man would love it too, but he can't afford it."

[–] lmchildress 15 years ago

I wonder why they bothered. I assume the one with the dahlias is the after picture. The before doesn't look that bad. A lot of pain for nothing much. Poor woman.

[–] zuzupetal_99 15 years ago

Wow! Thanks for the pictures - she looks so different! Her forehead/hairline before was rather odd, the way it came in so close at the sides. I love what she did with her hair later.

"Are you going to your grave with unlived lives in your veins?" ~ The Good Girl

[–] Bhana32 15 years ago

They did a good job for sure!

"Walk and live, talk and bumbaclaat dead."

[–] mausklicker 14 years ago

no they did not a good job, otherwise there wouldnt be so many ppl- like me too- who were staring at her hairline the whole freakin movie!

thanks for the infos in this thread. now i know why i hat to stare at it...

it looks unnatural & strange.

thx 4 the pics too. the "before" pic show a pretty young girl.

as someone mentioned before: much pain for nothing...

[–] furafura 14 years ago

Wow, thanks for the photos! I didn't know she had to go through electrolysis. I guess the studio really wanted her to seem less "ethnic" - they also made her dye her hair, right? And change her name from Margarita Cansino to "Rita Hayworth"
http://cinemastranger.blogspot.com/2011/01/gilda-1946.html

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[–] shylibra 14 years ago

Well, pretty much everbody in Hollywood got some sort of make-over. And name changing was the most common thing back then.

[–] Myth-and-Mayhem 14 years ago

And really, has anything in Hollywood changed? It's still a whitewash...

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[–] shylibra 14 years ago

Always this self pity everywhere... it's tiresome, really.

[–] Myth-and-Mayhem 14 years ago

Hayworth's self pity? How so?

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[–] speculator-1 14 years ago

http://thisrecording.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/dahlias_cansino.jpg

http://emol.org/film/archives/hayworth/Hayworth-Rita-Cansino.jpg

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