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1983. Robson Books. First. Book: Near Fine. Dj: Near Fine. 8.5x5.5. 238pp. Illustrated with a few b/w photographs. This is a love story starring Rita Hayworth-not as 'Salome' or 'Gilda' or 'The Lady from Shaghai' 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. In his 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.
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Good in Good jacket. 8vo-7¾"-9¾" Tall. Jacket has light edgewear. Boards have only minor shelfwear. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound.
This is not just a story of the romance between Rita Hayworth and James Hill, film producer: thrown in for good measure is an insight into a marriage doomed from the start. James Hill meets Rita Hayworth in unusual circumstances. His writer-friend Harry Clork's daughter had taken a present from Rita's house, and Harry Clork is on a mission to return the item and apologise. James Hill just happens to be on the doorstep alone when Rita opens the door. But from the beginning he lies, intimating that he is the hired help, and proceeds to scrub and wax her floor. So this was never going to be an open and honest relationship. Hill's manipulative agenda is to show the world what a great comedienne Rita is. She just wants an honest man who will be her mate in a life of writing and painting. They are both egoists: both can only see their own needs and wants. There is much smashing of windows with golf balls, much crazy nonsense, much junketing around. Interestingly 2 of Rita's husbands, Eddie Judson and Dick Haymes are never mentioned, nor the two girls, Rebecca Wells and Princess Yasmin.
This is a most interesting and proficient memoir, although at the beginning the reader might be excused for thinking it is a work of fiction because of the plethora of conversation - from memory!? The story begins and ends with the relationsip, but so much happens in the short marriage that there is not a sense of a slim volume. It is is a rollicking read about two giant egos jostling each other until one ego has had enough.
