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| Rita Hayworth (Margarita Carmen Cansino, 1918-1987). Her first big hit was Strawberry Blonde (1941), but it was her next film, Blood and Sand (1941) that clinched her stardom. She was nicknamed "Love Goddess" after she was photographed wearing a lace-topped nightgown for the cover of Life magazine. Rita's "bombshell" status led to her picture being painted on the first nuclear bomb tested in the Marshall Islands, and the Navy named her: "The redhead we would most like to be ship-wrecked with." Left: The famous negligee of pink satin with a black lace overlay worn in the photo for Life magazine. Right: A Valentine's Day publicity shot. | |||
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