--- title: Rita Hayworth: Photos of a Movie Legend and All-American Pinup Girl description: LIFE.com remembers the legendary Rita Hayworth -- a bona fide movie star from a classic Hollywood era that will never come again. canonical: https://time.com/3881042/rita-hayworth-photos-of-a-movie-legend-and-all-american-pinup-girl/ author: Ben Cosgrove article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-10-01T19:21:11.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:03:36.258Z og:title: Rita Hayworth: Photos of a Movie Legend and All-American Pinup Girl og:description: LIFE.com remembers the legendary Rita Hayworth -- a bona fide movie star from a classic Hollywood era that will never come again. og:url: https://time.com/3881042/rita-hayworth-photos-of-a-movie-legend-and-all-american-pinup-girl/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc25f32582cd65554/69884ab8cd1bba38696fac6f/01_53369867.jpg?branch=production&width=761&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 761 og:image:height: 428 og:image:alt: Rita Hayworth 1941 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Rita Hayworth: Photos of a Movie Legend and All-American Pinup Girl twitter:description: LIFE.com remembers the legendary Rita Hayworth -- a bona fide movie star from a classic Hollywood era that will never come again. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc25f32582cd65554/69884ab8cd1bba38696fac6f/01_53369867.jpg?branch=production&width=761&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # LIFE With Rita Hayworth: Hollywood Legend, Pinup Icon > Sponsored content. 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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. by [Ben Cosgrove](https://time.com/author/ben-cosgrove/) ## Ben Cosgrove Oct 1, 2014 7:21 PM UTC  Rita Hayworth poses "on her own bed in her own home" (as LIFE magazine put it), 1941. Rita Hayworth poses "on her own bed in her own home" (as LIFE magazine put it), 1941. Bob Landry—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images by [Ben Cosgrove](https://time.com/author/ben-cosgrove/) ## Ben Cosgrove Oct 1, 2014 7:21 PM UTC With the possible exception of Betty Grable—and her fabled legs—no single Hollywood star was more popular with American troops during World War II than the actress and dancer Rita Hayworth. Thanks to a photo made by Bob Landry that ran in LIFE magazine in August 1941, months before the U.S. officially entered the war, Hayworth (born Margarita Carmen Cansino in Brooklyn on Oct. 17, 1918) was the face and the lingerie-clad body of arguably the single most famous and most frequently reproduced American pinup image ever. On what would have been her 96th birthday, LIFE.com remembers the star of films as varied as _Pal Joey_, _Strawberry Blonde_, Orson Welles’s _Lady From Shanghai_ and the 1946 noir classic, _Gilda_—in which she played one of moviedom’s most devastatingly sexy _femmes fatale_. Hayworth could play comedy, was stellar in dramatic roles and danced well enough that none other than Fred Astaire, with whom she starred in two hits for Columbia Pictures in the early 1940s, asserted that she was as talented a partner as any he’d ever had. Hayworth’s offscreen life, meanwhile, was frequently tough. She married five times; she struggled with alcoholism; and for the last years of her life she suffered from a disease that was only diagnosed (and given a name) a few years before she died: Alzheimer’s. For countless Americans of a certain age, however, and for movie fans around the world, Rita Hayworth remains one of those rarest of creatures: a bona fide movie star from a classic era—the Hollywood of the 1940s and ’50s—that will never come again. ---  Google Google LIFE Magazine ---  Rita Hayworth poses "on her own bed in her own home" (as LIFE magazine put it), 1941. Bob Landry—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Not published in LIFE. Rita Hayworth on the beach, 1941. Bob Landry—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Not published in LIFE. Rita Hayworth on the beach, 1941. Bob Landry—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Not published in LIFE. Rita Hayworth, photographed through a car window, 1941. 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