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Title: If This Was Happiness
Subtitle: A Biography of Rita Hayworth
Author: Barbara Leaming
Narrator: Anna Fields
Format: Unabridged
Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
Language: English
Release date: 11-09-06
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 46 votes
Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Celebrities
Publisher's Summary:
Yet behind the smoldering image lay a tragic secret that wrecked her private life. A pathologically shy child, she was thrust at an early age into a sordid limelight as her vaudevillian father's dancing partner, and suffered sexual and physical abuse at his hands. A desperate need for protection led her into five marriages, including nuptials with Orson Welles and Prince Aly Khan. All of them resulted in exploitation and disaster, as did affairs with some of the world's most glamorous men.
Critic Reviews:
"Hayworth fans will learn much from this biography by the author of Orson Welles. The surprising story of the acutely shy Margarita Carmen Cansino, who was dubbed the 'Love Goddess', contains more melodrama than most romance novels." (Publishers Weekly)
