RITA WILL TEACH GLAMOUR

Chronicle (Levin), 31 October 1946, Page 5

RITA WILL TEACH GLAMOUR

Rita Hayworth has stated that she hopes her baby, Rebecca, grows up to be a glamour girl. She, who should know a thing or two about the matter, is one hundred per cent for her daughter achieving that status. One glimpse of the lady on the set of Columbia Pictures' romantic drama, "Gilda," which is shortly to open in Wellington, was enough to convince me that she knows whereof she speaks. Rita, in a diaphanous, flesh-coloured chiffon negligee, with her shapely legs encased in a black opera-length silk hose gives ample evidence as to why she was nominated the favourite pin-up lass of 1946. Rita is cast as a streamlined siren in "Gilda," and when Glenn Ford and George Macready fall for her, there won't be a movie fan anywhere who will fail to appreciate the lady's appeal. "Of course, it is a little too early to tell whether Rebecca will be a beauty, as she's just under a year old. But I intend to give her the advantage of whatever experience I've gained in this glamour business when she gets to be of an age where she's interested in such things," the star confided. "I expect that a girl should meet nature half way in the matter of allure," Rita continued, "Good health is the first requisite, and I'll see to it that Rebecca is as perfect a physical specimen as scientific care can make her. I'm watchingher diet carefully. "Next in imporfcance is grace. Rebecca will be taught to swim and dance almost as soon as she is able to walk, so that such things will be natural to her." Rita believes that a girl should use only a minimum of make-up. "The more natural a girl is, the greater is her allure," she contends. "And every girl who aspires to glamour should be a good listener. Even the plainest girl seems more attractive if she has learned to listen well." Asked whether she wanted her daughter to be an actress, Rita said it was up to her. "I've found a career wonderful. There is no reason why a sensible girl can't successfully combine both a career and marriage. It requires tact, energy and balance to make both work. But it can be done, I'm certain." She contends that glamour is just another word for charm. Sir James Barrie, in his play, "What Every Woman Knows," has his heroine define charm as "It's a sort of a bloom on a woman." If you have it, you don't need anything else. And if you don't have it, it doesn't matter what else you have. Walter Huston, Marilyn Maxwell, Gloria de Haven and Agnes Moorehead have been chosen to head the cast of. "Ah Wilderness," which producer Arthur Freed is planning as a- musical film. The Eugene O'NeiU.play will be brought to the scr;eeh^%ndei% the title of "Summer Hpl^a^'jt Chafdcter actress Aline MacMihon.has been chosen as Wallace Beery's leading lady in his latest film, "The Mighty McGurk," the story of an ex-prize-fighter. Young Dean Stockwell, who stole so many hearts, and scenes, in . "Anchors Aweigh," will play Beery's young friend and admirer. Deborrah Kerr, the English film actress, is going to Hollywood where she has signed a five years contract with M.-G.-M. at £750 a week. Deborrah is 23, of Scottish descent and married. New York stage actor Richard Hart has the unusual distinction of making his screen debut as Greer Garson's leading man in "A Woman of My Own." The film, based on Leonhard Frank's beautiful love story "Karl and Anna" is set in rural France. Norma Shearer has decided to make her film comeback in a love story with a modern setting. David Lewis, a great friend and business associate of Norma's late husband, Irving Thalberg, will produce her first film. At present Lewis is making "Arch of Triumph," with Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer as stars — which proves that Norma has made a shrewd choice. She drove an equally shrewd bargain in signing with Lewis' Enterprise Company — she will approve all her film scripfs a'nd share the profits of her films.