Cinema: Onward & Upward

Ever since plump brunette dancer Margarita Carmen Cansino became a slim red-haired actress named Rita Hayworth, she has striven purposefully to live up to her rising station in life. When she dropped Husband No. 1, Eddie Judson (who also served as a valuable business manager), she contented herself with the casual observation: "I didn't have any fun." When she divorced Husband No. 2, Orson Welles, she felt called upon to explain somewhat more precisely: "I just can't take his genius any more." But when it came to explaining the decline of her romance with Husband No. 3, it was obvious...

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