People, Sep. 12, 1955

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No stickler for the till-death-do-us-part bit, Cinemactress Rita Hayworth played the fourth matrimonial walkout of her career as she left Crooner Dick Haymes. A violent quarrel about their careers and previous marriages—he, too, was trying marriage for the fourth time—split their two-year-old union. The parting left Rita in shock, Dick in tears. To intimates, and to almost any reporter who would listen, Dick confided: "I love Rita. A man is only in love once, and she has been my idol for 18 years." That same night, with Hollywood's Cocoanut Grove packed by...

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