The Rita Hayworth Quiz answers
1) Where was Rita Hayworth born?
           
Madrid, Spain
           
Los Angeles, California
           
New York City, New York
           
Agua Caliente, Mexico
2) When was Rita born?
           
November 22, 1923
           
May 1, 1922
           
April 14, 1916
           
October 17, 1918
3) How many brothers and sisters did Rita have?
           
1 brother, 1 sister
           
2 brothers, 0 sisters
[
Vernon, Eduardo Jr.
]
           
3 brothers, 1 sister
           
0 brothers, 2 sisters
4) What was her first Technicolor film?
           
Blood and Sand
           
Dante's Inferno
           
Only Angels Have Wings
           
Cover Girl
5) Who co-starred with Rita in 5 movies?
           
Gene Kelly [
Cover Girl
]
           
Fred Astaire [
You'll Never Get Rich
,
You Were Never Lovelier
]
           
Glenn Ford
[
The Lady In Question
,
Gilda
,
The Loves of Carmen
,
Affair In Trinidad
,
The Money Trap
]
           
Larry Parks [
Down to Earth
]
6) What was Rita's only movie released in 1945?
           
Cover Girl [
1944
]
           
Tonight and Every Night
           
Gilda [
1946
]
           
You Were Never Lovelier [
1942
]
7) How Many children did Rita have?
           
1
           
2
[
Daughters, Rebecca Welles and Princess Yasmin Aga Khan
]
           
3
           
4
8) In what year did Rita make her last film?
           
1955
           
1957
           
1972
[
The Wrath of God
]
           
1987
9) Which studio did Rita mainly work for during her top years in Hollywood?
           
Columbia
[
1937-1957
]
           
Paramount
           
MGM
           
Twentieth Century-Fox
10) Who was Rita's favorite photographer?
           
Irving Lippman
           
A.L. "Whitey" Schafer
           
George Hurrell
           
Robert Coburn
11) What was Rita's first movie after her divorce from Prince Aly Khan?
           
Affair In Trinidad
[
1952
]
           
Gilda
           
Fire Down Below
           
The Loves of Carmen
12) For what movie did Rita go blonde?
           
You'll Never Get Rich
           
Down to Earth
           
The Lady from Shanghai
           
Miss Sadie Thompson
13) Which Rita co-star did she come close to marrying?
           
Tyrone Power
           
Victor Mature
           
Glenn Ford
           
Gene Kelly
14) In what movie was Rita first billed as "Rita Hayworth"?
           
Criminals of the Air
[
1937
]
           
You'll Never Get Rich
           
Dante's Inferno
           
Girls Can Play
15) What was one of the two Rita movies she claimed as her favorite?
           
Cover Girl
           
You Were Never Lovelier
           
Gilda
           
The Lady from Shanghai
16) According to the song "Vogue" (by Madonna) what did Rita Hayworth do?
           
appear "on the cover of a magazine" [
"Marlon Brando, Jimmy Dean-on the cover of a magazine"
]
           
"dance on air" [
"Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers-dance on air"
]
           
give "good face"
[
"Rita Hayworth-gave good face"
]
           
be the "picture of a beauty queen" [
"Grace Kelly, Harlow Jean-picture of a beauty queen"
]
17) Rita's Hollywood title was, of course:
           
"The Sweater Girl" [
Lana Turner
]
           
"The Pin-Up Queen" [
Betty Grable
]
           
"The Love Goddess"
           
"The Oomph Girl" [
Ann Sheridan
]
18) In how many movies did Rita star opposite Fred Astaire?
           
2
[
You'll Never Get Rich
,
You Were Never Lovelier
]
           
3
           
4
           
5
19) Who played Rita in the 1983 TV movie about her?
           
Demi Moore
           
Kirstie Alley
           
her daughter, Yasmin
           
Lynda Carter
[
She played her in the movie, Rita Hayworth, The Love Goddess
]
20) In what year did Rita make the most movies?
           
1941 [
4
]
           
1937
[
8
]
           
1936 [
3
]
           
1940 [
4
]
BONUS:
How many movies did Rita make billed as "Rita Cansino"?
           
10
[
4 in 1935, 3 in 1936 and 3 in 1937
]
           
4
           
17
           
1
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