<p>Rita Hayworth was the epitome of 1940s Hollywood glamour. A huge box office star her sultry figure was pasted <span>by GIs </span>onto the first atom bomb ever detonated. Yet behind the smoldering image lay a tragic secret that wrecked her private life. A pathologically shy child Rita was thrust into the sordid limelight as her vaudevillian father’s dancing partner at an early age suffering sexual and physical abuse at his hands. A desperate need for protection led her into five disastrous marriages including those to Orson Welles and Prince Aly Khan. At the age of forty-two Alzheimer's disease began to ravage her mind cutting short her career at its peak.</p> <p>This is a haunting and sympathetic tribute to a talented but insecure beauty who was created and ultimately destroyed by the movies.</p>