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Happy Birthday Rita Hayworth  (October 17, 1918 – May 14, 1987)

“All I wanted was just what everybody else wants, you know, to be loved.”

“For me she used to light up everything. She had a saintly quality, you know. She had plenty of fire too—a lot of that, but there was this other quality about her. She was such a beautiful girl to be around. That’s why she shines so. That’s why she’s a star.” ~ Fred Astaire

“She had something more, a sort of feline movement that was subtle - and insinuating”  ~ Rouben Mamoulian

Behind The Scenes Photos from Classic Universal Monster Movies

Spearheaded by producer Carl Laemmle, Jr. and visionary makeup artist Jack Pierce, Universal Studios’ series of monster movies were responsible for giving the world of cinema its first true horror icons, laying the groundwork for all other iconic boogeymen to follow. 

Beginning in 1925 with the Lon Cheney fronted silent horror classic The Phantom of the Opera, Universal Studios churned out a series of monster movies that were heavy in tension, suspense and atmosphere, setting the ominous mood and tone for each film by way of thick fog, classical music scores and towering gothic castles. Adapting the works of such prominent literary figures as Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker and H. G. Wells, Universal effectively established itself as Hollywood’s ‘House of Horrors’ and continued its landmark series through the 1960s, the last of its original iconic monsters arriving in 1954 with Creature From the Black Lagoon.

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Wenda Rogerson, in a Molyneux Evening Dress with a 1907 Silver Ghost Rolls Royce. Photo by Norman Parkinson for Vogue, 1950

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