A dream is a wish your heart makes

forlovelyritahayworth:

“You’ve got to remember she is a Latin. The Cansino’s were Spanish in every way, besides being very successful people in their work. I think most successful people have more pride and develop more arrogance than the average person does. They don’t admit defeat even if you hit them on the head with it. Rita’s the same. She wouldn’t tell you she was despondent about something, even as a little kid. And later on she’d never, for instance, say anything against her husbands. Now this takes a strong character; most women won’t do that. Sure she was shy, but she’s the kind of person who attracts people – they would come to her, she never had to go to them. I don’t know if that’s all good for you, but it’s a rare talent.

(…) Her beauty and grace were natural attributes. So was her intensity. That’s what is most distinctive about her. Even as a young girl Rita was so intense that she commanded you through it. When she looked at you, boy she could turn it on. She could make you freeze in five seconds.

She could even make our mother cry when she withdrew like that and became very proud and distant. Mom would say, “why are you doing this to me? Why are you angry?” Rita wouldn’t say a thing. Just this silence.

Then of course she has the emotional temperament of an artist. She was beautiful but, what was more beneath it there was this quality of intensity you can’t run away from. If any word could describe her it’s intensity, she didn’t have to practice or learn it, it was a quality she always had.”

- Vernon Cansino, brother of Margarita Carmen Dolores Cansino aka Rita Hayworth.

Rita Hayworth ( October 17, 1918 - May 14, 1987 )