Rita Hayworth, Music in My Heart (1940)
Rita Hayworth and musicals waltz beautifully together. While she is known (let’s face it, for obvious reasons) as an icon of great beauty, she was also an uncommonly talented actress as well as dancer.
In fact, Fred Astaire once said she was his favorite dancing partner and he danced with the best dancers in the business.
Including himself!
If you only know Rita Hayworth from the wonderful film-noir Gilda, I hope you’ll venture out and see her musicals (You Were Never Lovelier, Cover Girl, Music in My Heart…). She really was extraordinary.