What Was The Last Movie Rita Hayworth Starred In Before She Died?

Rita Hayworth made her biggest statement as an actress in 1946's "Gilda," where she played the flirtatious wife of a powerful casino owner. But Hayworth herself was apparently a quiet and shy individual. IMDb quotes the actress — from her 1977 biography "Portrait of a Love Goddess" by John Kobal — as saying, "Men fell in love with Gilda, but they wake up with me."

Turning on the charm became even harder for Hayworth when alcoholism and Alzheimer's disease threatened and eventually ended her career. CR Fashion Book wrote that by the 1960s she was forgetting her lines during shoots. Her final appearance came in 1972 with the film "The Wrath of God," a Western that also starred Robert Mitchum and Frank Langella. There, she played the mother of a rebel leader in a war-torn Central American country. However, filming was difficult for her. Hayworth's memory was so unreliable in "The Wrath of God" that she could only get through one line each take.