Only time you hear Rita Hayworth's real singing voice, Gilda, 1946

Rita resented the studio for never letting her sing on film or helping her to train her voice. She complained: “I wanted to study singing, but Harry Cohn kept saying, ‘Who needs it?’ and the studio wouldn’t pay for it. They had me so intimidated that I couldn’t have done it anyway. They always said, ‘Oh, no, we can’t let you do it. There’s no time for that, it has to be done right now!’ I was under contract, and that was it.” But during the production of Gilda, Rita took matters into her own hands and took private voice lessons from Kay Thompson. At the end, she managed to add this scene to the final cut of the movie, against studio head Harry Cohn’s will (according to Kay Thompson, Rita was also the one who plays the guitar on original recording). #ritahayworth #gilda #40s #classichollywood #oldhollywood #pinup