Photographers rushed to the Santa Monica Courthouse in September 1943.
The proceedings concluded, and with Welles’ pal Joseph Cotton by their side as best man, the happy couple greeted the assembled press as if replaying the scene in Citizen Kane in which Welles’ ebullient Charlies Foster Kane marries Dorothy Comingore’s Susan Alexander in a hasty City Hall ceremony. There would be no immediate honeymoon: “I gotta get back to the studio,” Hayworth laughed.
But as a somewhat more skeptical Associated Press put it, “The marriage of Orson Welles, star of stage, screen and radio, to Rita Hayworth, one of filmdom’s leading glamour gals, came as a surprise, especially in view of the fact that until recently Miss Hayworth had been reportedly engaged to Victor Mature, now in the Coast Guard.”
In fact, it was a second marriage for both —the press quickly dubbed them Beauty and the Brain. Welles had first spotted Hayworth on the cover ofmagazine while he was filming in Brazil and upon his return to the States sought her out.
The surprise marriage didn’t last long. In March, 1946, Hayworth separated, moving with their young daughter Rebecca into a home of her own. The two did re-unite to film their 1947 film noir. But by that November, Hayworth was back in court, officially filing for divorce. According to Leaming, Hayworth later told Welles, “You know the only happiness I’ve ever had in my life has been with you.” But a saddened and guilty Welles would say,“If this was happiness, imagine what the rest of her life had been.”
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