If This Was Happiness
A Biography of Rita Hayworth

The legendary Love Goddess was a huge boxoffice star, and her sultry beauty and sensational figure turned her into the ultimate sexsymbol. Yet behind the smoldering image lay a tragic secret that wrecked her private life. Extremely shy as a child, Rita Hayworth was forced by her vaudevillian father to be his dancing partnerand he abused her as well. Her need for protection led her into five disastrous marriages. If This Was Happiness is at once sensational, revealing, and compassionate.