Ebook: If This Was Happiness: A Biography of Rita Hayworth

“If this was happiness,” said Orson Welles of their time together, “imagine what the rest of her life had been!” In reconstructing that life, Barbara Leaming has drawn on medical records, government documents, trial transcripts, movielot memoranda, and the testimony of hundreds of eyewitnesses to create an astonishingly moving portrait of a woman at odds with herself, whose present was continually compromised by her past. Perceptive, intelligent, compulsively readable, IF THIS WAS HAPPINESS is a rare biography — one that combines the pathos and allure of its subject. [From the inside cover.]