Prot-a-gonist* Οveracted | Rita Hayworth / Orson Welles, 1947
Orson Welles poses with actress and wife Rita Hayworth on the set of the film
‘The Lady from Shanghai’ in 1947 in Los Angeles, California.
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“I directed him (Orson) in a scene in The Lady of Shanghai. He said,
‘Why don’t you watch me and you direct me in this scene?’ so I said
‘Oh fine,’ So I sat in the chair and he said,
‘Now watch me and tell me what I do whether it is right or wrong’
so I watched it and he finished the scene and he says, ‘Well mama what did
you think of it?’ and I said ‘You overacted it,’ imagine me telling him that,
but he wanted the truth and I told him. And he was very pleased that I was
honest with him.”
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Rita Hayworth
Orson Welles, The Lady from Shanghai, 1947
Argentine poster
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* The slogan in Spanish reads, basically;
“Either love me as I am, or hate me!”
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