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Rating:  - Beautiful Rita
Gilda has to be the best Rita Hayworth movie. She is so beautiful. If you are a fan buy the DVD. You'll love Put the Blame on Mame and that gorgeous costume for Amado Mio.
Rating: - Rita Hayworth When She Scorched the Silver Screen
Hot as hot gets, is how sexy young Rita Hayworth's performance ranks as "Gilda." Without actually stripping, Hayworth does a mock strip tease routine to "Put the Blame of Mame," that is one of the greatest filmed recordings of a young actress being deliberately sexy.
The story is about mobsters and a nightclub, men owning women, losing them to true love, and the ultimate power of a very sensual, gorgeous young woman surpassing that of gun totting thugs.
Glenn Ford gives a great performance as Hayworth's co-star. If your collection of classic song and dance routines is to be complete, "Gilda," is a must own that is on DVD with many special features.
Rating: - Bring sexy back!
Watch and learn! This is what sexy was before women lost all their clothes. Rita Hayworth is smoldering. She dances in this dress that has a slit up one leg and it is so amazing. Oh, she does a striptease....and takes off a single glove. Very cool.
Rating:  - Yes, Put the Blame on Mame
Do not ever exclude the young Rita Hayworth playing the title role of Gilda as one of the classic film femme fatales. In this story line she is a lady with a shady past who finds herself married on the rebound to a casino owner in South America. As fate would have it the ex-boyfriend whom she threw over found himself a cushy job as more than willing ambitious front man for the devious and maniacal casino owner. From Gilda's first appearance, however, the show is all about her. Every move Gilda makes, every move her husband and her ex-beau make only add fuel to her showcase performance. And she dances and sings a little too. But mainly she is drop-dead beautiful with a devilish smile. The story line plays second fiddle here. And for that you can definitely put the blame on Mame.
Rating:  - Forties sensuality in black and white
Gilda (1946)
Directed: Charles Vidor, With: Rita Hayworth,, Glenn Ford,
George Macready
A typical melodrama of the forties, with an unusual advantage: it had in it the sex goddess of the times, Rita Hayworth, then, at 27, reigning supreme, for no other female star could match her sexual bravado, beauty, if not talent. Talent, not for winning Oscars, but for subjecting an audience to a hypnotic state reserved only for celestial figures that became flesh. There are a couple of other factors that make this oldie still watchable and memorable. Glenn Ford, early in his career, gives a magnetic performance as her frustrated lover, who finally wins her, but who had to undergo the conflicts of loyalty to his boss and overcome his dislike for the type of women he thought his inamorata represented. And the final reason is George Macready himself. A polished villain, scarred on one cheek, wielding a cane with a stiletto in it, he is one of those villains Hollywood produced in the `40s and `50s--Basil Rathbone, George Sanders, James Mason, among others--that audiences loved to hate. He is corrupt and totally unscrupulous, running an illegal casino in Argentina, but fatally smitten by the charms of Hayworth, and insanely jealous.
The mix is good, though the plot is murky. We don't quite know whether Macready is a megalomaniac Nazi and what the cartel he presides over really is, but we have the tension created among the three intensify as the movie progresses, and Hayworth's dancing and "singing" at the right moments add to the allure of this movie, semi-forgotten for its message (there is none) but reminding us what Hollywood had at its disposal women of the silver screen whose sex appeal (without much bare skin) has never been duplicated.
Film category: film noir? But that does not matter either, for only the performances here are worth the watching. Don't try popcorn, or valium, while watching. Just sip some wine, if your predilections do not prohibit,
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