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Rosalind Keith, Marc Lawrence, and Charles Quigley in Criminals of the Air (1937)

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Criminals of the Air

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Rita Hayworth's name change came between the preview (where she was credited as "Rita Cansino") and the release print.
This was the first of five Columbia Picutre's quickies in which Rita Hayworth was teamed with Charles Quigley. She later duplicated this number when cast with Glenn Ford.
Columbia head Harry Cohn forced the Spanish-American star Rita Hayworth, born Margarita Cansino, to change her name to something more Anglicized before she signed a contract with Columbia. Along with her husband, Edward Judson, he pressured her to dye her hair and undergo painful electrolysis for the sake of stardom. And when she refused to sleep with him, he stalked her, meddled with her private life and even bugged her dressing room.
From "Weekly Variety": "Rita Hayworth, charming and voluptuous brunette, dances and plays up to Charles Quigley from the lower side of the border. She does one Spanish terp number, which shows her off well, even if it's nothing fancy. Gets liberal footage on it, and she seems to have possibilities for straight talking roles."
This was the film shown on the session of April 10, 1938 at the Cine Oberdan in São Paulo, Brazil, when a false alarm of fire interrupted the exhibition and people rushed to the theatre exits leading to a tragedy that claimed the lives of 30 children and one adult, all stomped or crushed to death.

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