Hayworth’s swan song for Cohn and Columbia was Pal Joey (1967). The wheel had come full circle and she was to be replaced as the studio’s top star by the latest Cohn discovery, Kim Novak.

Given a buildup to star status is the chorine from Albuquerque who becomes Joey’s prey; Rita Hayworth (in the Vivienne Segal role) does the ‘Zip’ number that had been done by the herein ...

Rita Hayworth and Kim Novak (but Hollywood turned Joey into a nice guy and gave the story a happy ending). By 1961, another critic for the Times, Howard Taubman, was pronouncing the musical ...

Known for its 1957 film adaptation, starring Frank Sinatra and Rita Hayworth, Pal Joey tells the story of a wise-cracking, womanizing singer who romances a wealthy, lonely widow in an effort to ...