Rita Hayworth and sexual harassment

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Rita Hayworth and sexual harassment

Postby Wellesnet » Sat Dec 02, 2017 4:23 pm

Welles's second wife had her own Harvey Weinstein to deal with-
Hollywood Flashback: Rita Hayworth Was Sexually Harassed by Mogul Harry Cohn for Decades:
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/ ... es-1049356
When it came to women, Columbia Pictures founder Harry Cohn was something of a Jekyll and Hyde — but mostly Hyde. On the one hand, he could be their champion: He appointed screenwriter Virginia Van Upp as an executive producer at the studio in 1946, the first woman with that title. But, just as with allegations about Harvey Weinstein — who is often compared to the fearsome Cohn — starlets in the mogul's orbit were viewed as sexual commodities. And no one had to fend off more unwanted advances than Rita Hayworth.

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Re: Rita Hayworth and sexual harassment

Postby Wellesnet » Tue Dec 22, 2020 12:50 am

Variety on how "Casting-Couch Tactics Plagued Hollywood Long Before Harvey Weinstein":
https://variety.com/2017/film/features/ ... 202589895/


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