Kim Novak, who will be honored with a Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement award at the Venice Film Festival later this year, ...

Pal Joey is the story of Joey Evans ... to bed the sultry young go-getter. Her Vera—the Rita Hayworth role to Frank Sinatra’s Joey in the 1957 movie—is the ur-cougar. It’s a variation ...

Who else but Frank Sinatra could play the nightclub crooner who's a heel to not only Rita Hayworth but Kim Novak (both of whose singing was dubbed)? Rodgers & Hart songs, some (though not quite ...

Pal Joey is a strong, funny entertainment ... status is the chorine from Albuquerque who becomes Joey’s prey; Rita Hayworth (in the Vivienne Segal role) does the ‘Zip’ number that had ...

Other high-profile films banned included Pal Joey starring Frank Sinatra and Rita Hayworth, Wild Is the Wind with Anthony Quinn, House on Haunted Hill featuring Vincent Price, and Anatomy of a ...

Pal Joey is a musical with a book by John O'Hara ... and a 1957 film adaptation starring Frank Sinatra, Rita Hayworth and Kim Novak. The 2008 revival starred Stockard Channing as Vera, Martha ...

It all started for him when he got his first big break on Broadway in the Rodgers and Hart musical, Pal Joey. He had graduated from the ... partners along the way such stars as Judy Garland, Rita ...

Before becoming one of the most sought-after starlets of the Golden Hollywood era, a young Rita Hayworth was simply a dancer. It was years of minor roles before she became Rita Hayworth ...

The year was 1953, the object of his wrath Rita Hayworth, Columbia’s reigning ... and simultaneously preparing for the recently completed Pal Joey, that she landed in the hospital with exhaustion.

He was in San Francisco a lot in 1957 to film the musical Pal Joy. Sinatra could be found at Coit Tower on Telegraph Hill, which the filmmakers had transformed into the mansion of Joey’s wealthy ...

“While it [“Pal Joey”] wasn’t the first musical to ... which starred Frank Sinatra, Rita Hayworth and Kim Novak.” The cast features Nico Jaochico as the flawed Joey Evans with Maria ...