Ok thanks for clearing it up but I read otherwise in several places.

stunning pics

Ok thanks for clearing it up but I read otherwise in several places.

Online?

Yeah, once such a rumour gets started in the internet, it's everywhere, unfortunately.

Here are two pictures, one from her early Fox days and the other from the early 70s, that show that she always had the same nose:

Well Rita is beautiful and it's great that she was a natural beauty and didn't feel she needed to alter herself for Hollywood

no wonder why she has such a beautiful hair, but i do think she might do something with her nose, it looks more elegant in her later pic

I guess these days it seems unbelievable that a woman could be that beautiful without plastic surgery.

Yes I agree and I think that is sad, but back in the day a lot of the actresses were all natural and I much prefer natural beauty even if there are some flaws compared to fake so called perfection. Do we know for sure if Marilyn Monroe had some work done? I've also read that in places...

For Marilyn it's sure! for Rita I've just heard they took some of her teeth to make her face thiner..and she did a diet now she seems to be the same and if she did plastic surgery it's very well done!

for Rita I've just heard they took some of her teeth to make her face thiner

Somebody else mentioned this on another board, too, but it isn't true, either.

In fact, her smile with her beautiful teeth became even broader as her wisdom teeth were coming through later.

When she was a teenager she still had a lot of baby fat and after dieting she got rid of it.

Yeah I think that is what it is, she just got thinner! If you lose weight your face does change a bit

Yeah I think that is what it is, she just got thinner! If you lose weight your face does change a bit

yes it's trur! she is amazing!!!

you seems know many things about her 40sFilmFan! I've heard she has a hard childhood...

Beautiful!

you seems know many things about her 40sFilmFan! I've heard she has a hard childhood...

Don't worry, this terrible story about her father abusing her from this scandalous Leaming bio from 1989 is MOST UNLIKELY to be true.

And I personally don't believe it one bit!

Her father was strict, yes, in fact, both her parents were strict Catholics. Rita's daughter Yasmin said in an interview that he demanded "blood" from Rita, that she would always have to give her very best while dancing. But that doesn't mean that these incest claims have any ground.

Leaming's bio is awfully written in general, it's full of pseudo psychology and very repetitive.

She bases her claims on Orson Welles revealing her this "secret" during an interview for the bio she was writing about him - but if I remember correctly, she doesn't even quote him in her Rita bio, she only writes that "he told me that Rita was abused by her father" or something like that. And there is no mentioning of it in her Welles bio which came out while Rita and Orson were still alive while her Rita bio came out after both had died.

It's even rumoured that Leaming's original script was way different from the final result but that the publisher wanted her to rewrite the book in order to make it more scandalous - in other words: to make big cash $$$.

Even if it were true I doubt that Orson would have revealed it.

He knew this business only too well and I'm sure he would never have wanted somebody making money with such information about Rita.

Even though their marriage didn't last, both stayed very fond of each other.

Furthermore, he hardly ever spoke about the women in his life! Only on very few occasions like for his very last interview on the Merv Griffin show in 1985 he would talk about Rita and also Marlene Dietrich, and what great women they were etc.

He died a few hours later.