Actress Rita Hayworth with 1947 Lincoln Automobile

Summary

Actress Rita Hayworth posed with a 1947 Lincoln Continental convertible for this photograph. Hayworth was in costume for her film The Loves of Carmen. Then as now, movie stars were trendsetters who could turn a particular make or model into a fashionable status symbol.

Actress Rita Hayworth posed with a 1947 Lincoln Continental convertible for this photograph. Hayworth was in costume for her film The Loves of Carmen. Then as now, movie stars were trendsetters who could turn a particular make or model into a fashionable status symbol.

Artifact

Photographic print

Subject Date

1947

 On Exhibit

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

P.O.6298

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Ford Motor Company.

Material

Paper (Fiber product)

Technique

Gelatin silver process

Color

Black-and-white (Colors)

Dimensions

Height: 10 in

Width: 8 in

Inscriptions

Strip of tape on back with typing reads: Rita Hayworth, Columbia Pictures star soon to be seen in "The Loves of Carmen" poses with a Lincoln car.

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