Rita Hayworth's Greatest Movies
Countdown to Rita Hayworth's highest rated films 1939-1964
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIC4_7RXq9E
No real disputes about your ratings here.
For me, Gilda and Lady from Shanghai, though, are Hayworth movies, while Only Angels Have Wings and Separate Tables are movies she is just in.
My only quibble would be with Salome. Okay it is not a particularly good movie. On the other hand, for me it is an entertaining campy watch, so I would put it in the top ten. Can't dispute someone with better taste putting it much lower though.
I watched Salome again recently, Hayworth was the best thing about it, campy yes but a good film, no.
As for Gilda, when I had finished rating her movies the number one film wasn't her most iconic, it was Only Angels Have Wings. I knew I would get a lot of flak if I left that at the top. So I dropped it down a peg.
To be frank both Gilda and Only Angels Have Wings are vastly overrated in my opinion. I was saying this to someone else the other day, Gilda is celebrated because of Rita Hayworth's dazzling performance, the film itself is pretty average. Replace her with Carmen Miranda and the film wouldn't be as talked about, but it might be funnier. :)
"Carmen Miranda"
But Gilda can only be played by a "Love Goddess"--which I think is the term they used to use.
Perhaps Turner or Gardner, or later Monroe. Just an average good and attractive actress--say, Deborah Kerr--and it wouldn't work at all. The men in the film are supposed to be completely soused by her over-the-top female allure. Not every actress can pull that off.
No doubt the film is a classic almost completely because of Hayworth.