It could be either that nowadays allure is too much equated with sex or nudity (less tantalising than several dashes of suggestion) or maybe it's that present day equivalents are portrayed as hard as nails without the necessary mix of sadness and vulnerability. Modern film femme fatales are a pale shadow by comparison, for example Linda Fiorentino or Sharon Stone. Somehow her character gets under the male viewer's skin in the same way as it does to the male characters in the film. She may not have been the most beautiful 40s actress (Gene Tierney and Veronica Lake were more classic beauties imo), but if you look closely her ability to show the sweet, the vulnerable, and especially the wanton, in women has not been bettered. The film is good and quite deep, the male leads are better, but Hayworth's performance is simply stunning and unforgettable. The 40s and 50s produced many alluring performances from beautiful and sexy actresses and Rita Hayworth's in Gilda is one of the most provocative of all.
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