SUMMER UNDER THE STARS: RITA HAYWORTH
TCM, 6:00 a.m. ET
Rita Hayworth is the focus of today’s “Summer Under the Stars” salute on TCM, and the salute begins at 6 a.m. ET with Renegade Ranger, a 1938 film that is her earliest one in this retrospective. But not the earliest: she already had appeared in more than two dozen movies by then. Today’s “Summer Under the Stars” Hayworth tribute continues through 4 a.m. Tuesday, when TCM shows 1972’s The Wrath of God, which was Hayworth’s last film. (It was not, however, the same film as that same year’s similarly titled Aguirre, The Wrath of God, a 16th-century adventure story directed by Werner Herzog. Hayworth’s Wrath of God was a Western.) In between those two Hayworth offerings, on TCM, are some of her most famous screen appearances. Watch, in particular, for her in 1948’s The Lady from Shanghai (8 p.m. ET) and, of course, 1946’s Gilda (pictured, at 10 p.m. ET).