If you like behind-the-scenes Hollywood stories, you should enjoy this example of the genre. But don't expect too much in the way of hard facts: F Arthur Kean's teleplay deals rather sketchily with Rita Hayworth's career and personal life between 1934 and 1952 and uses many of the standard cliches of this kind of biopic. That said, Lynda 'Wonder Woman' Carter makes a brave stab at portraying the legendary sex symbol and scores in the (repeated) recreation of the steamy Put the Blame on Mame from Hayworth's film Gilda. Credit is due to Jan Scott and Brienne for their evocative period art direction and costume design and Michael Lerner gives an entertainingly contemptuous account of Columbia Pictures boss Harry Cohn, one of the greatest vulgarians in the history of Hollywood. Lerner remains one of Hollywood's most interesting character actors, adept at playing bad guys (such as Cohn and a memorably oily crime boss in Hill Street Blues) and goodies.

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