Gilda's

Only Angels Have Wings and The Strawberry Blonde are my favourite movies that feature her in both, she's the bombshell menacing the nice girl; and Gilda's doppelganger-movie The Lady From Shanghai – for which ex-husband Orson Welles hacked off her flame-red hair then bleached the remnants platinum blonde – was the movie in which she was at her most heartbreakingly beautiful.

Gilda is pure, undistilled Rita Hayworth 2011

Gilda's Clubs provide a meeting place for families to learn how to live with cancer.

Cancer information, support groups for parents of children with cancer 2010

Strangest of all, however, was a decision that director Marc Astafan made because of his worry that Mvinjelwa's Rigoletto might look too young to be Gilda's father.

Performing Arts: Kelli O'Hara lights up the Kennedy Center Nelson Pressley 2010

So she picked an organization close to her heart - cancer support community Gilda's Club - and partnered with Pure Yoga to host an Urban Girl Squad fundraiser with a ticket price of $25.

Elizabeth Nicholas: microCSR 2010

Still after all of these years, Gilda's comic brilliance shines through and is perhaps the true precursor to Jon Stewart's "Daily Show."

Tiffany Shlain: Writing My UC-Berkeley Commencement Speech -- What to Say? 2010

Now, as the centers continue to rebuild over the next two years, the 9,500 members of the New Jersey Women's Clubs will help provide fund raising, advocacy and volunteer support to Gilda's Club of Northern New Jersey, Gilda's Club South Jersey and the Wellness Community chapters in Bedminster, N.J., and Eatontown, N.J. Gilda's Club is named for "Saturday Night Live" comedian Gilda Radner who died of ovarian cancer in 1989.

Cancer Center Gilda's Club Gets a Boost 2010

"We've really turned Gilda's Club around," Ms. Dugan says.

Cancer Center Gilda's Club Gets a Boost 2010

Still after all of these years, Gilda's comic brilliance shines through and is perhaps the true precursor to Jon Stewart's "Daily Show."

Tiffany Shlain: Writing My UC-Berkeley Commencement Speech -- What to Say? Tiffany Shlain 2010

Gilda's Club is also planning to launch "Gilda's in a Box," a traveling van or bus that will allow the organization to take its programs to New Jersey communities that aren't near a local club.

Cancer Center Gilda's Club Gets a Boost 2010

Tenor Shaun Dixon, the 11th-hour replacement for a stricken Gwyn Hughes-Jones, used some of his range to considerable effect, but had neither the charisma needed for the Duke/President, nor the charm to explain Gilda's ensnarement by him.

Rigoletto 2010