He had stolen all of her money, but she was free.
She had gone through so much — manipulative parents, manipulative husbands, manipulative studios — and done it all in the eyes of the gossip-reading public.
But he seemed to be offering happiness to someone who seemed to deserve it, which made their transgressions all the more forgivable.
Throughout this period, Columbia labored to make it clear that Hayworth was not a dancer, because the Rita who danced was exotic, black-haired, doomed to type-casting, and a failure as a star.