Big Red

Set amidst the noir glamour of Hollywood’s Golden Age, ‘Big Red’ re-envisions the life of one of America’s most enduring icons: Gilda herself, Rita Hayworth, whose fiery red hair and hypnotic dancing helped make her the quintessential movie star of the 1940s. With narrator Rusty Redburn – a feisty second-string gossip columnist from Kalamazoo tasked with spying on Hayworth by Columbia movie mogul Harry ‘The Janitor’ Cohn – as our guide, we follow the meteoric rise and heartrending demise of the actress, encountering her exploitative father, Eduardo; her controlling husband, ‘boy genius’ Orson Welles; and notorious journalist Louella Parsons, among many others.