Rita Hayworth in Culture

* A poster of Hayworth was used as a plot device in Stephen King's short story, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption from the Stephen King anthology Different Seasons (ISBN 0-7515-0433-5).
* The novel was made into film in 1994 titled The Shawshank Redemption.
* In the world famous comic book/strip The Phantom, the mother of the 21st Phantom, Maude Thorne McPatrick, is drawn to resemble Rita Hayworth. In one story, she even worked as Hayworth's stunt double in a movie
* Rita Hayworth was placed 19th on the American Film Institute's list of the 25 greatest female movie stars of all time in 1999.
* Referenced in the 2001 film Mulholland Drive, when Laura Harring's character takes the name "Rita" after seeing a Gilda movie poster.
* She is referenced in Tom Waits' song "Invitation to the Blues" on his 1976 album Small Change: "And you feel just like Cagney, she looks like Rita
Hayworth".
* In 2005, the White Stripes wrote a song titled "Take, Take, Take" on their album Get Behind Me Satan which humorously describes a man meeting Hayworth in a bar and pestering her for an autograph and a picture. She is also briefly mentioned in the song "White Moon" from the same album. Jack White named one of his guitars after her. It also portrays a picture of her on the back side.
* Hayworth is one of the famous personalities mentioned in Madonna's song "Vogue" as follows: "Rita Hayworth gave good face".
* In Salvador Plascencia's The People of Paper (ISBN 0-15-603211-2). Rita Hayworth is a sad, disenfranchised character. In the novel, she was made infamous for having sex with a lettuce picker.
* A picture of Rita Hayworth was attached to the first atomic bomb dropped over the Bikini Atoll.