This documentary on golden-age-of-Hollywood sex bomb Rita Hayworth is typical of the content shown on programs like A&E's Biography: It competently presents the basic facts, but provides little stylistic innovation or new information. It's slick and moves along quickly, but just doesn't really get to the bottom of Hayworth's tumultuous life and career.

The highlight of the DVD is without a doubt the archival footage of Hayworth's personal life and the film clips of Hayworth's performances. It's easy to see why this World War II pinup revved the motors of the Greatest Generation. She was a definite hottie - lithe, graceful and stacked. Her life included a strained relationship with her domineering father, success as a dancer, disastrous marriages to both Victor Mature and Orson Welles, superstardom/sex-symbolhood and an eventual decline into Alzheimer's disease, complete with a very public early '80s airplane freak-out brought to you by The National Enquirer.

The DVD comes with a ton of extras, including a whole extra disc: A 1937 Tex Ritter vehicle entitled Trouble in Texas in which a young Rita Hayworth stars. It's a pretty bad movie, but even in this less-than-stellar genre flick, Hayworth shines.