She had endured a life of transformation and heartbreak, all of it very much in the public eye, and so there were things that audiences wanted for her — happiness, a family, princess-dom — that made them willing to forgive pesky technicalities.
Hayworth publicly called for a divorce, established residency in Nevada which was what you had to do in those days to actually get a divorce , and the marriage finally ended in early 1953.
And rightly so: the film was a stink bomb, in part because it so clearly deviated from what had endeared Hayworth to audiences.