Rita
started her career at an early age dancing with her famous
dancing family 'the
Dancing Cansino's'. Rita probably got her dancing
skill from her father Eduardo Cansino, who was a famous
Spanish
dancer himself along with her mother Volga Haworth. They
can be seen dancing as a family in 'Anna Case' and 'La Fiesta'
in 1926 with an 8 year old Rita.
By 13 years of age she was performing
in her father's Stage acts with a movie career right around
the corner. Rita, wanting to be a dancer, continued in show
business and found acting a serious possibility. Not only
did she become a dancer, she also became a famous actress
and leading lady.
Rita did not dance in all her movies
but the ones she did were fabulous, especially with Fred
Astaire. Legend has it that her beauty inspired the
naming of a cocktail... 'The Margarita' and her face
was painted on the nose of the plane that dropped the bomb
on Hiroshima. Rita died of Alzheimer's disease in
1987.
