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Rita as Gilda

Stage Name

Birth Name

Rita Hayworth Margarita Carmen Cansino
   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.
$1999 - Rita Hayworth Video
Rita Hayworth Autograph
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Birth Place

Birth Date

Spouse

Offspring

Brooklyn, NY 10/17/1918 - 5/14/1987 Edward Judson "Princess" Yasmin Kahn
            Dick Hymes Rebecca Wells
            James Hill      
            Orson Wells      
            Prince Aly Khan      
 

Dance Types

Dance Partners

Music Titles

Ballet Ceaser Romero $1999 - Rita Hayworth CD
Ballroom Dancing Cansinos $2001 - Rita - Gilded Promises
Spanish Fred Astaire      
      Gary Leon      
      Jack Cole      
      Gabriel Cansino      
 

Night Clubs

Theaters

Stage

1950s- Bimbos 365 Club n/a n/a
                 
                 
 

Films

Theaters, etc.

Publications

Human Cargo (as Rita Cansino) n/a 8/11/1941 - Life Magazine
1926 - Anna Case       7/1949 - Movie Life Magazine
1926 - La Fiesta       11/29/1942 - Parade Magazine
1934 - Crazy Diablo       10/10/1941 - Time Magazine
$1935 - Dante's Inferno       1/1942 - Film Fun Magazine
1935 - Under a Pampas Moon       12/1942 - Dance Magazine
$1937 - Dancing Pirate       7/15/1945 - Life Magazine
1937 - Paid To Dance       11/1953 - Modern Screen Magazine
$1939 - Only Angels Have Wings       2/1954 - Adam Magazine (Cover)
$1940 - Lady in Question, the       10/1955 - Inside Story Magazine
$1940 - Music in My Heart       $1983 - Rita Hayworth: A Memoir
$1941 - Blood and Sand       $1993 - Rita Hayworth Her Story
$1941 - Strawberry Blonde       $1995 - La Traicion De Rita Hayworth
$1941 - You'll Never Get Rich       $1997 - If This was Happiness (Rita Bio)
$1942 - You Were Never Lovelier       $2001 - Rita Hayworth
$1942 - Tales of Manhattan       $2001 - Rita Hayworth ... Photographic
$1944 - Cover Girl       $Rita -The Time, the Place, and the Woman
$1945 - Tonight and Everynight       $The Complete Films of Rita Hayworth
$1946 - Gilda (DVD)       $The Life Of Rita Hayworth
$1948 - Lady From Shanghai            
$1948 - Loves of Carmen (DVD)            
1948 - Universal Newsreel (Khan Wedding)            
$1952 - Affair in Trinidad            
$1952 - Champagne Safari            
$1953 - Miss Sadie Thompson            
$1955 - Salome            
$1957 - Fire Down Below            
$1957 - Pal Joey            
$1959 - They Came To Cordoba            
1972 - Wrath Of God            
Rita Hayworth: Love Goddess            
$1999 - Rita Hayworth            
$2000 - Anatomy of a Dancer            
NOTE:
January 28, 2010
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