-Rita started her career at
an early age dancing with her 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.
