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Stage Names |
Birth Names | Royal or Dancing Cansino's |
Angel Cansino | Eduardo Cansino | Elsa Cansino | | " " |
Elsa Cansino | Gabriel Cansino | Jose Cansino? |
| Royal or Dancing Cansino's | Rita
Hayworth --> |
Margarita
Carmen Cansino (Rita Cansino) | | " " |
Pilar Cansino | Volga Haworth |
Cansino's grandfather and father were also
established Spanish dancers from Spain. Eduardo and his sister
Elsa and brother Angel came to the United States from Spain in
1913 to become famous dancers.
Eduardo met Volga
Haworth who was originally from Spain, shortly after arriving
in the States while they were both working in the 1915 Ziegfeld
Follies. They were married in 1917. This union led to the
original dancing Cansino's ( Edurado, Volga and Elsa.) | Volga's brother was actor Vinton Haworth. Margarita (Rita
Hayworth) would later briefly join the troop in 1930.
Lita & Gabriel Cansino did the music for the group (Gabriel
was Rita's Cousin and original dance partner.) Rita had two cousin's
named Richard Cansino and Volga's brother Vinton Haworth (Vinton
was also Betty
Grables Uncle.)
The Cansino's danced in many vaudeville and
Burlesque musicals as well as a few movies. The Cansino's are
mainly remembered today for giving birth to one of America's most
beautiful actresses "Rita
Hayworth," when she was 8, Rita got her first taste of
her film career when her family was filmed in a movie titled "La
Fiesta" in 1926. Rita would learn to dance thru her talented
family as a child and eventually joined the "Dancing Cansino's"
at the age of twelve. |
Birth Place |
Birth Date |
Spouse |
Offspring |
| Madrid, Spain
(Angel) |
died. 12/24/1968 |
n/a |
n/a |
| n/a (Gabriel) |
n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
| Madrid, Spain (Eduardo) |
3/2/895-12/24/1968 |
Volga |
Margarita | Eduardo Jr. |
| New York (Eduardo Jr.) |
10/13/1919-3/11/1974 |
?? |
?? |
| Madrid, Spain (Elsa) |
n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
| Brooklyn, NY (Margarita) |
10/17/1918-1987 |
Judson, Wells | Khan, Haymes |
Rebecca Welles | Yasmin Khan |
| Wash. D.C. (Vinton Haworth) |
6/4/1906-5/21/1970 |
?? |
?? |
| Spain, (Volga) |
died: 1/25/1945* |
Eduardo |
Margarita | Eduardo Jr. |
Night Clubs |
Theaters |
Stage |
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Carnegie Hall |
1915 - Ziegfeld Follies (Eduardo & Elsa) |
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Winter Garden Theatre (1923) |
1916 - Follow Me (Ed
& Elsa and Volga Hayworth) |
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1923 - Greenwich Village
Follies (Cansino's) |
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1932 - Chamberlain Brown's Scrap
Book (Vinton) |
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1944 - The Doughgirls (Vinton) |
Films |
Television |
Publications |
| 1926 - Anna Case (La
Fiesta) |
whole Family |
2003 - Rita |
4/1947 - Dance Screen Stage mag. |
| 1926 - La Fiesta (Anna Case) |
whole Family |
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| 1930 - Golden Dawn |
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| 1935 - Under the Pampas Moon |
< Rita dancing |
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1936 - Dancing Pirate |
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1948 - The Loves of Carmen [DVD] |
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1953 - Salome (Eduardo as Guard) |
< Eduardo, Rita |
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| 1953 - Sombrero |
< Eduardo |
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| 1959 - María de la O |
< w/ Pilar Cansino |
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| NOTE: Elsa sometimes listed as Elisa |
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