Rita Hayworth

Rita Hayworth born Margarita Carmen Cansino October 17, 1918 May 14, 1987 was an American actress and dancer. She achieved fame during the 1940s as one of the eras top stars, appearing in a total of 61 films overyears. The press coined the term love goddess to describe Hayworth after she had become the most glamorous screen idol of the 1940s. She was the top pinup girl for GIs during World War II.

Hayworth was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1918 as Margarita Carmen Cansino, the oldest child of two dancers. Her father, Eduardo Cansino, Sr., was from Castilleja de la Cuesta, a little town near Seville, Spain. Her mother, Volga Hayworth, was an American of IrishEnglish descent who had performed with the Ziegfeld Follies.281 The couple married in 1917. They also had two sons Eduardo Cansino, Jr. and Vernon Cansino.Margaritas father wanted her to become a professional dancer, while her mother hoped she would become an actress. Her paternal grandfather, Antonio Cansino, was renowned as a Spanish classical dancer. He popularized the bolero and his dancing school in Madrid was world famous. Hayworth later recalled, From the time I was three and a half as soon as I could stand on my own feet, I was given dance lessons.67 She noted I didnt like it very much but I didnt have the courage to tell my father, so I began taking the lessons. Rehearse, rehearse, rehearse, that was my girlhood.16 ........

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