Rita Hayworth biography
Rita Hayworth was born and baptized Margarita Carmen Cansino on October 17, 1918 in New York City. She later changed her last name to Hayworth when she began her career as an actress under the advice of her first husband and manager, Edward Judson. Her father was a man of Spanish origin, Eduardo Cansino, who was a dancer, and her mother, Volga, who had been a Ziegfeld Follies girl. Shortly after their daughter was born, they shortened her name to Rita Cansino.
When Rita was 12 years old, she was already a professional dancer. Still a young girl, Rita moved with her family to live in Los Angeles where she joined her father on stage in nightclubs in both United States and Mexico. It was on stage in Agua Caliente, Mexico, where a Fox Film Company producer saw the 16-year-old dancer and immediately signed a contract with her.
Relationships
At the age of 18, Rita Hayworth married Edward Judson, a well-known figure in Hollywood production circles, who promised to make her a famous actress, but in the process, forced her to undergo a drastic physical transformation, they divorced in 1942. She married Orson Welles, a famous actor, director and screenwriter, in 1943; from the marriage a daughter named Rebecca was born, two years later, and she divorced him in 1947.
In 1949, he remarried Prince Ali Khan, they had a daughter named Yasmin, but their marriage did not last long. Their fourth marriage was to Dick Haymes, a musician who was deported and who took advantage of the actress’s fame. The actress’s last marriage was to producer James Hill, who wanted her to continue in the artistic field, divorced three years after the marriage.
Death
In 1971, Rita Hayworth tried to return to scenery, but could not memorize her lines. Her skills diminished and many thought it was a serious alcohol problem. His condition deteriorated rapidly, and alcohol was just one of the factors that ruined her life. Hayworth also had Alzheimer’s, diagnosed in 1980. One year later, her daughter, Princess Yasmin, took care of her. After years of struggle, Hayworth died on May 14, 1987 in the apartment she shared with her daughter in New York City.
Descent of Rita Hayworth
His daughter, Princess Yasmin Aga Khan, who had a son named Ali Khan Embiricos, who was found dead in 1949, and had another daughter named Rebecca Wells.
Outstanding Films
Among her main films we can mention the following:
- Charlie Chan In Egypt
- Human Smuggling
- The Texas Hero
- There’s Always A Woman
- Who killed Gail Preston, one of his first important jobs.
- Only Los Angeles Has Wings, with which he excelled in the American audience.
- Blood and Sand
- The Redhead
- From That Kiss
Rita Hayworth’s celebrity phrases
- If I was a ranch, they’d call me no man’s land.
- .. You are a woman, and therefore elusive.
- I would be satisfied if death were simply a rest, like sleeping.
- The miracle of love ended, Johann has become Johann again.
- Wednesday – Dear Diary: suns and moons have succeeded each other in the vault of heaven without us having our usual encounter, the encounter of the soul with its mirror.
- Faith is the intuition one has of God, and intuitions are not explained.
- His pupils, which are immense, because they no longer reflect the flames of the chimney, but the entire cosmos in the dark night that he is flying through.
Acknowledgements
Rita Hayworth was never nominated for an Oscar or won any major prize, but she did get a star on Hollywood Boulevard’s Walk of Fame at 1645 Vine Street.





