Who is Rita Hayworth?
Rita Hayworth (1918-1987) was a well known Hollywood sex symbol, dancer, and actress, who starred most famously in Gilda (1946). She is often compared with Marilyn Monroe, her blonde counterpart, and captivated the imagination of American men during her varied film career. While on screen, Rita Hayworth projected a confident, secure woman who embodied the screen goddess ideal of the 1940s. Unfortunately, Rita Hayworth struggled with difficulties in her personal life, culminating in late diagnosed Alzheimer’s, which took her life in 1987. Rita Hayworth was born Margarita Carmen Cansino, into a family of multiple generations of Spanish dancers. Her father, Eduardo, trained her from an early age, and she performed onstage as a dancer as young as eight years old. Rita Hayworth was said to look very mature and was picked up by Fox Pictures in 1935 for Dante’s Inferno. She appeared in numerous films as a dancer, tempering her Latin looks with plastic surgery and electrolysis because she felt
