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Rita Hayworth (real name Margarita Carmen Cansino)
(October 17, 1918 – May 14, 1987) was a
famous  United States|American film star of
Spain|Spanish and England|English descent during
the 1940s who was sometimes called "The Love
Goddess" or "The Great American Love Goddess." She
was also celebrated as an expert dancer and as a
great beauty.

First attracting attention of film producers as
part of the dance team "The Dancing Cansinos", she
was signed first by Fox studios, then free-lanced
for several years before signing with Columbia. 
After a name change from Rita Cansino to Rita
Hayworth, and painful electrolysis to raise her
hairline, Rita made a splash as part of the
ensemble cast in Howard Hawks' "Only Angels Have
Wings".  Her "other woman" part in Rouben
Mamoulian's "Blood and Sand" solidified her
new-found stardom. Her fame as a redhead first
arose from this Technicolor film. A Bob Landry
Life Magazine photograph released at this time
added to her celebrity and became one of the most
requested wartime pinups.

Her well-known films include the musicals that
mader her famous: You'll Never Get Rich (1941 in
film|1941) and You Were Never Lovelier (1942 in
film|1942) (both with Fred Astaire), and Cover
Girl (1944 in film|1944) with Gene Kelly. Her
erotic appeal was notable in Gilda (1946 in
film|1946), which encountered some difficulty with
censors.This role made her a cultural icon. Others
include The Lady from Shanghai (1948 in
film|1948), and the 1953 in film|1953 remake of
Sadie Thompson.  During the 1940's, she ranked
with Betty Grable, Dorothy Lamour, and Lana Turner
as one of the most popular pinup girls with
servicemen.  

Shy and reclusive in real life, Rita was the
antithesis of the characters she played.  She once
complained famously that all the men she knew fell
in love with Gilda, but woke up with her.  She was
married five times, including a union with Orson
Welles from 1944-1948 and marriages to Prince Aly
Khan and actor-singer Dick Haymes. She was also
very close to frequent co-star and next door
neighbor Glenn Ford. She had two children: Rebecca
Welles and Princess Yasmin Aga Khan. After about
1960 she suffered from early onset of Alzheimer's
disease which was not diagnosed until 1980; she
continued to act in films until the early 1970s
and made a well-publicized appearance on The Carol
Burnett Show near the end of her career. Lynda
Carter starred in a 1983 biopic of her life. She
lived in an apartment at the San Remo in New York
City. 

Following her death in 1987, she was interred in
Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California.

Rita Hayworth was later used as a main plot device
in Stephen King's short story, Rita Hayworth and
Shawshank Redemption and later in the movie based
on the story which starred Morgan Freeman and Tim
Robbins, The Shawshank Redemption.

Rita Hayworth placed 19th on the American Film
Institute's list of the 25 greatest female movie
stars of all time in 2001.

In 2005, the White Stripes wrote a song titled
"Take, Take, Take" on their album "Get Behind Me
Satan" which humourously describes a man meeting
Hayworth in a bar and pestering her for an
autograph and a picture.

==Filmography==

*Anna Case in La Fiesta (1926) (short subject)
(role unconfirmed)
*The Devil's Cross (1934)
*In Caliente (1935) (scenes deleted)
*Under the Pampas Moon (1935)
*Charlie Chan in Egypt (1935)
*Dante's Inferno (film)|Dante's Inferno (1935)
(credited as Rita Cansino)
*Piernas de sada (1935)
*Paddy O'Day (1935)
*Professional Soldier (1935)
*Dancing Pirate (1936)
*Human Cargo (1936)
*Meet Nero Wolfe (1936)
*Rebellion (1936)
*Old Louisiana (1937)
*Hit the Saddle (1937)
*Trouble in Texas (1937)
*Criminals of the Air (1937)
*Girls Can Play (1937)
*The Game That Kills (1937)
*Life Begins with Love (1937)
*Paid to Dance (1937)
*The Shadow (1937 movie)|The Shadow (1937)
*Who Killed Gail Preston? (1938)
*Special Inspector (1938)
*There's Always a Woman (1938)
*Convicted (1938)
*Juvenile Court (1938)
*The Renegade Ranger (1938)
*Homicide Bureau (1939)
*The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt (1939)
*Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
*Music in My Heart (1940)
*Blondie on a Budget (1940)
*Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 6 (1940) (short
subject)
*Susan and God (1940)
*The Lady in Question (1940)
*Angels Over Broadway (1940)
*The Strawberry Blonde (1941)
*Affectionately Yours (1941)
*Blood and Sand (1941)
*You'll Never Get Rich (1941)
*My Gal Sal (1942)
*Tales of Manhattan (1942)
*You Were Never Lovelier (1942)
*Show Business at War (1943) (short subject)
*Cover Girl (1944)
*Tonight and Every Night (1945)
*Gilda (1946)
*Down to Earth (1947)
*The Lady from Shanghai (1948)
*The Loves of Carmen (1948)
*Champagne Safari (1952) (documentary)
*Affair in Trinidad (1952)
*Salomé (movie)|Salomé (1953)
*Miss Sadie Thompson (1953)
*Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Grows Up (1954)
(documentary)
*Fire Down Below (1957)
*Pal Joey (1957)
*Separate Tables (1958)
*They Came to Cordura (1959)
*The Story on Page One (1960)
*The Happy Thieves (1962)
*Lykke og krone (1962) (documentary)
*Circus World (1964)
*The Money Trap (1965)
*The Poppy Is Also a Flower (1966)
*The Rover (1967)
*Sons of Satan (1968)
*The Naked Zoo (1971)
*The Wrath of God (1972)

==References==
*Ringgold, Gene. The Films of Rita Hayworth
(1974).

==External links==
* http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000028/ IMDb
filmography
*
http://www.suspense-movies.com/stars/rita-hayworth
/ Rita Hayworth Photos
* http://www.classicactresses.com/rita.html Rita
Hayworth at Classic Actresses