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Rita Hayworth (1918–1987)


Spanish dancer Eduardo Cansino's daughter Margarita trained as a dancer from early childhood. At age 12, mature-looking Rita joined Eduardo's stage act, in which she was spotted three years later by Fox studio head Winfield R. Sheehan, leading to her first studio contract and film debut at age 16 in Dante's Inferno... See full bio »

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Filmography

Hide HideActress (65 titles)
1972 The Wrath of God
Señora De La Plata
 
1970 Road to Salina
Mara
 
1968 The Bastard
Martha
 
1967 The Rover
Aunt Caterina
 
1966 Poppies Are Also Flowers
Monique Marko
 
1965 The Money Trap
Rosalie Kenny
 
1964 Circus World
Lili Alfredo
 
1961 The Happy Thieves
Eve Lewis
 
1959 The Story on Page One
Josephine Brown/Jo Morris
 
1959 They Came to Cordura
Adelaide Geary
 
1957 Pal Joey
Vera Prentice-Simpson
 
1957 Fire Down Below
Irena
 
1952 Affair in Trinidad
Chris Emery
 
1947 Down to Earth
Terpsichore / Kitty Pendleton
 
1945 Tonight and Every Night
Rosalind Bruce
 
1944 Cover Girl
Rusty Parker / Maribelle Hicks (flashback sequence)
 
1942 You Were Never Lovelier
Maria Acuña
 
1942 Tales of Manhattan
Ethel Halloway
 
1942 My Gal Sal
Sally Elliott
 
1941 You'll Never Get Rich
Sheila Winthrop
 
1941 Affectionately Yours
Irene Malcolm
 
1941 The Strawberry Blonde
Virginia Brush
 
1940 Angels Over Broadway
Nina Barona
 
1940 The Lady in Question
Natalie Roguin
 
1940 Susan and God
Leonora
 
1940 Blondie on a Budget
Joan Forrester
 
1940 Music in My Heart
Patricia O'Malley
 
1939 Only Angels Have Wings
Judy MacPherson
 
1939 The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt
Karen
 
1939 Homicide Bureau
J.G. Bliss
 
1938 The Renegade Ranger
Judith Alvarez
 
1938 Juvenile Court
Marcia Adams
 
1938 Convicted
Jerry Wheeler
 
1938 There's Always a Woman
Mary - Ketterling's Secretary (uncredited)
 
1938 Special Inspector
Patricia Lane
 
1938 Who Killed Gail Preston?
Gail Preston
 
1937 The Shadow
Mary Gillespie
 
1937 Paid to Dance
Betty Morgan
 
1937 Life Begins with Love
Dinner Guest's Girl Friend (uncredited)
 
1937 The Game That Kills
Betty Holland
 
1937 Girls Can Play
Sue Collins
 
1937 Criminals of the Air
Rita Owens
 
1937 Trouble in Texas
Carmen Serano (as Rita Cansino)
 
1937 Hit the Saddle
Rita (as Rita Cansino)
 
1937 Old Louisiana
Angela Gonzales (as Rita Cansino)
 
1936 Rebellion
Paula Castillo (as Rita Cansino)
 
1936 Meet Nero Wolfe
Maria Maringola (as Rita Cansino)
 
1936 Dancing Pirate
Specialty Dancer (uncredited)
 
1936 Human Cargo
Carmen Zoro (as Rita Cansino)
 
1935 Professional Soldier
Gypsy Dancer (uncredited)
 
1935 Paddy O'Day
Tamara Petrovitch (as Rita Cansino)
 
1935 Hi, Gaucho!
Dolores (uncredited)
 
1935 Piernas de seda
Ballerina (uncredited)
 
1935 Dante's Inferno
Dancer (as Rita Cansino)
 
1935 Charlie Chan in Egypt
Nayda (as Rita Cansino)
 
1935 Under the Pampas Moon
Carmen (as Rita Cansino)
 
1934 Cruz Diablo
Extra (uncredited)
 
Show ShowSoundtrack (25 titles)
2010 Dome Project (video short) (performer: "Put The Blame On Mame")
 
2009 Johnny Mercer: The Dream's on Me (TV documentary) (performer: "I'm Old Fashioned")
 
2009 This Is It (documentary) (performer: "Put The Blame On Mame")
 
2009 Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1940s: Stars, Stripes and Singing (video documentary) (performer: "Make Way for Tomorrow" - uncredited)
 
1999 American Masters (TV series documentary)
Yours for a Song: The Women of Tin Pan Alley (1999) (performer: "Put the Blame on Mame" - uncredited)
 
1993 Drömmen om Rita (performer: "Amado Mio Please Turn Over")
 
1965 The Love Goddesses (documentary) (performer: "Put the Blame on Mame")
 
1957 Pal Joey (performer: "Zip" - uncredited, "Bewitched" - uncredited)
 
1953 Miss Sadie Thompson (performer: "Hear No Evil, See No Evil Speak No Evil" - uncredited, "The Heat Is On!" - uncredited, "The Blue Pacific Blues" - uncredited)
 
1952 Affair in Trinidad (performer: "I've Been Kissed Before" - uncredited, "Trinidad Lady" - uncredited)
 
1948 The Loves of Carmen (performer: "The Love of a Gypsy Amor di Gitano")
 
1947 The Lady from Shanghai (performer: "Please Don't Kiss Me")
 
1947 Down to Earth (performer: "Let's Stay Young Forever", "This Can't Be Legal", "People Have More Fun Than Anyone", "Greek Ballet", "The Muses Come To Earth")
 
1946 Gilda (performer: "Amado Mio", "Put the Blame on Mame")
 
1945 Tonight and Every Night (performer: "Tonight and Every Night", "What Does an English Girl Think of a Yank?", "You Excite Me", "Anywhere", "The Boy I Left Behind", "Cry and You Cry Alone")
 
1944 Cover Girl (performer: "THE SHOW MUST GO ON", "WHO'S COMPLAINING?", "SURE THING", "MAKE WAY FOR TOMORROW", "PUT ME TO THE TEST", "LONG AGO AND FAR AWAY", "POOR JOHN" - uncredited, "COVER GIRL THAT GIRL ON THE COVER")
 
1942 You Were Never Lovelier (performer: "You Were Never Lovelier" 1942 - uncredited, "I'm Old Fashioned" 1942 - uncredited, "The Shorty George" 1942 - uncredited / "Dearly Beloved" 1942 - uncredited)
 
1942 My Gal Sal (performer: "ON THE GAY WHITE WAY", "COME TELL ME WHAT'S YOUR ANSWER, YES OR NO", "OH, THE PITY OF IT ALL", "HERE YOU ARE", "ON THE BANKS OF THE WABASH", "ME AND MY FELLA AND A BIG UMBRELLA", "MY GAL SAL")
 
1941 You'll Never Get Rich (performer: "Boogie Barcarolle" 1941, "So Near and Yet So Far" 1941, "The Wedding Cake Walk" 1941)
 
1941 Blood and Sand (performer: "Verde luna" - uncredited)
 
1940 Music in My Heart (performer: "Punchinello" 1939)
 
1937 Criminals of the Air (performer: "Rumbarita")
 
1937 Hit the Saddle (performer: "Winding the Trail" / as Rita Casino)
 
1935 Paddy O'Day (performer: "Which is Which" / as Rita Cansino)
 
1935 Under the Pampas Moon (performer: "Zamba")
 
Show ShowProducer (4 titles)
1961 The Happy Thieves (producer)
 
1953 Salome (producer - uncredited)
 
1952 Affair in Trinidad (producer - uncredited)
 
1948 The Loves of Carmen (producer - uncredited)
 
Show ShowThanks (3 titles)
2002 S1m0ne (Simone wishes to thank the following for their contribution to the making of Simone)
 
2002 Cinemania (documentary) (thanks - as Rita)
 
1989 Dieter & Andreas (short) (grateful acknowledgment)
 
Show ShowSelf (18 titles)
1976 The Russell Harty Show (TV series)
Herself
Episode dated 23 January 1976 (1976) … Herself
 
1973 V.I.P.-Schaukel (TV series documentary)
Herself
Episode #3.4 (1973) … Herself
 
1973 This Is Your Life (TV series)
Herself
Glenn Ford (1973) … Herself
 
1971 Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (TV series)
Herself
Episode #5.3 (1971) … Herself
 
1971 The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (TV series)
Herself
Episode dated 4 August 1971 (1971) … Herself
 
1971 The Merv Griffin Show (TV series)
Herself
Episode dated 12 July 1971 (1971) … Herself
 
1971 The Carol Burnett Show (TV series)
Herself
Episode #4.20 (1971) … Herself
 
1969 First Tuesday (TV series)
Herself
Episode #1.1 (1969) … Herself
 
1964 The 36th Annual Academy Awards (TV special)
Herself - Presenter: Best Director
 
1954 Screen Snapshots Series 33, No. 10: Hollywood Grows Up (documentary short)
Herself
 
1954 Champagne Safari (documentary)
 
1953 The Ed Sullivan Show (TV series)
Herself
Episode #6.28 (1953) … Herself
 
1943 Show-Business at War (documentary short)
Herself (uncredited)
 
1941 Meet the Stars #6: Stars at Play (documentary short)
Herself
 
1940 Meet the Stars #1: Chinese Garden Festival (documentary short)
Herself
 
1940 Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 9: Sports in Hollywood (documentary short)
Herself, Pigeon Racer
 
1940 Screen Snapshots Series 19, No 6: Hollywood Recreations (documentary short)
Herself
 
1939 Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8 (documentary short)
Herself
 
Show ShowArchive Footage (47 titles)
2012 Arena (TV series documentary)
 
2012 Österreich-Bild (TV series documentary)
 
2012 No me la puc treure del cap (TV series)
 
2010 Dome Project (video short)
Herself
 
2009 50 años de (TV series)
 
2009 Johnny Mercer: The Dream's on Me (TV documentary)
Herself
 
2009 Hollywood on the Tiber (documentary)
Herself
 
2009 Banda sonora (TV series)
 
2008 Prodigal Sons (documentary)
Herself (uncredited)
 
2007 Cinema 3 (TV series)
 
2006 Jeopardy! (TV series)
 
2005 Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That (TV documentary)
Doña Sol des Muire
 
2003 Rita (TV documentary)
Herself
 
2003 Nelson Freire (documentary)
Herself
 
1999-2002 American Masters (TV series documentary)
 
2001 When Grandpa Loved Rita Hayworth
Rita Hayworth
 
2000 They Filmed the War in Color (TV documentary)
Herself (uncredited)
 
2000 Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth (TV documentary short)
Herself
 
1999 The 71st Annual Academy Awards (TV special)
Gilda (uncredited)
 
1999 Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 2 (TV special documentary)
Herself (uncredited)
 
1998 Junket Whore (documentary)
Herself
 
1998 Sharon Stone - Una mujer de 100 caras (TV documentary)
Herself (uncredited)
 
1997 The Fifties
Sadie Thompson (uncredited)
 
1997 Playboy: Farrah Fawcett, All of Me (video documentary)
Herself
 
1996 The Good, the Bad & the Beautiful (TV special documentary)
Herself
 
1994 The Shawshank Redemption
Gilda Mundson Farrell (uncredited)
 
1994 Entertaining the Troops (documentary)
Herself
 
1994 Mina Tannenbaum
Gilda (uncredited)
 
1993 The Carol Burnett Show: A Reunion (TV documentary)
Herself
 
1990 Rita Hayworth: Dancing Into the Dream (TV documentary)
 
1988 The 1950's: Music, Memories & Milestones (video documentary)
Herself
 
1982 Showbiz Goes to War (TV movie)
 
1981 Margret Dünser, auf der Suche nach den Besonderen (TV documentary)
Herself
 
1981 Notre Dame de la Croisette (documentary)
Herself (uncredited)
 
1978 The Carol Burnett Show (TV series)
 
1977 That's Action (documentary)
Herself
 
1976 Canciones para después de una guerra (documentary)
Herself (uncredited)
 
1976 M*A*S*H (TV series)
 
1974 Fred Astaire Salutes the Fox Musicals (TV movie)
Herself
 
1965 The Love Goddesses (documentary)
Herself
 
1963-1964 Hollywood and the Stars (TV series)
 
1962 Lykke og krone (documentary)
Herself (uncredited)
 
1960 Project XX (TV series documentary)
 
1955-1957 The Ed Sullivan Show (TV series)
 
1941 Breakdowns of 1941 (short)
Herself (uncredited)
 

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Personal Details

Other Works:

More FBI celebrity crime files. See more »

Publicity Listings:

4 Biographical Movies  | 17 Print Biographies  | 1 Interview  | 189 Articles  | 826 Magazine Cover Photos  | See more »

Alternate Names:

Rita Cansino | Rita

Height:

5' 6" (1.68 m)
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Did You Know?

Personal Quote:

I rode on horseback, though I was terrified of them. That was when I was doing westerns. They were something else again. And I did them because that was work, that was my job. So I don't start from the top. See more »

Trivia:

Ranked #98 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list. [October 1997] See more »

Trademark:

Voluptuous figure See more »

Nickname:

The Love Goddess See more »

Star Sign:

Libra