![]() She transformed into a redhead and changed her name to Rita Hayworth, using her mother's maiden name, so leaving behind the exotic image and becoming a reflection of the classic American pinup. Under the tutelage of Cohn and Judson, she began to undergo electrolysis to broaden the appearance of her forehead and raise her hairline. Ĭohn argued that Hayworth's image was too much of a Mediterranean style, bringing stereotypically 'exotic' roles. She was an Argentinian in Under the Pampas Moon and an Egyptian beauty in Charlie Chan in Egypt and in 1936 took her first starring role as a 'Latin type' in Human Cargo. Often cast as the exotic foreigner, Hayworth appeared in small roles in 1935: in Dante's Inferno, with Spencer Tracy and Paddy O'Day playing a Russian dancer. Studio head Harry Cohn signed her to a long-term contract, casting Hayworth in small roles in Columbia features. Judson, whom she would marry in 1936, got her the lead roles in several independent films and arranged a screen test with Columbia Pictures. Feeling that Hayworth still had screen potential, despite just being dropped by Fox, salesman and promoter Edward C. Dismissing Sheehan's interest in Hayworth, Zanuck did not renew her contract. Zanuck serving as the executive producer. By the end of her six-month contract Fox had merged into 20th Century Fox, with Darryl F. Hayworth (Rita Cansino), circa December 1935ĭuring her time at Fox, Hayworth appeared in five pictures, in non-notable roles. Impressed by her screen persona, Sheehan signed her for a short-term six-month contract, under the name of Rita Cansino. A week later, Hayworth did a screen test for Fox. Hayworth danced in such nightspots as the Foreign Club and the Caliente Club and was at the Caliente Club where she was seen by the head of the Fox Film Corporation, Winfield Sheehan. She took a bit part in the films Cruz Diablo (1934) which led to another in In Caliente (1935) with Mexican actress Delores del Rio. Due to her work schedule, Hayworth did not finish high school but completed ninth grade at Hamilton High, in Los Angeles. Since Hayworth was not of legal age to work in nightclubs and bars according to California state law, she and her father traveled across the border to the city of Tijuana in Mexico, a popular tourist spot for Los Angeles citizens in the early 1930s. Hayworth partnered with her father to form "The Dancing Cansinos". Musicals were no longer in vogue and commercial interest in her father's dancing classes waned. During the Great Depression the family's investments were wiped out. He established his own dance studio and Hollywood luminaries, including James Cagney and Jean Harlow received specialized training from him. In 1927, when Hayworth was eight years old, her father moved the family west to Hollywood, convinced there was a great future for dancing in the movies and that his family could be part of it. In 1926, she featured in La Fiesta, a short film for Warner Bros. Rehearse, rehearse, rehearse, that was my girlhood." She attended dance classes every day for a few years in a Carnegie Hall complex under the instruction of her uncle, Angel Cansino, performing publicly from the age of six. but I didn't have the courage to tell my father, so I began taking the lessons. as soon as I could stand on my own feet, I was given dance lessons." "I didn't like it very much. Rita recalled, "From the time I was three and a half. His dancing school in Madrid was world famous. Her grandfather, Antonio Cansino, was the most renowned exponent in his day of Spain's classical dances he popularised the bolero. RITA HAYWORTH SPOUSE PROFESSIONALRita's father wanted her to become a professional dancer while her mother hoped she would become an actress. The Catholic couple married in 1917 and had two boys after Margarita, Eduardo, Jr. and Volga Hayworth, a dancer of Irish and English descent, who had performed with the Ziegfeld Follies. Born as Margarita Carmen Cansino in Brooklyn, New York, Hayworth was the daughter of Spanish dancer Eduardo Cansino, Sr. ![]()
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