Rita Hayworth

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Filmography

  • Rita (2004)
  • Cover Girl (2001)
  • Miss Sadie Thompson (2000)
  • The Opium Connection (1990)
  • Going Hollywood: The War Years (1988)
  • Herself
  • Circle (1976)
  • The Wrath of God (1972)
  • Senora De La Plata
  • The Rover (1971)
  • Catherine
  • La Route de Salina (1970)
  • The Naked Zoo (1970)
  • Sons of Satan (1969)
  • Martha
  • The Rover (1967)
  • The Money Trap (1966)
  • Rosalie Kenny
  • Circus World (1964)
  • Lili Alfredo
  • The Happy Thieves (1962)
  • Eve Lewis
  • The Story on Page One (1960)
  • Jo Morris
  • They Came to Cordura (1959)
  • Adelaide Geary
  • Separate Tables (1958)
  • Ann Shankland
  • Fire Down Below (1957)
  • Irena
  • Pal Joey (1957)
  • Vera Simpson
  • Miss Sadie Thompson (1954)
  • Salome (1953)
  • Affair In Trinidad (1952)
  • The Lady From Shanghai (1948)
  • Elsa Bannister
  • The Loves of Carmen (1948)
  • Down to Earth (1947)
  • Gilda (1946)
  • Gilda Mundson Farrell
  • Tonight and Every Night (1945)
  • Tales of Manhattan (1942)
  • You Were Never Lovelier (1942)
  • You'll Never Get Rich (1941)
  • Angels Over Broadway (1940)
  • Music in My Heart (1940)
  • The Lady in Question (1940)
  • Three Mesquiteers, The - Hit the Saddle (1937)
  • Trouble in Texas (1937)
  • Blood and Sand (1922)

    Biography

    The definitive femme fatale of the 1940s, Rita Hayworth was the Brooklyn-born daughter of Spanish dancer Eduardo Cansino and Ziegfeld Follies showgirl Volga Haworth. She joined the family dancing act in her early teens and made a few '30s films under her real name, Margarita Cansino, and with her real hair color (black), including Charlie Chan in Egypt (1935) and Meet Nero Wolfe (1936). Over the next few years -- at the urging of Columbia Studios and her first husband -- she reshaped her hairline with electrolysis, dyed her hair auburn, and adopted the name Rita Hayworth. Following her performance in Only Angels Have Wings (1939), she became a major leading lady to most of the big stars, including Tyrone Power, Fred Astaire, Charles Boyer, Gene Kelly, and her second and soon to be ex-husband Orson Welles in The Lady From Shanghai (1948). Hayworth then became involved in a tempestuous romance with married playboy Aly Khan, son of the Pakistani Muslim leader Aga Khan III, and they married in 1949. Following their divorce two years later, she was married to singer Dick Haymes from 1953 to 1955, and then for three years to James Hill, the producer of her film Separate Tables (1958). Her career had slowed down in the '50s and came to a virtual standstill in the '60s, when rumors of her supposed erratic and drunken behavior began to circulate. In reality, Hayworth was suffering from the first symptoms of Alzheimer's disease. For years, she would be cared for by her daughter Princess Yasmin Khan, and her death from the disease in 1987 gave it public attention that led to increased funding for medical research to find a cure. ~ All Movie Guide

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