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  Rita Hayworth's grave
Hayworth was trained as a dancer from childhood, and was on stage by the age of twelve.
Rita left her film career in 1948 to marry Prince Aly Khan, but after the marriage collapsed she returned with great fanfare in 1951 to film Affair in Trinidad (1952) with favorite costar Glenn Ford.
After about 1960, Hayworth suffered from extremely 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.
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  Rita Hayworth Picture Galleries
Rita, herself, was trained as a dancer in order to follow in her family's footsteps.
Rita was seen dancing by a Fox executive and was impressed enough to offer her a contract.
Rita's 'second' debut was in the film CRAZY DIABLO in 1934 at the age of 16.
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  Rita Hayworth - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Rita Hayworth (October 17, 1918 – May 14, 1987), was an American actress of Spanish and English descent who reached fame during the 1940s as one of the era's leading sex symbols.
Rita Hayworth was born Margarita Carmen Cansino, the daughter of Eduardo Cansino (Sr.) and Volga Haworth (sic) in Brooklyn, New York.
Rita Hayworth was placed 19th on the American Film Institute's list of the 25 greatest female movie stars of all time in 1999.
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  Rita Hayworth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hayworth was trained as a dancer from childhood, and was on stage by the age of twelve.
Hayworth was married five times: first to Edward C. Judson (1937-1943), followed by actor-director Orson Welles (1943-1948, one daughter Rebecca Welles), to Prince Aly Khan (1949-1953, one daughter Princess Yasmin Aga Khan), then to actor-singer Dick Haymes (1953-1955), and finally to director James Hill (1958-1961).
A poster of Rita Hayworth was used as a 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.
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 Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption (1982) is a novella by Stephen King, originally published in Different Seasons (1982).
Director Frank Darabont explained in his audio commentary on the film's DVD that the title was shortened since the connection between the story and the actress Rita Hayworth was not strong enough, and that it would give people the wrong idea about what the movie was about.
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption is presented as a document written by Red, a convicted murderer serving a life sentence at Shawshank, a fictitious prison located in Maine (which was actually referred to in King's other works, It).
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 Rita Hayworth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Rita Hayworth (real name Margarita Carmen Cansino) (October 17, 1918 – May 14, 1987) was a famous American film star of Spanish and Irish 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.
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.
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 Rita Hayworth , Celebrity profile, bio, biography
Rita Hayworth 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 (fl), including Charlie Chan in Egypt (1935) and Meet Nero Wolfe (1936).
Rita Hayworth's 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.
For years, Rita Hayworth 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.
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 Rita Hayworth
Hayworth made her first screen appearance when she was 8 years old, dancing with her parents in two short musicals titled "Anna Case with the Dancing Cancinos" and "La Fiesta," both released in 1926.
Hayworth was hired by Columbia studios for a small role in "Meet Nero Wolfe" (1936), and she also appeared in several Westerns for smaller studios.
Hayworth attempted to revive her career in early 1972 with stage performances, but she was unable to remember her lines.
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 Rita Hayworth Bio - Rita Hayworth Biography - Rita Hayworth Stories
To Rita, though, domestic bliss was a more important, if elusive, goal, and in 1949 she interrupted her career for marriage, unhappy almost from the start, to playboy Prince Aly Khan.
Rita was chosen for the role of Coral in Dead Reckoning (1947) as the part was written for her, but she turned it down to do The Lady From Shanghai (1948) with her enstranged husband Orson Welles.
Rita liked horses and thoroughbred racing; she was a member of the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club and her filly Double Rose won several races in France including one in which she placed 2nd in the 1949 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe.
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 Gale - Free Resources - Hispanic Heritage - Biographies - Rita Hayworth
Rita Hayworth's life might serve as the prototype for that of the glamorous movie queen, the classic story of the beautiful young woman trapped in a profession that took over her life in ways she found difficult to understand, much less control.
Hayworth continued to perform during the 1960s and 1970s, occasionally trying her hand at television or a serious drama, such as her role in Rattigan's Separate Tables, for which she received good reviews.
Hayworth's most famous and successful films, musical or dramatic, tend to deal with her as a woman whose image does not truthfully reflect her personality, and for whom success, riches, and beauty bring no real and lasting personal satisfaction.
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 Rita Hayworth
Rita Hayworth, the gorgeous, notorious movie star whose image was painted on the side of the first atomic bomb exploding at the Bikini Atoll, stated "Basically, I am a good, gentle person, but, I am attracted to mean personalities."
When Rita was fourteen, her father realized she was a budding goddess, and safeguarded his maturing daughter from the admiring crowds by locking her in her dressing room between torrid shows at the Foreign Club in Tijuana.
Hayworth grew tired of the demanding and temperamental Judson, and in 1943 he agreed to a divorce if she would pay him $30,000.
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 Java's Bachelor Pad: Rita Hayworth
Hayworth's pin-ups had such an impact on World War Two servicemen that her image was put on the side of the atomic bomb that was tested at Bikini Atoll in 1946.
The real defining moment in Hayworth's film career was her starring role in the 1946 film Gilda with the show-stopping one-glove striptease number "Put The Blame on Mame." After that scene, opera gloves were never looked at the same way again.
Hayworth died in 1987, but she was always live on as an icon of Hollywood style, grace, and glamor.
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 Rita Hayworth
Rita, herself, was trained as a dancer in order to follow in her family's footsteps.
Rita Hayworth played the sister of Barbara Stanwyck in Message to Garcia, A (1936), but after a test screening all her scenes were cut at the request of Darryl F. Zanuck.
Hayworth achieved another milestone in 1945: Her famous pinup shot was attached to the atomic bomb dropped on Bikini.Gilda (1946), probably her best-remembered picture, reteamed her with Glenn Ford-they first worked together in a 1940 programmer,The Lady in Question-for a steamy, corny, campy melodrama.
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 Rita Hayworth, Hollywood Love Goddess
She became known to the world as Rita Hayworth, one of the most glamorous actresses in cinema history, but she was much more than a beautiful face.
Rita was an exceptionally talented dancer, and her performances showed a strength and sensitivity that set her apart from other actresses, and made her just as popular with female audiences as with male.
Rita continued to perform during the 1960s and 1970s, occasionally trying her hand at television or a serious drama, such as her role in Rattigan's Separate Tables, for which she received good reviews.
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 Rita Hayworth Biography
Rita Hayworth was born Margarita Carmen Cansino, the daughter of Eduardo Cansino (Sr.) and Volga Haworth (sic) in Brooklyn, New York.
Rita's metamorphosis began after a name change from Rita Cansino to Rita Hayworth and extensive painful electrolysis to raise her hairline on behalf of Hollywood's king of cosmetics, Max Factor.
Hayworth was married five times: first to Edward C. Judson (1937-1943), followed by actor-director Orson Welles (1943-1948, one daughter Rebecca Welles), to Prince Ali Khan (1949-1953, one daughter Princess Yasmin Aga Khan), then to actor-singer Dick Haymes (1953-1955), and finally to director James Hill (1958-1961).
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 NPR : Rita Hayworth, Present at the Creation
Hayworth was one of the biggest stars of Hollywood's Golden Age.
One story has it that the photo was taken in Hayworth's own bedroom, but another suggests that she knelt on a bed on the movie set.
In her last years, Hayworth's star quality helped bring public attention to what was then still a little-known disorder.
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 Metroactive Movies | Rita Hayworth   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Hayworth was a created star, made by the efforts of studio press-agentry and Eddie Judson, her first husband, of whom the best thing that can be said is that he was born in San Jose.
It was a troubled, acrimonious marriage, and Hayworth ended her life as perhaps the best-known victim of Alzheimer's disease before Reagan.
The former, with Hayworth as a Carmen character, is the tale of a bullfighter (Tyrone Power) having his manly essence sapped.
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 Rita Hayworth
Rita's superb dancing was praised by the legendary actor/dancer Fred Astaire and her acting, although not favored early in her career, was praised later by the critics with superb performances in GILDA, The Loves of Carmen, Miss Sadie Thompson and Separate Tables.
Rita had a mature quality about her and was able to dance with her father in the nightclubs of Tijuana without being questioned about her age.
Rita was officially diagnosed with Alzheimer's in the 1980's and was taken care of by her beloved daughter, Princess Yasmin Aga Khan until her death on May 14, 1987.
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 AMCTV.com BIOGRAPHY - Rita Hayworth   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Rita returned to Hollywood broke and asked Columbia to restore her contract.
Rita was absent from the screen for three years, but returned in 1957, now playing aging beauties.
Hayworth attempted a stage career in 1971, but it was abruptly ended because she couldn't remember her lines.
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 Rita Hayworth Summary
In the 1930s, Rita Hayworth (1918-1987) was confined to leads in "B" pictures, but through much of the 1940s she became the undisputed sex goddess of Hollywood films and the hottest star at Columbia Studios.
Hayworth's new hair was not a success with her fans nor with her boss at Columbia and the film flopped.
Alluding to Rita's bombshell status, in 1946 her likeness was placed on the first nuclear bomb to be tested in the Marshall Islands, part of Operation Crossroads.
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 The Biography Channel - Rita Hayworth Biography
Born in Brooklyn, Margarita Carmen Cansino was the daughter of Spanish dancer Eduardo Cansino and showgirl Volga Haworth.
Rita’s death in 1987 was heavily publicized, drawing public attention and funding to the degenerative disease.
The annual Rita Hayworth charity gala, managed by daughter Princess Yasmin Aga Khan, raised $1.8 million in 1999 alone for the Alzheimer's Association.
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 Support Forums: Rita Hayworth ...   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Rita, by the way, was the first person to go on television and discuss her cosmetic surgery.
Rita is good in the film but audiences should have been told what Bannister has on Elsa and why she is planning to kill him and have Michael take the fall.
Rita did a television interview in Spain in 1976 and all the press printed was and how she had aged and looked so unlike the clip of GILDA that preceeded her appearance.
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 Rita Hayworth at Classic Actresses   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Rita Hayworth was born Margarita Carmen Cansino on October 17, 1918, in Brooklyn, New York.
Rita divorced her husband and became engaged to Victor Mature.
Rita was cared for by her daughter, Princess Yasmin, until her death on May 14, 1987.
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 Rita Hayworth: Golden Gilda
Margarita Cansino was born in 1918, but Rita Hayworth was born in 1935 during her official movie debut in Dante's Inferno.
Dancing was what Rita loved--she had done it since her childhood, when she toured with her father as the Dancing Cansinos.
Rita, ever trying to escape the Gilda stereotype, was encouraged by Welles to cut her hair short and dye it platinum blonde.
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 Rita Hayworth
Rita Hayworth shimmers in the 1946 classic, which spins on a tortured plot involving the title character (Hayworth); her imperious husband (George Macready), a ruthless casino owner and head of an Argentine tungsten cartel (!); and Johnny Farrell (Glenn Ford), Gilda's ex-lover and now her
Not to be missed: Hayworth's slinky striptease to "Put the Blame on Mame." --Anne Hurley --This text refers to the DVD edition.
The legendary Rita Hayworth sizzles with sensuality and magnetism as she sings "Put the Blame on Mame" and delivers a dazzling performance as the enticing temptress Gilda.
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 Amazon.co.uk: Rita Hayworth - Screen Goddess Boxset: DVD: Rita Hayworth
Hayworth is the gelid blonde Elsa, and her performance her most icy and lingering.
Her cummulative showcase in 'the dance of seven veils' was as dramatic and almost suffocatingly glamourous; Hayworth had that rare ability to capture your heart and imagination, and buying these films grouped together is worth it for this highly-charged scene alone.
Rita went on to make films and continue working well into the mid seventies, but 'Circus World' (1964) was the last big budget film to really do her justice, and was also a massive crowd-drawer.
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 The Middle Years
It was in connection with the latter of the two that on July 24, 1942 Rita immortalized her hand and footprints in cement in the forecourt of Grauman's Chinese Theater.
Rita later said, "I hate war...that whole bomb thing made me sick to my stomach" After the release of the film in 1946, it began setting box office records and made Rita the most well known star in the world.
Rita was at the height of her fame and it was exactly how the public wanted to see her, so of course it was a box-office smash.
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