Rita Hayworth

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Rita Hayworth was a celebrated American film actress and dancer of Hollywood’s Golden Age, famed for her glamorous screen presence and iconic roles in 1940s musicals and dramas.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf Hollywood star
dancer
film actress
human
birthName Margarita Carmen Cansino
burialPlace Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, California, United States
causeOfDeath Alzheimer’s disease
child Princess Yasmin Aga Khan
Rebecca Welles
collaboratedWith Fred Astaire
Gene Kelly
Orson Welles
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1918-10-17
dateOfDeath 1987-05-14
describedBySource Hollywood sex symbol of the 1940s
employer Columbia Pictures
ethnicGroup Spanish American
eyeColor brown
familyName Cansino
father Eduardo Cansino
genre film noir
musical film
romantic drama film
givenName Margarita
hairColor red
hasSignatureRole title character in Gilda
honor star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
image iconic pin-up photograph for Life magazine, 1941
influenced later portrayals of the femme fatale archetype in cinema
languagesSpokenWrittenOrSigned English
Spanish
mother Volga Hayworth
name Rita Hayworth
notableWork Blood and Sand
Cover Girl
Down to Earth
Gilda
Miss Sadie Thompson
My Gal Sal
Pal Joey
Separate Tables
The Lady from Shanghai
Tonight and Every Night
You Were Never Lovelier
You’ll Never Get Rich
occupation actor
dancer
singer
partOf Golden Age of Hollywood
placeOfBirth Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States
placeOfDeath New York City, New York, United States
religion Roman Catholicism
sexOrGender female
spouse Dick Haymes
Edward C. Judson
James Hill
Orson Welles
Prince Aly Khan
stageNameDerivedFrom mother’s maiden name Hayworth
workPeriod 1930s
1940s
1950s
1960s


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