When was rita hayworth born

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Edit Did You Know? Trivia: When she died, it was her former Paddy O'Day co-star Jane Withers who delivered the eulogy at her funeral. Trademark: Seductive deep voice. Nickname: The Love Goddess. A favorite of film noir fans, the film was chock-full of sexual innuendo, which included a controversial tame by today's standards striptease by Hayworth.

The following year she starred in another film noir favorite, The Lady From Shanghai , which was directed by her then-husband, Orson Welles. Hayworth's marriage to Welles in , and subsequent divorce from the director and actor in , garnered plenty of press.

It was Hayworth's second marriage, and the couple had a daughter, Rebecca. In court documents she claimed, "he showed no interest in establishing a home. When I suggested purchasing a home, he told me he didn't want the responsibility. Welles told me he never should have married in the first place; that it interfered with his freedom in his way of life.

A statesman and a bit of a playboy, Khan eventually served as Pakistan's representative to the United Nations. After divorcing Khan after just two years of marriage, Hayworth later married and divorced the singer Dick Haymes. Her fifth and final marriage was to movie producer James Hill. As her personal life was dogged by turmoil, her acting career sputtered.

Periodic film roles did come her way, but they failed to capture magic and project the kind of star power her earlier work once had. In all, Hayworth appeared in more than 40 films, the last of which was the release The Wrath of God. In , she briefly attempted a stage career, but it was quickly halted when it became apparent that Hayworth was unable to memorize her lines.

Hayworth's diminished skills as an actress were largely chalked up to what many believed was a severe alcohol problem. Her deteriorating state made headlines in January when the actress, appearing disheveled and out of sorts, was escorted off a plane.

That same year a California court, citing Hayworth's alcohol issues, named an administrator for her affairs. But alcohol was only one of the factors ruining her life. Hayworth was also suffering from Alzheimer's disease, which doctors diagnosed her as having in A year later she was placed under the care of her daughter, Princess Yasmin, who used her mother's condition as a catalyst for increasing awareness of Alzheimer's disease.

The Amnesiac character in David Lynch's Mulholland Drive decides to take her name after seeing it on a poster. Rita Hayworth checked into Silver Hill Hospital in New Canaan, Connecticut, in April to treat her excessive drinking and improve her mental health.

Her friend, Mac Krim, stated that she successfully continued to avoid alcohol after she came home, but based on her behavior caused by the Alzheimer's disease, people still often assumed she was drunk. I loved Dinah, because she had a lovely disposition. Dinah Shore would send a limousine over to Rita's house and she would be chauffeured to Dinah's personal racquet club or golf club, wherever Dinah would share a few friendly drinks. Monsignor Peter Healey, who delivered the funeral Mass for Rita Hayworth in , noted that he had received calls from many people across the country who remembered Miss Hayworth's sweetness and graciousness.

Fred Astaire recalled how gifted and quick she was in learning the most advanced routines-often learning the steps in the morning, mulling over them during lunch, and after lunch performing the dance without a single mistake.

Novak said she loved co-star Rita Hayworth, but not co-star Frank Sinatra, although he and Novak reputedly had an affair years earlier. She said, "I knew Rita Hayworth only enough to know that she was just a tender, sensitive, beautiful human being. A lovely person. Very gentle. She would never stand up for her rights. Novak said, "I felt he was not very fair to Rita Hayworth particularly. He wouldn't show up for dance rehearsals and let her have to go through it all, then he came in the last day and all our work had to be cut because he didn't want to do this or he didn't want to do that.

That was so unfair and so unkind, so uncalled for. They may have made her a star, but she gave them class. Jane Withers said the film "'Paddy O'Day' is one of my favorite movies And on the set was a [year-old] beautiful girl who was dancing ballroom with her partner in a film. I was only eight but I felt so strongly about this girl - she was just dynamite. I asked to meet her, her name was Rita Cansino. She was painfully shy. She said 'I just love to dance and I'm just thrilled to be in the movies.

Withers gave the eulogy at Hayworth's funeral in and she recalled during the eulogy that Rita Hayworth suffered from stage fright early in her career.

Withers also said "she always had so much enthusiasm in her dancing that when I found out how shy she was, I was startled. The choreographer Jack Cole said this of Rita Hayworth: "Rita was a lonely person, you always felt that about her. She'd sit around with the girls during rehearsals, but mostly by herself, not stand-offish, just lonely. But always a lady. Unless she got somebody around to say 'Don't do this!

I like Rita Hayworth, she's a very nice lady. One of the few nice ones in movies to work with. James Hill, in his book "Rita Hayworth: A Memoir," indicated that their marriage--her fifth and final, his only--fell apart because he forced Hayworth to continue making movies when she wanted both of them to retire from the Hollywood hubbub, enabling her to paint and him to write. Prior to the ceremony, Gene Kelly went to Rita's suite but nobody saw him come down.

By , there were 3, stories and 12, pictures of Rita Hayworth in circulation. During the Presidential campaign, Rita Hayworth was one of the nearly 50 Hollywood celebrities that endorsed President Franklin D. Cardinale said: "During the shooting of "Circus World", I was in my trailer taking a break when Rita showed up in tears. She looked me in the eye and sobbed: 'Once upon a time, I was beautiful too. She was magnificent!

She had this nostalgic side to her that made her all the more charming. When "Gilda" premiered at the first ever Cannes Film Festival in , everyone was buzzing about Rita Hayworth's striptease to "Put The Blame On Mame" wearing a strapless, black satin sheath dress with a long side slit and extra long gloves. Costume designer Jean Louis created the custom gown which required a corset and custom harness and helped cement the concept of a femme fatale.

The Khan family was heavily involved in horse racing, owning and racing horses. She bought a filly named Double Rose which won several races in France and finished second in the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe in Longchamp Racecourse. Paris, France. Margo Hammond wrote in "Variety" magazine, "After a dramatic entrance up the center aisle of the opera house amid flashing spotlights, strains of Richard Strauss's 'Thus Spake Zarathustra' and thunderous applause, a dazed Rita accepted the award telling the audience: 'This is the happiest moment of my life.

She attended the Carthay School in Los Angeles where she had parts in a few school plays and found her first acting role when she was years-old in a stage prologue for the movie "Back Street" at the Carthay Circle Theater. She then spent one year at Alexander Hamilton High School before, in ninth grade, her schooling was halted when she became her father's dancing partner.

During World War II, Rita made a single USO tour in and managed to visit six military camps giving thousands of autographs before coming back from Texas, where she was reported to have nervous breakdown that was full fledged due to over enthusiasm. Even though the majority of visitors were U. S servicemen, the canteen was open to servicemen of allied countries as well as women in all branches of service. A serviceman's ticket for admission was his uniform, and everything at the canteen was free of charge.

Rita was one of the most beautiful and regular volunteers who donated their services at the Hollywood Canteen by serving food and dancing with the servicemen. She also became active in collecting scrap metal, as well as promoting war bonds for the war effort. For Rita Hayworth, just like the other starlets in performing for the U. Nevada law stated that you must have legal residence for a six month period. While in Nevada, Rita took up golf and became a avid golfer for life and when she had time, she played at country clubs in California.

She said, "I've played courses all over the world, including Japan. Fred Astaire and Rita Hayworth starred in the film "You Were Never Lovelier" and rehearsed the dance sequences in a nearby funeral parlor because there wasn't adequate room at Columbia Studios.

In his biography, Astaire wrote, "Keeping the laughs going during the intervals was a part of the day's work and I always tried to think up some gag to play on Rita. In one instance I called out, 'Well-here we go-I'm beginning to like this place-it doesn't get me down any more, I'm used to it-ready, Rita?

As I took hold of her two arms she let out one scream and backed away. I had just dipped both my hands and arms in a bucket of ice which we kept for soda bottles. That broke up rehearsals for a half hour or so. At this time, there was political unrest in the county and the U.

While in Buenos Aires, Rita was surrounded by security guards. Upon reaching the hotel from the airport, Rita opened the shades on a window and a bomb exploded in the park across the street.

Several days later, an office building exploded about feet 3. Fortunately she was not injured in either event. The Cansinos consisted of Eduardo, his brother Angel, his wife Volga and his 5-year-old daughter Rita.

The musical ran for performances from September 20, to January I didn't fantasize that I would ever become a star like them, but I also didn't think I couldn't make it with the name I was born with. During the interview, Rita Hayworth's name came up in regard to the dance sequences in the film Pal Joey which featured Kim Novak and Rita.

During a discussion of the dance sequences, Ms. Novak said that Rita "was a wonderful lady willing to do anything and everything. Army for all branches of the U. The writers were enlisted men and they wrote stories about World War II and sketched cartoons poking fun at service life like G. I Joe and Sad Sack. As a "morale booster," one of the most popular parts of the magazine were photos of a pin-up girl usually clad in a bathing suit or some form of seductive attire.

Rita Hayworth's picture appeared in the 7 July edition of the magazine. Rita Hayworth appeared in nine films in She was billed as Rita Cansino in three of them and she was uncredited in one. In the book, Leaming alleged that Hayworth was a victim of sexual abuse by her own father.

Leaming asserts that Hayworth confided that secret to Orson Welles who said of his ex-wife, "If this was happiness, imagine what the rest of her life had been", which Leaming then took for the title of her book. Among other things, Leaming believes Hayworth's subsequent destructive marriages, love affairs, the long, drawn-out custody suit for Yasmin amid charges of child neglect-which, apparently, were true-and her battles with Columbia Pictures were in part precipitated by the feelings of betrayal and guilt that color the life of incest victims.

In December , Rita was signed by the vice president of production of the Fox Film Corporation to perform in a "decidedly sensuous" dance number in the film "Dante's Inferno" staring Spencer Tracy and Claire Trevor.

The signing was held in the Hotel Caliente where the Cansinos were performing and after the signing, Rita was summoned to a table where Louella Parson was seated. Parsons was the first American movie columnist and a screenwriter and in later years became one of Rita's most faithful partisans.

Parsons recalled that "When she came to our table, she turned out to be painfully shy. She could not look at strangers when she spoke to them and her voice was so low it could hardly be heard. Hardly it seemed to me, the material of which a great star could be made. In , Spencer Tracy said: "Rita Hayworth's first film was 'Dante's Inferno', the last one I made at Fox Films under my old contract and one of the worst pictures ever made anywhere, anytime. The fact that she survived in films after that screen debut is testament enough that she deserves all the recognition she's getting now.

Shooting of year-old Rita's second film, "Under the Pampas Moon". Rita portrayed an Argentinian girl named Carmen and received tenth billing in this film. Rita received fourth billing in the third film she appeared in, "Charlie Chan in Egypt". Shooting began on April 8th, and the film was released on June 21st, Rita played a slinking, native amah a girl or woman employed by a family to clean, look after children, and perform other domestic tasks with three lines.

The best was "Yes, Effendi" and the longest was "Mistress will take medicine. In the early s probably in when she was years-old , Rita's parents had deliberately emphasized her Latin appearance by dyeing her brown hair jet black, parting it in the middle and fastening it in a bun at the back.

Her appearance was by accident when, one afternoon, while playing with a group of young Mexican girls her own age, who were intently watching the film company at work on location, she was singled out, because she could perform a street dance outside the bullfighting arena, and paid a few pesos for her contribution. According to Rita, the director assumed that she was "just another dirty Mexican kid. This film was shot in Mexico and intended for Spanish-speaking countries and some theaters that showed Spanish-language films.

The film was released in the U. She wrote, "Looking back to when I was younger, I realize that Mother and I had some unpleasant experiences when she hadn't been drinking at all. Once, when I was 19, we were driving to dinner and she jumped the curve on Sunset Boulevard, and the car suddenly jolted up the incline and down again.

It was frightening. Then there were times Mother would step out of an elevator and not know which way to go. You could see her panic because she was so confused and disoriented. Sometimes, when I would tell her about something that happened at school or something about my friends, she would look at me like I was a stranger and say something completely irrelevant.

She also developed paranoid tendencies. She claimed to hear things in the Beverly Hills house and would insist someone was breaking and entering. No one could convince her that nothing was wrong, and she would call for the police. Rita's fourth husband, Dick Haymes, was known in Hollywood as "Mr.

According to an article in Architectural Digest. She was uneducated and intensely insecure but a big star, breaking free from her ex-husband, Edward Judson, yet fiercely guarded by her studio, Columbia, and its boss, Harry Cohn.

Welles was mercurial, unreliable, too much in love with himself to leave room for anyone else-and a natural loner and nomad. Despite their differences, they fell in love as helplessly as kids.

And, for a year or so, they gave emphatic, physical proof of America's and their own naive dream, that a full-fledged genius and the loveliest girl in the world might be like filet mignon and ice cream-on the same plate. Yet this didn't last. He grew bored with her, and she got fed up with his egotism.