Rita Hayworth (born Margarita Carmen Cansino the October 17th 1918 with New York - May 14th 1987 with New York) is a American Actrice . Rita Hayworth is the female Sex symbol the Forties. Called “the goddess of the love”, it becomes an alive legend with her main role in mythical film Gilda . She will be the wife of Orson Welles before becoming, with the Prince Aly Khan, a princess of Thousand and One Nights.

Biography

Its first steps: dancer

In 1918, Rita Hayworth is born in New York under the name of Margarita Carmen Cansino, it will be the elder one of a family of three children (two young brothers). His/her father, Eduardo Cansino, Dance ur, enough celebrate, are of origin sévillane. The father of Eduardo, Gift Antonio, founded with his seven children, a group of Andalusian dancers popular, the “Dance hall Cansinos”, the Latin charm being with the mode in the United States. His/her mother the Volga, born Haworth, itself dancer, is girl of actors Irish.

As of its first years, it occurs in the family troop of the “Cansino Dance hall”. She dances in particular at 4 years with range and castanets, at the time of a recital in Carnegie Hall. “To work, work, it is the only word which I heard during my childhood , the star Rita Hayworth will entrust later. My parents learned how to me to dance before I walk…” His father, that she admires, requires of her an intesive work and impose to him particularly constraining courses of dance. But the crash of Wall Street comes to shake the family agreement, at the same time as their finances. Their spectacles do not make any more receipt and the group dissolves. Eduardo leaves New York, piles up its family in roulotte and leaves the roads randomly. Persuaded that the future is with the musical comedies, it takes the direction of Hollywood, Latin-lovers being always with the mode. It founds a school of dance in 1928 with the angle of Sunset Boulevard and of Fortifies Boulevard and it is a success. Margarita there improves its training and will be professional dancer as of the 12 years age.

But Cansino, Bohemian S in the heart, sets out again on the roads in their roulotte as of the first interesting offer. Continuous Eduardo to assemble spectacles and decides to take his/her daughter, 14 years old, like appointed partner. They dance of the modern versions of the Spanish Tango and the Boléro. She ages herself, it is renovated and pass for a couple. Their success is amazing. Margarita works much, up to twenty shows per week, in night clubs in Hollywood, Agua Calienta at the border of the Mexico, with Santa Monica, Long Beach…

Appearing in the starlet

In 1933, the Warner Bros. Pictures makes him pass a screen test but draws aside it, considering it too round and of too narrow face. Others find it too brown or it does not have the look which is appropriate. It is Winfield Sheehan, vice-president of Fox Film Corporation, which notices it, allures by its charm and its pace. It makes him sign a contract, provided that it changes its first name into Rita. Rita Cansino dances in its first film the hell (1935) with dimensions of Spencer Tracy. Choked by his/her father and his mother, become alcoholic, Rita starts to take its distances. She appears in several films of Série B where she incarnates the exotic girls, Mexican, Egyptian… But when Fox amalgamates with the 20th Century Pictures to become the 20th Century Fox, new the producing as a chief Darryl F. Zanuck replaces it by Loretta Young whereas she was to interpret the main role of the film Ramona (1936), and moreover lays off it.

It is at this time that it meets Edward C. Judson, Businessman go-getter, it is interested in its career and will try to propel it in the cinema. Rita, 19 years, marries Judson, 39 years, in 1937, more undoubtedly to escape the hell of its family. Consequently Judson will metamorphose it… It makes him take courses of diction, persuades it to change its “look completely”, to be put at the diet, to have recourse to the cosmetic surgery to dig the oval of its face by tearing off molars and to redraw the establishment of its hair. Rita is too brown and too “Latino” after the weeks of torture with the meetings of electrolysis, it tints it into russet-red aggressive. Continuing its plans, it presents it to Harry Cohn, the owner of the Columbia Pictures, which it knows well. The producer falls under the charm and makes him sign a seven year old contract of 250 dollars per week, it changes its name of Cansino by the name of his/her mother, Hayworth, to make distinguished more (adding there, it to distinguish from his/her uncle, Vinton Haworth, also actor). It turns then in a dozen films which will enable him to acquire more trade.

Harry Cohn, famous for its vulgarity, is obsessed by the young starlet who refuses her advances. It will undergo a hastened court. It will even make install microphones in its cabin to know about all its actions.

The Goddess of the love

Rita Hayworth is finally pointed out in film of Howard Hawks Seuls the angels have wings in spite of the crushing presence of its two famous partners Cary Grant and Jean Arthur which is then the star of Columbia. Rejected by the coarseness of Cohn, Jean Arthur will leave Columbia besides. Rita then gains 2.500 dollars per week and this sum will be multiplied by ten during the following years, its career starts. As much it is reserved and introverted in its private life, as much it opens out as soon as it is under the spotlights .

George Cukor which had made him pass from the tests in 1938, very recommends it to the Subway-Goldwyn-Mayer for a secondary role glamor in Suzanne and its ideas with Joan Crawford. Harry Cohn “lends it” to the famous company. The public reacts immediately, so much so that Columbia must draw a great number of advertizing photographs to satisfy its admirors. It will make to Columbia two films of which The Lady in the question of Charles Vidor which will become his realizer fetish and with, for the first time, Glenn Ford with which it will make five films.

Harry Cohn is now sure value of Rita. Still not knowing very well how to employ it, it continues “to lend it” to other more famous companies. Warner Bros for two films of which The Strawberry Blonde of Raoul Walsh, with James Cagney and Olivia de Havilland, which obtains a sharp success. Besides Warner tries to repurchase the contract of Rita to Columbia, in vain. 20 HT Century Fox for bloody Arenas film in Technicolor, with Tyrone Power and Linda Darnell. Rouben Mamoulian, the realizer however auditioned more than 30 actresses for the role of Doña Sol, but it ends up requiring of Darryl Zanuk which it makes come Rita to casting. As soon as he sees it, he knows that it is it. Rita carries out a splendid performance there. It makes the cover of all the Magazines and the one of the Quotidien S, Rita Hayworth from now on is launched. Zanuck will still claim it, now persuaded of its impact near the public in My friend Sally of Irving Cummings with Victor Mature, with which it will have a connection, and for Six destinies of Julien Duvivier. The actress goes back to the dance for musical comedies like Musique in my heart and turns in two small jewels with Fred Astaire, the Love comes while dancing and O you my charming . The electric alchemy of the two interpreters touches the public and with the great joy of the spectators, the couple explodes literally the screen.

In 1941, thanks to a photograph published in cover in Life magazine, it obtains a considerable popularity near American GI engaged in the Second world war. It is the reign of the Pin-up girls and Rita will be, with Betty Grable, undoubtedly most popular near these soldiers who pin the photographs of their star to the walls of their barrack rooms. Rita will take part in 1943, with visits of military bases and hospital and with an immense round to support moral troops (One sees it in particular in company of Marlène Dietrich). She will divorce meanwhile (May 22nd, 1942) Edward Judson become threatening, violent and of a morbid jealousy.

The star with the firmament

Orson Welles, genious actor and realizer, is also subjugated by the famous photograph of Life and undertakes to allure “more the beautiful woman of the United States. ” The star succumbs to passion and the determination of Welles and they marry on September 7th, 1943 on the run. In spite of its reserves, it follows Orson to Washington at the time of its electoral campaigns.

She turns then, in a musical comedy the Queen of Broadway with Gene Kelly. At its exit in 1944, the film is a success without precedent which will be worth to him, this time, the international repute. This film, precursor of large musical films of the Fifties, will emphasize true qualities of dancer of Rita and will reveal the talents of choreographer of Kelly Gene (and Stanley Donen), in particular in the famous number “The alter ego dance” where he dances with itself. It will make two more musical films, This night and always of Victor Saville (1945), and the Star of the stars of Alexander Hall (1947). Until the end of the Fifties, whatever the kind of its films, the public will await “its” musical number. Unfortunately, it does not have much voice and all its songs are doubled, a secrecy which Columbia will keep jealously.

Then came the apotheosis, the bomb Gilda , film headlight in the career of Rita. Incarnation of the femme fatale, Rita Hayworth reaches its apogee in this Black film, of Charles Vidor, his realizer fetish. In a scene, become piece of anthology, Gilda vêtue of a black sleeve his long gloves by singing the flamer song “Could the blames one takes off mame”, it will enter forever the legend and this “strip tease” suggested, will be one of the tops of the erotism to the cinema. Its image will be stuck on one of the first atomic bombs, will be baptized Gilda, released on July 1st, 1946 on the Atoll of Bikini. Rita will say: “I hate the war; all this history around this bomb returns to me deeply sick. ”

In spite of the birth of his/her first daughter, Rebecca, the marriage of Rita and Orson beats wing. Whereas they are in divorce pending, Orson Welles offers to him, like a gift of rupture, its best film the Lady of Shanghai. The journalists who asks him why this film, she answers “I owed it in Orson”. With the greatest fear and fury of Cohn, Welles made cut blazing it hair of Rita and tints it as a blonde. Financial disaster, certainly ascribable with the fact that it is of a work of author and not about a film especially built around the star. The final one of film will be another sequence of anthology: the extraordinary scene of massacre in a labyrinth of mirrors where Elsa Bannister (Rita Hayworth) will fail in the middle of its reflections multiplied by the remains of ices broken down under the shock of the balls. She will say of Orson Welles “He entered my life like a rocket launching of comets of fire”. The divorce is marked on December 1st, 1948.

After Gilda, the seals of Rita are considerable. She creates Beckworth Corporation Production (Beckworth: association of the names Becky and Hayworth) and will produce two films the Loves of Carmen and the business of Trinidad .

The princess and her disillusions

Rita Hayworth decides, in 1948, to leave some time to Europe. July 3rd, at the time of a festival in Cannes given by Elsa Maxwell, celebrates chroniqueuse American, Rita is presented to the Prince Aly Khan. One year later, on May 27th, at the end of a connection placed under the fire of the tabloïds, Rita Hayworth becomes princess and Marie with Vallauris (the Alpes-Maritimes) in a purely Hollywood ostentation. It will have a second girl of this union, Yasmina. It remains then often with Cannes, in the villa that there has his/her husband (the Castle of the Horizon). But the fairy tale is of short duration. Rita which wanted to flee Hollywood finds other records even more constraining and moreover, it undergoes the polygamous tendencies of her husband, which wounds it deeply. The couple divorces in 1953. It makes its return to Hollywood in 1952 in the Business of Trinidad . This film is launched like new a Gilda , but the charm does not act. Its popularity is always important, it approaches the biblical kind in Salome , nice success commercial, where it voluptueusement dances the dance of the seven veils and it is always also sensual in the film the Beautiful one of the Pacific in the role of " Sadie Thompson " already interpreted by Gloria Swanson and Joan Crawford.

It withdraws again during some years, which will be marked by a fourth disastrous marriage (1953) with Dick Haymes, former singer of the orchestras of Benny Goodman and Jimmy Dorsey, who will become violent with it, they end up divorcing at the end of 1955.

She refuses, for this period, the role of Maria Vargas in the Countess with the barefeet , who points out too her personal life to him.

She returns to the cinema in 1957 for the Hell of the tropics with Robert Mitchum and still gains great successes in excellent films like the Blonde or russet-red the her last film in Columbia, separate Tables , Those of Cordura . She marries in 1958, its fifth husband, James Hill, met during the turning of the Blonde or russet-red the and which she divorces very quickly in 1961. Its decline is started and the Sixties see its leaning for alcohol being reflected annoyingly on its physique. After some minor films, it will still make beautiful compositions in the largest circus of the world with John Wayne, in Piège with the grisbi where it finds its partner and friendly Glenn Ford and in the Road of Salina for the role of an unfortunate mother owner of a bar where it still showed her real qualities of actress. She disappears from the screens following the Anger of God where his/her friend Robert Mitchum imposes it in the role of Senora of Plata.

In 1980, a doctor diagnoses at the star the Maladie of Alzheimer. In 1981, it is placed under the supervision of one of her two daughters, the princess Yasmina Aga Khan. Rita Hayworth dies out in New York on May 14th, 1987.

Quotations

  • “More than one woman, Rita Hayworth is one of the incarnations of our principal national myth. She is the Goddess of the love” ( Life Magazine).
  • De Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles said: “Perhaps I will live so a long time that I will end up forgetting it. ”

Anecdotes

  • One gave the name of Gilda to a bomb (the bomb released on the Atoll of Bikini). What will be worth in Rita the nickname of “  high-speed motorboat atomique  ”.

  • the hero of the film the Escaped prisoners will make use of a poster of Rita Hayworth.
  • When Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth married, the couple was called “  the beautiful one and the génie  ”. Indeed, Orson was regarded as the man more cultivated of his time and Rita suffered from its lack of knowledge.

  • It has a star on the Hollywood Walk off Famed at the 1645, Vine Street.

Catalog of films

as an actress

as producing

External bonds

  • Rita Hayworth, a legend of Hollywood: biography, catalog of films, photograph gallery, etc Site from which are resulting from much information of this article, with the pleasant authorization of its author Sylvie Mesere.
  • Site of an admiror

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