Rita Hayworth

Trivia of Rita Hayworth

*Her dancer father, Eduardo Cansino, himself the son of a dancer, came to New York from Spain in 1913.Rita had Andalusian ancestry.

*Rita Hayworth established his own dance studio, where he taught such stars as James Cagney and Jean Harlow.

*The famous red hair was not her natural color. When she was signed, studio heads decided that her hairline was too low on her forehead, and she underwent years of painful electrolysis to make it higher.

*She appeared in five movies with classic leading actor Glenn Ford: Affair in Trinidad (1952), The Lady in Question (1940), The Loves of Carmen (1948), The Money Trap (1965) and Gilda (1946).Knocked out two of Glenn Ford's teeth during their fight in Gilda.

*On May 27, 1949, she married Prince Aly Khan (a son of Sultan Mahommed Shah, Aga Khan III, the leader of the Ismaili community of Shia Islam).Many people forget that Rita, not Grace Kelly, was the first movie star to become a princess.Rita Hayworth once said she might convert to Islam, but did not.

*Rita Hayworth made comedic television appearances on Laugh In and The Carol Burnett Show in the 1970s.She considered herself as a comedienne who could dance.

*She struggled with alcoholism all through her life and in the early 70s her health worsened.

She died at the age of 68 from Alzheimer's disease and is laid to rest at the Holy Cross Cemetery, California.