Rita

Rita Hayworth's glamorous posters motivated countless soldiers to make their way home safely during World War II. But behind the scenes, the actress had a ...

Her career was really never the same after [Gilda](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038559?ref_=nmbio_mbio) (1946)." The drought began between [The Lady from Shanghai](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040525?ref_=nmbio_mbio) (1947) and [Champagne Safari](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044493?ref_=nmbio_mbio) (1954). [The Strawberry Blonde](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034236?ref_=nmbio_mbio) (1941); her splendid dancing with [Fred Astaire](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000001?ref_=nmbio_mbio) in [You'll Never Get Rich](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034409?ref_=nmbio_mbio) (1941) made her a star. [Gene Ringgold](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0727609?ref_=nmbio_mbio) said it best when he remarked, "Rita Hayworth is not an actress of great depth. To Rita, though, domestic bliss was a more important, if elusive, goal, and in 1949 she interrupted her career for marriage - unfortunately an unhappy one almost from the start - to the playboy [Prince Aly Khan](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0451288?ref_=nmbio_mbio). After the hit [Gilda](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038559?ref_=nmbio_mbio) (1946) (her dancing had made the film and it had made her), her career was on the skids. Sheehan](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0790638?ref_=nmbio_mbio), she signed her first studio contract, and make her film debut at age sixteen, in [Dante's Inferno](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0026262?ref_=nmbio_mbio) (1935), followed by [Cruz Diablo](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0025017?ref_=nmbio_mbio) (1934). Then after [Salome](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046269?ref_=nmbio_mbio) (1953), she was not seen again until [Pal Joey](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050815?ref_=nmbio_mbio) (1957). "In [You'll Never Get Rich](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034409?ref_=nmbio_mbio) (1941) with [Fred Astaire](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000001?ref_=nmbio_mbio), was probably the film that moviegoers felt close to Rita. [Harry Cohn](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0169902?ref_=nmbio_mbio) changed her surname to Hayworth and approved raising her hairline by electrolysis. Her father, [Eduardo Cansino](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0134444?ref_=nmbio_mbio) Reina, was a dancer as was his father before him. [ IMBD.com biography](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000028/bio?ref_=nm_ql_3#mini_bio) by [Rod Crawford and Denny Jackson](https://www.imdb.com/search/name?bio_author=Rod%20Crawford%20and%20Denny%20Jackson&view=simple&sort=alpha), she was "born Margarita Carmen Cansino on October 17, 1918, in Brooklyn, New York, into a family of dancers.