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Rita Hayworth was born Margarita Cansino in 1918 in New York and by the age of three was learning to dance as a member of The Dancing Cansinos. She changed her name to Rita Hayworth in 1935 and made her film debut as a dancer in Dante's Inferno aged only 16. After working in many supporting roles, she got a prominent part in Only Angels Have Wings in 1939 and then appeared in Blood And Sand. Hayworth had her first big success in the 1941 film The Strawberry Blonde and became a star after dancing with Fred Astaire in You'll Never Get Rich. After turning in an explosive performances in Gilda, Miss Sadie Thompson and They Came To Cordura her career was curtailed by the onset of Alzheimer's.
