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The definitive femme fatale of the 1940s, Rita Hayworth was the Brooklyn-born daughter of Spanish dancer Eduardo Cansino and Ziegfeld Follies showgirl Volga Haworth. She joined the family dancing act in her early teens and made a few '30s films under her real name, Margarita Cansino, and...Read More
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In the last decade of Rita Hayworth life, almost helpless, Rita was cared for by Rita Hayworth daughter, Princess Yasmin Khan. Rita's death in 1987 was heavily publicized, drawing public attention and funding to the degenerative disease.
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Rita continued working until the beginning of the 1970s when she developed Alzheimer's Disease. Claudia Cardinale has recently said that Rita was already unwell in 1964 when they co-starred together in "Circus World" (a.k.a. "The Magnificent Showman"). At first it was not recognised what Rita was suffering from, and lazy, incompetent journalists wrote that she was drinking heavily. As Rita's condition deteriorated, it became clear what the problem was, and eventually her daughter Yasmin (Princess Yasmin Aga Khan) gained power of attorney to handle her affairs. Rita's death in 1987 hugely increased public awareness of Alzheimer's Disease, and today Yasmin heads Alzheimer's Disease International.
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Biographers, relatives, and friends now believe that the first stages of Alzheimer's disease were responsible for Hayworth's memory lapses, alcoholism, lack of coordination, and poor eyesight during the last three decades of her life. Although Alzheimer's, a disease which was relatively unknown at the time, was not diagnosed as the source of Hayworth's problems, it was obvious that Hayworth was ill. In 1981 she was legally declared unable to care for herself. Her daughter, Princess Yasmin Aga Kahn provided shelter, care, and love for her mother, and sought to enlighten the public to the symptoms of the obscure neurological disease by helping to organize Alzheimer's Disease International and serving as its president.
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Hayworth was on stage by the age of six as a member of The Cansinos, a famous family of Spanish dancers working in vaudeville. Also, her father had performed in a dancing duo with his sister, and later revived the duo with his daughter Rita as his dancing partner, performing in nightclubs in California and the Foreign Club in Tijuana, Mexico. At age sixteen, she attracted the attention of film producers as part of "The Dancing Cansinos" and was signed by Fox Studios in 1935.
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The daughter of Spanish-born dancer Eduardo Cansino and his partner, Volga Haworth, Hayworth as a child worked as a professional dancer with her parents' nightclub act. While still a teenager, she appeared on-screen under her…
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