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Rita Hayworth: Eduardo Cansino
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From early childhood, Rita Hayworth was a dancer. At age twelve, when she was still Margarita Cansino, her father Eduardo took her out of school and made her his dance partner in a traveling nightclub act. She even made her first film appearances with her father in two early musical shorts, La Fiesta and Anna Case with the Dancing Cansinos (both 1926).
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Margarita Carmen Cansino, a girl known to the world as Rita Hayworth, was one of the most glamorous actresses in cinema history, but she was much more than a beautiful face. Rita was an exceptionally talented dancer, and her performances embodied a combination of strength and sensitivity that set her apart from other screen sirens, and made her just as popular with female audiences. From her persona, it is hard to believe that the real Rita was a very shy woman with great insecurities. She was a much better actress than the critics ever acknowledged. It is a credit to her abilities that she was able to play characters like "Gilda" so flawlessly that the world thought of the person and the image as one in the same. Rita brightened America during World War II with her dancing in musicals like Cover Girl, and displayed her evolving acting talents in films like The Loves of Carmen and Miss Sadie Thompson.
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Having been a "Dancing Cansino" as a young girl, Rita was right at home as the dancing Spanish gypsy of The Loves of Carmen. Jean Louis was once again given the chance is display his prowess as Rita's designer. He could take Rita from genuine goddess to scheming seductress to peasant gypsy in film after film with brilliance. Here his vivid colors, sparkles, beads and bangles make the best use of 40's Technicolor and provide Rita with the flair needed to become Carmen.
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Hayworth was a created star, made by the efforts of studio press-agentry and Eddie Judson, her first husband, of whom the best thing that can be said is that he was born in San Jose. Starved into shape, her hairline pushed back by electrolysis, Cansino--previously a dancer and a featured player in B films--disappeared into Hayworth.
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Before she was "Rita Hayworth," Rita Cansino co-starred in this "B" western, playing a Mexican woman whose father is murdered by ruthless outlaws out to nab the family land in California. Presidential aide Tom Keene rescues lovely Rita, falls in love with her and becomes governor of the state. With Duncan Renaldo. 60 min.
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