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Rita Hayworth (born Margarita Carmen Cansino; October 17, 1918May 14, 1987) was an American actress and dancer. She achieved fame during the 1940s as one of the era's top stars, appearing in a total of 61 films over 37 years. The press coined the term "love goddess" to describe Hayworth after she had become the most glamorous screen idol of the 1940s. She was the top pin-up girl for GIs during World War II. Hayworth is perhaps best known for her performance in the 1946 film noir, ''Gilda'', opposite Glenn Ford, in which she played the ''femme fatale'' in her first major dramatic role. Fred Astaire, with whom she made two films, called her his favorite dance partner. Her greatest success was in the Technicolor musical ''Cover Girl'' (1944), with Gene Kelly. She is listed as one of the top 25 female motion picture stars of all time in the American Film Institute's survey, AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars. In 1980 Hayworth was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, which contributed to her death at age 68. The public disclosure and discussion of her illness drew international attention to Alzheimer's, then a little-known disease, and helped to greatly increase public and private funding for Alzheimer's research. ==Youth== Hayworth was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1918 as Margarita Carmen Cansino, the oldest child of two dancers. Her father, Eduardo Cansino, Sr., was from Castilleja de la Cuesta, a little town near Seville, Spain. Her mother, Volga Hayworth, was an American of Irish-English descent who had performed with the Ziegfeld Follies. The couple married in 1917. They also had two sons: Eduardo Cansino, Jr. and Vernon Cansino.〔〔("Princess Born to Rita After Pre-dawn Dash to Clinic" ), Associated Press, December 28, 1949. Accessed June 13, 2009.〕 Margarita's father wanted her to become a professional dancer, while her mother hoped she would become an actress.〔("Rita Hayworth Delights Papa and Mama Cansino." ) ''Ellensburg Daily Record'', July 13, 1944. Accessed June 7, 2009.〕 Her paternal grandfather, Antonio Cansino, was renowned as a Spanish classical dancer. He popularized the bolero and his dancing school in Madrid was world famous.〔"Actress Rita Hayworth's Grandfather Dies at 89." ''Los Angeles Times,'' June 22, 1954〕 Hayworth later recalled, "From the time I was three and a half … as soon as I could stand on my own feet, I was given dance lessons."〔 〕 She noted "I didn't like it very much … but I didn't have the courage to tell my father, so I began taking the lessons. Rehearse, rehearse, rehearse, that was my girlhood". She attended dance classes every day for a few years in a Carnegie Hall complex, where she was taught by her uncle Angel Cansino. She performed publicly from the age of six.〔 In 1926 at the age of eight, she was featured in ''La Fiesta'', a short film for Warner Bros.〔 In 1927, her father took the family to Hollywood. He believed that dancing could be featured in the movies and that his family could be part of it. He established his own dance studio,〔 where he taught such stars as James Cagney and Jean Harlow. During the Great Depression, he lost all his investments as commercial interest in his dancing classes waned. In 1931 Eduardo Cansino partnered with his 12-year-old daughter to form an act called the Dancing Cansinos.〔 Since under California law Margarita was too young to work in nightclubs and bars, her father took her with him to work across the border in Tijuana, Mexico. In the early 1930s, it was a popular tourist spot for people from Los Angeles.〔 Because she was working, Cansino never graduated from high school, but she had completed ninth grade at Hamilton High in Los Angeles. Cansino (Hayworth) took a bit part in the film ''Cruz Diablo'' (1934) at age 16, which led to another in ''In Caliente'' (1935) with the Mexican actress, Dolores del Río.〔 She danced with her father in such nightspots as the Foreign and the Caliente clubs. Winfield Sheehan, the head of the Fox Film Corporation, saw her dancing at the Caliente Club and quickly arranged for Hayworth to do a screen test a week later. Impressed by her screen persona, Sheehan signed her for a short-term six-month contract at Fox, under the name Rita Cansino, the first of two name changes for her film career. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rita Hayworth」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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