biography
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Hayworth, Rita
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originally Margarita Carmen Cansino
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| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1918–87)
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| biography:
| Film actress, born into a show business family in New York City, USA. Her nightclub appearances as a Spanish dancer led to a succession of small roles in B-pictures. Blossoming into an international beauty after dyeing her hair red, she partnered both Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly in musicals of the 1940s, and found her best-known lead in Gilda (1946). A pin-up of US servicemen, her Hollywood career was effectively closed by a scandal involving her romance with Aly Khan (1949), whom she later married. During the 1960s she appeared in character parts, often in Europe, including The Money Trap (1966) and The Wrath of God (1972). Married five times, she suffered from Alzheimer's disease for several years prior to her death. |
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