"He helped me with my career," Hayworth would say after their marriage ended, "and helped himself to my money." American actors Cary Grant and Rita Hayworth on the set of Only Angels Have Wings, 1939. Judson wanted his wife to be a star not because she wanted it, but because he had plenty to gain from her success. "For five years he treated me as if I had no mind or soul of my own." A painful rise to stardom "I married him for love, but he married me for an investment," Hayworth later said, according to Barbara Leaming's 1989 biography If This Was Happiness. Her family were furious about the match, as Judson was twice her age, and his intentions were far from pure. RELATED: The true story of Audrey Hepburn's two greatest romances In 1937, at not even 20 years old, Hayworth married her first husband Eddie Judson. The family moved closer to the Mexican border, travelling often to Tijuana where Hayworth's father soon had them performing in swanky nightclubs.Īnd her days of performing were only just beginning. American actor Rita Hayworth (1918 - 1987) and her father, Spanish-born dancer Eduardo Cansino (1895 - 1968), linking their arms together. She was rarely seen playing with other children, and had few chances to make friends. He would beat her and, as Hayworth later confessed to her second husband Orson Welles, her father would sexually abuse her too.Ī poor student, much of Hayworth's time was spent practicing and performing. When she was just 12, her entertainer father made her his dance partner, making her perform at wild floating casinos. (Getty) Before she was Ritaīorn Margarita Carmen Cansino in 1918, Hayworth faced hardship and heartache from her earliest years.
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Almost helpless by 1981, Rita was cared for by her daughter Yasmin Khan until her death at age 68.Actress Rita Hayworth poses for a publicity still for the Columbia Pictures movie 'You Were Never Lovelier' in 1942. The last few roles in her 60-film career were increasingly small. Beginning in 1960 (age 42), early onset of Alzheimer's disease (undiagnosed until 1980) limited Rita's ability. Her films after her divorce from Khan include perhaps her best straight acting performances, La bella del Pacífico (1953) and Llegaron a Cordura (1959). To Rita, though, domestic bliss was a more important, if elusive, goal, and in 1949 she interrupted her career for marriage - unfortunately an unhappy one almost from the start - to the playboy Prince Aly Khan.
In person Rita was shy, quiet and unassuming only when the cameras rolled did she turn on the explosive sexual charisma that in Gilda (1946) made her a superstar.
for her first big success, La pelirroja (1941) her splendid dancing with Fred Astaire in Desde aquel beso (1941) made her a star. After 13 mainly minor roles, Columbia lent her to Warner Bros. Fox dropped her after five small roles, but expert, exploitative promotion by her first husband Edward Judson soon brought Rita a new contract at Columbia Pictures, where studio head Harry Cohn changed her surname to Hayworth and approved raising her hairline by electrolysis. Sheehan, leading to her first studio contract and film debut at age 16 in La nave de Satán (1935). At age 12, the mature-looking Rita joined Eduardo's stage act, in which she was spotted three years later by Fox studio head Winfield R. After 13 mainly minor roles Spanish dancer Eduardo Cansino's daughter Margarita studied dancing beginning in her girlhood.
Description: Spanish dancer Eduardo Cansino's daughter Margarita studied dancing beginning in her girlhood.
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