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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. Rita, herself, said, 'Men fell in love with Gilda, but they wake up with me'. Part of the reasons for the downward spiral was television, but also Rita had been replaced by a new star at Columbia, Kim Novak. Then after Salome (1953), she was not seen again until Pal Joey (1957).

The drought began between The Lady from Shanghai (1947) and Champagne Safari (1954). Although she was still making movies, they never approached her earlier success. After the hit Gilda (1946) (her dancing had made the film and it had made her), her career was on the skids. Her dancing, for which she had studied all her life, was astounding. In You'll Never Get Rich (1941) with Fred Astaire, was probably the film that moviegoers felt close to Rita. Rita was probably the second most popular actress after Betty Grable. Her natural, raw beauty was showcased later that year in Blood and Sand (1941), filmed in Technicolor. This was the film that exuded the warmth and seductive vitality that was to make her famous. for her first big success, The Strawberry Blonde (1941) her splendid dancing with Fred Astaire in You'll Never Get Rich (1941) made her a star. After thirteen minor roles, Columbia lent her to Warner Bros. She played the second female lead, Judy McPherson, in Only Angels Have Wings (1939). 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. She continued to play small bit parts in several films under the name of 'Rita Cansino'. Sheehan, she signed her first studio contract, and make her film debut at age sixteen, in Dante's Inferno (1935), followed by Cruz Diablo (1934). It was her first film appearance, albeit an uncredited one.

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She joined her family on stage when she was eight years old when her family was filmed in a movie called La Fiesta (1926). Rita, herself, studied as a dancer in order to follow in her family's footsteps.

Rita's American mother, Volga Margaret (Hayworth), who was of mostly Irish descent, met Eduardo in 1916 and were married the following year. Her father, Eduardo Cansino Reina, was a dancer as was his father before him. “It was the film that gave him stardom, and he used to say that any film with Rita Hayworth in it he liked doing.” In a 1990 documentary on Rita, Glenn admitted, “I loved her very deeply at that time.Rita Hayworth was born Margarita Carmen Cansino on October 17, 1918, in Brooklyn, New York, into a family of dancers. It’s little surprise that although Glenn starred in many movies in his six-decade career, Peter says Gilda remained his father’s favorite. They were constantly together.” Rita, quite publicly in 1972, called Glenn “the best neighbor a woman ever had.” She would spend a lot of time at my dad’s house sitting by the pool. He installed a little gate in the back of his property so she could come from her house over to his. The two of them were back together again. “The day after he finished that house and moved into it, she filed for divorce.

“That’s where he built his dream house,” Peter says. The actress is believed to have tipped Glenn off to the property’s availability - and possibly her own! In 1960, he bought the lot next to the Beverly Hills home Rita shared with her last husband, screenwriter James Hill. Through all the affairs, however, Glenn’s love for Rita never died, and his unflagging adoration showed itself in audacious ways.