Rita Hayworth - Fact Sheet

Profession: Actress

First attracting the attention of film producers as part of the dance team "The Dancing Cansinos," Hayworth was signed first by Fox Studios in 1935, then free-lanced for several years before signing with Columbia Studios. After a name change from Rita Cansino to Rita Hayworth, and painful electrolysis to raise her hairline, Rita made a splash as part of the ensemble cast in Howard Hawks' Only Angels Have Wings (1939). The Strawberry Blonde with James Cagney followed in 1941. Her sizzling "other woman" part in Rouben Mamoulian's Blood and Sand (1941) with Tyrone Power solidified her new-found stardom. Hayworth's fame as a redhead first arose from this Technicolor film. A Bob Landry Life Magazine photograph of her released at this time (kneeling on a bed in a nightgown) added to her celebrity and became one of the most requested wartime pinups. During World War II she ranked with Betty Grable, Dorothy Lamour, Hedy Lamarr, and Lana Turner as the most popular of pinup girls with servicemen. Hayworth would also become Columbia's top star of the 1940s, under the watchful eye of studio chief Harry Cohn. 

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Rita Hayworth Photo Galleries	# of Pictures
Glamour	23
Glamour	9
Glamour	2
Glamour	16
Glamour	16
Glamour + Candid + Screen Capture	50
Glamour + Candid + Screen Capture	50
Glamour + Candid + Screen Capture	50
Glamour + Candid + Screen Capture	50
Glamour + Candid + Screen Capture	50
Glamour + Candid + Screen Capture	50
Glamour + Candid + Screen Capture	50