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. 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. Rita Hayworth was born Margarita Carmen Cansino on October 17, 1918, in Brooklyn, New York, into a family of dancers.
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