The Truth About Rita Hayworth's Relationship With Orson Welles
Rita Hayworth was born on October 17, 1918, in New York City to a pair of former vaudeville performers. Hayworth’s real name was Margarita Carmen Cansino (via Biography). As a child, Hayworth was known to be a kind, sweet girl, but a poor student, who eventually came to develop a strong dancing ability like her parents. Her father had performed an act with his sister, billed as the Dancing Cansinos. Recognizing his daughter’s ability, Eduardo Cansino decided to revive his old dance act with his daughter as his new partner. Unfortunately, this was just the first instance of men in Hayworth’s life using her and her career for their own financial gain. Hayworth would later say that her father abused her (via Vanity Fair).
Hayworth was discovered by a producer for the Fox Film Company when she was just 16 years old and was performing with her father. A few years later, Hayworth married her first husband, Edward Judson, who was almost twice her age and served as her manager. He was the one who recommended that she take the last name, Hayworth.
The move worked, and Hayworth was on her way to becoming a star. However, according to the 1989 Hayworth biography, “If This Was Happiness” by Barbara Leaming, she would later say about the marriage that “I married him for love, but he married me for an investment. For five years he treated me as if I had no mind or soul of my own.”
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