Rita Hayworth
Birthday: 1918-10-17
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Biography: Margarita Carmen Cansino (October 17, 1918 – May 14, 1987), known by her screen name Rita Hayworth, was an American film actress and dancer of Spanish Roma and Irish descent. After going through extensive white-washing procedures, she attained fame in the 1940s as the titular femme fatale in the film noir Gilda. Being one of the most popular stars of the era, she was the top pin-up girl for American soldiers during WWII and was nicknamed "The Love Goddess". She is listed as number 19 on the American Film Institute's 50 greatest female screen legends.
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Gilda
A gambler discovers an old flame while in Argentina, but she's married to his new boss....
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The Lady from Shanghai
A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife....
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Blondie on a Budget
Dagwood wants to join the trout club and Blondie wants a fur coat. Jealousy reigns when Dag's old gi...
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Cover Girl
A nightclub dancer makes it big in modeling, leaving her dancer boyfriend behind....
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Rita Hayworth - Zu viel vom Leben
In front of the camera, Rita Hayworth was the prototype of the ideal of American beauty, twirling al...
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Convicted
A nightclub dancer and a detective try and catch the gangster who framed her brother....
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Charlie Chan in Egypt
While investigating the theft of antiquities from an ancient tomb excavation , Charlie discovers tha...
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Tales of Manhattan
Ten screenwriters collaborated on this series of tales concerning the effect a tailcoat cursed by it...
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Salome
In the reign of emperor Tiberius, Gallilean prophet John the Baptist preaches against King Herod and...
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You'll Never Get Rich
A Broadway choreographer gets drafted and coincidentally ends up in the same army base as the boyfri...
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Angels Over Broadway
Small-time businessman Charles Engle is threatened with exposure for embezzling $3,000 for his free-...
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Circus World
Circus owner Matt Masters is beset by disasters as he attempts a European tour of his circus. At the...
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Separate Tables
The lives of a disparate group of unfulfilled people converge at a small, seaside English hotel in t...
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The Loves of Carmen
Gypsy Carmen drives men wild in 1820s Spain, especially the dragoon Don Jose....
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Tonight and Every Night
An American girl falls for an RAF pilot while performing at a British music hall....
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You Were Never Lovelier
An Argentine heiress thinks a penniless American dancer is her secret admirer....
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Affair in Trinidad
A nightclub singer enlists her brother-in-law to track down her husband's killer....
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Susan and God
A flighty socialite neglects her family to promote a new religious group....
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Only Angels Have Wings
A traveling performer arrives at a remote South American port town where the head of an air freight ...
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Blood and Sand
Bullfighter Juan Gallardo falls for socialite Dona Sol, turning from the faithful Carmen who neverth...
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The Money Trap
When half a million dollars disappears from a doctor office's safe, the cops assigned to the burglar...
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Miss Sadie Thompson
Sadie Thompson winds up stranded on an island and while her boat is being quarantined, she manages t...
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Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
A film where anything can happen - the hero and the heroine changes their faces, age, look, names, a...
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The Story on Page One
An adulterous couple is accused of murder after the woman's husband is shot and killed during a scuf...
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Down to Earth
Upset at a new Broadway musical mocking The Nine Muses, Greek goddess Terpsichore comes down to eart...
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They Came to Cordura
An army major, himself guilty of cowardice, is asked to recommended soldiers for the Congressional M...
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The Wrath of God
Set in the 1920s, several foreigners held by a South American military group are offered possible fr...
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Breakdowns of 1941
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1941....
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Showbiz Goes to War
While a few Hollywood celebrities such as James Stewart and Clark Gable saw combat during World War ...
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Fire Down Below
Tony and Felix own a tramp boat, and sail around the Caribbean doing odd jobs and drinking a lot. Th...
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The Lady in Question
When a jury member takes in the defendant he couldn't convict, she has a bad influence on his son....
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Affectionately Yours
A married reporter's assignments carry him all over the world, which gives him ample opportunity to ...
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The Strawberry Blonde
Biff Grimes is desperately in love with Virginia, but his best friend Hugo marries her and manipulat...
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Rebellion
In this drama, a Mexican woman attempts to live a peaceful life in California. Unfortunately, land-g...
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Trouble in Texas
Rodeo stars are being killed with poisoned needles, and Tex Ritter is next on the list....
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The Happy Thieves
A suave art thief romances a wealthy duchess, only to enable him to steal a priceless painting from ...
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Road to Salina
Jonas, a young drifter, is wandering in a deserted area on the road to Salina, Mexico. He stops at a...
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The Bastard
A criminal (Giuliano Gemma) seeks vengeance when his double-dealing brother (Klaus Kinski) steals hi...
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My Gal Sal
Biopic chronicling the early life of gay nineties-era songwriter Paul Dresser as he outgrows his job...
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The Renegade Ranger
Two Texas Rangers have their worlds rocked by a wrongfully accused female bandit....
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Music in My Heart
A young woman engaged to a millionaire falls for the understudy in a Broadway musical....
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Paddy O'Day
A wealthy, eccentric collector of stuffed birds and a beautiful Russian singer provide refuge to an ...
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Hit the Saddle
Unable to legally capture and sell a herd of protected wild horses, corrupt rancher Rance Macgowan u...
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The Poppy Is Also a Flower
A special United Nations bureau organises a campaign to trace a drug-smuggling ring across Europe to...
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The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt
Spies force former jewel thief Michael Lanyard to steal defense secrets in Washington....
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Dante's Inferno
A carny builds a gambling empire at the expense of his family's wellbeing....
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Homicide Bureau
After being criticized by the Citizens' League for his inability to cope with a crime wave, Police C...
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Who Killed Gail Preston?
A temperamental singer's murder leaves a nightclub full of suspects....
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The Shadow
Mary Gillespie is restoring the Col. Gillespie Circus to its former splendor after her father's deat...
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Special Inspector
U. S. Customs Agent Tom Evans is given the assignment of running down a smuggling ring which hijacks...
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Meet Nero Wolfe
Rex Stout's portly detective prides himself on solving crimes without venturing outside his comforta...
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Paid to Dance
Government undercover agents William Dennis and Joan Barclay are working to solve the disappearances...
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Girls Can Play
The Hollywood Post's sports writer, Jimmy Jones (Charles Quigley), yearns to be a crime reporter, an...
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Under the Pampas Moon
Cesare Campo is a hard-riding and hard-loving Argentine gaucho. Yvonne LaMarr is a famous Parisian s...
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Juvenile Court
Public Defender Gary Franklin, frustrated by being unable to save criminal Dutch Adams from a death ...
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Nicotine - A Drug with a Future
The number of smokers in Europe is declining, yet the tobacco industry is still making considerable ...
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The Rover
A former counterrevolutionary pirate befriends a mentally ill young woman and this in turn leads to ...
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Notre Dame de la Croisette
A woman goes to Cannes and, lost in its chaos and unable to obtain tickets, ends up watching it on t...
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Human Cargo
Bonnie Brewster and "Packy" Campbell, rival reporters on competing newspapers, team up to put an end...
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Professional Soldier
Mercenary Donovan is hired to kidnap King Peter II. He learns that the party in power is evil and th...
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Hi, Gaucho!
The son and daughter of feuding ranchers defy their fathers in the name of love....
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Rat Pack
In the 1950s, a small group of artists monopolized the attention of the cameras and the public. Fran...
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Dance Crazy in Hollywood
American dancer and choreographer Hermes Pan recalls his life and work as he relives the glorious hi...
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The Naked Zoo
Love and crime in Miami's Cocoanut Grove artist's colony. Swinging young writer Stephen Oliver has a...
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Anthony Quinn: An Original
Born in Mexico, Anthony Quinn became the family's main provider when his father died in an accident....
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3-D Rarities
Selections include Kelley's Plasticon Pictures, the earliest extant 3-D demonstration film from 1922...
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There's Always a Woman
An investigator for the District Attorney's office quits to open his own detective agency. However, ...
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Cruz Diablo
16th-century swashbuckler; evil nobleman usurps another man's title and properties and forces his da...
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The Game That Kills
Ferguson is a rough-and-tumble hockey player who discovers that his chosen profession is nothing mor...
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Criminals of the Air
Undercover agent Mark Owens is sent to aid the Border Patrol in the trans-border town of Hernandez i...
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Old Louisiana
The Louisiana Purchase is imminent and Gilmore is smuggling guns into St. Louis so his men can make ...
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Champagne Safari
Travelogue/documentary follows newly married Rita Hayworth and Prince Aly Khan on their honeymoon tr...
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Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer
American Masters Series. Documentary on Gene Kelly that gives insight into his dancing, how he forme...
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Show-Business at War
A multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort....
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Dancing Pirate
Jonathan Pride is a mild-mannered dance instructor in 1820 Boston. En route to visit relatives, Jona...
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Life Begins with Love
A spoiled playboy is forced to leave town to avoid the press, which latches on to his statement, whi...
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Rita Hayworth: And Men Created a Goddess
A top glamour girl in the 1940's, and the ultimate femme fatale, the"Love Goddess" Rita Hayworth wen...
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Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8
Ice skating is the theme; at the Tropical Ice Garden, in Westwood Hills, are seen a flock of skating...
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Magic Mirror Maze
The famed Hall of Mirrors sequence of Welles' classic noir The Lady from Shanghai is transformed thr...
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Als Großvater Rita Hayworth liebte
The story of a family that is forced to flee the ČSSR in 1969 and seeks a new home in Germany....
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The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latino Image in American Cinema
Documentary about the presence of Latin American culture and actors in American movies....
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Songs for After a War
A particular reading of the hard years of famine, repression and censorship after the massacre of th...
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Dream Girl: The Making of Marilyn Monroe
How did Marilyn Monroe become one of the greatest sex symbols of all time? What drove a prudish litt...
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