Rita haworth biography daughter birthday
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By RAY KELLY
For Orson Welles aficionados, the life of Rebecca Welles, his daughter with screen siren Rita Hayworth, is shrouded in mystery.
Rebecca Welles, who died on October 17, 2004, led a far more private life than her celebrity parents.
She spent much of her adult life in Tacoma, Washington. She declined to be interviewed by Barbara Leaming for a 1989 book on Hayworth, even though Leaming had penned a largely sympathetic biography of Welles a few years earlier. Her most revealing comments about her parents appeared in a seldom seen January 1972 Roto article.
Rebecca Welles was delivered by Caesarian section at a Santa Monica hospital on December 17, 1944. In her moving book In My Father’s Shadow, Chris Welles Feder recalls her half-sister’s arrival. “She was a cute baby who smiled, gurgled and looked exactly like our father.”
Hollywood fan magazines featured warm and fuzzy photographs of Hayworth and Welles with their new baby daughter, sometimes
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Rita Hayworth Left a Long Legacy: An Appreciation on Her 100th Birthday
Long before Jennifer Lopez and Eva Longoria, there was Rita Hayworth. The dancer-actress, born Margarita Carmen Cansino, would have been 100 on Wednesday, and even fans of classic Hollywood may not realize how extraordinary her career was. She was the No. 1 box office star of Columbia Pictures in the 1940s, she was Fred Astaire’s favorite dancing partner, and U.S. G.I.s had pinups of her around the globe during WWII. These are especially impressive in an era when Latino-Hispanic children were still in segregated schools and only a decade after America’s “repatriation” program shipped 2 million Mexicans across the border, claiming they were “stealing” American jobs.
Work dried up for Hayworth in the 1960s, due to sporadisk slurred speech and memory problems. Hollywood assumed she was alcoholic, but in 1980 she was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, bringing worldwide
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Rita Hayworth
American actress, dancer, pin-up girl (1918–1987)
Rita Hayworth (born Margarita Carmen Cansino; October 17, 1918 – May 14, 1987) was an American actress, dancer, and pin-up girl.[1][2][3][4][5][6] She achieved fame in the 1940s as one of the top stars of the Golden Age of Hollywood, and appeared in 61 films in total over 37 years. The press coined the term "The Love Goddess" to describe Hayworth, after she had become the most glamorous screen idol of the 1940s. She was the top pin-up girl for GIs during World War II.[7]
Hayworth is widely known for her performance in the 1946 film noirGilda, opposite Glenn Ford, in which she played the femme fatale in her first major dramatic role. She is also known for her performances in Only Angels Have Wings (1939), The Strawberry Blonde (1941), Blood and Sand (1941), The Lady from Shanghai (1947), Pal Joey (1957), and Separ