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Margarita Carmen Cansino was born in Brooklyn,
New York, the daughter of Spanish flamenco dancer Eduardo Cansino (Sr.) and
English/Irish-American Ziegfeld girl Volga Hayworth. She was on stage by the
age of six as a member of her family's Spanish troupe. Eduardo eventually
pared the act down to a duo with Margarita and performing in
nightclubs in California and the Foreign Club in Tijuana, Mexico. At age
sixteen, she attracted the attention of film producers and was signed by Fox
Studios in 1935. Margarita signed with Columbia Pictures in 1937 who changed
her name to Rita Hayworth and within a few year's became that studio's
biggest star. Her
The "love goddess" image was cemented with Bob Landry's 1941
Life magazine photograph of her (kneeling on her own bed in a silk
and lace nightgown), which caused a sensation and became (at over five
million copies) one of the most requested wartime pinups Rita became an important musical star, primarily because of her dancing talent and was partnered with Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly.. However, her voice was always dubbed for her singing roles The role that eventually defined her career and indirectly harmed her marriages was Gilda (1946) in which Hayworth performed a legendary one-glove striptease — made her ia cultural icon as the ultimate femme fatale. Naturally shy and reclusive, Rita was the antithesis of the characters she played. She once complained, "Men fell in love with Gilda, but they wake up with me." Rita left her film career in 1948 to marry
Prince Aly Khan, the son of the Aga Khan, the leader of the Ismaili sect of
Shia Islam. After the marriage collapsed in 1951, Rita returned to
America with great fanfare to film a string of hit films. About 1960, Rita suffered from extremely early onset of Alzheimer's disease, which
was not diagnosed until 1980. She continued to act in films until the early
1970s. One of
the major fund raisers for the Alzheimer's Association is the annual Rita
Hayworth Gala, which is held in New York City and Chicago. Hayworth's
daughter, Princess Yasmin Aga Khan, has been the hostess for these events,
which since 1985 have raised more than $42 million for the Association. |
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Gildas
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Ingredients |
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30
toothpicks 10 guindilla 10 anchovies |
10 olives (with no pit)
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© 2011 Gordon Nary and Tyler Stokes