Rita Hayworth 1918 - 1987 (original) (raw)

| Show more » | | 50 movies | 127 Blu-ray releases | 121 DVD releases Born October 17, 1918 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, as Margarita Carmen Cansino. She was an American actress and dancer. She achieved fame during the 1940s as one of the era's top stars, appearing in a total of 61 films over 37 years. The press coined the term "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. Hayworth is perhaps best known for her performance in the 1946 film noir, Gilda, opposite Glenn Ford, in which she played the femme fatale in her first major dramatic role. Fred Astaire, with whom she made two films, called her his favorite dance partner. Her greatest success was in the Technicolor musical Cover Girl (1944), with Gene Kelly. She is listed as one of the top-25 female motion picture stars of all time in the American Film Institute's survey, AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars. She died May 14, 1987 in New York City, New York, at the age of 68.34fans 2966Theatricalcollections 22460Blu-raycollections 3144DVDcollections | | Average movie rating Based on 50 movies and 1188 ratingsHighest rated: 7.8 / 10 Only Angels H... (1939) Lowest rated: 6.2 / 10 The Poppy Is ... (1966) | | ---------------- | | --------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |