Volga Hayworth

Volga Hayworth
Born Volga Margaret Hayworth
August 8, 1897[1]
Washington, D.C.[2]
Died January 25, 1945(1945-01-25) (aged 47)
Santa Monica, California, U.S.[2]
Other names Volga Cansino
Occupation Actress
Spouse(s) Eduardo Cansino, Sr.
Children Rita Hayworth
Eduardo Cansino, Jr
Vernon Cansino
Parent(s) Allynn Duran Hayworth
Margaret O'Hare Hayworth

Volga Margaret Hayworth [nb 1] (August 8, 1897 January 25, 1945[2]), was an American dancer and vaudevillian under the name Volga Hayworth. A popular showgirl on Broadway, she was the mother of actress Rita Hayworth, who used her mother's maiden name as her professional surname.[3]

Biography

Hayworth was born on August 8, 1897 in Washington, D.C., the daughter of Allynn Duran Hayworth and Margaret O'Hare.[4]

She appeared in the Ziegfeld Follies,[5] met her husband, Spanish-born dancer Eduardo Cansino in 1916 and married him in 1917. They had three children. She and her husband formed a vaudeville act, "The Dancing Cansinos". [6]

Volga Hayworth Cansino died in 1945, aged 47, from undisclosed causes, in Santa Monica, California.[7][8]

Immediate family

Notes

  1. Although some sources cite Volga Cansino's maiden name as Haworth, the Haworth Association genealogy site includes an excerpt from the 1900 Census for Washington City, District of Columbia which clearly shows the surname as Hayworth. The genealogy site, which provides her date of birth, indicates that Volga Hayworth's great-grandfather had begun using the name "Hayworth" and her father was legally known by the amended surname (Haworth to Hayworth).

References

  1. Date of birth as per the Hayworth Association, a genealogy site
  2. 1 2 3 "Mrs. Eduardo Cansino; Mother of Rita Hayworth, Film Actress - In Dancing Team" The New York Times obituary, January 27, 1945
  3. 1 2 "'American love goddess' Rita Hayworth dies". Wilmington Morning Star. (North Carolina). New York Times News Service. May 16, 1987. p. 1D.
  4. Haworth Association genealogy site, ibid.
  5. "Rita Hayworth, Movie Legend, Dies" The New York Times, May 16, 1987
  6. , title=From dancer to silver screen siren
  7. "Died". Time magazine. 1945. Volga Haworth Cansino, 47, partner in the onetime famed Cansino dancing team until birth (Oct. 17, 1918) of Daughter Rita Hayworth, who cinemadopted her mother's maiden name; of a heart ailment; in a Santa Monica hospital.
  8. Associated Press (January 27, 1945). "Mrs. Eduardo Cansino. Mother of Rita Hayworth, Film Actress. In Dancing Team". New York Times. Retrieved 2014-12-09. Mrs. Volga Cansino, mother of Rita Hayworth, film actress, died at St. John's Hospital last night after an illness of a week. ...
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