Volga Hayworth
Born
Volga Margaret Hayworth

August 8, 1897
Washington, D.C., U.S.
DiedJanuary 25, 1945(1945-01-25) (aged 47)
Santa Monica, California, U.S.
Other namesVolga H. de Cansino
OccupationActress
Spouse
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(m. 1917)​
Children3, including Rita Hayworth
RelativesVinton Hayworth (brother)

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

Biography

Hayworth was born on August 8, 1897, in Washington, D.C.,[1] the daughter of Allynn Duran Hayworth and Margaret O'Hare.[2][3] Her younger brother was actor Vinton Hayworth.

She appeared in the Ziegfeld Follies,[4] met her husband, the 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.[5]

Volga Hayworth Cansino died in 1945, at the age of 47, from undisclosed causes, in Santa Monica, California.[6][7]

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 Haworth Association, a genealogy site
  2. ^ Haworth Association genealogy site, ibid.
  3. ^ "Mrs. Eduardo Cansino; Mother of Rita Hayworth, Film Actress - In Dancing Team" The New York Times obituary, January 27, 1945.
  4. ^ "Rita Hayworth, Movie Legend, Dies" The New York Times, May 16, 1987
  5. ^ [1], title=From dancer to silver screen siren
  6. ^ "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.
  7. ^ "Mrs. Eduardo Cansino. Mother of Rita Hayworth, Film Actress. In Dancing Team". The New York Times. Associated Press. January 27, 1945. 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. …
  8. ^ "'American love goddess' Rita Hayworth dies". Wilmington Morning Star. (North Carolina). The New York Times News Service. May 16, 1987. p. 1D.

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