Rita Hayworth

Born: 1918-10-17

Margarita Carmen Cansino (October 17, 1918 – May 14, 1987), known by her screen name Rita Hayworth, was an American film actress and dancer of Spanish Roma and Irish descent. After going through extensive white-washing procedures, she attained fame in the 1940s as the titular femme fatale in the film noir Gilda. Being one of the most popular stars of the era, she was the top pin-up girl for American soldiers during WWII and was nicknamed "The Love Goddess". She is listed as number 19 on the American Film Institute's 50 greatest female screen legends.


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Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen

as (archive footage)
Released: 2012-02-04

A film where anything can happen - the hero and the heroine changes their faces, age, look,...

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Pal Joey

as Vera Simpson
Released: 1957-10-25

An opportunistic singer woos a wealthy widow to boost his career.

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Gilda

as Gilda
Released: 1946-04-25

A gambler discovers an old flame while in Argentina, but she's married to his new boss.

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The Lady from Shanghai

as Elsa Bannister
Released: 1947-12-24

A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife.

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Separate Tables

as Ann Shankland
Released: 1958-12-18

Boarders at an English resort struggle with emotional problems.

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Circus World

as Lili Alfredo
Released: 1964-06-25

Circus owner Matt Masters is beset by disasters as he attempts a European tour of his circus. At...

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Charlie Chan in Egypt

as Nayda
Released: 1935-06-04

While investigating the theft of antiquities from an ancient tomb excavation , Charlie discovers...

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Affair in Trinidad

as Chris Emery
Released: 1952-07-29

A nightclub singer enlists her brother-in-law to track down her husband's killer.

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Cover Girl

as Rusty Parker / Maribelle Hicks (flashback sequence)
Released: 1944-03-22

A nightclub dancer makes it big in modeling, leaving her dancer boyfriend behind.

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Only Angels Have Wings

as Judy MacPherson
Released: 1939-05-15

A traveling performer arrives at a remote South American port town where the head of an air...

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The Poppy Is Also a Flower

as Monique Marko
Released: 1966-05-20

A special United Nations bureau organises a campaign to trace a drug-smuggling ring across...

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You'll Never Get Rich

as Sheila Winthrop
Released: 1941-09-25

A Broadway choreographer gets drafted and coincidentally ends up in the same army base as the...

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Blood and Sand

as Dona Sol
Released: 1941-05-30

Bullfighter Juan Gallardo falls for socialite Dona Sol, turning from the faithful Carmen who...

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The Naked Zoo

as Helen Golden
Released: 1970-09-18

Love and crime in Miami's Cocoanut Grove artist's colony. Swinging young writer Stephen Oliver...

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Tonight and Every Night

as Rosalind Bruce
Released: 1945-01-09

An American girl falls for an RAF pilot while performing at a British music hall.

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Casting By

as Self (Archival Footage)
Released: 2012-11-01

This essential new documentary pays tribute to the legacy of the late, legendary casting...

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Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2002-09-24

American Masters Series. Documentary on Gene Kelly that gives insight into his dancing, how he...

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Homicide Bureau

as J.G. Bliss
Released: 1939-01-05

After being criticized by the Citizens' League for his inability to cope with a crime wave,...

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Rebellion

as Paula Castillo
Released: 1936-10-27

In this drama, a Mexican woman attempts to live a peaceful life in California. Unfortunately,...

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The Strawberry Blonde

as Virginia Brush
Released: 1941-02-21

Biff Grimes is desperately in love with Virginia, but his best friend Hugo marries her and...

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You Were Never Lovelier

as Maria Acuña
Released: 1942-11-19

An Argentine heiress thinks a penniless American dancer is her secret admirer.

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The Lady in Question

as Natalie Roguin
Released: 1940-08-07

When a jury member takes in the defendant he couldn't convict, she has a bad influence on his son.

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Miss Sadie Thompson

as Sadie Thompson
Released: 1953-12-23

Sadie Thompson winds up stranded on an island and while her boat is being quarantined, she...

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Salome

as Princess Salome
Released: 1953-03-24

In the reign of emperor Tiberius, Gallilean prophet John the Baptist preaches against King Herod...

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The Loves of Carmen

as Carmen
Released: 1948-08-23

Gypsy Carmen drives men wild in 1820s Spain, especially the dragoon Don Jose.

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Tales of Manhattan

as Ethel Halloway
Released: 1942-08-05

Ten screenwriters collaborated on this series of tales concerning the effect a tailcoat cursed...

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Hollywood, la vie rêvée de Lana Turner

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2019-05-22

Portrait of Julia Jean Turner, from her childhood to her rise of fame as Lana Turner, to her...

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They Came to Cordura

as Adelaide Geary
Released: 1959-06-01

An army major, himself guilty of cowardice, is asked to recommended soldiers for the...

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Angels Over Broadway

as Nina Barona
Released: 1940-10-02

Small-time businessman Charles Engle is threatened with exposure for embezzling $3,000 for his...

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Fire Down Below

as Irena
Released: 1957-05-30

Tony and Felix own a tramp boat, and sail around the Caribbean doing odd jobs and drinking a...

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The Money Trap

as Rosalie Kelly
Released: 1965-09-07

When half a million dollars disappears from a doctor office's safe, the cops assigned to the...

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Professional Soldier

as Gypsy Dancer (uncredited)
Released: 1935-12-27

Mercenary Donovan is hired to kidnap King Peter II. He learns that the party in power is evil...

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Show-Business at War

as Self
Released: 1943-05-21

A multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort.

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The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1996-03-17

A documentary reflecting on women in film and the entertainment industry through the ages led...

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Juvenile Court

as Marcia Adams
Released: 1938-09-10

Public Defender Gary Franklin, frustrated by being unable to save criminal Dutch Adams from a...

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Hit the Saddle

as Rita
Released: 1937-03-03

Unable to legally capture and sell a herd of protected wild horses, corrupt rancher Rance...

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Road to Salina

as Mara
Released: 1970-11-09

Jonas, a young drifter, is wandering in a deserted area on the road to Salina, Mexico. He stops...

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Rita

as (archive footage)
Released: 2003-09-09

Biography of 1940's sex goddess Rita Hayworth.

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Dancing Pirate

as Specialty Dancer (uncredited)
Released: 1936-05-22

Jonathan Pride is a mild-mannered dance instructor in 1820 Boston. En route to visit relatives,...

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The Happy Thieves

as Eve Lewis
Released: 1961-12-20

A suave art thief romances a wealthy duchess, only to enable him to steal a priceless painting...

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The Wrath of God

as Señora De La Plata
Released: 1972-07-14

Set in the 1920s, several foreigners held by a South American military group are offered...

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Special Inspector

as Patricia Lane
Released: 1938-02-14

U. S. Customs Agent Tom Evans is given the assignment of running down a smuggling ring which...

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There's Always a Woman

as Mary - Ketterling's Secretary (uncredited)
Released: 1938-04-20

An investigator for the District Attorney's office quits to open his own detective agency....

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Girls Can Play

as Sue Collins
Released: 1937-06-23

The Hollywood Post's sports writer, Jimmy Jones (Charles Quigley), yearns to be a crime...

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Showbiz Goes to War

as (archive footage)
Released: 1982-12-31

While a few Hollywood celebrities such as James Stewart and Clark Gable saw combat during World...

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Rat Pack

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2022-01-11

In the 1950s, a small group of artists monopolized the attention of the cameras and the public....

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Dante's Inferno

as Dancer
Released: 1935-08-23

A carny builds a gambling empire at the expense of his family's wellbeing.

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Susan and God

as Leonora Stubbs
Released: 1940-06-07

A flighty socialite neglects her family to promote a new religious group.

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The Story on Page One

as Josephine Brown / Jo Morris
Released: 1959-12-01

An adulterous couple is accused of murder after the woman's husband is shot and killed during a...

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The Rover

as Caterina
Released: 1967-09-27

A former counterrevolutionary pirate befriends a mentally ill young woman and this in turn leads...

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Blondie on a Budget

as Joan Forrester
Released: 1940-02-29

Dagwood wants to join the trout club and Blondie wants a fur coat. Jealousy reigns when Dag's...

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My Gal Sal

as Sally Elliott
Released: 1942-04-30

Biopic chronicling the early life of gay nineties-era songwriter Paul Dresser as he outgrows his...

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Meet Nero Wolfe

as Marie Maringola
Released: 1936-07-16

Rex Stout's portly detective prides himself on solving crimes without venturing outside his...

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The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt

as Karen
Released: 1939-01-27

Spies force former jewel thief Michael Lanyard to steal defense secrets in Washington.

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Down to Earth

as Terpsichore / Kitty Pendleton
Released: 1947-08-21

Upset at a new Broadway musical mocking The Nine Muses, Greek goddess Terpsichore comes down to...

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The Bastard

as Martha
Released: 1968-10-29

A criminal (Giuliano Gemma) seeks vengeance when his double-dealing brother (Klaus Kinski)...

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The Renegade Ranger

as Judith Alvarez
Released: 1938-09-16

Two Texas Rangers have their worlds rocked by a wrongfully accused female bandit.

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Music in My Heart

as Patricia O'Malley
Released: 1940-01-04

A young woman engaged to a millionaire falls for the understudy in a Broadway musical.

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The Love Goddesses

as (archive footage)
Released: 1965-03-03

This insightful documentary features some of the major and most beautiful actresses to grace the...

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Anthony Quinn: An Original

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1990-09-10

Born in Mexico, Anthony Quinn became the family's main provider when his father died in an...

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Trouble in Texas

as Carmen Serano
Released: 1937-03-06

Rodeo stars are being killed with poisoned needles, and Tex Ritter is next on the list.

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Nicotine - A Drug with a Future

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2020-09-20

The number of smokers in Europe is declining, yet the tobacco industry is still making...

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Cruz Diablo

as Extra (uncredited)
Released: 1934-11-28

16th-century swashbuckler; evil nobleman usurps another man's title and properties and forces...

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Who Killed Gail Preston?

as Gail Preston
Released: 1938-02-24

A temperamental singer's murder leaves a nightclub full of suspects.

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Hollywood and the Stars

as (archive footage)
Released: 1964-05-04

NBC's pioneering documentary series, produced by the David L. Wolper Production Company, in...

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Dance Crazy in Hollywood

as Various Roles (archive footage)
Released: 1990-01-01

American dancer and choreographer Hermes Pan recalls his life and work as he relives the...

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The Shadow

as Mary Gillespie
Released: 1937-12-22

Mary Gillespie is restoring the Col. Gillespie Circus to its former splendor after her father's...

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Human Cargo

as Carmen Zoro
Released: 1936-05-15

Bonnie Brewster and "Packy" Campbell, rival reporters on competing newspapers, team up to put an...

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Paid to Dance

as Betty Morgan
Released: 1937-12-11

Government undercover agents William Dennis and Joan Barclay are working to solve the...

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Rita Hayworth: And Men Created a Goddess

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2014-12-31

A top glamour girl in the 1940's, and the ultimate femme fatale, the"Love Goddess" Rita Hayworth...

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Under the Pampas Moon

as Carmen
Released: 1935-06-01

Cesare Campo is a hard-riding and hard-loving Argentine gaucho. Yvonne LaMarr is a famous...

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Paddy O'Day

as Tamara Petrovitch
Released: 1936-01-17

A wealthy, eccentric collector of stuffed birds and a beautiful Russian singer provide refuge to...

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Notre Dame de la Croisette

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: 1983-02-23

A woman goes to Cannes and, lost in its chaos and unable to obtain tickets, ends up watching it...

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3-D Rarities

as Miss Sadie Thompson (archive footage)
Released: 2015-06-11

Selections include Kelley's Plasticon Pictures, the earliest extant 3-D demonstration film from...

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Hi, Gaucho!

as Dolores
Released: 1935-10-10

The son and daughter of feuding ranchers defy their fathers in the name of love.

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Champagne Safari

as Self
Released: 1954-01-01

Travelogue/documentary follows newly married Rita Hayworth and Prince Aly Khan on their...

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Affectionately Yours

as Irene Malcolm
Released: 1941-05-10

A married reporter's assignments carry him all over the world, which gives him ample opportunity...

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The Game That Kills

as Betty Holland
Released: 1937-09-21

Ferguson is a rough-and-tumble hockey player who discovers that his chosen profession is nothing...

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Life Begins with Love

as Dinner Guest's Girl Friend (uncredited)
Released: 1937-10-06

A spoiled playboy is forced to leave town to avoid the press, which latches on to his statement,...

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Rita Hayworth: Dancing Into the Dream

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1990-01-01

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Rita Hayworth - Zu viel vom Leben

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2019-06-04

In front of the camera, Rita Hayworth was the prototype of the ideal of American beauty,...

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Breakdowns of 1941

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: 1941-11-14

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1941.

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Convicted

as Jerry Wheeler
Released: 1938-08-18

A nightclub dancer and a detective try and catch the gangster who framed her brother.

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Piernas de Seda

as Ballerina (uncredited)
Released: 1935-10-04

Piernas de Seda is a 1935 American comedy film directed by John Boland. It stars Rosita Moreno,...

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Old Louisiana

as Angela Gonzales as Rita Cansino
Released: 1937-03-01

The Louisiana Purchase is imminent and Gilmore is smuggling guns into St. Louis so his men can...

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Magic Mirror Maze

as uncredited
Released: 2012-05-10

The famed Hall of Mirrors sequence of Welles' classic noir The Lady from Shanghai is transformed...

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Criminals of the Air

as Rita Owens
Released: 1937-04-30

Undercover agent Mark Owens is sent to aid the Border Patrol in the trans-border town of...

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The Carol Burnett Show

as Self
First aired: 1967-09-11

The Carol Burnett Show is an American variety/sketch comedy television show starring Carol...

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Spécial cinéma

as Self (archive footage)
First aired: 1974-09-25

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The Ed Sullivan Show

as Self
First aired: 1948-06-20

The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June...

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The Ed Sullivan Show

as Self (archive footage)
First aired: 1948-06-20

The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June...

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Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

as Self
First aired: 1967-09-09

An American sketch comedy television program hosted by comedians Dan Rowan and Dick Martin.

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The Oscars

as Self
First aired: 1953-03-19

An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The...

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