Volga Hayworth Explained


Birth Name:	Volga Margaret Hayworth
Birth Date:	August 8, 1897
Birth Place:	Washington, D.C., U.S.
Death Place:	Santa Monica, California, U.S.
Other Names:	Volga H. de Cansino
Occupation:	Actress
Children:	3, including Rita Hayworth and Vernon Cansino
Relatives:	Vinton Hayworth (brother)

Volga Margaret Hayworth (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 peritonitis from a ruptured appendix in Santa Monica, California.^[6] ^[7]

Immediate family

Husband: Eduardo Cansino, born on 2 March 1895 – died on
- Rita Hayworth, born Margarita Carmen Cansino on October 17, 1918 – died on ^[8]
  - Rebecca Welles, born on December 17, 1944 – died on
    - Marc McKerrow, born on March 31, 1966 – died on
  - Yasmin Aga Khan, born on December 28, 1949
    - Andrew Ali Aga Khan Embiricos, born on December 11, 1985 – died on December 4, 2011 (aged 25)
- Eduardo Cansino Jr., born on October 13, 1919 – died on
  - Richard Cansino, born on August 10, 1953
- Vernon Cansino, born on May 21, 1922 – died on March 23, 1974 (aged 51)

Notes

http://www.haworthassociation.org/Reunions/2009Reunion/Agenda/Presentations/Rita/don-pg4.html Date of birth as per the Haworth Association, a genealogy site
http://www.haworthassociation.org/Reunions/2009Reunion/Agenda/Presentations/Rita/Don-pg7.html Haworth Association genealogy site
"Mrs. Eduardo Cansino; Mother of Rita Hayworth, Film Actress - In Dancing Team" The New York Times obituary, January 27, 1945.
"Rita Hayworth, Movie Legend, Dies" The New York Times, May 16, 1987
http://www.thestarnews.com/history-101/from-dancer-to-silver-screen-siren/
News: Died . 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. . . 1945 .
News: Associated Press . Mrs. Eduardo Cansino. Mother of Rita Hayworth, Film Actress. In Dancing Team . Mrs. Volga Cansino, mother of Rita Hayworth, film actress, died at St. John's Hospital last night after an illness of a week. … . . January 27, 1945 . 2014-12-09 .
News: 'American love goddess' Rita Hayworth dies. May 16, 1987. Wilmington Morning Star. The New York Times News Service. (North Carolina). 1D.