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

Notes

  1. http://www.haworthassociation.org/Reunions/2009Reunion/Agenda/Presentations/Rita/don-pg4.html Date of birth as per the Haworth Association, a genealogy site
  2. http://www.haworthassociation.org/Reunions/2009Reunion/Agenda/Presentations/Rita/Don-pg7.html Haworth Association genealogy site
  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. http://www.thestarnews.com/history-101/from-dancer-to-silver-screen-siren/
  6. 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 .
  7. 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 .
  8. News: 'American love goddess' Rita Hayworth dies. May 16, 1987. Wilmington Morning Star. The New York Times News Service. (North Carolina). 1D.