Volga Hayworth
{{Short description|American dancer and vaudevillian}}
{{Infobox person
| name =
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| birth_name = Volga Margaret Hayworth
| birth_date = August 8, 1897
| birth_place = Washington, D.C., U.S.
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1945|1|25|1897|8|8}}
| death_place = Santa Monica, California, U.S.
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| other_names = Volga H. de Cansino
| occupation = Actress
| spouse = {{marriage|Eduardo Cansino, Sr.
|1917}}
| children = 3, including Rita Hayworth and Vernon Cansino
| relatives = Vinton Hayworth (brother)
}}
Volga Margaret Hayworth{{#tag:ref|Although some sources cite Volga Cansino's maiden name as Haworth, the [http://www.haworthassociation.org/Reunions/2009Reunion/Agenda/Presentations/Rita/Don-pg7.html 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).|group="nb"}} (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.,[http://www.haworthassociation.org/Reunions/2009Reunion/Agenda/Presentations/Rita/don-pg4.html Date of birth as per the Haworth Association, a genealogy site] the daughter of Allynn Duran Hayworth and Margaret O'Hare.[http://www.haworthassociation.org/Reunions/2009Reunion/Agenda/Presentations/Rita/Don-pg7.html Haworth Association genealogy site], ibid."Mrs. Eduardo Cansino; Mother of Rita Hayworth, Film Actress - In Dancing Team" The New York Times obituary, January 27, 1945. Her younger brother was actor Vinton Hayworth.
She appeared in the Ziegfeld Follies,"Rita Hayworth, Movie Legend, Dies" The New York Times, May 16, 1987 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.[http://www.thestarnews.com/history-101/from-dancer-to-silver-screen-siren/], title=From dancer to silver screen siren
Volga Hayworth Cansino died in 1945, at the age of 47, from peritonitis from a ruptured appendix in Santa Monica, California.{{cite news |title=Died |quote=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. |work=Time magazine |date=1945 }}{{cite news |agency= Associated Press |title=Mrs. Eduardo Cansino. Mother of Rita Hayworth, Film Actress. In Dancing Team |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9B04EFD81E38EE3BBC4F51DFB766838E659EDE |quote=Mrs. Volga Cansino, mother of Rita Hayworth, film actress, died at St. John's Hospital last night after an illness of a week. … |newspaper=The New York Times |date=January 27, 1945 |access-date=2014-12-09 }}
Immediate family
- Husband: Eduardo Cansino, born on {{birth date|1895|3|2|df=y}} – died on {{death date and age|1968|12|24|1895|3|2|df=y}}
- Rita Hayworth, born Margarita Carmen Cansino on October 17, 1918 – died on {{death date and age|1987|5|14|1918|10|17|df=y}}{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=0YFRAAAAIBAJ&pg=6292%2C243453|title='American love goddess' Rita Hayworth dies|date=May 16, 1987|newspaper=Wilmington Morning Star|agency=The New York Times News Service|location=(North Carolina)|page=1D}}
- Rebecca Welles, born on December 17, 1944 – died on {{death date and age|2004|10|17|1944|12|17|df=y}}
- Marc McKerrow, born on March 31, 1966 – died on {{death date and age|2010|6|18|1966|3|31|df=y}}
- Yasmin Aga Khan, born on December 28, 1949
- Andrew Ali Aga Khan Embiricos, born on {{birth date |1985|12|11|mf=y}} – died on December 4, 2011 (aged 25)
- Eduardo Cansino Jr., born on {{birth date|1919|10|13|mf=y}} – died on {{death date and age|1974|3|11|1919|10|13|mf=y}}
- Richard Cansino, born on August 10, 1953
- Vernon Cansino, born on {{birth date|1922|5|21|mf=y}} – died on March 23, 1974 (aged 51)
Notes
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External links
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- {{Find a Grave|88148761}}
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Category:People from Greater Los Angeles
Category:Actresses from Washington, D.C.
Category:American female dancers
Category:American vaudeville performers
Category:20th-century American actresses
Category:Dancers from Washington, D.C.
Category:20th-century American dancers
Category:Burials at Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City
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