Rita Hayworth
Rita Hayworth
Antonio Cansino, was a flamenco dancer and guitarist professional enough to have an open flamenco academy in Seville and another in Madrid. When it did not go well, with his son Eduardo, who also danced, they left Spain and sought a new life in New York. There, in 1918, Eduardo had a daughter, María Margarita del Carmen Cansino. The mother was Irish.
Antonio Cansino, was a flamenco dancer and guitarist professional enough to have an open flamenco academy in Seville and another in Madrid. When it did not go well, with his son Eduardo, who also danced, they left Spain and sought a new life in New York. There, in 1918, Eduardo had a daughter, María Margarita del Carmen Cansino. The mother was Irish.
Xavier Cugat met the Sevillian dancer, Eduardo Cansino, who danced with his seventeen-year-old daughter in Tijuana. That girl, of American nationality, was neither a great dancer nor an exceptional singer, but Xavier Cugat noticed her and set out to turn her into a star, beginning by changing the last name. That's how she became Rita Hayworth New York, October 17, 1918 - New York, May 14, 1987) ...
Xavier Cugat met the Sevillian dancer, Eduardo Cansino, who danced with his seventeen-year-old daughter in Tijuana. That girl, of American nationality, was neither a great dancer nor an exceptional singer, but Xavier Cugat noticed her and set out to turn her into a star, beginning by changing the last name. That's how she became Rita Hayworth New York, October 17, 1918 - New York, May 14, 1987) ...
