Rita Hayworth
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Rita Hayworth was an American actress, dancer, and pin-up girl. She achieved fame in the 1940s as one of the top stars of the Golden Age of Hollywood, and appeared in 61 films over 38 years. The press
Hayworth by Bob Coburn, 1948
At age 12, Margarita (later Rita) Cansino was dancing professionally as her father's partner in "The Dancing Cansinos", 1931.
Margarita Cansino, at age 14, with her father and dancing partner, 1933
Rita Cansino and her father, 1935
Orson Welles
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George Orson Welles was an American actor and filmmaker. Remembered for his innovative work in film, radio, and theatre, he is considered among the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time
Rita Hayworth
…she was working, Hayworth never graduated from high school, but she completed the ninth grade at Hamilton High in Los Angeles. Hayworth later told Orson Welles that her father began to sexually abuse her when they were touring together as the Dancing Cansinos. Her biographer, Barbara Leaming, wrote that her…
Welles in 1937
Welles aged three, 1918
Welles's birthplace in Kenosha, Wisconsin (2013)
Welles's mother, concert pianist Beatrice Ives Welles