Biography
Margarita Carmen Cansino (October 17, 1918 – May 14, 1987), known by her screen name Rita Hayworth, was an American film actress and dancer of Spanish Roma and Irish descent. After going through extensive white-washing procedures, she attained fame in the 1940s as the titular femme fatale in the film noir Gilda. Being one of the most popular stars of the era, she was the top pin-up girl for American soldiers during WWII and was nicknamed "The Love Goddess". She is listed as number 19 on the Amer...
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Complete Filmography

Rat Pack
2022
as Self (archive footage)
In the 1950s, a small group of artists monopolized the attention of the cameras and the public. Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Joey Bish...

Nicotine - A Drug with a Future
2020
as Self (archive footage)
The number of smokers in Europe is declining, yet the tobacco industry is still making considerable profits. Electronic innovations such as e-cigarett...

Rita Hayworth - Zu viel vom Leben
2019
as Self (archive footage)
In front of the camera, Rita Hayworth was the prototype of the ideal of American beauty, twirling alongside Fred Astaire or Gene Kelly. In her private...

Hollywood, The Dream Life of Lana Turner
2019
as Self (archive footage)
Portrait of Julia Jean Turner, from her childhood to her rise of fame as Lana Turner, to her last role.

3-D Rarities
2015
as Miss Sadie Thompson (archive footage)
Selections include Kelley's Plasticon Pictures, the earliest extant 3-D demonstration film from 1922 with incredible footage of Washington and New Yor...

Rita Hayworth: And Men Created a Goddess
2014
as Self (archive footage)
A top glamour girl in the 1940's, and the ultimate femme fatale, the"Love Goddess" Rita Hayworth went from a dancer in Brooklyn to Columbia Pictures' ...

Casting By
2012
as Self (Archival Footage)
This essential new documentary pays tribute to the legacy of the late, legendary casting director Marion Dougherty and shines a light on one of the mo...

Magic Mirror Maze
2012
The famed Hall of Mirrors sequence of Welles' classic noir The Lady from Shanghai is transformed through a succession of four algorithmic progressions...

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2012
as (archive footage)
A film where anything can happen - the hero and the heroine changes their faces, age, look, names, and so on. The only same thing: The love between ma...

Rita
2003
as (archive footage)
Biography of 1940's sex goddess Rita Hayworth.

Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer
2002
as Self (archive footage)
American Masters Series. Documentary on Gene Kelly that gives insight into his dancing, how he formed a style (first "blue collar dancer") and develop...

The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latino Image in American Cinema
2002
Documentary about the presence of Latin American culture and actors in American movies.

Als Großvater Rita Hayworth liebte
2001
as Self (archive footage)
The story of a family that is forced to flee the ČSSR in 1969 and seeks a new home in Germany.

The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful
1996
as Self (archive footage)
A documentary reflecting on women in film and the entertainment industry through the ages led and hosted by some of its most beloved female icons.

Anthony Quinn: An Original
1990
as Self (archive footage)
Born in Mexico, Anthony Quinn became the family's main provider when his father died in an accident. Thus began the story of a man who had a thousand ...

Dance Crazy in Hollywood
1990
as Various Roles (archive footage)
American dancer and choreographer Hermes Pan recalls his life and work as he relives the glorious history of the Hollywood musical.

Rita Hayworth: Dancing Into the Dream
1990
as Self (archive footage)

Notre Dame de la Croisette
1983
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
A woman goes to Cannes and, lost in its chaos and unable to obtain tickets, ends up watching it on television from her hotel room.

Showbiz Goes to War
1982
as (archive footage)
While a few Hollywood celebrities such as James Stewart and Clark Gable saw combat during World War II, the majority used their talents to rally the A...

Songs for After a War
1976
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
A particular reading of the hard years of famine, repression and censorship after the massacre of the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), through popular cul...

The Wrath of God
1972
as Señora De La Plata
Set in the 1920s, several foreigners held by a South American military group are offered possible freedom if they accept to topple a local crazed mili...

Road to Salina
1970
as Mara
Jonas, a young drifter, is wandering in a deserted area on the road to Salina, Mexico. He stops at a desolate roadside service station when Mara, the ...

The Naked Zoo
1970
as Helen Golden
Love and crime in Miami's Cocoanut Grove artist's colony. Swinging young writer Stephen Oliver has a falling-out with benefactress Rita Hayworth in th...

The Bastard
1968
as Martha
A criminal (Giuliano Gemma) seeks vengeance when his double-dealing brother (Klaus Kinski) steals his jewels and mutilates his shooting hand.

The Rover
1967
as Caterina
A former counterrevolutionary pirate befriends a mentally ill young woman and this in turn leads to tragedy when she falls in love with a French naval...

The Poppy Is Also a Flower
1966
as Monique Marko
A special United Nations bureau organises a campaign to trace a drug-smuggling ring across Europe to its source on the Afghanistan-Iran border.

The Money Trap
1965
as Rosalie Kelly
When half a million dollars disappears from a doctor office's safe, the cops assigned to the burglary case, Joe and Pete, decide to find the money and...

Circus World
1964
as Lili Alfredo
Circus owner Matt Masters is beset by disasters as he attempts a European tour of his circus. At the same time, he is caught in an emotional bind betw...

The Happy Thieves
1961
as Eve Lewis
A suave art thief romances a wealthy duchess, only to enable him to steal a priceless painting from her collection. Complications ensue.

The Happy Thieves
1961
Executive Producer
A suave art thief romances a wealthy duchess, only to enable him to steal a priceless painting from her collection. Complications ensue.

The Story on Page One
1959
as Josephine Brown / Jo Morris
An adulterous couple is accused of murder after the woman's husband is shot and killed during a scuffle. A high-profile court case tells the story.

They Came to Cordura
1959
as Adelaide Geary
An army major, himself guilty of cowardice, is asked to recommended soldiers for the Congressional Medal of Honor during the Mexican Border Incursion ...

Separate Tables
1958
as Ann Shankland
The lives of a disparate group of unfulfilled people converge at a small, seaside English hotel in this adaptation of Terence Rattigan's classic play.

Pal Joey
1957
as Vera Simpson
An opportunistic singer woos a wealthy widow to boost his career.

Fire Down Below
1957
as Irena
Tony and Felix own a tramp boat, and sail around the Caribbean doing odd jobs and drinking a lot. They agree to ferry the beautiful but passportless I...

Champagne Safari
1954
as Self
Travelogue/documentary follows newly married Rita Hayworth and Prince Aly Khan on their honeymoon trip through exotic locales.

Miss Sadie Thompson
1953
as Sadie Thompson
Sadie Thompson winds up stranded on an island and while her boat is being quarantined, she manages to stir up the blood of every marine on the base.

Salome
1953
as Princess Salome
In the reign of emperor Tiberius, Gallilean prophet John the Baptist preaches against King Herod and Queen Herodias. The latter wants John dead, but H...

Salome
1953
Producer
In the reign of emperor Tiberius, Gallilean prophet John the Baptist preaches against King Herod and Queen Herodias. The latter wants John dead, but H...

Affair in Trinidad
1952
as Chris Emery
A nightclub singer enlists her brother-in-law to track down her husband's killer.

Affair in Trinidad
1952
Producer
A nightclub singer enlists her brother-in-law to track down her husband's killer.

The Loves of Carmen
1948
as Carmen
Gypsy Carmen drives men wild in 1820s Spain, especially the dragoon Don Jose.

The Loves of Carmen
1948
Executive Producer, Producer
Gypsy Carmen drives men wild in 1820s Spain, especially the dragoon Don Jose.

The Lady from Shanghai
1947
as Elsa Bannister
A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife.

Down to Earth
1947
as Terpsichore / Kitty Pendleton
Upset at a new Broadway musical mocking The Nine Muses, Greek goddess Terpsichore comes down to earth to land a part in the show and change it.

Gilda
1946
as Gilda
A gambler discovers an old flame while in Argentina, but she's married to his new boss.

Tonight and Every Night
1945
as Rosalind Bruce
An American girl falls for an RAF pilot while performing at a British music hall.

Cover Girl
1944
as Rusty Parker / Maribelle Hicks (flashback)
A nightclub dancer makes it big in modeling, leaving her dancer boyfriend behind.

Show-Business at War
1943
as Self
A multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort.

You Were Never Lovelier
1942
as Maria Acuña
An Argentine heiress thinks a penniless American dancer is her secret admirer.

Tales of Manhattan
1942
as Ethel Halloway
Ten screenwriters collaborated on this series of tales concerning the effect a tailcoat cursed by its tailor has on those who wear it. The video relea...

My Gal Sal
1942
as Sally Elliott
Biopic chronicling the early life of gay nineties-era songwriter Paul Dresser as he outgrows his job as carnival entertainer and moves up into New Yor...

Breakdowns of 1941
1941
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1941.

You'll Never Get Rich
1941
as Sheila Winthrop
A Broadway choreographer gets drafted and coincidentally ends up in the same army base as the boyfriend of his object of affection.

Blood and Sand
1941
as Dona Sol
Bullfighter Juan Gallardo falls for socialite Dona Sol, turning from the faithful Carmen who nevertheless stands by her man as he continues to face re...

Affectionately Yours
1941
as Irene Malcolm
A married reporter's assignments carry him all over the world, which gives him ample opportunity to put the moves on the local females.

The Strawberry Blonde
1941
as Virginia Brush
Biff Grimes is desperately in love with Virginia, but his best friend Hugo marries her and manipulates Biff into becoming involved in his somewhat nef...

Angels Over Broadway
1940
as Nina Barona
Small-time businessman Charles Engle is threatened with exposure for embezzling $3,000 for his free-spending wife. Deciding on suicide, he scribbles a...

The Lady in Question
1940
as Natalie Roguin
When a jury member takes in the defendant he couldn't convict, she has a bad influence on his son.

Susan and God
1940
as Leonora Stubbs
A flighty socialite neglects her family to promote a new religious group.

Blondie on a Budget
1940
as Joan Forrester
Dagwood wants to join the trout club and Blondie wants a fur coat. Jealousy reigns when Dag's old girlfriend Joan shows up, but nothing else matters w...

Music in My Heart
1940
as Patricia O'Malley
A young woman engaged to a millionaire falls for the understudy in a Broadway musical.

Only Angels Have Wings
1939
as Judy MacPherson
A traveling performer arrives at a remote South American port town where the head of an air freight service must risk his pilots' lives to earn a majo...

Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8
1939
as Rita Hayworth
Ice skating is the theme; at the Tropical Ice Garden, in Westwood Hills, are seen a flock of skating stars including Irene Dare and Phyllis Ann Thomos...

The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt
1939
as Karen
Spies force former jewel thief Michael Lanyard to steal defense secrets in Washington.

Homicide Bureau
1939
as J.G. Bliss
After being criticized by the Citizens' League for his inability to cope with a crime wave, Police Captain Haines orders his men in the Homicide Burea...

The Renegade Ranger
1938
as Judith Alvarez
Two Texas Rangers have their worlds rocked by a wrongfully accused female bandit.

Juvenile Court
1938
as Marcia Adams
Public Defender Gary Franklin, frustrated by being unable to save criminal Dutch Adams from a death sentence by blaming the slums environment as the c...

Convicted
1938
as Jerry Wheeler
A nightclub dancer and a detective try and catch the gangster who framed her brother.

There's Always a Woman
1938
as Mary - Ketterling's Secretary (uncredited)
An investigator for the District Attorney's office quits to open his own detective agency. However, business is so bad that he finally decides to give...

Who Killed Gail Preston?
1938
as Gail Preston
A temperamental singer's murder leaves a nightclub full of suspects.

Special Inspector
1938
as Patricia Lane
U. S. Customs Agent Tom Evans is given the assignment of running down a smuggling ring which hijacks Canadian fur-shipper's trucks and sells the loot ...

The Shadow
1937
as Mary Gillespie
Mary Gillespie is restoring the Col. Gillespie Circus to its former splendor after her father's death. With the help of her publicist boyfriend Jim, t...

Paid to Dance
1937
as Betty Morgan
Government undercover agents William Dennis and Joan Barclay are working to solve the disappearances of girls working as "taxi-dancers" from dance hal...

Life Begins with Love
1937
as Dinner Guest's Girl Friend (uncredited)
A spoiled playboy is forced to leave town to avoid the press, which latches on to his statement, while tipsy, that he will give away his fortune. He d...

The Game That Kills
1937
as Betty Holland
Ferguson is a rough-and-tumble hockey player who discovers that his chosen profession is nothing more than a racket, a plaything for game-fixing racke...

Girls Can Play
1937
as Sue Collins
The Hollywood Post's sports writer, Jimmy Jones (Charles Quigley), yearns to be a crime reporter, and thus looks for foul play on even the most routin...

Criminals of the Air
1937
as Rita Owens
Undercover agent Mark Owens is sent to aid the Border Patrol in the trans-border town of Hernandez in breaking up a well-organized band of smugglers.

Trouble in Texas
1937
as Carmen Serano
Rodeo stars are being killed with poisoned needles, and Tex Ritter is next on the list.

Hit the Saddle
1937
as Rita
Unable to legally capture and sell a herd of protected wild horses, corrupt rancher Rance Macgowan uses his trained killer horse, Volcano, to substitu...

Old Louisiana
1937
as Angela Gonzales as Rita Cansino
The Louisiana Purchase is imminent and Gilmore is smuggling guns into St. Louis so his men can make him Governor of the new Louisiana Territory. But J...

Rebellion
1936
as Paula Castillo
In this drama, a Mexican woman attempts to live a peaceful life in California. Unfortunately, land-grabbers kill her father and begin harassing her. D...

Meet Nero Wolfe
1936
as Marie Maringola
Rex Stout's portly detective prides himself on solving crimes without venturing outside his comfortable home; here he relies on others to do the legwo...

Dancing Pirate
1936
as Specialty Dancer (uncredited)
Jonathan Pride is a mild-mannered dance instructor in 1820 Boston. En route to visit relatives, Jonathan is shanghaied by a band of zany pirates and f...

Human Cargo
1936
as Carmen Zoro
Bonnie Brewster and "Packy" Campbell, rival reporters on competing newspapers, team up to put an end to a smuggling gang that brings illegal aliens to...

Paddy O'Day
1936
as Tamara Petrovitch
A wealthy, eccentric collector of stuffed birds and a beautiful Russian singer provide refuge to an orphaned Irish child who has arrived illegally in ...

Professional Soldier
1935
as Gypsy Dancer (uncredited)
Mercenary Donovan is hired to kidnap King Peter II. He learns that the party in power is evil and that the King is in danger, so kidnaps the King to k...

Hi, Gaucho!
1935
as Dolores
The son and daughter of feuding ranchers defy their fathers in the name of love.

Piernas de seda
1935
as Ballerina (uncredited)

Dante's Inferno
1935
as Dancer
A carny builds a gambling empire at the expense of his family's wellbeing.

Charlie Chan in Egypt
1935
as Nayda
While investigating the theft of antiquities from an ancient tomb excavation , Charlie discovers that the body of the expedition's leader concealed in...

Under the Pampas Moon
1935
as Carmen
Cesare Campo is a hard-riding and hard-loving Argentine gaucho. Yvonne LaMarr is a famous Parisian singer on her way to play an engagement in a Buenos...

Cruz Diablo
1934
as Extra (uncredited)
16th-century swashbuckler; evil nobleman usurps another man's title and properties and forces his daughter to marry a political ally. But Cruz Diablo ...