Rita Hayworth born Margarita Carmen Cansino before being ‘made over by Hollywood to conceal her Hispanic heritage Among other things they raised her hairline permanently using painful electrolysis and dyed her hair from black to red
Orson Welles looks less like a Wonder Boy with a mustache, which he crew perhaps for a new role or perhaps for his pretty Actress wife Rita Hayworth, with whom he is partying at the Mocambo in West Hollywood, California, Nov. 11, 1945. (AP Photo)
U.S. American actress Rita Hayworth, who is on her way to Rotterdam, is seen aboard the liner "Vandeem", pictured at a stop at Cowes Roads, of the Isles of Wright, England on her way, April 26, 1947. (AP Photo)
wearing a black sequined, fringed gown with a matching cape, smiles while standing with one hand placed on her hip and the other hand on her head, in a full-length promotional portrait for director Vincent Sherman's film, 'Affair in Trinidad'.
Fans out the skirt of her harem-style costume while posing in an entranceway with marble columns and drapes in a still from director William Dieterle's film 'Salome'