Volga Hayworth

Volga Margaret Hayworth (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., the daughter of Allynn Duran Hayworth and Margaret O'Hare. Her younger brother was actor Vinton Hayworth.

She appeared in the Ziegfeld Follies, 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.

Volga Hayworth Cansino died in 1945, at the age of 47, from peritonitis from a ruptured appendix in Santa Monica, California.

Immediate family

• Husband: Eduardo Cansino, born on (1895-03-02)2 March 1895 – died on 24 December 1968(1968-12-24) (aged 73)
  • Rita Hayworth, born Margarita Carmen Cansino on October 17, 1918 – died on 14 May 1987(1987-05-14) (aged 68)
    • Rebecca Welles, born on December 17, 1944 – died on 17 October 2004(2004-10-17) (aged 59)
      • Marc McKerrow, born on March 31, 1966 – died on 18 June 2010(2010-06-18) (aged 44)
    • Yasmin Aga Khan, born on December 28, 1949
      • Andrew Ali Aga Khan Embiricos, born on (1985-12-11)December 11, 1985 – died on December 4, 2011 (aged 25)
  • Eduardo Cansino Jr., born on (1919-10-13)October 13, 1919 – died on March 11, 1974(1974-03-11) (aged 54)
  • Vernon Cansino, born on (1922-05-21)May 21, 1922 – died on March 23, 1974 (aged 51)

Notes

References

External links

• Volga Hayworth at the Internet Broadway Database
• Volga Hayworth at Find a Grave

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5. Rita Hayworth: The Love Goddess
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