Volga Hayworth
Volga Margaret Hayworth 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 – died on
- * Rita Hayworth, born Margarita Carmen Cansino on October 17, 1918 – died on
- ** Rebecca Welles, born on December 17, 1944 – died on
- *** Marc McKerrow, born on March 31, 1966 – died on
- ** Yasmin Aga Khan, born on December 28, 1949
- *** Andrew Ali Aga Khan Embiricos, born on – died on December 4, 2011
- * Eduardo Cansino Jr., born on – died on
- ** Richard Cansino, born on August 10, 1953
- * Vernon Cansino, born on – died on March 23, 1974