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Rita Hayworth

1918 - 1987

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Rita Hayworth (born Margarita Carmen Cansino; October 17, 1918 – May 14, 1987) 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 in total over 37 years. The press coined the term "The Love Goddess" to describe Hayworth, after she had become the most glamorous screen idol of the 1940s. She was the top pin-up girl for GIs during World War II. Hayworth is widely known for her performance in the 1946 film noir Gilda, opposite Glenn Ford, in which she played the femme fatale in her first major dramatic role. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Rita Hayworth is the 149th most popular actor (up from 161st in 2019), the 362nd most popular biography from United States (down from 312th in 2019) and the 81st most popular American Actor.

Rita Hayworth was a Hollywood actress who starred in many films in the 1940s and 1950s. She is most famous for her role in the 1946 film "Gilda" where she played a femme fatale.

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Among actors, Rita Hayworth ranks 149 out of 13,578. Before her are Robert Forster, Mel Gibson, Monica Bellucci, Michael York, Demi Moore, and Susan Sarandon. After her are Jean Renoir, Irene Papas, Spencer Tracy, Robert Shaw, Rutger Hauer, and Christoph Waltz.

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Among people born in 1918, Rita Hayworth ranks 11. Before her are Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Anwar Sadat, Richard Feynman, Kurt Waldheim, Louis Althusser, and Leonard Bernstein. After her are Gertrude B. Elion, Robert Wadlow, Helmut Schmidt, Frederick Sanger, Alberto Ascari, and Ernst Otto Fischer. Among people deceased in 1987, Rita Hayworth ranks 9. Before her are Rudolf Hess, Dalida, Carl Rogers, Primo Levi, Lee Byung-chul, and John Howard Northrop. After her are Andrey Kolmogorov, Fred Astaire, Walter Houser Brattain, Gunnar Myrdal, Marguerite Yourcenar, and William Stuart-Houston.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Rita Hayworth ranks 362 out of 20,380. Before her are James A. Garfield (1831), Demi Moore (1962), Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856), John F. Kennedy Jr. (1960), Susan Sarandon (1946), and Wendell Meredith Stanley (1904). After her are Irvin D. Yalom (1931), Bernie Sanders (1941), Margaret Hamilton (1936), Ed White (1930), Willis Lamb (1913), and Robert E. Lee (1807).

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Among actors born in United States, Rita Hayworth ranks 81. Before her are Robert Duvall (1931), Christopher Lloyd (1938), Robert Forster (1941), Mel Gibson (1956), Demi Moore (1962), and Susan Sarandon (1946). After her are Spencer Tracy (1900), Ava Gardner (1922), Sharon Stone (1958), Joe Pesci (1943), Gloria Stuart (1910), and Dianne Wiest (1946).

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