Work on your Spanish listening skills while learning more about this iconic movie star!
Margarita Carmen Dolores Cansino is better known to the world as the glamorous Rita Hayworth.
The daughter of an immigrant Spanish dancer, she started working on the stage at a very young age dancing with her father.
Once in Hollywood, and with a new name, her iconic roles in movies like Gilda and Cover Girl turned her into one of the main stars of the Golden Age of Cinema and top pin-up girl during World War II.
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