Volga Hayworth

Volga Cansino, née Hayworth^{[nb 1]} (August 8, 1897 – January 25, 1945^[2]), was an American dancer and vaudevillian under the name Volga Hayworth. A popular showgirl on Broadway, she was the mother of actress Rita Hayworth, who took her professional name from her mother's maiden name.

She was born in 1897 in Washington D.C., the daughter of Allynn Duran Hayworth and Margaret E. O'Hare. She appeared in the Ziegfeld Follies,^[3] met her husband, Spanish-born dancer Eduardo Cansino, Sr in 1916 and married him in 1917. They had three children. She and Eduardo formed a vaudeville act, The Dancing Cansinos.

Death

Volga Hayworth Cansino died in 1945, aged 47, from undisclosed causes, in Santa Monica, California.

Immediate family

• Husband: Eduardo Cansino, Sr., born on 2 March 1895(1895-03-02) – died on 24 December 1968(1968-12-24) (aged 73)
  • Rita Hayworth, born October 17, 1918 – died on 14 May 1987(1987-05-14) (aged 68)
    • Rebecca Welles, born December 17, 1944 – died on 17 October 2004(2004-10-17) (aged 59)
      • Marc McKerrow, born March 31, 1966 – died on 18 June 2010(2010-06-18) (aged 44)
    • Yasmin Khan, born December 28, 1949 (1949-12-28) (age 62)
      • Andrew Ali Aga Khan Embiricos, born on December 11, 1985(1985-12-11) - died on December 4, 2011 (age 25)
  • Eduardo Cansino, Jr., born October 13, 1919(1919-10-13) – died March 11, 1974(1974-03-11) (aged 54)
  • Vernon Cansino, born May 21, 1922(1922-05-21) – died March 1974 (aged 51)

Notes

1. ^ Although some sources cite Volga Casino's maiden name as Haworth, the Haworth Association genealogy site includes an excerpt from the 1900 Census for Washington City, District of Columbia which clearly shows the surname as Hayworth. The genealogy site, which provides her date of birth, indicates that Volga Hayworth's great-grandfather had changed the original name from Haworth to Hayworth.

References

External links

• Volga Hayworth at the Internet Broadway Database
• Time magazine obit for Volga Cansino