Eduardo Cansino Eduardo Cansino Eduardo Cansino Reina (March 2, 1895 – December 24, 1968) was a Spanish-born American dancer and actor, and the father of actress Rita Hayworth. Eduardo Cansino was born on March 2, 1895, in Castilleja de la Cuesta, Andalusia, Spain. His sister, Elisa, was also a dancer. He emigrated to the United States and joined the Ziegfeld Follies. In 1917 he married Volga Hayworth, his partner in the Follies. They had three children: Margarita Carmen, Eduardo Jr. (October 13, 1919 – March 11, 1974), and Vernon (May 21, 1922 – March 23, 1974). After she began making films in
Margarita Savitskaya Margarita Savitskaya Margarita Georgiyevna Savitskaya (, born 30 October 1868, — died 27 March 1911) was a Russian stage actress and in her later years a reader in drama, associated with the Moscow Art Theatre (MAT), a founding member of the original Stanislavski troupe. Among the parts she was the first performer of in MAT were Antigona in the Sophocles' tragedy, Magda in "The Sunken Bell" by Gerhart Hauptmann, Tsaritsa Maria in "The Death of Ivan the Terrible" by Alexey K. Tolstoy, Anna in "The Lower Depths" by Maxim Gorky, The Spring in Alexander Ostrovsky's "Snow Maiden". Her performance as