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 Aliger Margarita Aliger Margarita Iosifovna Aliger (; – August 1, 1992) was a Soviet poet, translator, and journalist. She was born in Odessa in a family of Jewish office workers; the real family name was Zeliger (). As a teenager she worked at a chemical plant. From 1934 to 1937 she studied at the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute. The main themes of her early poetry were the heroism of the Soviet people during industrialization ("Year of birth", 1938; "Railroad", 1939; "Stones and grass", 1940) and during World War II ("Lyrics", 1943). Her most famous poem is "Zoya" (1942), about Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya,