{{Short description|American dancer and vaudevillian}} {{Infobox person | name = | image = | birth_name = Volga Margaret Hayworth | birth_date = August 8, 1897 | birth_place = Washington, D.C., U.S. | death_date = {{Death date and age|1945|1|25|1897|8|8}} | death_place = Santa Monica, California, U.S. | resting_place = | other_names = Volga H. de Cansino | occupation = Actress | spouse = {{marriage|Eduardo Cansino, Sr.<br>|1917}} | children = 3, including Rita Hayworth and Vernon Cansino | relatives = Vinton Hayworth (brother) }}
'''Volga Margaret Hayworth'''{{#tag:ref|Although some sources cite Volga Cansino's maiden name as '''Haworth''', the [http://www.haworthassociation.org/Reunions/2009Reunion/Agenda/Presentations/Rita/Don-pg7.html 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 begun using the name "Hayworth" and her father was legally known by the amended surname (Haworth to Hayworth).|group="nb"}} (August 8, 1897 – January 25, 1945) was an American dancer and vaudevillian. A popular showgirl on Broadway, she was the mother of actress Rita Hayworth, who used her mother's maiden name as her professional surname.
==Biography== Volga Hayworth was born on August 8, 1897, in Washington, D.C.,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.haworthassociation.org/Reunions/2009Reunion/Agenda/Presentations/Rita/don-pg4.html |title=Date of birth as per the Haworth Association, a genealogy site |access-date=2011-02-21 |archive-date=2011-07-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726142259/http://www.haworthassociation.org/Reunions/2009Reunion/Agenda/Presentations/Rita/don-pg4.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> the daughter of Allynn Duran Hayworth and Margaret O'Hare.<ref>[http://www.haworthassociation.org/Reunions/2009Reunion/Agenda/Presentations/Rita/Don-pg7.html Haworth Association genealogy site] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928170828/http://www.haworthassociation.org/Reunions/2009Reunion/Agenda/Presentations/Rita/Don-pg7.html |date=2011-09-28 }}, ibid.</ref><ref name=NYT>"Mrs. Eduardo Cansino; Mother of Rita Hayworth, Film Actress - In Dancing Team" ''The New York Times'' obituary, January 27, 1945.</ref> Her mother immigrated to the United States from Ireland, and her younger brother was actor Vinton Hayworth.{{sfn|Ringgold|1980|page=15}} She studied music and dance as child with William J. Oates.<ref>{{cite news|title=Musicale and Dance|work=Washington Evening Star|date= June 29, 1907|page= 5}}</ref> In 1910 she began performing in vaudeville at Chase's Theater in Washington D.C. as a member of Miss Cora B. Shreve's juvenile performers in the show ''The Follies of the Planets''. ''The Washington Post'' described her as a "bright vivacious little star."<ref>{{cite news|title=Clever Child Dancer|work=The Washington Post|date= May 22, 1910|page=3, section Magazine}}</ref> At the age of 16 she ran away from home to pursue a career on the stage.{{sfn|Ringgold|1980|page=15}}
Volga worked as a member of Anna Held's theater troupe;<ref>{{cite news|title=Capitol Proteges Score|work=The Washington Herald|date= October 29, 1916|page= 18}}</ref> performing in the ensemble of Sigmund Romberg's musical ''Follow Me'' at the Casino Theatre in the 1916-1917 Broadway season.<ref>{{cite news|title=Washington Girl Plays in Anna Held Company|work=The Washington Herald|date= December 10, 1916|page= 19}}</ref> After this she worked as a chorus girl in the ''Ziegfeld Follies'',<ref>"Rita Hayworth, Movie Legend, Dies" ''The New York Times'', May 16, 1987</ref> She met her future husband, the Spanish-born dancer Eduardo Cansino, in 1916 when he came to audition for Florence Ziegfeld.{{sfn|Ringgold|1980|page=15}} They married him in 1917. They had three children. She and her husband formed a vaudeville act, The Dancing Cansinos.<ref>[http://www.thestarnews.com/history-101/from-dancer-to-silver-screen-siren/], title=From dancer to silver screen siren</ref> This act was also featured in the Broadway revue ''The Greenwich Village Follies'' at the Winter Garden Theatre in 1923-1924.{{sfn|Smith|Litton|2013|page=131}} She and her husband also operated a dance school in Hollywood, Los Angeles.<ref>{{cite news|title=Dancer Sues on Slander Charges|work=New York Daily News|date=March 24, 1932|page= 5}}</ref>
Volga Hayworth Cansino died in 1945, at the age of 47, from peritonitis from a ruptured appendix in Santa Monica, California.<ref>{{cite news |title=Died |quote=Volga Haworth Cansino, 47, partner in the onetime famed Cansino dancing team until birth (Oct. 17, 1918) of Daughter Rita Hayworth, who cinemadopted her mother's maiden name; of a heart ailment; in a Santa Monica hospital. |work=Time magazine |date=1945 }}</ref><ref name=obit>{{cite news |agency= Associated Press |title=Mrs. Eduardo Cansino. Mother of Rita Hayworth, Film Actress. In Dancing Team |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9B04EFD81E38EE3BBC4F51DFB766838E659EDE |quote=Mrs. Volga Cansino, mother of Rita Hayworth, film actress, died at St. John's Hospital last night after an illness of a week. … |newspaper=The New York Times |date=January 27, 1945 |access-date=2014-12-09 }}</ref>
==Immediate family== *Husband: Eduardo Cansino, born on {{birth date|1895|3|2|df=y}} – died on {{death date and age|1968|12|24|1895|3|2|df=y}} ** Rita Hayworth, born Margarita Carmen Cansino on October 17, 1918 – died on {{death date and age|1987|5|14|1918|10|17|df=y}}<ref name="algrhd">{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=0YFRAAAAIBAJ&pg=6292%2C243453|title='American love goddess' Rita Hayworth dies|date=May 16, 1987|newspaper=Wilmington Morning Star|agency=''The New York Times'' News Service|location=North Carolina|page=1D}}</ref> *** Rebecca Welles, born on December 17, 1944 – died on {{death date and age|2004|10|17|1944|12|17|df=y}} **** Marc McKerrow, born on March 31, 1966 – died on {{death date and age|2010|6|18|1966|3|31|df=y}} *** Yasmin Aga Khan, born on December 28, 1949 **** Andrew Ali Aga Khan Embiricos, born on {{birth date |1985|12|11|mf=y}} – died on December 4, 2011 (aged 25) ** Eduardo Cansino Jr., born on {{birth date|1919|10|13|mf=y}} – died on {{death date and age|1974|3|11|1919|10|13|mf=y}} *** Richard Cansino, born on August 10, 1953 ** Vernon Cansino, born on {{birth date|1922|5|21|mf=y}} – died on March 23, 1974 (aged 51)
==Notes== <references group="nb"/>
==References== ===Citations=== {{Reflist|2}} ===Bibliography=== *{{cite book|title=The Films of Rita Hayworth: The Legend and Career of a Love Goddess|first= Gene|last= Ringgold|year=1980|isbn= 9780806505749|publisher=Citadel Press}} *{{cite book|title=Musical Comedy in America: From The Black Crook to South Pacific, From The King & I to Sweeney Todd|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=9781136556685|first=Cecil A. |last=Smith|first2= Glenn |last2=Litton|year=2013}}
==External links== *{{IBDB name}} *{{Find a Grave|88148761}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hayworth, Volga}} Category:1897 births Category:1945 deaths Category:Entertainers from Greater Los Angeles Category:Actresses from Washington, D.C. Category:American female dancers Category:American vaudeville performers Category:20th-century American actresses Category:Dancers from Washington, D.C. Category:Deaths from peritonitis Category:20th-century American dancers Category:Ziegfeld Follies Category:Burials at Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City Category:Cansino family