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{{Short description|American dancer and vaudevillian}}
{{Infobox person
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| 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|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 theater|Broadway]], she was the mother of actress [[Rita Hayworth]], who used her mother's maiden name as her professional surname.

==Biography==
Hayworth was born on August 8, 1897, in [[Washington, D.C.]],<ref>[http://www.haworthassociation.org/Reunions/2009Reunion/Agenda/Presentations/Rita/don-pg4.html Date of birth as per the Haworth Association, a genealogy site]</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], 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 younger brother was actor [[Vinton Hayworth]].

She appeared in the [[Ziegfeld Follies]],<ref>"Rita Hayworth, Movie Legend, Dies" ''The New York Times'', May 16, 1987</ref> met her husband, the [[Spain|Spanish]]-born dancer [[Eduardo Cansino]] in 1916 and 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>

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)

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==References==
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==External links==
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[[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:20th-century American dancers]]
[[Category:Ziegfeld Follies]]
[[Category:Burials at Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City]]
[[Category:Cansino family]]

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