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The Dancing Cansinos
The Dancing Cansinos were a family of dancers and actors including Hispanic American actress Rita Hayworth, and Romani-Spanish dancer Antonio Cansino. The family performed and toured extensively in New York City and Spain. The elder generation of the Dancing Cansinos were Antonio and Carmen Cansino. Antonio fused traditional Romani and classical Spanish dance to create modern-day Spanish dance. The couple had seven children who were all dancers: Eduardo, Jose, Angel, Paco, Antonio Jr., Rafael and Elisa Cansino. Around 1910, Eduard Cansino and Elisa Cansino performed in Vaudeville theaters on the B. F. Keith Circuit. While performing in and around New York City, The Dancing Cansinos included Eduardo Cansino, Sr. (March 2, 1895 – December 24, 1968), his wife, Volga Hayworth Volga Margaret Hayworth (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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rita Hayworth
Rita Hayworth (born Margarita Carmen Cansino; October 17, 1918May 14, 1987) was an American actress, dancer and producer. She achieved fame during the 1940s as one of the era's top stars, appearing in 61 films over 37 years. The press coined the term "The Love Goddess" to describe Hayworth after she had become the most glamorous screen idol of the 1940s. She was the top pin-up girl for GIs during World War II. Hayworth is perhaps best known for her performance in the 1946 film noir ''Gilda'', opposite Glenn Ford, in which she played the '' femme fatale'' in her first major dramatic role. She is also known for her performances in ''Only Angels Have Wings'' (1939), ''The Strawberry Blonde'' (1941), '' Blood and Sand'' (1941), ''The Lady from Shanghai'' (1947), '' Pal Joey'' (1957), and ''Separate Tables'' (1958). Fred Astaire, with whom she made two films, ''You'll Never Get Rich'' (1941) and ''You Were Never Lovelier'' (1942), once called her his favorite dance partner. She also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonio Cansino
Antonio Cansino (1865–1954) was a flamenco dancer and guitarist credited with creating modern-day Spanish dance by combining classical Spanish dance and Romani flamenco. He was popularly known for dancing the bolero. He was the father of Eduardo Cansino and the grandfather of Rita Hayworth, who were both famous dancers and actors. He is the patriarch of The Dancing Cansinos. He performed for the King of Spain and instructed Rita Hayworth's first dance lesson. Early life Antonio Cansino was born on 21 Apr 1865 in Seville, Andalusia, Spain. He operated dance academies in Seville and Madrid. He married dancer Carmen Reina. The couple had seven children who were all dancers: Eduardo, Jose, Angel, Paco, Antonio Jr., Rafael and Elisa Cansino Elisa Cansino (March 23, 1896 – January 28, 1990) was a vaudeville and Spanish dancer, and one of The Dancing Cansinos. She was the daughter of Antonio Cansino and aunt of Rita Hayworth. Elisa played a major part in bringing Spanish and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eduardo Cansino
Eduardo Cansino Reina (March 2, 1895 – December 24, 1968) was a Spanish-born American dancer and actor of Romani descent. He was the father of actress Rita Hayworth. Biography Eduardo Cansino was born on March 2, 1895, in Castilleja de la Cuesta, Andalusia, Spain. His sister, Elisa, was also a dancer. His father, Antonio Cansino, combined classical flamenco dancing with Romani flamenco. Antonio was known worldwide for dancing the bolero. Eduardo's immigration to the United States was sponsored by the Stuyvesant family. In New York he performed for, instructed, and integrated into high society. There, he joined the Ziegfeld Follies where he met Volga Hayworth. They married in 1917. They had three children: Margarita Carmen (October 17, 1918 – May 14, 1987), Eduardo Jr. (October 13, 1919 – March 11, 1974), and Vernon (May 21, 1922 – March 23, 1974). After she began making films in Hollywood, Margarita Carmen Cansino took her mother's maiden name as her professi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elisa Cansino
Elisa Cansino (March 23, 1896 – January 28, 1990) was a vaudeville and Spanish dancer, and one of The Dancing Cansinos. She was the daughter of Antonio Cansino and aunt of Rita Hayworth. Elisa played a major part in bringing Spanish and Romani dances to the United States. Elisa Cansino was of Romani descent through her father's line. Early life Elisa was born in March 23, 1896 Seville, Andalusia, Spain. Her parents were dancers, Antonio Cansino and Carmen Cansino. Elisa and Eduardo Cansino toured the B. F. Keith Circuit The B. F. Keith Circuit was a chain of vaudeville theaters in the United States and Canada owned by Benjamin Franklin Keith for the acts that he booked. Known for a time as the United Booking Office, and under various other names, the circuit was ... circa 1910 in the United States. Then, she taught dance in Spain. Later, she danced in New York City with her brothers Eduardo and Angel in The Dancing Cansinos. She married Nathaniel A. Jackolo and had a daugh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vaudeville
Vaudeville (; ) is a theatrical genre of variety entertainment born in France at the end of the 19th century. A vaudeville was originally a comedy without psychological or moral intentions, based on a comical situation: a dramatic composition or light poetry, interspersed with songs or ballets. It became popular in the United States and Canada from the early 1880s until the early 1930s, but the idea of vaudeville's theatre changed radically from its French antecedent. In some ways analogous to music hall from Victorian Britain, a typical North American vaudeville performance was made up of a series of separate, unrelated acts grouped together on a common bill. Types of acts have included popular and classical musicians, singers, dancers, comedians, trained animals, magicians, ventriloquists, strongmen, female and male impersonators, acrobats, clowns, illustrated songs, jugglers, one-act plays or scenes from plays, athletes, lecturing celebrities, minstrels, and movies. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volga Hayworth
Volga Margaret Hayworth (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 Hayworth was born on August 8, 1897, in Washington, D.C., the daughter of Allynn Duran Hayworth and Margaret O'Hare."Mrs. Eduardo Cansino; Mother of Rita Hayworth, Film Actress - In Dancing Team" ''The New York Times'' obituary, January 27, 1945. Her younger brother was actor Vinton Hayworth. She appeared in the Ziegfeld Follies, met her husband, the 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. Volga Hayworth Cansino died in 1945, at the age of 47, from undisclosed causes, in Santa Monica, California. Immediate family *Husband: Eduardo Cansino, born on – died on ** Rita Hayworth, born Margarita Carmen Cansin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cansino Family
The Cansino family is a prominent Sephardic Jewish family originally from Oran, Algeria. The family progenitor Jacob Cansino served as an interpreter at Oran, a Spanish colony in northwestern Africa, under Charles V, until 1556, when he was sent as an ambassador to the king of Morocco. The office was then held in regular succession by his son Isaac Cansino from 1568 to 1599, by his grandson Hayyim Cansino from 1601 to 1621, and by his great-grandson Aaron Cansino from 1621 to 1633. Other prominent members of the family were Isaac ben Chayyim Cansino, poet; and Rabbi Abraham Cansino II, secretary of the Jewish community of Oran. {{JewishEncyclopedia, article=Cansino, author=Gotthard Deutsch Gotthard Deutsch (; 31 January 1859 – 14 October 1921) was a scholar of Jewish history. Education Deutsch was born in Dolní Kounice, Moravia, Austria, as Eliezer Deutsch, the son of Bernhard L. Deutsch, a merchant, and Elise Wiener. He alwa ... and A. Rhine, url=http://jewishency ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
