_{When Margarita Carmen Cansino (Rita Hayworth) was born on October 17, 1918, in New York City, her father Eduardo lamented that the baby wasn’t a boy. “What could I do with a girl?” the Spanish dancer later started when discussing the birth of his famous daughter. Fortunately for him, Margarita had inherited his dancing ability and the beauty of her mother, former Ziegfeld Follies chorus girl Volga Hayworth.}