sparklejamesysparkle: Rita Hayworth in a portrait taken at the beginning of her career when she was
sparklejamesysparkle: Rita Hayworth in a portrait taken at the beginning of her career when she was briefly under contract to Twentieth Century Fox and going by her real name ‘Rita Cansino’ in 1935. Rita very reluctantly changed her last name the following year at the insistence of Columbia Pictures studio head Harry Cohn (a controlling, odious man who she grew to loathe) after he deemed the name ‘Cansino’ as being “too Mediterranean, too Spanish” and feared that it would limit her to “exotic” film roles. -- source link