Rita Hayworth`s uncle married Ginger Roger`s aunt.

Along with James Cagney, is mentioned by name in the Tom Waits` song "Invitation To The Blues".

Was portrayed by Lynda Carter in Rita Hayworth: The Love Goddess (1983) (TV)

Is one of the many movie stars mentioned in Madonna`s song "Vogue".

Was named #19 Actress, The American Film Institutes 50 Greatest Screen Legends

She was voted the 34th Greatest Movie Star of all time by Premiere Magazine.

She was voted the 65th "Greatest Movie Star" of all time by Entertainment Weekly.

The Maria Vargas character (played by Ava Gardner) in the 1954 Joseph L. Mankiewicz film The Barefoot Contessa (1954) was based on her.

She was the producers` first choice for Casablanca (1942), but they couldn`t get her and were fortunate to settle for Ingrid Bergman.

On May 27, 1949, she married Prince Aly Khan. Many people forget that Rita, not Grace Kelly, was the first movie star to become a princess.

Measurements: 36.5-C-24-36 (at peak of WW-II pin-up fame), 35-25-35 (in 1953 at 120 lbs.) (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine).

In the early 1940s she replaced Jean Arthur as the top female star at Columbia Picture. Coincidentally, the two stars share the same birthday (October 17).

Through her mother she is part Irish and part English.

Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the "100 Sexiest Stars" in film history (#54). [1995]

Interred at Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, California, USA, in the Grotto section, L196, #6 (to the right of the main sidewalk, near the curb).

She played the sister of Barbara Stanwyck in A Message to Garcia (1936), but after a test screening all her scenes were cut at the request of Darryl F. Zanuck.

Owned the production company "Hillworth Productions A.G." together with her fifth husband, James Hill.

Daughters: Rebecca Welles (17 December 1944 to 17 October 2004) and Yasmin Khan, born 28 December 1949.

Her own singing voice is heard in the introductions to her songs (otherwise dubbed by Jo Ann Greer) in Pal Joey (1957).

The famous Bob Landry photo of Rita in "Life", 11 August 1941, p. 33, made her the number 2 soldier pin-up of World War II.

Her first (uncredited) appearance on film was with the dancing Cansino family in a Vitaphone short Fiesta, La (1926) (aka "La Fiesta").

Mother, showgirl Volga Hayworth (sometimes spelled Haworth), met Eduardo on Broadway in 1916; they married 1917.

Her dancer father, Eduardo Cansino, himself the son of a dancer, came to New York from Spain in 1913 with sister Elisa.

Some legends say the Margarita cocktail was named for her when she was dancing under her real name in a Tijuana, Mexico nightclub.

Ranked #98 in Empire (UK) magazine`s "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list. [October 1997]

She appeared in 5 movies with classic leading actor, Glenn Ford: Affair in Trinidad (1952), The Lady in Question (1940), The Loves of Carmen (1948), The Money Trap (1965) and Gilda (1946)