Rita Hayworth is gebore op 17 Oktober 1918 in New York in die Verenigde State van Amerika as Margarita Carmen Cansino. Haar pa Eduardo Cansino was 'n Spaanse danser van Sevilla en haar ma Volga Hayworth was 'n Amerikaanse danser van Washington D.C..
Hayworth is as een van die beroemde aktrises van haar era geag en het in films soos Gilda (1946) en The Lady from Shanghai (1947) gespeel.
Hayworth is in 1981 gediagnoseer met Alzheimer se siekte. Sy is oorlede op 14 Mei 1987 op die ouderdom van 68 jaar in New York.
In 1999 het die American Film Institute Hayworth die 19de gewildste vroulike ster van alle tye benoem.
1934: Cruz Diablo
1935: Dante’s Inferno
1935: Under the Pampas Moon
1935: Charlie Chan in Egypt
1935: Paddy O’Day
1936: Human Cargo
1936: Meet Nero Wolfe
1936: Rebellion
1937: Old Louisiana
1937: Hit the Saddle
1937: Trouble in Texas
1937: Criminals of the Air
1937: Girls Can Play
1937: The Game That Kills
1937: Paid to Dance
1937: The Shadow
1938: Who Killed Gail Preston?
1938: Special Inspector
1938: There’s Always a Woman
1938: Convicted
1938: Juvenile Court
1938: The Renegade Ranger
1939: Homicide Bureau
1939: The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt
1939: Only Angels Have Wings
1940: Music in My Heart
1940: Blondie on a Budget
1940: Susan and God
1940: The Lady in Question
1940: Angels Over Broadway
1941: The Strawberry Blonde
1941: Affectionately Yours
1941: Blood and Sand
1941: You'll Never Get Rich
1942: Tales of Manhattan
1942: My Gal Sal
1942: You Were Never Lovelier
1944: Cover Girl
1945: Tonight and Every Night
1946: Gilda
1947: Down to Earth
1947: The Lady from Shanghai
1948: The Loves of Carmen
1952: Affair in Trinidad
1953: Salome
1953: Miss Sadie Thompson
1957: Fire Down Below
1957: Pal Joey
1958: Separate Tables
1959: They Came to Cordura
1959: The Story on Page One
1962: The Happy Thieves
1964: Circus World
1965: The Money Trap
1966: The Poppy Is Also a Flower
1967: L'Avventuriero
1968: I Bastardi
1970: Road to Salina
1971: The Naked Zoo
1972: The Wrath of God
John Kobal: Rita Hayworth: The Time, The Place and the Woman. W.W. Norton, New York 1977, ISBN 0-393-07526-5
Joe Morella, Edward Z. Epstein: Rita. The Life of Rita Hayworth. Allen, London 1983, ISBN 0-385-29265-1
Gerald Peary: Rita Hayworth: A Pyramid Illustrated History of the Movies. Harcourt, 1976, ISBN 0-515-04116-5
Gene Ringgold: The Films of Rita Hayworth. Citadel Press, Secaucus, NJ 1974, ISBN 0-8065-0439-0
Caren Roberts-Frenzel: Rita Hayworth: A Photographic Retrospective. Abrams, New York 2001, ISBN 0-8109-1434-4