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Rita Hayworth

1918 - 1987

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Rita Hayworth (born Margarita Carmen Cansino; October 17, 1918 – May 14, 1987) was an American actress, dancer, and pin-up girl. She achieved fame in the 1940s as one of the top stars of the Golden Age of Hollywood, and appeared in 61 films in total 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rita Hayworth has received more than 15,635,369 page views. Her biography is available in 93 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 90 in 2019). Rita Hayworth is the 161st most popular actor (down from 127th in 2019), the 312th most popular biography from United States (down from 238th in 2019) and the 80th most popular American Actor.

Rita Hayworth was a Hollywood actress who starred in many films in the 1940s and 1950s. She is most famous for her role in the 1946 film "Gilda" where she played a femme fatale.

Memorability Metrics

  • 16M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 73.88

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 93

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.23

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 6.62

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Rita Hayworth ranks 161 out of 13,578. Before her are Stan Laurel, Antonio Banderas, Sandra Bullock, Burt Lancaster, Fernandel, and Oliver Hardy. After her are Jeremy Irons, Angelina Jolie, Marcel Marceau, Christopher Walken, Jared Leto, and Richard Harris.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Rita Hayworth ranks 12. Before her are Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Richard Feynman, Leonard Bernstein, Kurt Waldheim, Louis Althusser, and Robert Wadlow. After her are Helmut Schmidt, Ken Miles, Gertrude B. Elion, Alberto Ascari, Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, and Frederick Sanger. Among people deceased in 1987, Rita Hayworth ranks 9. Before her are Dalida, Carl Rogers, Primo Levi, John Howard Northrop, Louis de Broglie, and Gunnar Myrdal. After her are Marguerite Yourcenar, Fred Astaire, Thomas Sankara, Walter Houser Brattain, Andrey Kolmogorov, and Maria von Trapp.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Rita Hayworth ranks 312 out of 20,380. Before her are David Woodard (1964), Calvin Coolidge (1872), Billy the Kid (1859), B.B. King (1925), Norbert Wiener (1894), and Eli Whitney (1765). After her are J. Edgar Hoover (1895), Nina Simone (1933), J. P. Morgan (1837), Claude Shannon (1916), James Buchanan (1791), and Grover Cleveland (1837).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Rita Hayworth ranks 80. Before her are Ava Gardner (1922), Eli Wallach (1915), Tommy Lee Jones (1946), Sandra Bullock (1964), Burt Lancaster (1913), and Oliver Hardy (1892). After her are Angelina Jolie (1975), Christopher Walken (1943), Jared Leto (1971), Geraldine Chaplin (1944), Sharon Stone (1958), and Julia Roberts (1967).

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