The annual Rita Hayworth charity gala, managed by daughter Princess Yasmin Khan, raised $1.8 million in 1999 alone for the Alzheimer's Assn.
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.
The famous red hair was not her natural color (which was black). When she was signed, studio heads decided that her hairline was too low on her forehead, and she underwent years of painful electrolysis to make it higher.
The image of her face was glued onto an A-bomb which was dropped on the Bikini Atoll during a test in 1946.
The Maria Vargas character (played by Ava Gardner) in the 1954 Joseph L. Mankiewicz film The Barefoot Contessa (1954)) was based on her.
Through her mother she is part Irish and part English.
Under of the influence of second husband Orson Welles, Rita began to read classic literature. While pregnant in 1944, she was very impressed by Sir Walter Scott's "Ivanhoe" and named her firstborn daughter Rebecca after the novel's heroine.
Was good friends with Hermes Pan.
Was named #19 Actress, The American Film Institutes 50 Greatest Screen Legends.
Was portrayed by Lynda Carter in Rita Hayworth: The Love Goddess (1983) (TV).
When she died, it was her former Paddy O'Day (1935) costar Jane Withers who delivered the eulogy at her funeral.