RITA HAYWORTH
Six-month studio contract signed as Margarita Cansino -- Hayworth's first studio contract. January 25, 1935.
20 pages, 8 1/2x11 inches. Also signed by her parents Eduardo and Volga Cansino. Holes punched in the left margin.

with: A legal document signed Margarita Cansino, a petition to the Superior Court of California to approve the contract as she was a minor. and with: A group of 8 internal memos and documents relating to the above.

At the age of 16, Hayworth was dancing with her family in a show at the Caliente Club where she was discovered by Winfield Sheehan. She would make her film debut as a dancer in Dante's Inferno (1935), a drama starring Spencer Tracy.