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Feb 2015
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31: Star Wars Episode V: Rita Hayworth a...

Karina Longworth
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The Citizen Kane boy wonder's second wife was the former Margarita Cansino -- a dancer-turned-actress whose Hispanic heritage Hollywood went to great lengths to obscure. 
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