Moving the Family to Hollywood
Eduardo Cansino saw some potential, so he decided to move the family to Hollywood, hoping to bring them fame and fortune. The family was strapped for cash, so they revived the Dancing Cansinos act. Eduardo made Hayworth his partner and dyed her hair black to make her look more Latin. The family was performing on floating casinos off the coast of California, but this wasn’t good for the family’s financial situation.
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While working in the casinos, Eduardo drank and gambled the family’s money away, so he would send Hayworth to catch fish for dinner. When she couldn’t catch anything, Eduardo would beat her, but he made sure not to leave marks the audience could see. Hayworth’s father would also make her perform in seedy clubs right across the border of Mexico because the child labor laws were less strict there.