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Margarita's father wanted her to become a professional dancer, while her mother hoped she would become an actress.

Her paternal grandfather Antonio Cansino was renowned as a Spanish classical dancer ; he popularized the bolero and his dancing school in Madrid was world famous.

Rita later recalled, " From the time I was three and a half ... as soon as I could stand on my own feet, I was given dance lessons.

" She noted " I didn't like it very much ... but I didn't have the courage to tell my father, so I began taking the lessons.

Rehearse, rehearse, rehearse, that was my girlhood ".

She attended dance classes every day for a few years in a Carnegie Hall complex, where she was taught by her uncle Angel Cansino.

She performed publicly from the age of six.

In 1926 at the age of eight, she was featured in La Fiesta, a short film for Warner Bros ..