20 Essential Latina Movie Goddesses!

Rita Hayworth

Divine Quality: Voluminous auburn locks + bedroom eyes + a dancer's body = irresistible sexuality.

Must-See Film: Gilda (1946). Wearing a poured-on black satin dress, her character (an ex-cabaret singer) performs an openly sexual number that slips into a striptease, pushing the era's censorship envelope. It made Hayworth, nee Margarita Cansino, a 1940s Hollywood star but also haunted her real-life relationships with men who expected her to be like her on-screen persona.