Born into a show business family of dancers, she grew up in the footlights, and her dazzling beauty made her future as a Hollywood starlet seem inevitable.
Naturally shy and insecure, Rita was often uncomfortable with her sex symbol image, and mostly hated working under crass, ruthless Columbia boss Harry Cohn.
When Rita died in 1987 of complications from the disease at age 68, Glenn was among the pallbearers who laid her to rest.
With her film career launched in earnest by the dawn of the forties, she became a top pin-up during World War 2, as she continued cranking out pictures at Columbia.
At the time this photo was taken, she had signed with Fox as Rita Cansino her birth name being Margarita Carmen Cansino.
Only later was it realized that she had the beginnings of Alzheimer's disease, an illness she'd die from in 1987, at age 68.