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Title: Famous People: Alzheimer’s Disease & Parkinson’s Disease

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Famous PeopleAlzheimers Disease Parkinsons
Disease

The Schizies
Becky Guiler, Misty Mahan,
Renee Pittman, and Keima Thomas

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Rita Hayworth

And Alzheimers Disease

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Who was Rita Hayworth?Background and Interesting
Facts

Born Margarita Carmen Cansino on October 17,1918
in Brooklyn, New York
Father was Spanish flamenco dancer Eduardo
Cansino Sr.
Mother was English/Irish American Ziegfeld girl
Volga Haworth (one of Florenz Ziegfelds chorus
girls or showgirls)
In Barbara Leamings Rita Hayworth biography "If
This Was Happiness, Learning claims that as a
child and teenager, Ritas father sexually and
physically abused Rita.
Father pushed her into dancing, even though she
did not enjoy it.
Performed with parents in New York bars and
nightclubs and then in California and Mexican
resorts and nightclubs
Father would lock her in her dressing room to
keep her from crowds between shows.
In 1946 her image and the name Gilda were painted
onto the first atomic bomb that was tested after
World War II. According to Steve Starrfrom
Entertainment Magazine, Rita was furious.

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Rita Hayworths Acting Career

Famous for being an American actress and dancer
Involved in acting from 1926 - 1972
In 1937 she took her mothers maiden name and
added a y.
(Rita Cansino from 1926 1937 / Rita Hayworth
from 1937 1972)
Columbia pictures studio told her to lose weight,
dye her dark brown hair auburn, and raise her
hairline with electrolysis.
Most famous film Gilda (legendary one-glove
striptease)
1940s sex symbol known as the Great American
Love Goddess
Her 1941 Life magazine photograph became one of
the most requested wartime pinups (over 5 million
copies sold by the end of the war)
Interestingly, was said to actually be very shy
with great insecurities

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Rita Hayworths Acting Career

Some of other well known films include Dantes
Inferno (1935), Only Angels Have Wings (1939),
Susan and God (1940), The Strawberry Blonde
(1941), You Were Never Lovelier (1942), the
musical Cover Girl (1944), Affair In Trinidad
(1952), Salome (1953), Pal Joey (1957), and
Separate Tables (1958).
Some of the actors that Rita Hayworth worked with
include Cary Grant, Joan Crawford, James Cagney,
Fred Astaire, Glenn Ford, Frank Sinatra, and John
Wayne.
Made an appearance on The Carol Burnett Show in
1971.
Her last film was in 1972 The Wrath of God

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Rita Hayworth5 Husbands and 2 Daughters

Spouses
Edward C. Judson (1937-1943) promoter / 22 years
older than Rita / helped with career, but
demanding and temperamental
Orson Welles (1943-1948) director / had never met
Rita, but he told the press he was coming back to
America from filming to marry her, and he did on
the same day that her divorce was finalized /
near end of marriage, he had her cut off her hair
and dye it blonde for a film
Prince Aly Khan (1949-1953) Muslim leader Vice
President of the United Nations General Assemblly
representing Pakistan / both were married when
affair started / with Rita being Catholic, the
Vatican declared the marriage to be illicit,
she was condemned by the Pope
Dick Haymes (1953-1955) Argentinian singer /
financial problems due to owing alimony to 3
previous wives / faced deportation because he
gave up citizsenship to aviod draft during WWII
James Hill (1958-1961) producer
Once told press that every man I knew fell in
love with Gilda, and woke up with me in
reference to her many unsuccessful relationships.
Also has been quoted as saying Basically, I am a
good, gentle person, but I am attracted to mean
personalities.
Children
Rebecca Welles
Princess Yasmin Aga Khan (born 7 months after
marriage to the Prince)

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Rita Hayworth and Alzheimers Disease

Onset is believed to have begun in 1960, though
she was not diagnosed until 1980.
Was suspected of severe alcoholism due to
sometimes erractic behavior, causing her film
career to decline
1972 when making her last film The Wrath of
God, she had trouble remembering her lines
1976 thought to have been drunk when exiting an
airplane (received really bad publicity for this)
1977 was hospitalized due to extreme confusion
and bewilderment at art gallery opening (the same
year that she was the recipient for the National
Screen Heritage Award)
Doctors diagnosed impairment as being due to
chronic alcoholism sent to sanitarium to dry
out
Daughter Yasmin was appointed as her gaurdian.

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Rita Hayworth and Alzheimers Disease

1980 doctors realized she did not suffer from
alcoholism, but from Alzheimers disease (at this
time disease was not very well known)
In her small New York City apartment, next to
daughter Yasmins, it was said that she stared
in a mirror not recognising herself, sometimes
spoke in a strange language, and later, took to
her bed from where she was afraid to move to her
living room chair.
Yasmin became a spokesperson for the Alzheimers
Disease and Related Disorders Association helping
to educate the world about the disease.
Yasmin has been hosting the annual Rita Hayworth
Gala (a fund raiser for the Alzheimers
Association) since 1985, which has raised more
than 42 million.
Rita Hayworth helped to bring awareness of this
not well known disease.
Died May 14, 1987 at the age of 68.
After her death, she was praised by President
Ronald Reagan for bringing public attention to
the disease Alzheimers (he himself had not been
diagnosed yet)

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Background of Ronald Reagan

He was born in 1911 in Illinois.
A screen test in 1937 won him a contract in
Hollywood. He appeared in 53 films throughout the
next two decades and became president of the
Screen Actors Guild.

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Family Life

His first marriage was to actress Jean Wyman and
they had two children Maureen and Michael.
He married actress Nancy Davis in 1952 and had
two more children Patricia and Ronald.

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President Reagan

In 1981 he became the fortieth President of the
United States of America.
He was shot only 69 days after he took office,
but he made a full recovery.
He was re-elected in 1985 and served his second
term.
His ideas of peace through strength made him
one of our most popular Presidents.

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Alzheimers

In the late 80s and early 90s, he began to
slowly lose his grasp on ordinary function.
He knew what was coming, and even made several
jokes about it.
His mother and brother had Alzheimers.
Three years after leaving the White House, his
symptoms became impossible to ignore.

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Did Reagan Have Alzheimers While in Office?

He was definitely on his way to getting it.
There wasnt nearly enough of a decline in
function for a diagnosis.
1/3 - 1/2 of all humans experience some mild
decline in memory as they get older, so friends
and relatives didnt worry about it very much.

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Alzheimer's

At the conclusion of a physical in 1992 he asked
his doctor What am I supposed to do next? That
is when his doctor knew something was very wrong.
16 months later, he flew to Washington D.C. to
attend a dinner celebrating his 83rd birthday,
and he didnt recognize a few people that he had
known for years.
He forgot where he was later that night when he
was in his hotel room.

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Alzheimers

The former President announced to the world that
he had Alzheimers in 1994.
Early in the disease, he took frequent walks,
played golf, and went to his office everyday.
As his memory decreased, these activities
stopped.
He eventually lost his ability to articulate
words or remember who people were.
Ronald Reagan died from pneumonia and Alzheimers
disease on June 5, 2004.

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Parkinsons Disease

Parkinsons disease is a progressive disorder of
the central nervous system, characterised by
tremors, stiffness in limbs and joints, speech
impediments and difficulty in initiating physical
movements. Late in the course of the disease,
some people may develop dementia. Drugs may
improve the physical symptoms, but can have side
effects including hallucinations, delusions and a
temporary worsening of confusion and abnormal
movements.

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Ali and Fox

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Muhammad Ali,
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Muhammad Ali, one of the most famous boxers of
all time, had humble beginnings. He was born
Cassius Clay, Jr., on January 17, 1942, in
Louisville , Kentucky. He began boxing at the age
of 12, winning various Golden Glove titles, both
locally and nationally. In 1960, he attended the
Olympics in Rome and came away with the gold
medal in the light heavyweight division at the
age of 18. Ali was then sponsored by a Kentucky
organization to begin his professional career.
Besides this sponsorship, it was Muhammad Ali's
own self-promoting wise cracks that got him
noticed as a great boxer.

As Muhammad Ali's boxing career started to wind
down in the early 80's, he began to show signs of
a neurological disorder. He had evident signs of
decreasing motor skills during a fight against
Larry Holmes in 1980. Parkinson's disease was
diagnosed soon after, and it was noted that his
illness was probably brought on by repetitive
head trauma.

In more recent years, Ali has lost his ability to
speak. He was able to attend the 1996 Olympics in
Atlanta, GA, and he lit the Olympic torch at the
opening ceremony. Ali just celebrated his 65th
birthday this past January and his children say
he still has great, meaningful moments. He now
leads a more placid life, and since his
Parkinson's diagnosis, he has stated that he
regrets nothing.

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Parkinsons Disease
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Michael J. Fox

Was born as Michael Andrew Fox on June 9, 1961.
He is a Canadian/ American film and television
star. His roles include Marty McFly from the Back
to the Future trilogy (1985-1990) Alex P. Keaton
from the Family Ties (1982-1989), for which he
won three Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award
and Mike Flaherty from Spin City (1996-2000), for
which he won an Emmy, three Golden Globes, and
two Screen Actors Guild Awards.

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Diagnosed

Fox started displaying symptoms of early- onset
Parkinsons disease in 1990 while shooting the
movie Doc Hollywood. He was not properly
diagnosed until 1991. In 1998, he decided to go
public with his condition, and since then he has
been a strong advocate of Parkinsons disease
research. As the symptoms of his disease
worsened, he retired from full-time acting in
2000.

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Stem Cell Research

In 2006, Fox interviewed with Katie Couric
explaining his political advocacy.
Katie Couric Interview
On July 18, 2006, Fox appeared in a taped
interview on ABCs Good Morning America,
defending a Senate bill (Stem-Cell Research
Enhancement Act) that would have expanded federal
funding for stem cell research. The bill was not
enacted, however, being vetoed by President W.
Bush.

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Michael J. Fox Foundation

The Michael J. Fox Foundation is dedicated to
finding a cure for Parkinsons disease within the
decade through aggressively funded research
agenda and to ensuring the development of
improved therapies for those living with
Parkinsons today.
The Michael J. Fox foundation has funded over 120
million dollars in research that can lead to the
creation of better Parkinsons treatment.

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References