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- Alma Rosa Aguirre was born on 19 February 1929 in Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico. She is an actress, known for El fantasma de la casa roja (1956), Nosotras las sirvientas (1951) and El sexo fuerte (1946).
- Bella Flores was born Remedios Papa Dancel in Sta Cruz, Manila. Her parents are Emilia Papa and Matias Dancel. She married Nestor Reyes, a detective police officer, with whom she has one child, Ruby Rose Arcilla, who lives presently in Las Vegas, U.S.A. Bella studied at the Cecilio Apostol Elementary School and Arellano High School, finishing her secondary education at Roosevelt College. She was a college sophomore at Far Eastern University when she decided on a movie career. Flores was only 14 years old when she made her first movie, Balaraw (1950), with Premiere Productions. She took a screen test at Sampaguita Pictures and was placed under a four-year contract. Her first big role was in Roberta (1951), as the cruel stepmother of child actors Tessie Agana and Boy Alano. This movie saved the studio from bankruptcy after it was razed by a fire early that year. Among her other films with Sampaguita are Bernardo Carpio (1951) with Cesar Ramirez, Batas ng daigdig (1951) with Fred Montilla and the mother-daughter team of Linda Estrella and Tessie Agana, _Rebecca (1952) with Van De Leon, Chichay and Gloria Romero, Kerubin (1952) again with Agana, Estrella, De Leon and Chichay, and 'Ang Asawa Kong Amerikana' (1953), the first Filipino movie to win a major award at the Asian Film Festival. When her contract with Sampaguita Pictures expired, she continued to play the role of villainess in the productions of other film companies. Later, she brought her own brand of movie villainy to the stage, as when she appeared in Bulwagang Gantimpala's 'Sipgnet' and 'Amag sa Tampipi' with Lou Veloso. On television, she has been a mainstay of such popular shows as 'Pa Easy-Easy' (1988), 'Victoria Hills' (1983), 'Yagit' (1982) and 'Dahong Lagas' (1973). Flores won the Filipino Academy of Movie Arts and Sciences (FAMAS)best supporting actress award for _Kaibigan ko'ng Sto. Niño (1967)_. She was also nominated by FAMAS for Kilabot sa Makiling (1959), and Mga batang yagit (1984). She received the best supporting actress award from the Olongapo Film Festival for her performance in 'Dugo ng Bayan' (1973). In 1989 she received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Film Academy of the Philippines. She has recently been visible again, mostly in indie films like Illusion (2005), Imahe nasyon (2006), The Fortune Teller (2008) and as well as in the recent mainstream blockbuster/Vic Sotto starrer Pak! Pak! My Dr. Kwak! (2011). Her life story was made into a features episode in the weekly television docu-drama UNTOLD STORIES Mula sa Face to Face, aired on TV5.
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Anita Linda was born Alice Buenaflor Lake in Pasay City, Manila, Philippines. Her parents were James Lake, an American mining engineer, and Gorgonia Buenaflor of Iloilo. She attended Polo Elementary School and graduated from Good Shepherd Convent High School. She married actor Fred Cortes, with whom she had a son, actor Fred Cortes Jr..
Before WWII, a teenaged Alice, while watching a stage show at the Avenue Theater starring Leopoldo Salcedo and Lopito, was called backstage by director Lamberto V. Avellana and asked if she wanted to become an actress. There must have been something in her that the renowned director saw as she sat watching the show. She demurred that, being Visayan, she couldn't speak Tagalog. The director, nevertheless, told her to report for rehearsals for the next show. When she failed to appear he had her fetched. This is how she became an actress.- Amanda del Llano was born on 20 June 1920 in Tonala, Chiapas, Mexico. She was an actress, known for La rebelión de los colgados (1954), Reportaje (1953) and Campeón sin corona (1946). She died on 24 June 1964 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico.
- Ofelia Guilmáin was born in Madrid. She was one of a number of Spanish artists and intellectuals who fled to Mexico during the Spanish Civil War, during which Ms. Guilmaín lost a brother and sister. She married Lucilo Gutiérrez in 1941 and bore four children. Following divorce, she married Eduardo Flores de Meza, but this ended in divorce. She was a close friend of the actor José Gálvez and the painter David Alfaro Siqueiros. She worked in Mexican films from 1941 and became a Mexican citizen in 1952. During the last decades of her life she acted in several television series, including the epic series La Antorcha Encendida, in which she played her real son's mother-in-law. Ms. Guilmaín had four children, three of whom became actors: Juan Ferrara, Luiía Guilmaín, and Esther Guilmáin. One grandson, Juan Carlos Bonet, son of Juan Ferrara, is also an actor.
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Meche Barba was born on 24 September 1922 in New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Los años de Greta (1992), Quinceañera (1987) and Quiero vivir (1953). She died on 14 January 2000 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico.- Celia Viveros was born on 17 March 1922 in Mexico, Distrito Federal, Mexico. She was an actress, known for Canta mi corazón (1965), Dos inocentes mujeriegos (1964) and Aventuras de las hermanas X (1963). She died on 21 November 1979 in Mexico, Distrito Federal, Mexico.
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Carmen Montejo was born on 26 May 1925 in Pinar del Río, Cuba. She was an actress and writer, known for Mujeres sin mañana (1951), Los cachorros (1973) and La infame (1954). She was married to Manuel González Ortega. She died on 25 February 2013 in Mexico, Distrito Federal, Mexico.- Actress
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Sara Montes was born on 7 June 1926 in Morelia, Michoacan, Mexico. She is an actress, known for Don't Mess with an Angel (2008), Traigo la sangre caliente (1977) and Four Against the World (1950).- Actress
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María Elena Marqués was born on 14 December 1926 in Mexico, Distrito Federal, Mexico. She was an actress, known for The Pearl (1947), The Rebel (1943) and El jardín de los cerezos (1978). She was married to Miguel Torruco. She died on 11 November 2008 in Mexico City, Mexico.- Actress
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Lilia Prado was born on 30 March 1928 in Sahuayo, Michoacan, Mexico. She was an actress, known for El rincón de las vírgenes (1972), Talpa (1956) and El analfabeto (1961). She was married to Gabriel España. She died on 22 May 2006 in Mexico City, Mexico.- Actress
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Carmelita González was born on 17 July 1928 in Mexico, D.F., Mexico. She was an actress, known for Motel (1984), Ángeles de arrabal (1949) and El cuarto mandamiento (1948). She was married to Eduardo Fajardo. She died on 30 April 2010 in Mexico D.F., Mexico.- Columba Domínguez was born on 4 March 1929 in Guaymas, Sonora, Mexico. She was an actress, known for Maclovia (1948), One Day of Life (1950) and La malquerida (1949). She was married to Emilio Fernández. She died on 13 August 2014 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico.
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Evangelina Elizondo was born on 28 April 1929 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico. She was an actress, known for A Walk in the Clouds (1995), Días de otoño (1963) and ¿Nos traicionará el presidente? (1988). She was married to José Luis Paganoni. She died on 2 October 2017 in Mexico City, Mexico.- Actress
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Lola Beltrán was born on 7 March 1931 in Rosario, Sinaloa, Mexico. She was an actress and composer, known for No Country for Old Men (2007), Transamerica (2005) and Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988). She was married to Alfredo Leal and José Manuel Tirado. She died on 24 March 1996 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico.1929 - 1996, 67. Mexico.
Cecilia, 'Mal de amores' (Rogaciano el huapanguero) (1957). 1957.
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