Filipino Cinema, Celebrities, Actors and Actress Trivia Part 1

The fake nurse props used by Alma Moreno in City After Dark / Manila By Night (1980) were taken from the actual crime scene which took place in a motel room a year before the filming of this movie. 

Scene from Joe Climaco romantic comedy Nagsaulian Ng Kandila (1950) showing the comic duo Pugo and Togo. This comic duo is sometimes compared to another popular tandem Laurel and Hardy. 

This is actor PEN MEDINA. These are the awards won by this actor:

FAMAS Award - 1 win

FILM ACADEMY - 1 win

METRO MANILA FILM FESTIVAL - 2 wins

STAR AWARD FOR MOVIES - 1 win

CINEMA ONE ORIGINALS DIGITAL FILM FESTIVAL - 1 win

This is Virginia Montes a popular actress of the late 1940s whose career span four decades. She is the wife of actor-director Efren Reyes Sr. and mother to another actor-director Efren Reyes Jr. 

Danilo Jurado is a former child actor and actor whose career spans almost two decades and made his last film in 1976. Among his films include Biyaya Ng Lupa (1959), Alyas Palos (1961), Juan Tamad Enters Malacanang (1962), Samar (1962), Ito Ang Maynila (1963), Si Darna at ang Impakta (1963), Combat P.I. (1965) and Dama de Noche (1972)

Nenita Jana is a character actress whose career spans two decades and whose only film in the 1950s was MN (1954). 

Mona Lisa is a great film actress whose career span seven (7) decades or over 70 years from her very first appearance in the silent film Bago Lumubog Ang Araw (1930) to her very last indie film Camiling Story (2005). She was a Camay Soap commercial model back in the 1950s. 

Elsa Oria is a popular actress during the golden era of Filipino cinema and known as the "Singing Sweetheart of the Philippines." She made films during the pre-war era and throughout the 1940s with her last and sole film in the 1950s, Armando Garces' drama film Madaling Araw. 

Trivia: She refused to accept the mother role in the film Amy, Susie & Tessie (1960) which is supposed to be her comeback film hence it was offered instead to Paraluman. 

Scenes from Mike de Leon's anthemic film Batch '81 (1982) which features an all-star cast led by Mark Gil who plays the character Sid Lucero which was lured into a fraternity group and experienced social, psychological, moral pressures among others. 

Trivia: One of Mark Gil's sons was born in the same year this movie was filmed and is found in the movie's title hence he named him Sid Lucero as a homage to his character in this film. 

Rocky Rogers made only quite a few films in the late 50s and early 60s.

 

Erlinda Cortez found fame on the silver screen just after World War II.

Bela Padilla's first screen name in show business is Krista Valle

All of these but one son of celebrities wanted to pursue a career in show business. Ryan Christian Recto, the son of "Star for all Seasons" Vilma Santos and former senator Ralph Recto is not interested to hog the limelight in the entertainment industry.

Ang Daigdig Ko'y Ikaw (1965) is the very first film pairing of the husband and wife, Fernando Poe Jr. and Susan Roces

Dolphy (top picture) is the mystic statue that came to life disturbing Bella Flores in her bed (bottom picture) in this scene from Octavio Silos' fantasy comedy film Mambo Dyambo (1955)

Val Castelo starred in different films in the 1960s.

Trivia: He was told by his friends to enter the show business and earn a living as an actor so he asked his mother to introduce him to Narcisa "Doña Sisang" de Leon for a screen test and passed it so he was given a two-year contract in LVN Pictures Inc. 

Don Dano's romance film Takip Silim (1939) is the first film of the Carmen Rosales - Rogelio de la Rosa love team. 

Carmen Rosales once reprimanded Gina Pareño when Rosales claims that Pareño is stealing the limelight from her in a film

Carmen Rosales once said: "..And I don't want to be a guest celebrity to be interviewed in the [talk] shows just like that of Ike (Ike Lozada) and Inday (Inday Badiday) and even that of JQ (Joe Quirino) only to be given with wallet and alcohol (drinks) [as tokens]. I don't need any publicity to show the people the works that I am doing now. Maybe when I come there, [their shows] they will just ask any questions when I am also brave, bold, and daring in answering questions. I saw that in some television talk shows some of the questions are obscene. Celebrities have the right to be furious in guesting to their shows. If I were asked those kinds of questions I will tell them I didn't come here to be insulted. When I am in the public eye, I was not ruined. I left the limelight still respected by many, now that I am retired will I ruin the image I left in their minds?"

Singer-Actor Adrian Panganiban

Actor, Basketball player and Director Lou Salvador Sr. sires these 17 children in the picture as just a few of his 97 confirmed children. Rumor has it that he has more than 100 children thus he holds the record for the most number of children of a Filipino actor.

Miss Universe Philippines 2021: WATCHFUL EYES Top 15 Favorite National Costumes

Clark, Pampanga - Last September 23, the Miss Universe Philippines Organization released the video of the Miss Universe Philippines 2021 National Costume Presentation Show where the twenty-eight (28) official contestants showcased the best of the nation's native and period dresses mostly with the theme of carnival queens costume inspired by the Manila Carnival Queen, where all the beauty contests in the country originated. Meanwhile, after watching these ladies proudly displayed these glamorized period dresses that best describe the typical modern but empowered phenomenal Filipina women Watchful Eyes Of A Silhouette picked fifteen (15) favorite costumes based on creativity, ingenuity, craftsmanship, design, historical background, relevance, and appropriateness and most of all the beautiful story behind these dresses. Backed by the song "Kalawakan" as performed by Allen Cecilio, Anjo Damiles, and Kevin Montillano for the Miss Universe Philippines 2020, here is Watchful Eyes' Top 15 Miss Universe Philippines 2021 Favorite National Costumes:

   

 

 

1. MARINDUQUE

2. TAGUIG

3. PANGASINAN

4. CEBU CITY

5. CEBU PROVINCE

6. ALBAY

7. ISABELA

8. CAVITE

9. SAN JUAN CITY

10. DAVAO OCCIDENTAL

11. ANTIQUE

12. DAVAO DEL SUR

13. ROMBLON

14. ILOILO CITY

15. NEGROS ORIENTAL

Photo Source:

Miss Universe Philippines Official Facebook Page

Video Source:

Empire Philippines Youtube Channel

Philippines Olympic Medals

This is the list of Filipino Olympians who won Olympic medals for the Philippines from its first participation in the Olympic Games in 1924 until the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics. This list is arranged in chronological order when they participated and won. 

Games

1928 Amsterdam Summer Games

Medal         Sports            Event          Name        Hometown                 

Bronze    Swimming   200 meter breastroke   Teofilo Yldefonso    Piddig, Ilocos Norte

1932 Los Angeles Summer Games

Medal           Sports        Event      Name        Hometown                 

Bronze      Swimming   Men's 200-m breaststroke   Teofilo Yldefonso    Piddig, Ilocos Norte

Bronze      Athletics    Men's high jump   Simeon Toribio    Zamboanga City, Zamboanga del Sur

Bronze     Boxing     Men's bantamweight   Jose Villanueva  Binondo District, Manila

1936 Berlin Summer Games

Medal      Sports       Event        Name         Hometown 

Bronze      Athletics      Men's 400-m hurdles    Miguel White          Legazpi, Albay

1964 Tokyo Summer Games

Medal       Sports     Event       Name       Hometown 

Silver       Boxing     Men's featherweight    Anthony Villanueva    Cabuyao, Laguna

1988 Seoul Summer Games

Medal       Sports       Event          Name           Hometown 

Bronze      Boxing      Men's light flyweight     Leopoldo Serrantes    Matnog, Sorsogon

1992 Barcelona Summer Games

Medal       Sports       Event           Name          Hometown 

Bronze      Boxing      Men's light flyweight     Roel Velasco     Bago, Negros Occidental

1996 Atlanta Summer Games

Medal       Sports       Event           Name         Hometown 

Bronze      Boxing      Men's light flyweight      Mansueto Velasco    Bago, Negros Occidental

2016 Rio de Janeiro Summer Games

Medal      Sports         Event                     Name         Hometown 

Silver      Weightlifting     Women's 53 kg.    Hidilyn Diaz    Zamboanga City, Zamboanga del Sur

2020 Tokyo Summer Games

Medal      Sports     Event                    Name           Hometown 

Gold     Weightlifting     Women's 55 kg.       Hidilyn Diaz    Zamboanga City, Zamboanga del Sur

Silver     Boxing      Women's Featherweight 54-57 kg.  Nesthy Petecio    Santa Cruz, Davao del Sur

Silver     Boxing      Men's Flyweight 48-52 kg.   Carlo Paalam     Talakag, Bukidnon

Bronze   Boxing      Men's Middleweight 69 - 75 kg. Eumir Felix Marcial   Zamboanga City, Zamboanga del Sur

Photo Source:

Philstar.com 

Hidilyn Diaz Gave The Philippines Its First Olympic Gold At The Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games

Hidilyn Diaz broke the glass ceiling and made history at the Tokyo International Forum Monday night, July 26 by winning the Philippines' first Olympic gold medal in the 55 kg. category of weightlifting at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics ending the 97-year wait to capture the elusive Olympic gold halting the early consecutive dominance of the Chinese lifters in the first few days of the competition smashing records after records. She became the second Filipino double Olympic medallist after the Teofilo Yldefonso winning the bronze medal in 200 meters breaststroke swimming in the 1928 and 1932 Olympics and the first Filipina woman double medallist. She became the first athlete from Mindanao to win the Olympic gold medal and first double medallist. The diminutive Zamboanga City native lifted a combined total score of 224 kilograms which is a new Olympic record for the event that outweighs China's Liao Qiuyun the current world record holder for the event who lifted only 223 kg. only a point difference which is good enough for silver while Kazakhstan's Zulfiya Chinshanlo took the bronze with a total lift of 213 kg. Hidilyn Diaz total score came from the aggregate score she got from snatch which she lifted 97 kilograms (the heaviest lift she got from 3 attempts) and from the clean and jerk which she lifted 127 kilograms another new Olympic record for Diaz in the clean and jerk. The new Olympic record for snatch was attained by Uzbekistan's Muattar Nabieva by lifting 98 kilograms. This is also the first Filipino Olympic gold medal in weightlifting. In the previous Olympic Games 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Hidilyn Diaz gave the sport of weightlifting its first Olympic medal for the Philippines by getting the silver medal in the 53 kg. category. Hidilyn Diaz endured not just blood, sweat, and tears but also a lack of financial support during her training leading up to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics but most significantly are the constant bullying and even death threats coming from the supporters and followers of the sitting President to get the Olympic gold. The Philippines now has 1 gold, 3 silvers, and 7 bronzes for a total of 11 medals in the Olympic Games since its first participation in 1924 in the Paris Olympics. The Philippines will celebrate its 100 years with the Olympics in 2024 in the very same city where it made its first Olympic appearance a hundred years ago with a lone entry - David Nepomuceno.

See this news about Hidilyn Diaz. 

https://news.yahoo.com/philippines-first-olympic-gold-medalist-031120552.html

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2020 Tokyo Summer Olympic Games

The 2020 Summer Olympics officially known as the Games of the XXXII Olympiad branded as Tokyo 2020 will take place from July 23 - August 8, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. It was delayed for a year due to the Covid-19 global pandemic. There is no live audience during the games to avoid a superspreader event of the disease. Fans and followers around the world however can watch the games broadcasted live on their television by different television networks and online real-time through various online and social media platforms. For data, info, and results of the games, you can check out the official website of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics Games on the link below:

https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/en/