Filipino Cinema, Celebrities, Actors and Actress Trivia Part 2

 

Bella Flores

Rita Gomez

Bella Flores once had a spat with Rita Gomez with the former even pulling the hair of the latter.

Charlie Wahib Valdez Davao simply as Charlie Davao is a Filipino mestizo of Spanish and Jordanian (Arab) descent

 

This is the ever beautiful Delia Razon THEN

This is Delia Razon TODAY. She has aged beautifully. 

This is Marco Antonio, a Filipino action and sexy actor from the 1960s and 1970s until the mid-1980s. 

The childhood picture of actor Chuckie Dreyfus and his picture today. Dreyfus is a product of the teen variety show, That's Entertainment of German Moreno. 

This is the picture of Bessie Barredo and Jackie Belmonte taken from the film poster of Summer Love (1968) the movie they starred in as a love team.

This is Anna Marin who became a popular actress in the 1970s. She became a huge crush of Nino Muhlach at one time they made a film together.

This is a behind the scene picture from the film Ang Kabiyak (1980) wherein the director Danny L. Zialcita instructs her actress Elizabeth Oropesa and Pinky de Leon on the act they have to do together on the set.

This is Malu Maglutac who is already in her 60s. She once hosted the popular television show of GMA Network, Student Canteen from 1984 - 1990. She once studied at St. Paul College in Makati City and finished her studies at the University of the Philippines. She was also a former newscaster and beauty pageant titleholder.

The sultry sex siren Lucita Soriano made controversial news when she agreed to star in the film entitled Ako... Laban Sa Lipunan (Lucita) (1967) portraying the real-life murder victim Lucila Lalu, the first known reported Chop Chop Lady of the Philippines. 

Hilda Koronel starred in the film Cherry Blossoms (1972) shot on location in Japan opposite American-Australian Hollywood actor Nicholas Hammond who later became Peter Parker aka Spiderman in a television series in the 1970s. 

Perla Adea is the only Filipino singer who revived and made a version of Patti Page song (How Much) Is That Doggie In The Window? in the early 1970s

This is Nori Dalisay today. She became a starlet in the 1950s. Although she became popular in those years, she was never given a leading role by her motion picture studio production company giant Sampaguita Pictures.

This is June Keithley a popular actress, television personality, and broadcast journalist in the 1970s and 1980s. She also had a daughter who became an actress herself. 

Angie Salinas is a character actress in the 1980s 

Director Cirio H. Santiago is the former boyfriend of actress Nida Blanca in the 1950s. He broke up with Nida Blanca in a fit of jealousy over a kissing scene between Nida Blanca and Nestor de Villa in a film that led him to eventually marry Ruth Torres at the young age of 21.

The lovely Gloria Romero holding the very young Ace York later known as Ace Vergel.

 

This is Milagros Naval, a character actress who became popular in the late 1940s until the mid-1950s but was never given a leading role break by her mother's motion picture studio another production company giant - LVN Pictures, Inc.

This is Julian Manansala, known as the very first action star of Filipino cinema. 

Photo Sources: 

Edgar Ebro 

Philippine Old Photos Collection

Rappler

Video 48 Blogspot

https://viewsfromthepampang.blogspot.com

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