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.