Filipino Cinema, Celebrities, Actors and Actress Trivia Part 5

Marlene Dauden is known as the Sophia Loren of the Philippines as she was promoted by her motion picture studio or production company as such since she has this striking resemblance to the Italian Hollywood actress.

Victor Wood

Engelbert Humperdinck

Ray Charles

Tom Jones

Tom Jones for his bass, Engelbert Humperdinck for his midrange, and Ray Charles for his high tone inspired the Filipino singer Victor Wood on his hit song "I'm Sorry, My Love" to create his own singing style. 

Shirley Endoso is the real name of Shirley Gorospe, a Filipino actress who was originally a beauty queen titled Miss Philippines-California was born in Hawaii to an Ilocano father and Portuguese mother. She starred in quite a number of films opposite actor Zaldy Zshornack who eventually became her husband.

Garizaldy Zshornack, the son of Zaldy Zshornack and Shirley Gorospe who eventually became a transgender entertainer in the 1980s changed his name to Christine Endoso Burdick or simply known as Coco.

Rosa del Rosario, a popular Filipino actress in the 1930s and 1940s who was the first to portray Darna in a film was born on December 15, 1917, as Rose del Rosario Stagner in Bacolor, Pampanga to an American father Frank H. Stagner and Filipina mother Agustina del Rosario.

Yolanda Marquez was a Filipino actress in the 1930s who came from an affluent family and was born on January 1, 1920, in San Francisco, California to Generoso Hernandez, a lawyer from Macabebe, Pampanga, and a Mexican mother.

 

Lota Delgado was a Filipino prewar actress in the 1930s and the 1940s whose first film appearance  was in the 1939 Gregorio Fernandez film, Ang Magsasampaguita.

Paraluman (born Sigrid Sophia Agatha de Torres von Giese) is a popular Filipina actress who started her film career in the 1940s and rose to prominence in the 1950s studied in Araullo High School but abruptly stopped her schooling at the outbreak of World War II and went back to making films in the late 1940s.

 

Ben Perez is the love interest of Rosa del Rosario in the very first Darna film of the same title in 1951 directed by Fernando Poe Sr.

 

Letty Alonzo, an actress who was typecasted as a villain in the 1950s was the grandmother of actress Valeen Montenegro being the wife of her grandfather Mario Montenegro.

 

Alma Moreno had a kissing scene with the Sampaguita Pictures actor Luis Gonzales in the 1977 Elwood Perez film Sugar Daddy.

 

Jess Lapid Sr. was shot in Lanai Club in Quezon City on July 13, 1968, allegedly by a member of the BIG 4 syndicate who extort money from film personalities in the 1960s whom he and his group including Fernando Poe Jr. brought to justice.

 

Robert Lee, a Filipino actor in the 1970s. He was known as one of the three "Bruce Lee of the Philippines" along with Ramon Zamora and Rey Malonzo. According to the unpublished memoirs Pinoywood Central Casting by Nick Nicholson, a few years after the release of the film The Firebird Conspiracy, Robert Lee was diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer and he committed suicide.

Tessie Agana is a Filipino and part Italian who was born Maria Teresa Rigotti Agana on May 16, 1943 to Filipina actress Linda Estrella (born Consuelo Rigotti) and Dr. Adriano Agana in Manila. Linda Estrella her mother was born on December 3, 1922 in Pandan, Catanduanes to Jose Alcala Rigotti a Filipino of Italian descent from Albay and Francisca Vera from Catanduanes.

 

Lydia Montañez is a Filipino actress of the 1950s of Russian lineage. She was born Tatiana Simbulan Korionoff on April 28, 1933 in Arayat, Pampanga to Victor Pavlov Korionoff and Marcelina Lising Simbulan.

 

Rudy Fernandez with the namesake of a Filipino actor was a para-athlete and Western Institute of Technology physical education teacher from Iloilo. He was born Rodolfo "Rudy" Fernandez on December 5, 1947. He won the PRISAA (Private Schools Athletics Association) Sports Meet gold medal in the 1500 and 5000 meter run in the late 60s, became a national team track star, and was once ranked no. 1 in the country in the 1500 meters (3:56) in the early 70s. He won a medal in the Pesta Sukan games. He was hit by shrapnel by a bombing in the Allegro theater in Iloilo City in 1978 where he was watching that caused him to be amputated. After the incident, he became a para-athlete. He swam the Iloilo Strait from Iloilo City to Guimaras island setting a new record. He died peacefully on January 2, 2022

 

Hazel Ann Mendoza was also known by her other screen name Pupi Pla was a child actress of the late 1990s and 2000s.

 

Patricia Ann Roque was a child actress in the 1990s and eventually became a television host and personality and sports anchor.

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