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Rita Montaner is a Actor and Musician Cubaine born on 20 august 1900 at Havana (Cuba)
Rita Aurelia Fulcida Montaner y Facenda (20 August 1900 – 17 April 1958), known as Rita Montaner, was a Cuban singer, pianist and actress. In Cuban parlance, she was a vedette (a star), and she was well known in Mexico City, Paris, Miami and New York, where she performed, filmed and recorded on various occasions. She was one of Cuba's most popular artists between the late 1920s and 1950s, being known as Rita de Cuba. Though classically trained as a soprano for zarzuelas, her mark was made as a singer of Afro-Cuban salon songs such as "The Peanut Vendor" and "Siboney".
Throughout her career, Montaner kept a close personal and professional relationship with two famous musicians from her hometown of Guanabacoa: pianist-singer Bola de Nieve and composer Ernesto Lecuona.
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Rita Montaner
Birth name Rita Aurelia Fulcida Montaner y Facenda
Nationality Cuba
Birth 20 august 1900 at Havana (Cuba)
Death 17 april 1958 (at 57 years) at Havana (Cuba)
Nationality Cuba
Birth 20 august 1900 at Havana (Cuba)
Death 17 april 1958 (at 57 years) at Havana (Cuba)
Throughout her career, Montaner kept a close personal and professional relationship with two famous musicians from her hometown of Guanabacoa: pianist-singer Bola de Nieve and composer Ernesto Lecuona.
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Filmography of Rita Montaner (6 films)
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Victims of Sin (1951)
, 1h30Directed by Emilio Fernández
Genres Drama, Musical, Crime
Actors Ninón Sevilla, Rodolfo Acosta, Tito Junco, Rita Montaner, Arturo Soto Rangel, Lupe Carriles
Roles Rita
Rating74%
Violeta (Ninón Sevilla), a Cuban dancer from the Cabaret Changó, rescues an infant from a garbage can in Mexico City's redlight district. She decides to raise the baby, and her decision places her at odds with Rodolfo (Rodolfo Acosta), the Cabaret Changó club owner. Rival club owner Santiago (Tito Junco), falls in love with Violeta and offers her his help. Tragedy takes place when Rodolfo (Rodolfo Acosta) kills Santiago and after Rodolfo is killed by Violeta in turn.
To the Sound of the Mambo (1950)
, 1h29Directed by Chano Urueta
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Rita Montaner, Amalia Aguilar, Amparito Arozamena, César del Campo
Roles Rita
Rating67%
Don Chonito Godinez (Adalberto Martínez), the wealthy owner of a business of mexican enchiladas, flees Mexico to escape to the modern life and tries to find comfort in Havana. Don Chonito is convinced by a restoring called Maria La O (Amparo Arozamena) for days at a resort in the country. There, he coincides with his sister (Esther Luquín), a depressed American woman (Joan Page), a composer (Roberto Romagna) and two detectives (Joaquín García "Borolas" and Mario Garcia "Harapos"), which should give him some very important information. Under the administration of the Cuban singer Rita Montaner, and with songs and dances provided by her daughter Reyna (Amalia Aguilar), the estate which houses the complex, is a kind of cabaret that works all day. So the owners and all his friends (including the "King of Mambo" Damaso Perez Prado with full orchestra), Don Chonito decide to enjoy himself, doing nothing.
Anacleto Gets Divorced (1950)
, 1h49Actors Rosita Arenas, Rita Montaner, Rogelio A. González, Antonio R. Frausto
Rating66%
Caribbean Rhythms (1950)
, 1h33Directed by Juan José Ortega
Genres Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Amalia Aguilar, Rita Montaner, Susana Guízar
A Cuban rumbera undergoes an ordeal to fall in love with a Mexican doctor. The problem between the two is that the man is married.
Little Black Angels (1948)
Genres Drama
Actors Pedro Infante, Rita Montaner, Emilia Guiú, Antonio R. Frausto, María Douglas, Lupe Carriles
Roles Mercé
Rating73%
Jose Carlos Ruiz (Pedro Infante) is a singer pop star that meets Ana Luisa de la Fuente (Emilia Guiú) an assistant manager of a Girls School. José Carlos begins to court successfully and quickly engage in marriage. Then Jose Carlos begins to realize that his future wife is prejudice against colored people, because she does not accept that he acts alongside mulattoes artists.
It Happened in Havana (1938)
, 1h53Directed by Ramón Peón
Origin Cuba
Genres Comedy
Actors Juan Torena, Luana Alcañiz, Rita Montaner
Rating63%
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Victims of Sin (1951)
, 1h30Directed by Emilio Fernández
Genres Drama, Musical, Crime
Actors Ninón Sevilla, Rodolfo Acosta, Tito Junco, Rita Montaner, Arturo Soto Rangel, Lupe Carriles
Roles Musician
Rating74%
Violeta (Ninón Sevilla), a Cuban dancer from the Cabaret Changó, rescues an infant from a garbage can in Mexico City's redlight district. She decides to raise the baby, and her decision places her at odds with Rodolfo (Rodolfo Acosta), the Cabaret Changó club owner. Rival club owner Santiago (Tito Junco), falls in love with Violeta and offers her his help. Tragedy takes place when Rodolfo (Rodolfo Acosta) kills Santiago and after Rodolfo is killed by Violeta in turn.