Rita Montaner

Rita Montaner

Born: August 20, 1900
Died: April 17, 1958
in 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 was well known in Mexico City, Paris, Miami and New York, where she performed, filmed and recorded on numerous occasions. She was one of Cuba's most popular artists between the late 1920s and 1950s, renowned as Rita de Cuba. Though classically trained as a soprano for zarzuelas, her mark was made as a singer of Afro-Cuban salon songs including "The Peanut Vendor" and "Siboney".

Movies for Rita Montaner...

Píntame angelitos blancos
Title: Píntame angelitos blancos
Released: August 11, 1954
Type: Movie
Orphaned by a father and children by a black mother, the little one is rejected by his grandmother, while the girl must deny her own mother.
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Black Is My Color
Title: Black Is My Color
Character: Rita
Released: April 6, 1951
Type: Movie
Negro Es Mi Color (literally translates to "Black Is My Color"), the 1951 Tito Davison Mexican racial musical melodrama (about a light-skinned Mexican woman with dark-skinned parents who passes as "white"; a Mexican version of "Imitation of Life")
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Victims of Sin
Title: Victims of Sin
Character: Rita
Released: February 2, 1951
Type: Movie
A nightclub performer decides to raise the baby boy she found abandoned in a trash can, putting her job and social life in jeopardy.
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Caribbean Rhythms
Title: Caribbean Rhythms
Released: December 6, 1950
Type: Movie
A Cuban rumbera dancer undergoes an ordeal to fall in love with a married Mexican doctor.
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To the Sound of the Mambo
Title: To the Sound of the Mambo
Character: Rita
Released: October 7, 1950
Type: Movie
A fun musical comedy style of the 50s where the infectious rhythm of the son and the mambo, led by the hand by the incomparable Damaso Perez Prado, will a waste of good music and grace. With a formidable cast, and above all a fabulous collector's item.
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Anacleto Gets Divorced
Title: Anacleto Gets Divorced
Released: September 7, 1950
Type: Movie
Anacleto and Baldomira are a couple who have problems because of gossip from their compadre who wants Baldomira. The marriage is separated for a short time because they realize that they love each other.
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Pobre corazón
Title: Pobre corazón
Released: May 17, 1950
Type: Movie
Woman discovers she's dying of an incurable illness, so she tries to make her husband hate her; dumping her on moving on would be better for him than watching her decline and feeling sad.
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Angelitos negros
Title: Angelitos negros
Character: Mercé
Released: November 19, 1948
Type: Movie
Starring Mexican star Pedro Infante, "Black Angels" is about a couple formed by a beautiful woman and a singer, both white, who are parents of a black girl. The woman blames him, but the girl will suffer the racist treatment from her own mother. Mexican version of the famous novel by Fannie Hurst "Imitation of Life"
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It Happened in Havana
Title: It Happened in Havana
Released: December 5, 1938
Type: Movie
Wicked man seduces an innocent country girl into a life of degradation and nightclubs.