Nina Quartero

Nina Quartero

Born: March 17, 1908
Died: November 23, 1985
in Mount Vernon, New York, USA
From Wikipedia

Nina Quartero (March 17, 1908 - November 23, 1985) was a motion picture actress from New York City, whose career spanned the years 1928 - 1943. Often she played supporting roles and sometimes a diversive love interest for the lead male actor.

In One Stolen Night (1929) Quartero was cast with Betty Bronson and William Collier. The story concerns a British World War I soldier who comes to the assistance of an enslaved dancer. In Frozen River (1929) she was paired with Raymond McKee as the motion picture's romantic leads. Wonder dog Rin Tin Tin, is the most unlikely of heroes in the screen drama.

In 1931 Quartero appeared in Arizona, an early John Wayne movie. Playing "Conchita," she is a source of strife in Wayne's relationship to the characters depicted by Laura La Plante and June Clyde. She performed again with Wayne in The Man from Monterey (1933).

Her final screen performances show Quartero playing smaller parts, such as the role of a Cuban dancer in Torchy Blane In Panama (1938), a native dancer in Green Hell (1940) and a bar-girl in A Lady Takes A Chance (1943).

Nina Quartero died in Woodland Hills, California in 1985.

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A Lady Takes a Chance
Title: A Lady Takes a Chance
Character: Carmencita
Released: August 19, 1943
Type: Movie
A city girl on a bus tour of the West encounters a handsome rodeo cowboy who helps her forget her city suitors.
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Green Hell
Title: Green Hell
Character: Native Girl (uncredited)
Released: January 26, 1940
Type: Movie
A group of adventurers head deep into South American jungle in search of an ancient Incan treasure.
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Torchy Blane in Panama
Title: Torchy Blane in Panama
Character: Cuban Dancer (uncredited)
Released: May 7, 1938
Type: Movie
Torchy, Steve, and Gahagan are on the trail of a bank robber aboard an ocean liner traveling from New York to L.A. via the Panama Canal.
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Submarine D-1
Title: Submarine D-1
Character: Panama Percentage Girl
Released: November 27, 1937
Type: Movie
Butch Rogers and Sock McGillis are old submarine hands stationed in Panama. On land, Butch and Sock battle over pretty Ann Sawyer. At sea and underwater, however, our two heroes are inseparable.
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The Grand Hooter
Title: The Grand Hooter
Character: Rosita
Released: May 7, 1937
Type: Movie
Charley's wife accuses him of preferring his Hoot Owl Lodge over her.
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Left-Handed Law
Title: Left-Handed Law
Character: Chiquita
Released: March 31, 1937
Type: Movie
An army colonel tries to bring peace to a lawless community.
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Phantom of Santa Fe
Title: Phantom of Santa Fe
Character: Teresa Valardi
Released: November 12, 1936
Type: Movie
A band of renegades attacks and loots a mission, stealing some priceless treasures. Local citizens blame an outlaw known as "The Hawk," who is also called "The Phantom of Santa Fe."
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Wife vs. Secretary
Title: Wife vs. Secretary
Character: Cuban Telephone Operator (uncredited)
Released: February 28, 1936
Type: Movie
Linda, the wife of a publishing executive, suspects that her husband Van’s relationship with his attractive secretary Whitey is more than professional.
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The Cyclone Ranger
Title: The Cyclone Ranger
Character: Nita Garcia
Released: March 15, 1935
Type: Movie
A trio of former cattle rustlers try to go straight, but find that they can't shake off their reputations and trouble follows them.
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Under Secret Orders
Title: Under Secret Orders
Character: Carmencita Alverez
Released: December 6, 1933
Type: Movie
A young bank employee is sent to South America to bring some valuable bonds to a client there. Unfortunately for him, he tends to drink a bit too much and winds up getting involved with a gang that's planning on stealing the bonds to start a revolution.
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Crook's Tour
Title: Crook's Tour
Character: Unfaithful Wife
Released: September 23, 1933
Type: Movie
A short film from Hal Roach Studios' All-Star series.
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The Man from Monterey
Title: The Man from Monterey
Character: Anita Garcia
Released: July 15, 1933
Type: Movie
A cavalry officer helps save a family's ranch from land grabbers
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The Monkey's Paw
Title: The Monkey's Paw
Character: Nura
Released: January 13, 1933
Type: Movie
A mother wishes for the return of her dead son, a wish that is granted by the severed paw of a dead monkey.
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The Arizona Terror
Title: The Arizona Terror
Character: Lola
Released: September 13, 1931
Type: Movie
Captain Porter's scheme is to buy livestock and then have his men show up later to kill the buyer and retrieve the money. When his men kill the next victim, he frames the Arizonian for the murder. The Arizonian escapes the law and joins up with the outlaw Vasquez. Knowing Porter's scheme, he plans to trap him by using Vasquez as the next buyer.
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Arizona
Title: Arizona
Character: Conchita
Released: June 27, 1931
Type: Movie
A West Point graduate jilts his girlfriend but runs into her later at an Army outpost.
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The Fighting Sheriff
Title: The Fighting Sheriff
Character: Tiana (as Nena Quartaro)
Released: May 15, 1931
Type: Movie
A dying Jack makes Bob and Flash promise not to tell his sister that he was an outlaw. When Bob confronts Flash with his muffler found at the stage holdup, Flash tells Mary that Bob killed her brother. Believing he can now marry Mary, he plans one more robbery. But the jealous Tiana overhears and runs for the Sheriff.
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God's Gift to Women
Title: God's Gift to Women
Character: Suzanne, a Party Girl (uncredited)
Released: April 13, 1931
Type: Movie
A notorious womanizer sets his sights on a pretty American tourist, only to be told by his doctor that he must give up all romance for his health.
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Trapped
Title: Trapped
Character: Sally Moore
Released: April 13, 1931
Type: Movie
A police captain investigating a ring of bank robbers falls in love with a nightclub entertainer suspected of being involved with the gang.
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The Bachelor Father
Title: The Bachelor Father
Character: Maria Credaro
Released: January 10, 1931
Type: Movie
Lonely in his English country estate, Sir Basil decides to gather his grown (albeit illegitimate) children around him in his declining years. He uses a ledger which keeps track of the payments he has been making to ex-lovers to locate 2 of them, and a third is found by a lawyer in New York, her mother was too proud to accept any money. Sir Basil is a curmudgeon, and his three adult children have a hard time with him at first. Toni, the American, is a free spirit who had a budding career in show business. Jeffery is English and a semi-gentleman, and Maria is Italian, with a Latin temperament. They begin to bond, especially Sir Basil and Toni, whose outgoing personality finally wins over the old man. But past lives begin to creep back into the picture and threaten the old man's plans for a life filled with his children.
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New Moon
Title: New Moon
Character: Vadda - Tanya's Maid
Released: December 23, 1930
Type: Movie
New Moon is the name of the ship crossing the Caspian Sea. A young Lt. Petroff meets the Princess Tanya and they have a ship board romance. Upon arriving at the port of Krasnov, Petroff learns that Tanya is engaged to the old Governor Brusiloff. Petroff, disillusioned, crashes the ball to talk with Tanya. Found by Brusiloff, they invent a story about her lost bracelet. To reward him, and remove him, Brusiloff sends Petroff to the remote, and deadly, Fort Darvaz. Soon, the big battle against overwhelming odds will begin.
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Men of the North
Title: Men of the North
Character: Woolie-Woolie
Released: September 27, 1930
Type: Movie
Part of a gold shipment has been stolen and the Sergeant suspects Louis LeBey. When Louis is attracted to newly arrived Nedra Ruskin, Woolie-Woolie becomes jealous and tells the Sergeant where Louis hid the gold. First Louis rescues the Sergeant whose dog team crashes chasing him and then he saves Nedra from an avalanche. When he returns the injured Nedra to the settlement, the Sergeant takes him prisoner.
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Golden Dawn
Title: Golden Dawn
Character: Maid-in-Waiting
Released: June 14, 1930
Type: Movie
Dawn, a young white girl who has been kidnapped in infancy and reared by Mooda, an African woman who operates a canteen in the German cantonment, meets and falls in love with Tom Allen, an English rubber planter who is a prisoner of war. Shep Keyes, who has joined the German troops, covets her but realizes he cannot possess her because she is betrothed to the tribal god, Mulunghu. On the eve of the ceremony, he learns of her love for Tom. Tom, meanwhile, is sent back to England, and when the English take the territory from the Germans, Shep tries to incite the natives, who are experiencing a drought, against Dawn because of her love of a mortal. Tom learns from Mooda that Dawn was stolen from a white trader and finds her seeking refuge in a convent. Shep arouses the natives, but Dawn declares her faith in the white man's God, and a thunderstorm brings relief to the parched land, after which Tom claims her for his bride.
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Isle of Escape
Title: Isle of Escape
Character: Loru
Released: March 1, 1930
Type: Movie
On a South Sea island, Stella operates a hotel for her mother, who is constantly drunk on liquor smuggled by Shane, the principal trader and virtual dictator of the island. Dave Wade, exhausted from the heat, lands on the shore near the hotel and reports having escaped from a nearby cannibal island. Stella has her servants, Manua and Loru, care for him, but Shane, to whom she is married but with whom she has never lived, orders him taken to his house, intent on stealing his gold. In a drunken orgy, Shane takes the gold, provoking a fight in which Stella aids Wade. When Ma Blackney dies and Stella recovers the gold, she suggests they go to another island and establish a trading business; but because of a misunderstanding, Stella is kidnaped by the natives and taken to the cannibal island. Disregarding their differences, Wade and Shane join forces and go to the island; Shane sacrifices himself to stall the cannibals while Stella and Wade flee to the sea.
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The Big Squawk
Title: The Big Squawk
Character: Mary
Released: May 25, 1929
Type: Movie
Shy Charley tries to win his girl.
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Frozen River
Title: Frozen River
Character: Jane
Released: April 20, 1929
Type: Movie
Canine star Rin Tin Tin makes his all-talking (all-barking?) debut in Warner Bros.' Frozen River. In characteristic fashion, Rinty braves the elements to rescue heroine Jane from the villains, a gang of cutthroats and thieves.
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The Eternal Woman
Title: The Eternal Woman
Character: Consuelo
Released: March 18, 1929
Type: Movie
Olive Borden returns home to Buenos Aires and discovers her father has been murdered and her sister has been attacked by an American.
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Loud Soup
Title: Loud Soup
Character: Professor Brown
Released: March 16, 1929
Type: Movie
Loud Soup is a comedy short
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One Stolen Night
Title: One Stolen Night
Character: Chyra
Released: March 15, 1929
Type: Movie
When his ne'er-do-well brother embezzles the commissary funds of their cavalry unit stationed in the Sudan, a British soldier takes the blame for him. He winds up deserting his post and joining up with a traveling vaudeville troupe. He falls in love with a pretty young woman in one of the show's acts but finds that a local Arab sheik has his own plans for the young girl.
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The Redeeming Sin
Title: The Redeeming Sin
Character: Mitzi
Released: February 16, 1929
Type: Movie
The Redeeming Sin (1929) is a crime drama part-talking silent film with Vitaphone music and sound effects. It was produced and distributed by Warner Bros. and stars Dolores Costello. This film is currently a lost film.
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Ruby Lips
Title: Ruby Lips
Released: January 19, 1929
Type: Movie
Ruby Lips is a comedy short
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Noah's Ark
Title: Noah's Ark
Character: French Girl (uncredited)
Released: November 1, 1928
Type: Movie
The Biblical story of Noah and the Great Flood, with a parallel story of soldiers in the First World War.
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All Parts
Title: All Parts
Released: October 27, 1928
Type: Movie
All Parts is a silent comedy short
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The Red Mark
Title: The Red Mark
Character: Zelie
Released: August 26, 1928
Type: Movie
A pickpocket has finally earned his release from the South Seas penal colony ruled with calculated cruelty by Monsieur De Nou, but Bibi Ri won’t return to Paris without his girl. When De Nou, known for dispatching all problems via guillotine, claims her as his own, only one terrible outcome seems possible. Stunning photography, potent compositions, and a chilling performance by Gustav von Seyffertitz as the mercilessly corrupt governor make this recently restored jewel a must-see—even before the dramatic plot twist.
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Driftin' Sands
Title: Driftin' Sands
Character: Nita Aliso
Released: January 1, 1928
Type: Movie
A drifter nicknamed "Driftin' Sands" is hired by a wealthy rancher to protect his spoiled daughter. Driftin', of course, falls for the lady and is immediately banished from the ranch.