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Rita Montaner
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…
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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".
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- 1954
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1951
Black Is My Color
Movie Rita
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1951
Victims of Sin
Movie Rita
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1950
Caribbean Rhythms
Movie
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1950
To the Sound of the Mambo
Movie Rita
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1950
Anacleto Gets Divorced
Movie
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1950
Pobre corazón
Movie
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1948
Black Angels
Movie Mercé
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1938
It Happened in Havana
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