Rita Montaner

Born: 1900-08-20

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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Angelitos Negros

as Mercé
Released: 1948-11-19

Starring Mexican star Pedro Infante, "Black Angels" is about a couple formed by a beautiful...

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Pobre corazón

as uncredited
Released: 1950-05-17

Woman discovers she's dying of an incurable illness, so she tries to make her husband hate her;...

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Victims of Sin

as Rita
Released: 1951-02-02

A nightclub performer decides to raise the baby boy she found abandoned in a trash can, putting...

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It Happened in Havana

as uncredited
Released: 1938-12-05

Wicked man seduces an innocent country girl into a life of degradation and nightclubs.

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Black Is My Color

as Rita
Released: 1951-04-06

Negro Es Mi Color (literally translates to "Black Is My Color"), the 1951 Tito Davison Mexican...

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Anacleto Gets Divorced

as uncredited
Released: 1950-09-07

Anacleto and Baldomira are a couple who have problems because of gossip from their compadre who...

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Caribbean Rhythms

as uncredited
Released: 1950-12-06

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

as Rita
Released: 1950-10-07

A fun musical comedy style of the 50s where the infectious rhythm of the son and the mambo, led...

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Píntame angelitos blancos

as uncredited
Released: 1954-08-11

Orphaned by a father and children by a black mother, the little one is rejected by his...

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