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    Rita Montaner

    1900-08-20 (124 years old) 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

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    Black Is My Color
    52 %|Apr 6, 1951
    Drama, Music
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    Victims of Sin
    65 %|Feb 2, 1951
    Drama, Music
    poster
    Caribbean Rhythms
    50 %|Dec 6, 1950
    poster
    To the Sound of the Mambo
    55 %|Oct 7, 1950
    Comedy, Drama
    poster
    Anacleto Gets Divorced
    65 %|Sep 7, 1950
    poster
    Pobre corazón
    50 %|May 17, 1950
    poster
    Angelitos Negros
    79 %|Nov 19, 1948
    Drama
    poster
    It Happened in Havana
    57 %|Dec 5, 1938
    Comedy

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