Actors - Atang Dela Rama

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Honorata "Atang" Dela Rama (January 11, 1905 - July 11, 1991) was a singer and vaudeville performer who became the first Filipina film actress.

Born in MAnila, she made several silent films, including: Dalagang Bukid (1919) opposite Marcelino Ilagan, La Venganza de Don Silvestre (1920) and 1939's Ang Kiri where dela Rama used to have a doubled done by Carmen Rosales. She was sometimes called the "Queen of the Zarzuela and the Kundiman" and in 1987 was honored as a National Artist of the Philippines for Theater and Music.

Atand Dela Rama made a comeback in movies after Word War II, performing in 1950's Batong Buhay under Filipinas Pictures

Filmography

1919 – Dalagang Bukid - Malayan Movies

1920 - La Venganza de Don Silvestre - Malayan Movies

1930 – Oriental Blood

1934 - Ang Landas ng Kayamanan

1938 - Ay Kalisud - Filippine Pictures

1939 - Ang Kiri - Diwata Pictures

1950 - Batong Buhay - Filipinas Pictures

1956 - Buhay at Pag-ibig ni Dr. Jose Rizal - Balatbat & Bagumbayan Pictures

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