Rita Montaner
August 20, 1900 (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".
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- 1954 · Píntame angelitos blancos as
- 1951 · Black Is My Color as Rita
- 1951 · Victims of Sin as Rita
- 1950 · Caribbean Rhythms as
- 1950 · To the Sound of the Mambo as Rita
- 1950 · Anacleto Gets Divorced as
- 1950 · Pobre corazón as
- 1948 · Angelitos Negros as Mercé
- 1938 · It Happened in Havana as