Pushpavalli
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Kandala Venkata Pushpavalli Tayaramma (3 January 1926 – 28 April 1991), known mononymously as Pushpavalli, was an Indian actress who predominantly worked in Telugu and Tamil films. She entered the film industry as a child actress with a small role as young Sita in the film Sampoorna Ramayanam (1936). This was followed by a few more roles as child star. Pushpavalli later graduated to doing roles as an adult. Her biggest hit was the Telugu film Bala Nagamma (1942), where she played an important supporting role. Her 1947 film Miss Malini, where she played the lead role, received great critical ac
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- Person.name
- Pushpavalli
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- Pushpavalli in 1948
- Person.birth_name
- Kandala Venkata Pushpavalli Tayaramma
- Person.birth_place
- Pentapadu, Madras Presidency, British India (present-day Andhra Pradesh, India)
- Person.death_place
- Madras, Tamil Nadu, India
- Person.years_active
- 1936–1969
- Person.occupation
- Actress
- Person.partner
- Gemini Ganeshan
- Person.children
- 6; including Rekha
- Person.relatives
- Shubha (niece)Vedantam Raghavayya (brother-in-law)
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- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Dominion of India
- Place of birth
- Tadepalligudem
- Spouse
- Gemini Ganesan
- Child
- Rekhā
- Occupation
- actor
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- Number of children
- 4
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- date of death
- 1991-04-28
- date of birth
- 1925-01-03
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Kandala Venkata Pushpavalli Tayaramma (3 January 1926 – 28 April 1991), known mononymously as Pushpavalli, was an Indian actress who predominantly worked in Telugu and Tamil films. She entered the film industry as a child actress with a small role as young Sita in the film Sampoorna Ramayanam (1936). This was followed by a few more roles as child star. Pushpavalli later graduated to doing roles as an adult. Her biggest hit was the Telugu film Bala Nagamma (1942), where she played an important supporting role. Her 1947 film Miss Malini, where she played the lead role, received great critical acclaim from the intelligentsia, but flopped at the box office. She continued playing supporting roles well into the late 1960s.
She married I. V. Rangachari in 1940 but they began living apart from 1946. Later, Pushpavalli was in a relationship with actor Gemini Ganesan with whom she had two daughters, Rekha, a noted actress in Hindi film industry, and Radha.
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