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Rita Montaner
Sign in to saveAlso known as Rita Montaner Facenda, Rita Aurelia Fulceda Montaner y Facenda, Rita Montaner y Facenda, Rita Aurelia Fulcida Montaner y Facenda
Cuban classically trained singer, pianist and actress (1900–1958)
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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…
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- Píntame angelitos blancos1954
- Victims of Sin — Rita1951
- Black Is My Color — Rita1951
- To the Sound of the Mambo — Rita1950
- Anacleto Gets Divorced1950
- Pobre corazón1950
- Caribbean Rhythms1950
- Black Angels — Mercé1948
- It Happened in Havana1938
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Rita Montaner, born Rita Aurelia Fulcida Montaner y Facenda (Guanabacoa, 20 August 1900 – Havana, 17 April 1958), was a Cuban singer, pianist, actress and star of stage, film, radio and television. In Cuban parlance, she was a vedette (a star), and she was well-known in Mexico City, Paris, Miami and New York, where she performed, filmed and recorded on various occasions. She was probably the best-loved female star in Cuba of the period 1920–1960; they called her Rita de Cuba. <a href="https://ww
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Aurelia
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Cuba
- Place of birth
- Guanabacoa
- Place of death
- Havana
- Spouse
- Xavier Cugat
- Occupation
- vedette
- Languages spoken
- Spanish
- Genre
- zarzuela
- Instrument
- voice
- Image
- RitaD.jpg
- Voice type
- mezzo-soprano
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- Rita Montaner
- date of birth
- 1900-05-22
- date of death
- 1958-04-17
- pseudonym
- La Única
- birth name
- Rita Aurelia Fulcida Montaner y Facenda
- cause of death
- cancer
- manner of death
- natural causes
- start of work period
- 1920-00-00
- place of burial
- Colón Cemetery, Havana
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