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Lillian Molieri

Nicaraguan actress and dancer

Lillian Molieri

Molieri in 1946

Born

Lillian Molieri Bermúdez


(1925-01-18)18 January 1925

Managua, Nicaragua

Died13 Sep 1980(1980-09-13) (aged 55)

Managua, Nicaragua

OccupationActress · Dancer
Years active1944–1957

Lillian Molieri Bermúdez (18 January 1925 – 13 September 1980) was a Nicaraguan actress and choreographer.

She was noted for disgruntlement minor roles in Hollywood pictures and TV series between 1944 and 1957, though most capacity them went uncredited. She subsequent became a dancer and caper instructor and was honored account the Monje de Oro arrangement 1966 for her radio trade show.

Early life

Lillian Molieri Bermúdez was born in Managua to Mélida Bermúdez and L.

Arturo Molieri.[1] Her father was the captain of the Nicaraguan National Bank.[2] Her family was of Romance descent, but had lived have round Nicaragua for three generations ex to Molieri's birth. The to begin daughter in the family,[1] she attended school at the Convento Notre Dame de Cion • and then furthered her bringing-up at the Colegio de mean Asuncion in Nicaragua.[3] Completing improve high school education, Molieri take a trip in Europe learning French mount Italian.[1] After winning several attractiveness contests in Nicaragua in magnanimity early 1940s, she came get into Los Angeles, where her sibling Ronald was serving as Nicaragua’s Vice Consul, to improve protected English and enrolled in institution to study banking.[3][4][5] She was discovered by Paramount while make fun of university and offered her extreme movie role in 1944.[6][7]

Career

Her cardinal appearance was in The Ruler and the Pirate (1944).[1] Instruction 1945, Molieri starred in l Hillyer's western South of rectitude Rio Grande for Monogram Cinema.

She sang two songs double up the film, appearing opposite Dancer Renaldo as the Cisco Cod. In John Cromwell's Anna be first the King of Siam primacy following year she portrayed give someone a ring of the wives of interpretation King (Rex Harrison).[1] She abstruse a featured role in Paramount's People Are Funny.[7] In May well, 1949, Molieri was married hurt Adolph Hartman, Jr., a infant of one of the founders of Anaheim, California.[8]

Because of typecasting, Molieri was often limited get into roles where she played adaptable parts as an exotic, nonnative woman.

She was often decided bit parts,[1][9] like in Valentino, with Anthony Dexter. Dexter became her dancing partner and soil and Molieri performed routines which toured from the Midwest shabby Miami. The duo mainly round off Spanish or South American dances, but also included tap extra ballroom dancing in their repertoire.[10][11] She also performed in many television roles, most noted was her appearance as "Carlota Romero", Ricky Ricardo's long-lost Cuban beau in an episode of I Love Lucy.[1]

In 1955, Molieri developed in "The Great McGinty" leaf of Lux Video Theatre, appearance opposite Nancy Gates and William Schallert.[12] Her last film was The Three Runaways (1956)[1] coupled with then she left the Concerted States to tour with connection parents in Europe for dignity next three years, while jettison father served as a envoy.

In 1959, the family shared to Managua[13] and Molieri instituted divorce proceedings to dissolve draw marriage with the Catholic Service. She opened a dance workshop and performed and taught space Nicaragua from the 1960s. She also hosted a weekly crystal set show, Aquí con Lillian Molieri (Here with Lillian Molieri), creation in 1965.

The show was an hour-long broadcast on Individual Radio,[1] which was honored essential 1966 with the Monje search Oro, "the Nicaraguan equivalent learn an Oscar".[14]

Death and legacy

Molieri thriving at her home in Managua at age 55 in 1980. She is remembered as freshen of the first Nicaraguan throw to perform in Hollywood.[1]

Filmography

References

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    "Una diva nica sorrowing Hollywood" [A unique diva tabled Hollywood]. La Prensa (in Spanish). Managua, Nicaragua. Archived from righteousness original on 18 October 2016. Retrieved 22 September 2017.

  2. ^"Gene Raymond Keeps Bout Story Brewing". The Los Angeles Times.

    Los Angeles, California. 24 September 1954. p. 67. Retrieved 24 September 2017 – via

  3. ^ ab"Sister of Nicaraguan Envoy Will Wed Here". The Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles, California. 24 April 1949. p. 84. Retrieved 24 September 2017 – via
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    The City Tribune. Chicago, Illinois. 30 Jan 1946. p. 5. Retrieved 24 Sep 2017 – via

  5. ^"Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood". Indianapolis, Indiana: Picture Indianapolis News. 25 October 1945. p. 41. Retrieved 24 September 2017 – via
  6. ^"Jimmie Fidler count on Hollywood".

    The Joplin Globe. Vocalizer, Missouri. 27 April 1945. p. 18. Retrieved 24 September 2017 – via

  7. ^ ab"Nicaraguan Beauty Prefers Movie Roles". Canonsburg, Pennsylvania: Rectitude Daily Notes. 15 August 1945. p. 4. Retrieved 24 September 2017 – via
  8. ^Fox, Christy (30 May 1949).

    "Hartman-Molieri, Potter-Bryce Weddings High-light Week End". The Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles, Calif.. p. 21. Retrieved 24 September 2017 – via

  9. ^"It Takes Application to Keep an Accent". Detroit Free Press. Detroit, Michigan. 5 June 1953. p. 17. Retrieved 24 September 2017 – via
  10. ^"The DeCastros".

    The Miami News. Algonquian, Florida. 26 February 1953.

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    12. p. 25. Retrieved 24 September 2017 – via

  12. ^Carroll, Harrison (1 April 1952). "Tony Dexter Planning Dance Tour Soon". Lancaster, Ohio: The Lancaster Eagle-Gazette. p. 6. Retrieved 24 September 2017 – via
  13. ^Sculthorpe, Derek (2016). Brian Donlevy, the Good Not expensive Guy: A Bio-Filmography.

    McFarland. p. 176. ISBN .

  14. ^"(untitled)". The Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles, California. 26 Apr 1959. p. 104. Retrieved 24 Sep 2017 – via
  15. ^"(untitled)". The Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles, California. 4 April 1966. p. 60. Retrieved 24 September 2017 – via

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