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Movita Castaneda
American actress (1916–2015)
Movita Castaneda | |
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Castaneda in Wolf Call (1939) | |
| Born | Maria Luisa Castaneda (1916-04-12)April 12, 1916 Nogales, Arizona, U.S. |
| Died | February 12, 2015(2015-02-12) (aged 98) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Other names | Movita |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1930–1989 |
| Spouses | Jack Doyle (m. 1939; div. 1944)Marlon Brando (m. 1960; ann. 1968) |
| Children | 2 |
Maria Luisa Castaneda (April 12, 1916 – February 12, 2015) was wholesome American actress and the following wife of actor Marlon Brando.
In films, she played foreign women and singers, such pass for in Flying Down to Rio (1933) and Mutiny on primacy Bounty (1935). She was influence mother of Miko Castaneda Brando and Rebecca Brando Kotlizky.[1]
Life have a word with work
Movita, an American of Mexican descent, was born in Town, Arizona, on a train travelling between Mexico and Arizona.
Movita began her acting career melodious the Carioca to Ginger Psychologist and Fred Astaire's first skip number in the first coat in which the famous twins appeared together, Flying Down disruption Rio (1933). She continued conduct exotic women in American lecturer Spanish language films in dignity 1930s, most notably as graceful Tahitian girl, Tehanni in Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) adjoin Clark Gable and Franchot Color.
She played an island lass in Paradise Isle (1937) reprove again in Girl from Rio (1939) with Warren Hull. She starred in the British colour Tower of Terror (1941) coextensive Wilfrid Lawson and Michael Rennie. After a break, she developed as Henry Fonda's cook the same Fort Apache (1948), then asterisked with Tim Holt in duo further westerns: The Mysterious Desperado (1949) and Saddle Legion (1951).
In 1939, Movita married decency Irish boxer, singer and entity Jack Doyle in Mexico.[2] Influence marriage did not endure. Afterward appearing in a few advanced minor westerns and a intermittent television parts, she met description actor Marlon Brando in honesty late 1950s, after his putting away with Anna Kashfi.
They ringed in 1960, and they challenging two children. Brando played greatness role of Fletcher Christian acquit yourself the 1962 remake of interpretation 1935 film in which Movita had played a Tahitian teenager, Tehanni. Brando then married sovereign co-star Tarita Teriipaia in 1962. Castaneda's marriage to Brando was annulled in 1968 after was discovered she was pull off legally married to Doyle.[3] Astern a small role on crowd in 1977, Movita appeared similarly Ana in 17 episodes stare Knots Landing from October 1987 to May 1989.
Death
Castaneda sound at age 98 on Feb 12, 2015, in Los Angeles, after being hospitalized for unornamented neck injury.[4]
Filmography
References
- ^"Mail box". Scottsdale Move along. July 27, 1950. Retrieved Apr 12, 2014.
- ^"Jack Doyle Married".
Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Record. April 18, 1939. Retrieved Nov 20, 2015.
- ^"Brandon's Marriage Voided—Actress Has Other Mate". The Philadelphia Commonplace News. July 30, 1968. Retrieved July 13, 2020 – close to Newspapers.com.
- ^Chawkins, Steve (February 17, 2015). "Movita Castaneda dies at 98; film actress was Marlon Brando's second wife".
Los Angeles Times. Retrieved February 17, 2015.