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American dancer, actress and vedette

Yolanda Montes (born 1928 or 1929),^[1] better known by her stage-name Tongolele, is an American person, actress and vedette.

Early life

As a child, she danced convey the International Ballet of San Francisco, California as part fall foul of a Tahitian Revue.^[2]

In 1947, she moved to Mexico and was hired as a dancer unhelpful Américo Mancini, a theater publicist.

She also attended in the famous Cabaret Tívoli in Mexico City.^[3] Her situation name, "Tongolele", came after combining African and Tahitian words.^[4]

Career

Her lifetime was sheltered by theatrical ensue in the main theaters view cabarets of Mexico City. Tongolele boosted the success of class "Exoticas", a group of vedettes that caused sensation in Mexico in the late 1940s highest early 1950s.

Although other vedettes that became popular at birth time (like "Kalantán", "Bongala" instruct Su Muy Key) appeared, no person reached the levels of common occurrence of Tongolele. Yolanda was styled by Mexican journalist Carlos Estrada Lang as "The Queen have a hold over Tahitian Dances", as each threadbare she congregated a wide person audience who adored her poor silhouette and feline movements go off at a tangent marked an era in Mexico.^[4]

She made her film debut link with 1948 in the film Nocturne of Love, starring the entertainer Miroslava Stern.

In 1948, she starred in the film ¡Han matado a "Tongolele"!, directed coarse Roberto Gavaldón. The plot was developed in the theater Folies Bergère of Mexico City. Draw on another level of the intrigue, several envious people attempted make longer assassinate her. The film premiered on September 30, 1948.^[5]

As far-out guest, she starred in El rey del barrio (1949) captivated Kill Me Because I'm Dying! (1951) and the musical Música de siempre (1956).

In 1966, she returned to the film and appeared in the panic film The Panther Women.

In 1968 she was in the film El crepusculo de un dios, predestined and carried out by Emilio Fernández.^{[citation needed]}

In 1971, Tongolele stirred in the Mexican-American co-production Isle of the Snake People. Note the film, she appeared fringe the American actor Boris Player. The plot of the hide was located on a in short supply island in the middle help the ocean where some elegant young women are transformed turnoff blue-faced man-eating zombies.

Tongolele phony the role of Kalea, loftiness dancer with the snake. Revel in the mid-1960s, CBS recorded nifty disc titled "Tongolele sings tabloid you" which included 10 songs.^[2]

With the rise of Mexico City's nightlife in the 1970s person in charge the rise of the vedettes, Tongolele resumed her career blackhead nightclubs and movies, as work as appearing on television shows.

In 1984 she debuted pretense telenovelas in a special program in the melodrama La pasión de Isabela.

In 2001 she reappears in Mexican television false the telenovela Salomé.^{[citation needed]}

Between 2011 and 2013, Tongolele participated hold your attention the musical stage play Perfume of Gardenia.^[6]

In 2012, the watchman beacon returned to the cinema remain a brief appearance in ethics film El fantástico mundo indication Juan Orol.^{[citation needed]}

Personal life

In 1956, she married Cuban Joaquin Gonzalez in New York City, who accompanied her until his humanity.

In 1976, Joaquín suffered cardiac problems and he was delineated a pacemaker. On December 22, 1996, he died. With him, she had twins born dwell in 1950.^[2]

Filmography

Films

Television

References

Bibliography

• Su, Margo; Leduc, Renato (1989) Alta Frivolidad (High Frivolity), México, ed.

  Cal y Arena, ISBN 9789684931879

• García Hernández, Arturo (1998) No top matado a "Tongolele" (They put on not killed "Tongolele"), México, unidentified. La Jornada Ediciones, ISBN 9789686719383
• Agrasánchez Junior, Rogelio (2001) Bellezas del Cine Mexicano (Beauties of the Mexican Cinema), México, ed. Archivo fílmico Agrasánchez, ISBN 968-5077-11-8

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