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Movie Still - Kundiman Ng Lahi

Kundiman Ng Lahi (1959) LVN Pictures, Inc

Starring:  Charito Solis, Eddie Rodriguez

Rosa Aguirre, Joseph De Cordova

Patria Plata, Vic Silayan and Oscar Keesee

Directed By:  Lamberto Avellana

Story By:  Johnny Legarda (Scenario) & Donato Valentin (Story)

Music By:  Francisco Buencamino Jr.

Kundiman Ng Lahi (Theme Song):  Nicanor Abellardo

Famas Hall of Fame

 (Famas Hall of Fame trophy of Ms. Charito Solis in Mowelfund Museum)

(photo from pelikulaatbp.blogspot.com)

(Ms. Solis accepting her Famas Hall of Fame Award in 1984)

Ms Charito Solis became the first actress to be inducted into the FAMAS Hall of Fame.  In 1959, she won her first Famas Best Actress for the movie Kundiman ng Lahi directed by National Artist Lamberto Avellana.  The next year, she made another record for being the first actress to ever win back to back Famas Best Actress award for her performance in 1960  movie Emily (considered by Ms Solis as one of her most memorable movies in an interview by Mario Bautista in 1978).  Her third Famas Award was in 1963 for a difficult role in  Angustia.  Then she starred in Igorota, a film by Nepomuceno Productions, where she became the first Filipina actress to bare her breasts on film. Her role in Igorota won her another FAMAS Best Actress Award in 1968.  Her fifth win was for the movie Don't Cry for me Papa in 1983 with Ric Rodrigo and Lisa Lorena ( the three stars appeared all together in a movie Dahil Sa Isang Bulaklak in 1967).  After her fifth win, she became the first actress to be inducted into the Famas Hall of Fame in 1984, a recognition Ms Charito Solis truly deserved.

Movie Still - Dahlia (1960)

(Nestor De Villa, Charito Solis and Perla Bautista)

 

Dahlia (1960) - LVN Pictures

Starring: Charito Solis, Nestor De Villa

Marita Zobel, Robert Campos

Perla Bautista

Written By: Susana C. de Guzman

Directed By: Susana C. de Guzman

Supervising Film Editor: Enrique Jarlego 

Music By: Francisco Buencamino Jr.

Released Date: July 3, 1960 

Serialized in DZRH

Movie Still - Ginintuang Ani (1964)

Ginintuang Ani (1964) Dalisay Pictures

Starring: Charito Solis and Nestor De Villa

Luz Valdez and Robert Campos

Directed By: Natoy B. Cantindig

Story By: Susana C. de Guzman

Screenplay By: Greg Macabenta

Music By: Francisco Buencamino Jr.

Movie Still - Sanga-Sangang Puso (1957)

  Sanga-Sangang Puso (1957) LVN
Starring :  Armando Goyena, Charito Solis

Rosa Rosal, Eddie Rodriguez, 

Rosa Aguirre
Directed By: Susana C. de Guzman
Story By: Manuel Dante
Music By: Juan Silos Jr.

Movie Still - Sandata at Pangako 1961

Sandata At Pangako 1961 LVN
Starring :  Fernando Poe Jr. and Charito Solis

Bernard Bonnin and Lourdes Medel
Directed By: F.H. Constantino
Story By: Celso Trinidad
Screenplay By: F.H. Constantino

Filmography 1965 - 1974

1966-Claudia
         Kapag Langit Ang Umusig
         Boomerang
         Ang Tao Ay Makasalanan
         Mga Pag-ibig ni Christine
1967-Ito ang Aking Kasaysayan
         Dahil Sa Isang Bulaklak
         Sino Ang Dapat Sisihin?
         Ang Langit Sa Lupa
1968 - Ang Luha Sa Karimlan
           Manila: Open City
           Igorota
1969 - Ang Pulubi
1970 - Pipo (A Time for Dying)
           The Hunted
1973 - Ang Bukas Ay Atin
1974 - Ang Tigre sa Sierra Cruz
           Happy Days Are Here Again
           Batingaw

Acknowledgement:
video48.blogspot.com/
sari-saringsinengpinoy.blogspot.com/
bamboogodsandbionicboys.blogspot.com

Filmography 1955 - 1964

(movie posters: source : video 48)

1955- Nina Bonita
          Dinayang Pagmamahal
1956- Charito, I Love You
          Ulilang Birhen
          Medalyong Perlas      
          Big Shot
          Dama Juana Gang
1957- Tiririt ng Ibon
          Walang Sugat,
          P10,000 Pag-ibig
          Krisalis
          Sanga-Sangang Puso
1958- Rose Tattoo ng Buhay Ko
          Malvarosa
          Villa Milagros
          Ana Maria
          Limang Dalangin
1959-Ginintuang Tinig
          Mucho Dinero
          Kundiman ng Lahi

          Ang Langit Ko'y Ikaw
1960- Black Beauty
          Unos sa Laot
          Emily
          Kung Ako'y Mahal Mo
          Dahlia
          Juan Tamad Goes To Society
1961- Sandata at Pangako
          Shaka (Buddha)
          The Place: Pasong Diablo
          Lahing Texas
          Rancho Bravo
          Umaapoy na Bakal
          Luis Latigo
1962- Jikiri
          The Princess and I
          El Filibusterismo
          Mahal Kita Inay
1963- Angustia
          Ang Bukas ay Akin
          Isinusumpa Ko!
          3 Mukha ni Pandora
          Dear Eddie
          Maria Dolores
          Pinakamagandang Hayop sa Daigdig
          Sugapa
          Madugong Daigdig ni Aurora
          Mga Batong Hiyas
1964- Magda Sales
          Nagbabagang Paraiso
          Ginintuang Ani
          Lagablab ng Maribojoc

Charito Solis, The Empress of Drama

13 acting awards and 25 nominations, in a brilliant career that spanned for 43 years.

In 1959, she got her first FAMAS Best Actress Award for her fine performance in Bert Avellana's classic Kundiman ng Lahi. And in 1960, Charito won her second FAMAS for her tour de force acting in Emily.

In 1967, she made the country proud as the first Filipina to win as Best Actress in the Asian Film Festival for the movie "Dahil Sa Isang Bulaklak."  

The same movie became her passport to attend the prestigious Oscar awards the following year, making her the first Filipina actress to do so.

After her fifth win at the FAMAS in 1984 as Best Actress for "Don't Cry for Me, Papa" (1983), she became its first inductee into the Hall of Fame. Her four other FAMAS wins as Best Actress came from "Igorota," "Kundiman ng Lahi"(1959); "Emily" (1960) and "Angustia" (1963).

1969 4th MANILA FILM FESTIVAL Best Actress for Ang Pulubi.

The Metro Manila Film Festival also listed her as its first Best Actress winner for "Araw-Araw, Gabi-Gabi" in 1975.

Charito, first won as Best Actress for Ina, Kapatid, Anak (1979) and as Best Supporting Actress for Kisapmata (1981) and Karnal (1983) in URIAN.

1981 Metro Manila Film Festival Best Supporting Actress for Kisapmata.

Film Academy of the Philippines (1984)  Best Supporting Actress Karnal.

Acknowledgement:
http://video48.blogspot.com/
http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/210849/charito-solis-empress-drama
http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=154163
http://pelikulaatbp.blogspot.com
http://sari-saringsinengpinoy.blogspot.com/

Cinderella Star

At age 19, Charito Solis was introduced by her uncle, the film director F. H. Constantino to Doña Narcisa de Leon, the head of LVN Pictures, who cast her to star in her initial movie Niña Bonita, an adaptation of Frank Capra's It Happened One Night.   

 (courtesy of Video48)

To make a Filipino adaptation of Frank Capra's It Happened One Night, LVN launched a search for a new face, an instant star so to speak, and that new face turned out to be Charito Solis. The film was a hit and Charito became the 'Cinderella Star' and eventually one of Philippine cinema's most enduring icons. 

  

Unlike other LVN top stars that had to make their way, sometimes very slow, up the ladder, Charito had top billing in her very first role, Niña Bonita (1955). Her leading man was Jaime de la Rosa, one of the established stars in the LVN roster then. 

 (Excerpt from the book Dona Sisang & Filipino Movies/ 1977- source: video48)

 

The Birth of an Actress

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Rosario Violeta "Charito" Hernández Solis was born in Tondo, Manila on October 6, 1935.  Her dad, Maximo Solis was a newspaper reporter (a notable person in Sariaya, Quezon and from the famous Solis clan in Lipa, Batangas), while her mother, Milagros was a pharmacist in their aunt’s drugstore.  She has two sisters namely Carmen and Yolanda (younger than her) and an older brother, Tristan.  When their father died and their mother got sick of diabetes, they were separated and were adopted by their relatives.  They were only reunited after nine years when their older sister, Carmen got a job to support their family.

source:  Gypsy Baldovino (Blast from the Past July 14, 2009)