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Elena Moreno
Elena Moreno (June 12, 1892–November 2, 1974) was a Chilean actress. She was a theater and film actress, whose career spanned over 40 years. Early life Moreno lost her two parents at a young age. She got married and then became a widow, also at a young age. Moreno decided to study business, but she became interested in acting instead. Acting career Against her family's wishes, Moreno debuted as an actress in 1925's play "El Padrón Municipal", a participation which garnered her praise from critics. In 1930, she formed an acting and singing troupe, with which she embarked on a tour of South America. Moreno did not act in any films until 1946's "Memorias de un Chofer de Taxi" ("A Taxi Driver's Memories") and "El Padre Pitillo" ("Father Cigarette"). She made a number of films during the 1950s, but it wasn't until the 1960s that her film acting career took off. While the most famous movie she participated at was probably 1951's Uno Que ha Sido Marino, (One Who's Been a Sail ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santiago, Chile
Santiago (, ; ), also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile as well as one of the largest cities in the Americas. It is the center of Chile's most densely populated region, the Santiago Metropolitan Region, whose total population is 8 million which is nearly 40% of the country's population, of which more than 6 million live in the city's continuous urban area. The city is entirely in the country's central valley. Most of the city lies between above mean sea level. Founded in 1541 by the Spanish conquistador Pedro de Valdivia, Santiago has been the capital city of Chile since colonial times. The city has a downtown core of 19th-century neoclassical architecture and winding side-streets, dotted by art deco, neo-gothic, and other styles. Santiago's cityscape is shaped by several stand-alone hills and the fast-flowing Mapocho River, lined by parks such as Parque Forestal and Balmaceda Park. The Andes Mountains can be seen from most points i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South America
South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere at the northern tip of the continent. It can also be described as the southern Subregion#Americas, subregion of a single continent called Americas, America. South America is bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean and on the north and east by the Atlantic Ocean; North America and the Caribbean Sea lie to the northwest. The continent generally includes twelve sovereign states: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, and Venezuela; two dependent territory, dependent territories: the Falkland Islands and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands; and one administrative division, internal territory: French Guiana. In addition, the ABC islands (Leeward Antilles), ABC islands of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Ascension Island (dependency of Saint Helena, Asce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
One Who's Been A Sailor
''One Who's Been a Sailor'' (Spanish: ''Uno que ha sido marino'') is a 1951 Chilean comedy film directed by José Bohr and starring Eugenio Retes, Hilda Sour and Arturo Gatica.Historia del cine chileno p.66 Plot Two shoe shiners and a newspaper vendor survive under the bridges of the Mapocho River in Santiago. Maruja, the newspaper vendor, begins a relationship with a businessman who helps her become a famous singer. Meanwhile, the two shoe shiners come across money from a bank robbery by chance, which changes their luck. Cast * Eugenio Retes as Zepeda * Hilda Sour as Maruja * Arturo Gatica as Silvano * Eduardo Naveda * Eva González * Rolando Caicedo * Elena Moreno * Arturo Gonzalvez Arturo is a Spanish and Italian variant of the name Arthur. People * Arturo Álvarez (footballer, born 1985), American-born Salvadoran footballer *Arturo Álvarez (footballer, born 1959), Mexican footballer *Arthuro Henrique Bernhardt (b. 1982), B ... References Bibliography * Car ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alejandro Sieveking
Alejandro Sieveking Campano (5 September 1934 – 5 March 2020) was a Chilean playwright, theatre director and actor. Career Sieveking was born in the Chilean city of Rengo (in the O'Higgins Region) on 5 September 1934. He performed as an actor on theatrical productions by ''Instituto del Teatro'' (Chile's Theatre Institute), ''Teatro de la Universidad Católica'' (the Catholic University Theatre), ''Teatro del Ángel'' (Angel Theatre Company) and ''Teatro Itinerante'' (Itinerant Theatre). He worked together with Víctor Jara on a number of theatrical and musical projects, including in his album: “ La Población” – in which he co-wrote the song “Herminda de la Victoria” with Jara. He was one of the founders of the ''Teatro del Ángel'' (Angel Theatre Company) in Chile and in Costa Rica, where he settled and worked as a political exile. In 1974 he was awarded the "Casa de Las Américas" prize for his ''Pequeños animales abatidos'' (Small game hunt). In 2017 he receive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugenio Dittborn
Eugenio is an Italian and Spanish masculine given name deriving from the Greek ' Eugene'. The name is Eugénio in Portuguese and Eugênio in Brazilian Portuguese. The name's translated literal meaning is well born, or of noble status. Similar derivative names such as Gino come from Eugenio, or Eugene. Similar names include Eugenios, Efigenio, Eugine and Eugenius. People Aristocracy * Eugenio Alfonso Carlo Maria Giuseppe, Prince of Savoy-Genoa * Eugenio Brunetta d'Usseaux, Italian nobleman * Eugenio Consolini, Italian aristocrat * Eugenio da Palermo, admiral of the Kingdom of Sicily * Eugenio Daza, Filipino ''principale'', educator and military leader * Eugenio Lascorz, pretender to a royal house of Byzantium Business * Eugenios Eugenidis, Greek shipping magnate, benefactor and philanthropist * Eugenio Garza Lagüera, Mexican businessman and philanthropist * Eugenio Garza Sada, Mexican businessman and philanthropist * Eugenio Lopez III, current Chairman and Chief Execut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fernando Cuadras
Fernando is a Spanish and Portuguese given name and a surname common in Spain, Portugal, Italy, France, Switzerland, former Spanish or Portuguese colonies in Latin America, Africa, the Philippines, India, and Sri Lanka. It is equivalent to the Germanic given name Ferdinand, with an original meaning of "adventurous, bold journey". First name * Fernando el Católico, king of Aragon A * Fernando Acevedo, Peruvian track and field athlete * Fernando Aceves Humana, Mexican painter * Fernando Alegría, Chilean poet and writer * Fernando Alonso, Spanish Formula One driver * Fernando Amorebieta, Venezuelan footballer * Fernando Amorsolo, Filipino painter * Fernando Antogna, Argentine track and road cyclist * Fernando de Araújo (other), multiple people B * Fernando Balzaretti (1946–1998), Mexican actor * Fernando Baudrit Solera, Costa Rican president of the supreme court * Fernando Botero, Colombian artist * Fernando Bujones, ballet dancer C * Fernando Cabrera (baseba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Chileans
This is a list of Chileans who are famous or notable. Economists * Ricardo J. Caballero – MIT professor, Department of Economics * Sebastián Edwards – UCLA professor, former World Bank officer (1993–1996), prolific author and media personality * Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio/bad bunny – rapper/singer * Alejandro Foxley – Chile's first Finance Minister after the return of democracy in 1990 and an engineer of the country's ''economic miracle'' during democracy; former Foreign Affairs minister, and former Chilean Senator for East kakarackoj * Manfred Max Neef – Right Livelihood Award winner, presidential candidate, member of the Club of Rome, former president of the Universidad Austral * José Piñera – implemented the privatization of the Chilean pension system under Pinochet * Andrés Velasco – Sumitomo Professor of International Finance and Development in the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; Finance Minister during Bachelet's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1892 Births
Year 189 ( CLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Silanus and Silanus (or, less frequently, year 942 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 189 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Plague (possibly smallpox) kills as many as 2,000 people per day in Rome. Farmers are unable to harvest their crops, and food shortages bring riots in the city. China * Liu Bian succeeds Emperor Ling, as Chinese emperor of the Han Dynasty. * Dong Zhuo has Liu Bian deposed, and installs Emperor Xian as emperor. * Two thousand eunuchs in the palace are slaughtered in a violent purge in Luoyang, the capital of Han. By topic Arts and sciences * Galen publishes his ''"Treatise on the various temperament ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1974 Deaths
Major events in 1974 include the aftermath of the 1973 oil crisis and the resignation of United States President Richard Nixon following the Watergate scandal. In the Middle East, the aftermath of the 1973 Yom Kippur War determined politics; following Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir's resignation in response to high Israeli casualties, she was succeeded by Yitzhak Rabin. In Europe, the invasion and occupation of northern Cyprus by Turkish troops initiated the Cyprus dispute, the Carnation Revolution took place in Portugal, and Chancellor of West Germany Willy Brandt resigned following an espionage scandal surrounding his secretary Günter Guillaume. In sports, the year was primarily dominated by the FIFA World Cup in West Germany, in which the German national team won the championship title, as well as The Rumble in the Jungle, a boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman in Zaire. Events January–February * January 26 – Bülent Ecevit of CH ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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