Beatriz Taibo (March 10, 1932 – March 2, 2019) was an Argentine film and TV actor.
Life
Taibo was born in
San Telmo
San Telmo ("Saint Pedro González Telmo") is the oldest ''Barrios of Buenos Aires, barrio'' (neighborhood) of Buenos Aires, Argentina. A well-preserved area of the Argentine metropolis, it hosts some of its oldest buildings. One of the birthplace ...
in 1932.
In 1942 Taibo began to act at the age of ten on the radio programme ''La Pandilla Marilyn''. She began to get work on the radio, as a host and broadcaster. From her time as an announcer she was left with the nickname "Moth", for because of the adverts she made for
moth balls. Taibo would make her film debut in ''The Millions of Semillita'' in 1950 if the film had been released. Fittingly she was in a film based on a radio series which told the adventures of the Garcia family who moved.
In the 1960s she made some commercials for
Lux soap. Taibo and
Antonio Carrizo
Antonio Carrozzi Abascal, best known as Antonio Carrizo, (September 15, 1926 – January 1, 2016) was an Argentine radio and television presenter.
Biography
Born in General Villegas, in western Buenos Aires Province, his first experience in broa ...
hosted a program on ratings leader
Radio Belgrano, in which the duo became known for announcing advertisements in the form of a dialogue. Taibo, for example, might ask: ''"Traffic's at a standstill. What do you think happened?"'' to which Carrizo would answer ''"A
Sunlight
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girl must have walked by!"''
She appeared in the theatre, notably in the play ''
Boeing-Boeing'', which ran for four seasons and whose cast included
Ernesto Bianco Ernesto, form of the name Ernest in several Romance languages, may refer to:
* ''Ernesto'' (novel) (1953), an unfinished autobiographical novel by Umberto Saba, published posthumously in 1975
** ''Ernesto'' (film), a 1979 Italian drama loosely ba ...
,
Paulette Christian,
Ambar La Fox,
Osvaldo Miranda and her friend
Nelly Beltrán
Nélida Dodó López Valverde known professionally as Nelly Beltrán (29 August 1925 – 2 December 2007) was an Argentine actress. She appeared on the radio from the age of 10 and in 85 theatrical performances, 48 films and 3 dozen television ...
.
In 1955 she appeared with
Tita Merello
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in ''Para vestir santos'' (''To Dress Saints''), which was directed by
Leopoldo Torre Nilsson
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Born as Leopoldo Torres Nilsson (he later changed his paternal s ...
. She and
Yuki Nambá
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Places
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* Yuki, Hiroshima (Saeki), a town in Saeki District, Hiroshima, Japan
* Yūki, Ibaraki, a city on Honshu island in Japan
* Yuki, ...
had supporting roles.
In the 1960s she was extending her acting to television, where she appeared in leading soaps such as ''Inconquistable Viviana Holguera'', ''Adorable Professor Aldao'' and ''Juana Rebelde''. She notably starred in Jorge Bellizzi and Abel Santa Cruz's ''Call Me Sparrow'', a TV comedy where Taibo played a woman who had to pretend to be a man at work.
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Films
* 1950: '' Los millones de Semillita'' (never released)Los Pérez García
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''El cartero
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Arts and entertainment Fictional entities
* El, a character from the manga series ''Shugo Chara!'' by Peach-Pit
* Eleven (''Stranger Things'') (El), a fictional character in the TV series ''Stranger Things''
* El, fami ...
''
* 1955: '' Sinfonía de juventud''
* 1955: '' Para vestir santos''Fantoche
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The first Fantoche took place in 1995 with the goal to enrich the Swiss cultural life with an animation film fes ...
''
* 1958: ''Amor prohibido
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studio release. Finding it challenging to ...
''
* 1959: '' Evangelina''
* 1959: ''Gringalet''
* 1963: '' Cuando calienta el sol''
* 1964: '' Canuto Cañete y los 40 ladrones''
* 1964: '' Cuidado con las colas''
* 1964: '' Un soltero en apuros''
* 1966: '' Escala musical''
* 1966: '' La buena vida''
* 1967: ''Cuando los hombres hablan de mujeres
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''
* 1972: '' El profesor tirabombas''
* 1982: '' Los fierecillos indomables''
* 1984: '' Mingo y Aníbal, dos pelotazos en contra''
* 1988: '' Atracción peculiar''
References
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1932 births
2019 deaths
Actresses from Buenos Aires
20th-century Argentine actresses
Argentine film actresses
Argentine stage actresses
Argentine television actresses