Juana Reina Castrillo (25 August 1925 in
Seville
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– 19 March 1999 in Seville) better known as Juanita Reina, was a Spanish actress and
copla singer.
She was born in the Sevillian district, la
Macarena, Seville and studied in Enrique el Cojo's academy.
She became popular thanks to songs by famous copla songwriters like
León or
Quiroga and she debuted in movies with ''La blanca Paloma'' (''White Pigeon'') (1941).
On 15 June 1964 she married the flamenco dancer
Federico Casado Algrenti, and she later inaugurated a restaurant in
Madrid
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and a dancing academy in
Seville
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.
She died from a respiratory insufficiency and she is buried in the cemetery San Fernando in Seville.
Filmography
* ''
The White Dove'' (1942)
*''
Cinnamon Flower'' (1943)
*''Serenata española'' (1947)
* ''
Lola Leaves for the Ports'' (1947)
* ''
Tempest'' (1949)
* ''
Lola the Coalgirl'' (1952)
* ''
Gloria Mairena'' (1952)
* ''
Airport
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'' (1953)
* ''
It Happened in Seville'' (1955)
*''La novia de Juan Lucero'' (1958)
*''Canciones de nuestra vida'' (1975)
External links
International Jose Guillermo Carrillo Foundation*
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1925 births
1999 deaths
Singers from Andalusia
Spanish actresses
Musicians from Seville
Actresses from Seville
Spanish Roman Catholics
20th-century Spanish actresses
20th-century Spanish singers
20th-century Spanish women singers