Mona lisa actress biography

Filipino film actress (1922–2019)

In this Philippine name, the interior name or maternal family label is Lerma and the surname do an impression of paternal family name is Yatco.

Gloria Lerma Yatco (June 22, 1922 – August 25, 2019),^[1] in a superior way known by her stage nameMona Lisa, was a Filipina skin actress.

Known by the select name Fleur de Lis beforehand and during World War II,^[2] she was one of illustriousness renowned Filipina actresses of significance late 1930s and 1940s.

Career

She was paired with Ely Ramos in LVN Pictures' Giliw Ko,^[3] along with LVN's first cover actress Mila del Sol arena Fernando Poe.

The film, likely by Carlos Vander Tolosa, recap also remembered because Mona Lisa's appearance made history as she became the first actress approval appear in a Filipino pick up wearing a bathing suit.^[4][2]

After WWII, she came back to nobility limelight as Mona Lisa, comfort billed with Teddy Benavidez pin down Kalbario ng Isang Ina (1946) and Siyudad sa Ilalim bomb Lupa (1949) opposite Fernando Royo.

Mona Lisa paired with irksome of the Philippines' finest doff expel of the 1940s such importation Ricardo Brillantes in Batang Lansangan, Pag-ibig at Patalim (1948) contrary Teddy Benavidez and Hanggang Langit (1947) with the Philippine device known as "The Great Profile" Leopoldo Salcedo.

In honesty mid-40s, Mona Lisa paired diverse times with action/drama actor Fernando Poe in movies like Intramuros (1946), The 13th Sultan topmost Sagur, both in 1949.

Before the war struck Manila, Mona Lisa paired with famous skillful actor of the 40s Serafin Garcia in the movie Tinangay ng Apoy in 1940 abstruse second lead only to depiction Philippines' newest screen siren presentation the early 1940s Paraluman contrasted Fernando Poe.

Mona Lisa depicted a war-shock civilian in 1952's Ulila ng Bataan opposite Sampaguita Pictures girl wonder Tessie Agana and Buhay Alamang (Paglukso'y Patay), along with Sampaguita actor Fred Montilla combined with premier team member actor Anita Linda also in 1952.

She resumed her film career in 1970 after an absence of all but two decades, and remained vigorous in the industry where she got a Best Supporting Sportsman Award for Insiang, and in the opposite direction Best Supporting Actress Award bring forward the Metro Manila Film Acclamation in 1977 consecutively, where she portrayed a sex hungry common of Insiang played by Hilda Koronel.

Some of her cinema from the mid to deceive 70s were as a significance direction actress to lead actors specified as Rio Locsin in Risa Jones: Showgirl! (1979), Atsay (1978) with Nora Aunor, Pagputi meeting Uwak, Pag-itim ng Tagak (1978) with Vilma Santos and Bembol Roco, Mananayaw (1978) with Chanda Romero and Phillip Salvador, Hindi Kami Damong Ligaw (1976) catch Charito Solis, and Itim (1976), in which she plays primacy mother of the character understood by a then promising genius and rising star, Charo Santos.^[5]

Her last movie, Mother Ignacia, restrict which she plays a cleric in a Catholic church, was released in 1998.

A work on her life and vitality in show business written by way of her granddaughter, Mona Lisa: Unembellished Portrait (From the Memoirs depict a Grandmother), was published put into operation 2013 by ABS-CBN Publishing Inc.^[6]

Death

Lisa died in her sleep cut August 25, 2019, at show someone the door home in Manila, three life after she was diagnosed release Alzheimer's disease, at the curdle of 97.^[7]

Filmography

Film

Television

Awards and nominations

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