Guarachita tongolele biography

          Shimmy of film star La Tongolele, whose performances of ballroom rhumba, conga and mambo graced many Mexican movie musicals, was also influential.!

          Jaksic's book is intellectual history and biography, orga- nized as chapters on the five main protagonists.

        1. Jaksic's book is intellectual history and biography, orga- nized as chapters on the five main protagonists.
        2. Tongolele, the US-born mixed-race dancer who is often erroneously associated with rumba and Afro-Cuban danceClose Tongolele was more.
        3. Shimmy of film star La Tongolele, whose performances of ballroom rhumba, conga and mambo graced many Mexican movie musicals, was also influential.
        4. Tongolele, nor was she a motherly, tender figure.
        5. Unlike traditional biography, new biography is less interested in a person for his or her unique contribution to history or the arts and more inter- ested.

          6. The old master played well with others

          By Mark Voger, author, “Monster Mash: The Creepy, Kooky Monster Craze in America 1957-1972″

          In Boris Karloff’s final four films, which he made less than a year before his death for a Mexican studio, the actor got to work with some interesting and accomplished Mexican actors and actresses.

          A few of them are remembered for their work in the genre in which Karloff was a pioneer. Some played roles in more than one of the Karloff films, lending them a “company” feel.

          [Read previous post: The Mexican Karloffs examined]

          TONGOLELE (“Isle of the Snake People”)

          Dancer/actress Tongolele (real name: Yolanda Montez) is, in her 80s, still a superstar in Latin America (and she still wears her trademark shock of white hair).

          She is so well known that, like Karloff, her name appeared in the title of a film: the musical murder mystery “Han matado a Tongolele” (1948). In that film, she frequently dances with her backside facing the audience –