Ricardo Duggan (born 23 October 1907) (or Dugan [1] [2] ) was an Argentine film actor, active in the late 1940s and early 1950s. In 1949 he played the lead role in the boxing drama Diez segundos [3] as an aspiring young boxer. [4]
María Dhialma Tiberti was an Argentine writer. Married to the well known scientist Gregorio Baro, she studied at the Escuela Normal Nº1 Mary O’Graham, and later on, literature and history, at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata. She was responsible for the Del Bosque editions, composed of works of other well-known writers, such as Raúl Amaral, Horacio Ponce de León, Ana Emilia Lahite, and María de Villarino, who were all part of the so-called Generation del 40.
Mecha Ortiz was a classic Argentine actress who appeared in films between 1937 and 1981, during the Golden Age of Argentine Cinema. At the 1944 Argentine Film Critics Association Awards, Ortiz won the Silver Condor Award for Best Actress for her performance in Safo, historia de una pasión (1943), and won it again in 1946 for her performance in El canto del cisne (1945). She was known as the Argentine Greta Garbo and for playing mysterious characters, who suffered by past misfortunes in love, mental disorders, or forbidden love. Safo, historia de una pasión was the first erotic Argentine film, though there was no nudity. She also played in the first film in which a woman struck a man and the first film with a lesbian romance. In 1981, she was awarded the Grand Prize for actresses from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Laura Ana "Tita" Merello was an Argentine film actress, tango dancer and singer of the Golden Age of Argentine Cinema (1940–1960). In her six decades in Argentine entertainment, at the time of her death, she had filmed over thirty movies, premiered twenty plays, had nine television appearances, completed three radio series and had had countless appearances in print media. She was one of the singers who emerged in the 1920s along with Azucena Maizani, Libertad Lamarque, Ada Falcón, and Rosita Quiroga, who created the female voices of tango. She was primarily remembered for the songs "Se dice de mí" and "La milonga y yo".
Diez segundos is a 1949 Argentine film directed by Alejandro Wehner, produced by Emelco studios. The film is a boxing drama starring Ricardo Duggan, María Esther Buschiazzo, Patricia Castell, Carlos D'Agostino (voice), Delfy de Ortega, María Rosa Gallo, Oscar Valicelli and Oscar Villa. It premiered on November 23, 1949 in Buenos Aires. The film was distributed by Interamericana. Castell and Rosa Gallo would later star alongside each other in several films and television series over several decades including Perla Negra and Zíngara (1996).
Piantadino is a 1950 Argentine Spanish language comedy film directed by Francisco Múgica. The film is based on the cartoon character of the same name created by Adolfo Mazzone.
Ricardo Ernesto Montes i Bradley, poet, essayist, art historian, and literary critic and diplomat born on June 9, 1905, in Rosario, Argentina. He was Honorary Consul of México in Rosario, professor of Fine Arts, publisher, columnist and contributor in newspapers and literary magazines in Latin America. R-E Montes i Bradley held Doctorates in the Law, Diplomacy, History and International Law. He was an active member of the International Institute of Ibero-American Literature and the International Association of Critics; Correspondent Member of the National Academy of Arts and Literature of Cuba and of the National Academy of History and Geography of Mexico; Honorary Member of the Mexican Academy of Genealogy and Heraldry ; member of the Sociedad Argentina de Escritores (SADE); a member of the Círculo de la Prensa and the Colegio de Abogados de la Ciudad de Rosario; co-founded the Escuela de Bellas Artes de Rosario; member of the Asociación de Críticos de México. As publisher, he was responsible for the Boletín de Cultura Intelectual, which he also directed; the art magazines Revista Paraná and Cuadernos del Litoral were also the result of his commitment to journalism in the arts. The last two publications were dedicated to promote the works of local artist, writers, poets in the region known as Paraná, Rosario de Santa Fe and vicinity.
Marcos Zucker was an Argentine actor and comedian, known for his work on stage, on television, and in films, he is best known for his comedic roles and appeared in 66 films.
María Esther Buschiazzo (1889–1971) was an Argentine actress.
Delfy de Ortega was an Italian-born Argentine actress.
Patricia Castell, born Ovidia Amanda Paramidani Padín, was an Argentine actress, appearing on radio, television and in films. Born in Avellaneda in 1926, her career began in the 1940s and lasted for more than fifty years.
Horacio Estol was an Argentinian journalist and writer based in New York. From there he wrote the columns for which he was famous, writing for publications such as the Clarín newspaper or Autoclub, the journal of the Automóvil Club Argentino.
Jaime Otero Calderón was a Bolivian congressman, mayor, diplomat, cabinet minister, political leader, intellectual, and journalist.
Marian Lopez Fernandez-Cao is a Spanish university professor, curator and researcher, specializing in art, feminism, art therapy and social inclusion. Since 1992 she has been a professor in the Universidad Complutense of Madrid, and is expert on the artist Sonia Delaunay.
Susana Naidich is an Argentine singer, musicologist, phonologist, voice teacher, and Speech-language pathologist. She was the founder and first president of the Argentine Society of the Voice.
Atilio Boveri was born in Rauch, Buenos Aires, Argentina on 6 April 1885. He was a leading figure in the visual arts of Argentina, who worked as a painter, engraver, ceramist, and architect, as well as a historian, journalist, and writer.
Chita Foras (1900–1986), was an Italian-Argentine actress noted for her work in silent and sound films.
Raúl del Valle was a Chilean film and theatre actor who performed for most of his career in Argentina.
Ana Serrano Redonnet was an Argentine author, composer, conductor, guitarist and music critic who promoted Argentine folk music and used its themes in her own compositions. Her birth year is variously given as 1910, 1914, or 1916.
Blanca Vidal Cano was a Spanish-born actress who mainly performed in Argentine theater and films.