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Carmencita Abad
Carmencita Abad, known as Carmencita Decano Abad in real life, (born 1933) is a Filipina actress. She made her film debut with ''Tres Muskiteros'' (a.k.a. ''3 Muskiteers'') was a younger sister of another PreWar actress Corazon Noble. Inspired of Alexander Dumas's The Three Muskiteers a Filipino version made by Sampaguita Pictures in 1951 was Abad's first major role. The only movie under Sampaguita Pictures that was released in 1951 before she moved to the rival company, Lvn Pictures, in the early 1950s. Abad's first movie in Lvn Pictures was in cameo roles with Evelyn Villar teamed up with a handsome lead actor of the company Armando Goyena as a Filipino Super Hero as Kapitan Kidlat from the movie Kidlat, Ngayon. Early life Filmography * 1951 – ''Tres Muskiteros'' a.k.a. Three Muskiteers * 1953 – ''Kidlat, Ngayon'' – Lvn Pictures, a.k.a. Lightning, Today * 1954 – ''Damong Ligaw'' – Lvn Pictures * 1954 – ''Ikaw ang Dahilan'' – Lvn, a.k.a. You are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Filipino People
Filipinos ( tl, Mga Pilipino) are the people who are citizens of or native to the Philippines. The majority of Filipinos today come from various Austronesian ethnolinguistic groups, all typically speaking either Filipino, English and/or other Philippine languages. Currently, there are more than 185 ethnolinguistic groups in the Philippines; each with its own language, identity, culture and history. Names The name ''Filipino'', as a demonym, was derived from the term ''Las Islas Filipinas'' ("the Philippine Islands"), the name given to the archipelago in 1543 by the Spanish explorer and Dominican priest Ruy López de Villalobos, in honor of Philip II of Spain (Spanish: ''Felipe II''). During the Spanish colonial period, natives of the Philippine islands were usually known by the generic terms ''indio'' ("Indian") or ''indigenta'' ("indigents"). However, during the early Spanish colonial period the term ''Filipinos'' or ''Philipinos'' was sometimes used by Spanish writers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
