''Ilocana Maiden'' ( fil, Dalagang Ilocana), is a 1954 Filipino

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film produced by

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. The film is in

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and was directed by Olive La Torre. It was also serialized over DZRH Sampaguita Radio Program. The movie also launched the career of Tita de Villa.

Background

Olive La Torre directed

Gloria Romero Gloria Romero may refer to: *Gloria Romero (actress) Gloria Anne Borrego Galla (born December 16, 1933), known professionally as Gloria Romero (), is a multi-awarded Filipino actress, regarded as the “Queen of Philippine Movies”, her care ...

as a spirited, cigar-chomping country girl who rolls tobacco leaves into cigars for a living. Romero is a wonderful comedian, combining as she does a stately beauty and aristocratic nose with eyes that slant just (and maddeningly) so, plus a sense of humor game enough to undercut her impeccable poise; Dolphy does well in a supporting role as comic sidekick with an insatiable appetite. The film, set in the tobacco-growing lands of the Ilocos region, is also a lengthy advertisement on the many pleasures of smoking, with seemingly everyone onscreen from the loftiest haciendero to the lowliest tobacco roller casually lighting up fearsome-looking cigars made from uncut tobacco leaf; one character actually suffers asthma attacks if he can't get his regular nicotine fix, from the tightly rolled cigars that only Romero knows how to make.

Cast

* Ric Rodrigo * Dolphy *

Tita de Villa Teresa Theodossis-Martin (3 April 1931 – 7 February 2014), better known by her stage name Tita de Villa, was a Filipino actress. Her long acting career started in 1954 in a Sampaguita Pictures movie, '' Dalagang Ilocana (Ilocana Maiden)'', the ...

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* Rebecca del Rio *

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* Precy Ortega * Leleng Isla

Release

''Ilocana Maiden'' was theatrically released in 1954. In late 2000, the film was aired on PTV as part of its ''SineGinto 2000'' program in cooperation with the Advertising Foundation of the Philippines.

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External links

* 1954 films 1954 romantic comedy films Films set in the Philippines Philippine black-and-white films Philippine propaganda films Philippine romantic comedy films Sampaguita Pictures films Tagalog-language films {{Philippines-film-stub