“In real life I’m kind of like Dorian Gray; the older I get, the younger I look.”
Tongolele, born 3 January 1932… and still at it, just not shaking her hips as much as she did from the 1940s to the 70s… in nightclubs, videos, and even a horror movie or two (“Island of the Snake People, with her co-star Boris Karloff),
Although she’d been part of something called the Tahitian ballet after leaving home in her native S Tongole (aka Yolanda Montes) when she burst upon the Mexican nightclub/cabaret scene in the 1940s, she depended on her putative Tahitian great grandmother (her ethnic background is more mundane Euro-mutt — Spanish-Swedish-German-French) the young dancer from Spokane had only that Spanish surnamem a vivid imaginastion, and a lithe body to make herself the a fixture in Mexico City¿s artistic and even intellectual circles. The poet rene Leduc and his one-time wife, Leonara Carringon, among her many, many cronies.
Surrealism, cheexe horror pix, danging… or all three simultaneously, she did it all:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJ3WFAcwpag&ab_channel=Parsi%2Cparla
With the passing of the era of the larger than life stars, the last survivor of the “golden age” of Mexican film and theater.
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