Tita Duran

Tita Duran (1929-1991) was a Filipino actress and the mother of a well-Filipino singer Francis Magalona. Charming, Sweet and Youthful, Duran joined a movie in her earliest career as an 8 yrs old child who abandoned by their mother in 1936 family-drama of Awit ng mga Ulila aka (The Songs of the Orphans]]. Born on 1929, She married her all-time partner Pancho Magalona, and one of those children is a Master Rapper from the Philippines Francis Magalona. In 1938, Sampaguita Pictures spotted this beautiful girl and cast her in a tear-jerker movie of Inang Mahal aka (Dear Mother). Her second movie in Sampaguita where her home is, Ang Magsasampaguita aka (a Sampaguita Vendor). Duran made 2 movies under LVN Pictures and it was Pangarap aka (Dream) and Sawing Gantimpala aka (Lost Price) both in 1940. After WW2, she made a comeback in her studio Sampaguita,not a child actress but a beautiful lady. She joined in a War Pictures with Carmen Rosales in Guerilyera and typecasted in numerous Musical Movies paired by some of the Sampaguita's finest actors. After her last movie in Sampaguita Isang Halik Mo Pancho, she made Maria Went to Town under Deegar Cinema Inc.