Heroine of the Month: Mona Maris
Back in the Golden Age of Hollywood, America had a real infatuation with actresses from south of the border, Carmen Miranda and and Lupe Velez being two prime examples. Mona Maris, while popular did not reach their heights of fame. Though active from the mid-twenties to the fifties, Maris went from a silent star to a supporting player in the talkies, usually cast in Spanish language remakes like Cuando El Amor Rie (When Love Laughs) (1931), or B westerns like South of the Rio Grande (1932) Of course by the mid thirties when it was no longer needed to film foreign language versions, Maris spent the remainder of her career in supporting roles in films like Pacific Rendezvous (1942) and The Falcon in Mexico (1944) before finally quitting Hollywood and returning to South America.
Her only serial was playing Princess Azala, who is betrothed to the Caliph and doesn’t suspect he is an imposter, while falling for a notorious outlaw who is in fact the secretly deposed Caliph in Columbia’s The Desert Hawk (1944)
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