Olive La Torre

Olive La Torre was an actor before becoming a director, and worked in the Manila studios from the forties to the fifties, mainly for Sampaguita. He married the actress Leonora Reyes; their daughter, born in 1933, became one of the best-known voices of Philippine song. In 1951 he made a children's film that broke the country's box-office records, shot on a small budget after the fire that had destroyed the archives of his home. Filmmakers of the following generation counted him among their masters.

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• CinemaDalagang IlokanaOlive La Torre · 1954Cinema