BOLD STARS OF THE 80s # 6: SARSI EMMANUELLE

Left- Sarsi posing for a magazine pictorial/ 1984

Right- Naked Island- (1985)- Stars Charito Solis, Pepsi Paloma, Coca Nicolas, Sarsi Emmanuelle, Myra Manibog and Al Tantay/ Directed by Boots Plata

“Sarsi Emmanuelle worked as a go-go dancer in several beerhouses around the city before she became a movie star. During those hungry years, she was paid P3,000 a month or an average of P100 a day. Now her asking price per movie, in less than a month’s work, is P300, 000.” This item appeared in a column in 1985, the year Sarsi was on the top of her career and a hot property in the industry.

Part of the so-called ‘softdrink beauties’ (the two others- Pepsi Paloma and Coca Nicolas), Sarsi reached its peak in 1984 and 1985 when she did ECP’s (Experimental Cinema of the Philippines) Boatman and Peque Gallaga’s Virgin Forest. Though she achieved that popularity by baring her body before the camera, Sarsi proved to all that she could also act. She was nominated in 1984 in the Gawad URIAN for Best Actress in the movie Boatman and was a standout in Mario O' Hara's Bed Sins (1985), Lino Brocka’s White Slavery (1985) and Elwood Perez's Silip (1986).

Left- Matukso kaya ang Anghel (1984)- Stars Sarsi Emmanuelle, Coca Nicolas, Pepsi Paloma, Myra Manibog and Eddie Garcia/ Directed by Leonardo L. Garcia

Right- Snake Sisters (1984)- Stars Sarsi Emmanuelle, Pepsi Paloma, Coca Nicolas and Ernie Garcia/Directed by Celso Ad castillo

Left- Bed Sins (1985)- Stars Sarsi Emmanuelle, Liza Lorena, Al Tantay, Joel Torre, Patrick dela Rosa, Rafael Roces, Brandy Ayala/Directed by Mario O'Hara

Right- White Slavery (1985)- Stars Sarsi Emmanuelle, Emily Loren and Jacklyn Jose/ with Patrick dela Rosa and Ricky Davao/Directed by Lino Brocka

Boatman (1985)- Stars Sarsi Emmanuelle, Suzana Love, Josephine Manuel and Ronnie Lazaro/ Directed by Tikoy Aguiluz

Bomba Queen (1985)- Stars Rita Gomez, Ronaldo Valdez, Roy Flores, Rafael Roces, Myra Manibog, Greggy Liwag and Sarsi Emmanuelle/ Directed by Efren Pinon

Virgin Forest (1985)- Stars Sarsi Emmanuelle, Miguel Rodriguez/ Introducing Abel Jurado/ Directed by Peque Gallaga

Left- Room 69 (1985)- Stars Irma Alegre, Pepsi Paloma, Emily Loren, Myra Manibog, Glenda Araneta, Lito Gruet, Raul Calma andSarsi Emmanuelle/ Directed by Artemio Marquez

Right- Nude City (1986)- Stars Ernie Garcia, Cristina Crisol, Tony Santos and Sarsi Emmanuelle/ with Robert Arevalo and Rosemarie Gil/Directed by MRomy Suzara

Silip (1986)- Stars Maria Isabel lopez and Sarsi Emmanuelle/
Directed by Elwood Perez

Left- Gabi Na, Kumander (1986)- Stars Phillip Salvador, Dindo Fernando, Bembol Roco, Efren Reyes, Jr., Anna Marie Gutierrez, Jacklyn Jose, Sarsi Emmanuelle and Eddie Garcia / Directed by Pepe Marcos

Right- Laruang Putik (1987)- Stars Sarsi Emmanuelle, Daniel Fernando, Mark Joseph, Ryan Robles and Lala Montelibano / Directed by Joey Del Rosario