With the disappearance of negatives and raw stock from the shelves, most movie people transferred to the stage. Lamberto Avellana, Gerardo de Leon, Manuel Conde, Ramon Estella, Manuel Silos, Tor Villano and Gregorio Fernandez were some of the directors who worked on new plays, week after week. According to Avellana, “this was the golden age of Philippine theater.”
Some of these plays eventually got produced as movies in the post-war era. "Limpia Bota" (Shoeshine), the story of Ernesto Bohol, a former shoeshine boy who became a tycoon, started as musical at the Metropolitan. Manuel Conde’s "Ikaw Kasi" was a stage smash before it became a fifties box-office success for LVN. Bert Avellana’s Philippine Artist League first presented "Tandang Sora" before shooting it as a movie. Ramon Estella’s 1946 movie, "Angelus," was an adaptation of his stage play "Ave Maria."
Source: “War and its Aftermath in Philippine Cinema by Agustin Sotto
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