LVN Pictures’ Tia Juana, one of the few films completed or partially finished before the outbreak of the war, held its first public screening in 1943. Directed by Lamberto Avellana, the film starred Leopoldo Salcedo, Ester Magalona, Carlos Padilla, Fred Cortes, Deanna Prieto, and Gregorio Ticman. It also marked the screen debut of Anita Linda, then hailed as the “vibrant stage sensation.”
The movie was released and shown at Lyric Theater, May 27, 1943.
"Movie flyers have been used by theater owners as promotional ads to drum up business for movies. They would print them up from materials provided by the studio, adding information on local screening times and locations. Although they were cheaply produced, many of the flyers were quite nicely designed and are now considered highly collectibles. In many cases the original films have been lost, making the surviving flyers the only visual record of numerous movies."
LVN Producers of quality pictures presents to the public "Angelita (Ako'y Nagkasala)" their latest accomplishment which will rank as one of the best pictures ever produced to date in local motion pictures. It is a musical romance sweeping in its dramatic power and highly entertaining with its many melodious songs, spectacular dances and comedy touches. Following their established tradition of offering only to the public the best in local pictures. LVN has again teamed four stars of tremendous public appeal in their picture. Mila del Sol more alluring than ever is the leading lady while handsome Fred Cortes, the latest heartthrob discovery in Philippine moviedom attains full stardom as Mila del Sol's leading man. Pretty Ester Magalona also one of the latest discoveries of LVN plays second female role, while Reynaldo Dante plays the second male role.
"Angelita (Akoy'y Nagkasala)" is a story that has all the qualities of a picture that is well liked by Filipino audiences. It is about a girl reporter and her romance with Rogelio, dashing young inventor from the States who recently arrived in the islands only to find his mother and his cousin (Ester Magalona in dire need of financial assistance and to top it all the mother gets sick seriously and is about to die. How Rogelio and Angelita as sweethearts together with Ester Magalona and ReynaldoDante (who is also a reporter) manage together to overcome everything forms one of the most touching climaxes ever written for a local movie story.
Well-known supporting players are featured among them, Cecilio Joaquin, Amador Alegre, Vicenta Fernandez, Jose Luz Bernardo and Benny Mack.
"Angelita (Ako'y Nagkasala)" was directed by young, versatile, record maker Guillermo Icasiano, one of the most prolific directors in the Philippines today. The music was composed by none other than Francisco Buencamino Jr.
(The Tribune, February 13, 1941)
"Nag-iisang Sangla," which opens today at the Grand Theatre, has been styled the dramatic triumph of the LVN Pictures, Inc. It is in fact, more than that. It is a crowning triumph of the local movie industry. "Nag-iisang Sangla" is as distinctive, different a picture as only the use of the top-notch talents in the local movie industry and the vast resources of the LVN Pictures, Inc. could make it. When the production plans for the movie were yet under the measuring rods of the LVN executives, just one paramount concern burned: It must surpass whatever achievement had been attained. The results, it is the one picture that rises clear through the stereotype, the mawkish, the ordinary.
A celebrated Tagalog literary masterpiece, Nag-iisang Sangla," as a story, is as fresh and alive as the next living person. It is a story which might have been yours, mine, or anybody's. It is about a man who demanded more than love and two women who gave more than life. It is the story of every man; of every woman.
Into this one picture is poured the talents of several of the biggest names in the local show business, which fact fastens its nomination to distinctiveness. Among these are: Tor Villano, the veteran of many a film success who directed it, and Cecilio Joaquin, no mean director and actor himself, who heads an imposing cast that includes Fred Cortes the screen find of the year, Victor (Banahaw) Sevilla, and the highly popular radio personalities, Dely Atayatayan and her friend or stooge, the full-throated Andoy Balunbalunan, cowboy-fiscal-professor (plenipotentiary).
And clinching that distinctiveness is the love-team of Mila del Sol and Leopoldo Salcedo. It is not simply in the team, to be sure, although it accounts more than just partly for the worth of
the whole. It is in the rendition by the two of one of the finest
piece of acting across any screen. As the disillusioned man who forgets
himself, everyone and everything else, Lecpoldo Salcedo has gained a height of
acting excellence which he may, or may not again catch up to. Great is just the
word that can describe him in "Nag-iisang Sangla."
Mila del Sol, for her part, has set a new peak in the upward trend of her versatility as an actress. In her dual role as the faithful country woman and as the night club singer, is a great performance which most probably can't be equaled in local filmdom for a long, long time. In this dual role, Mila del Sol's personality is quite easy to discern on purpose, thanks to her radiating youthful fullness and the inadequacy of local character make-up, but in her interchanging from one person to another throughout the picture is an entrancing subtlety that draws you to the characters portrayed and makes you forget it is Mila del Sol. A great actress, this young woman, in the great picture, "Nag-iisang Sangla."
(The Tribune, November 12, 1940)
"Movie flyers have been used by theater owners as promotional ads to drum up business for movies. They would print them up from materials provided by the studio, adding information on local screening times and locations. Although they were cheaply produced, many of the flyers were quite nicely designed and are now considered highly collectibles. In many cases the original films have been lost, making the surviving flyers the only visual record of numerous movies."
"Movie flyers have been used by theater owners as promotional ads to drum up business for movies. They would print them up from materials provided by the studio, adding information on local screening times and locations. Although they were cheaply produced, many of the flyers were quite nicely designed and are now considered highly collectibles. In many cases the original films have been lost, making the surviving flyers the only visual record of numerous movies."
