Movita Castaneda
Movita Castenada ( born December 4, 1917 in Nogales, Arizona; actually Maria Castenada ) is an American film actress of Mexican origin. Your notoriety due mainly her marriage to Marlon Brando, but also their appearance in the film Mutiny on the Bounty (1935 ), in which - alongside Charles Laughton and Clark Gable - has played the role of the South Sea Fine Tehani.
Life and Films
According to various sources Castenada came as one of three daughters of Mexican -born parents during a train journey from Mexico to Arizona to the world. Her first film role was Castenada who had no training, in the 1933 musical, premiered Flying Down to Rio, where she appeared as a singer by name nameless a Carioca number. Other small roles followed, including the Tehanni from 1935 published Mutiny on the Bounty. Then their roles were somewhat larger, and from 1937 to Castenada was repeatedly seen in leading roles ( Paradise Isle, Rose of the Rio Grande, Wolf Call, The Girl from Rio). After a seven-year hiatus, she continued her film career in 1947 with smaller supporting roles mostly in Western films continued.
Since 1951, Castaneda had repeated in television productions, for the last time in the soap opera Knots Landing, in which she appeared from 1987 to 1989 seventeen episodes in the role of Ana. Movita Castenada lives in Mexico.
Private life
Castenada had several affairs with her leading men, such as with Errol Flynn and Clark Gable. In 1938 she married in California the Irish heavyweight boxer, tenor and film actor Jack Doyle; the church ceremony was followed only in 1942 in Dublin. During the shooting of the film Viva Zapata! , Where they participated in the spring of 1951 as an extra, learned Castenada Marlon Brando know. Your love relationship - which was frequently interrupted and in the course of which both had other partners - was a total of 15 years. Still in their first meeting, Brando hired for Castenada in Laurel Canyon, a suburb of Los Angeles, a house. As Castenada in the early summer of 1960, announced that she was pregnant, traveled Brando, who was now divorced from his first wife Anna Kashfi, in order to marry her to Xochimilco in Mexico, where on June 4. Your marriage in the U.S. was neither knowledgeable nor learned authorities, the press it. In October 1960 Castenada was the birth of a son Sergio known, the later mostly with his nickname - was called - Miko. Since Castenada was already 42 years old, many of their friends were convinced that she faked the pregnancy and Brando " foisted " have a child that they have actually adopted. Brando bought for them after a house in Coldwater Canyon, where territories temporarily and his son from his first marriage, Christian, lived. After June 1961, the public of the marriage learned - in a hearing in the custody battle for Christian had Brando testify at that time about his private life - to Castenadas first husband, Jack Doyle reported to words and publicly declared his marriage with Castenada was never divorced - a statement that at first but still had no consequences. In September 1966 Castenada, who was now 48 years old, announced the birth of a daughter Rebecca, whose biological relationship was disputed with Castenada again by many acquaintances. Even Brando doubted his paternity to Movitas children and later had do a blood test, the result of the public, however, was never known. In June 1967, Castenada filed for divorce. The divorce proceedings were held in camera, the press was only later informed that the marriage had been canceled due to the failure to divorce Castenadas with Jack Doyle.