Januaria Keller was a noted pre-WWII Filipina

Filipino people

The Filipino people or Filipinos are an Austronesian ethnic group native to the islands of the Philippines. There are about 92 million Filipinos in the Philippines, and about 11 million living outside the Philippines ....

 actress better known as Carmen Rosales and Mameng and is noted for her skill in acting and sweet voice.

Personal life

A native of Pangasinan

Pangasinan

Pangasinan is a province of the Republic of the Philippines. The provincial capital is Lingayen. Pangasinan is located on the west central and peripheral area of the island of Luzon along the Lingayen Gulf, with the total land area being 5,368.82 square kilometers . According to the latest census,...

 born to American father and Ilocana mother, Rosales' film debut was in the 1938 movie Ang Kiri which she made a double to Atang dela Rama. When her friend brought her to Quisumbing the man rejected Rosales because the young woman did not have an aura of an actress.

But she became the most famous Filipina actress of the 1940s and 1950s and rivaled Rosa del Rosario

Rosa del Rosario

Rosa del Rosario was a well-known half-Filipina, half-American Mestiza actress in Philippine Movies who made her film debut in 1932 horror film Satanas . Her real name was Rose del Rosario Stagner. Her mother was from Pampanga...

 at the box-office. She is famous

Celebrity

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 for her sweet voice and recorded numerous songs. Rosales made her first debut in Ang Kiri aka The Flirt under Diwata Pictures. She starred in her first leading role opposite Jose Padilla Jr in Arimunding-Munding 1939.

She became the most bankable star in Sampaguita Pictures

Sampaguita Pictures

Sampaguita Pictures was a Philippine film production company. It was named for the Philippine National Flower, Sampaguita. The company has been long-defunct since the 1980s with Mike de Leon's classic "Batch '81" being the last film released...

 and the highest paid actress of the 1940s and 1950s. Her unforgettable roles as a martyr lover of Rogelio dela Rosa in Maalaala Mo Kaya 1954 and a club-singer in Ang Tangi Kong Pag-ibig.

She got her first Famas Award in 1954 via Inspirasyon opposite Van de Leon

Van de León

Van de León is a Filipino actor known for his villain roles under Sampaguita Pictures where he played villain, and yet sometimes he played a father roles for some of the Sampaguita's player.De León is the father of TV Personality Madel de León....

 and a strict auntie in 1960 movie Estela Mondragon.

She garnered fame in a hacendera role in Pablo Gomez's version of MN

MN (film)

MN is a 1954 Filipino movie produced by Sampaguita Pictures and written by ace comic writer Pablo Gomez. This film starred Sampaguita players including Carmen Rosales, Oscar Moreno, Alicia Vergel, Cesar Ramirez & Aruray....

. Her last appearance was in Inday Badiday

Inday Badiday

Lourdes Jimenez Carvajal , better known as Inday Badiday, was a Filipino host and journalist who was known as Philippine television's "queen of showbiz talk shows" and "queen of intrigues"....

's Eye to Eye.

Filmography

• 1939 -Ang Kiri
• 1939 -Arimunding-Arimunding
• 1939 -Takip-Silim
• 1940 -Senorita
  Senorita
  Señorita is the Spanish honorific equivalent of Miss.Other uses:*Señorita banana, a banana cultivar from the Philippines.*Señorita Colombia, Colombian beauty contest*Señorita EP, a five-song extended play from Superdrag...
  
  
• 1940 -Lambingan
  Lambingan
  Lambingan is a 1940 Filipino film directed by Lorenzo P. Tuellsand starring Rosa Aguirre, Rogelio de la Rosa and Carmen Rosales....
  
  
• 1940 -Diwa ng Awit
• 1940 -Colegiala
• 1941 -Carmen
  Carmen
  Carmen is a French opéra comique by Georges Bizet. The libretto is by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on the novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée, first published in 1845, itself possibly influenced by the narrative poem The Gypsies by Alexander Pushkin...
  
  
• 1941 -Princesita
• 1941 -Panambitan
• 1941 -Tampuhan
• 1941 -Palikero
• 1941 -Lolita
  Lolita
  Lolita is a novel by Vladimir Nabokov, first written in English and published in 1955 in Paris and 1958 in New York, and later translated by the author into Russian...
  
  
• 1944 -Liwayway ng Kalayaan
• 1946 -Probinsiyana
• 1946 -Guerilyera
• 1947 -Kaaway ng Bayan
• 1947 -Si, Si...Senorito
• 1947 -Mameng...Iniibig Kita
• 1947 -Ang Kamay ng Diyos
  Ang Kamay ng Diyos
  Ang Kamay ng Diyos is a 1947 Filipino drama film directed by Eddie Romero. It was the first film ever directed by him.-Cast:*Gerardo de Leon *Carmen Rosales *Leopoldo Salcedo...
  
  
• 1947 -Hele-hele bago Quiere
• 1947 -24 na Pag-ibig
• 1948 -Ang Selosa
• 1948 -Hindi Kita Malimot
• 1949 -Kampanang Ginto
• 1949 -Carmencita Mia
• 1949 -Simpatika
• 1949 -Camelia
  Camelia
  -Awards:* Anugerah Industri Muzik 1998** Best New Artist**Best Vocal Performance in an Album for "Camelia"-Personal life:She was married to Mohd Ehsan Tun Ahmad Zaidi Adruce until their divorce in 1999. She then married a prominent local developer who is a Datuk in 2010. This makes her formal...
  
  
• 1949 -Sipag ay Yaman
• 1949 -Batalyon XIII
• 1950 -Ang Bombero
• 1950 -Ang Magpapawid
• 1951 -Nanay ko!
• 1951 -Anak ko!
• 1951 -Babae...Babae at Babae Pa
• 1951 -Huling Concierto
• 1951 -Walang Kapantay
• 1953 -Rosa Villa
• 1953 -May Umaga Pang Darating
• 1953 -Inspirasyon -{Famas Best Actress}
• 1954 -Maala-Ala Mo?
• 1954 -Matandang Dalaga
• 1954 -M N
• 1954 -Luha ng Birhen
• 1955 -Ang Tangi kong Pag-ibig
• 1955 -Uhaw sa Pag-ibig
• 1955 -R.O.T.C.
• 1955 -Iyung-Iyo