Acting
Mar 7, 1927
Ponce, Puerto Rico
Marta Romero
Acting
Biography
Marta Romero (February 17, 1928 - May 31, 2013) was a Puerto Rican actress and singer, considered one of the pioneers in Puerto Rican television. In cinema she is known for her participation in films such as Ayer amargo (1959) Amor perdóname (1968) and El señor doctor (1965). Romero retired from the art world in 1976, to enter the Evangelical Church Defenders of the Faith. At the time of his death, she had lived for seven years in a charity home as a result of the death of her husband, Elías Najul Bez, and being suffering from Alzheimer's disease. On September 21, 2013, almost four months after her death, the city of Ponce dedicated the 2013 edition of her World Ponce Day to her. On December 12, 2013, Romero was honored with a ceremony and was added to the list of illustrious citizens of Ponce in the Park of the Illustrious Citizens of Ponce in the Tricentennial Park of Ponce
Feature Films (18)
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Mother with Us
A former wrestler called "the bat" lives in hiding after being disfigured and plans to kidnap a beautiful female singer and a lucha libre star known as Blue Demon.
The Shadow of the Bat
In a small rural town, everybody lays eyes on Maruja, the most beautiful woman there. After the son of the mayor comes back from France, he also notices Maruja, setting forth events of love, jealousy, guilt, and anger.
Maruja
Follows the life of a loving couple that is childless. Juana consults help from many sources so she can conceive, but to no avail. However, her husband Manolo has an illegitimate son by a prostitute. He hopes to raise him as their mutual son, but the boy's arrival marks a profound change in the couple's life, as Juana struggles with her relationship with the child and her husband.
Ayer amargo
Among Delia, a socialite, and Jorge a bohemian cabaret pianist, begins a relationship that ends in tragedy.
Matar es fácil
Businessman Carlos meets Ana María in a Mexico City nightclub. He escorts her home, and makes a date for the next day. Ana María is actually a prostitute whose pimp, Arturo, thinks Carlos would be a good client, and urges her to be nice to him. They fall in love, and Carlos proposes marriage to her, indicating he must return to Puerto Rico soon.
Amor perdóname
Roberto is tired of his life as an office worker in Mexico City, so he moves to Acapulco to try his luck as a "Latin lover".
Un Latin lover en Acapulco
In a New York hospital, a man is cured of heroin addiction after a grueling three-month treatment. Although no longer an addict, he has complete amnesia: the only clues to his past are an expensive ring he was wearing when admitted, and a book of matches from a Puerto Rican nightclub. He pawns the ring and buys clandestine passage on a boat to Puerto Rico in search of his identity.
Cuando acaba la noche
It's about a country doctor that comes to the city while a clinic is built in his home town... he rubs off his care and compassion on others at the hospital with his humor and wit.