1. Maria Luisa Castaneda was an American actress and the second wife of actor Marlon Brando.
10 Facts About Movita Castaneda
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Movita Castaneda was the mother of Miko Castaneda Brando and Rebecca Brando Kotlizky.
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Movita Castaneda, an American of Mexican descent, was born in Nogales, Arizona, on a train traveling between Mexico and Arizona.
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Movita Castaneda began her acting career singing the Carioca to Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire's first dance number in the first film in which the famous duo appeared together, Flying Down to Rio.
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Movita Castaneda continued playing exotic women in American and Spanish language films in the 1930s, most notably as a Tahitian girl, Tehanni in Mutiny on the Bounty alongside Clark Gable and Franchot Tone.
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Movita Castaneda played an island girl in Paradise Isle and again in Girl from Rio with Warren Hull.
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Movita Castaneda starred in the British thriller Tower of Terror alongside Wilfrid Lawson and Michael Rennie.
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In 1939, Movita Castaneda married the Irish boxer, singer and actor Jack Doyle in Mexico.
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Brando played the role of Fletcher Christian in the 1962 remake of the 1935 film in which Movita Castaneda had played a Tahitian girl, Tehanni.
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Movita Castaneda died at age 98 on February 12,2015, in Los Angeles, after being hospitalized for a neck injury.