Lilian Valmar
{{Short description|Argentine actress and vedette}}
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| birth_name = Celia María Damestoi
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1928|09|27|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Buenos Aires, Argentina
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2013|08|04|1928|09|27|df=yes}}
| death_place = Buenos Aires, Argentina
| resting_place = La Chacarita cemetery
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| occupation = Actress, vedette
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Celia María Damestoi (27 September 1928 – 4 August 2013{{Cite news |url=http://www.telam.com.ar/notas/201308/27624-a-los-85-anos-fallecio-la-actriz-lilian-valmar.html |archivedate=2022-05-23|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20220523203356/https://www.telam.com.ar/notas/201308/27624-a-los-85-anos-fallecio-la-actriz-lilian-valmar.html |title=A los 85 años, falleció la actriz Lilian Valmar |trans-title=At Age 85, the Actress Lilian Valmar Passes Away |work=Télam |language=Spanish |date=5 August 2013 |access-date=30 June 2018}}{{Cite web |url=http://www.actores.org.ar/noticias/fallecio-la-actriz-lilian-valmar |title=Falleció la actriz Lilian Valmar |trans-title=The Actress Lilian Valmar Passes Away |publisher=Argentine Actors Association |language=Spanish |date=5 August 2013 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130805224409/http://www.actores.org.ar/noticias/fallecio-la-actriz-lilian-valmar |archive-date=5 August 2013 |url-status=dead |access-date=30 June 2018 }}), better known as Lilian Valmar, was an Argentine actress and vedette.
Biography
Lilian Valmar was born in Argentina, coming of age during the country's golden period of cinema which spanned from 1947 to 1956. She began her career in 1947 in the film Albéniz by Luis César Amadori.{{Cite book |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VXcwCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA7 |title=The Great Composers Portrayed on Film, 1913 through 2002 |chapter=Isaac Albéniz |first=Charles P. |last=Mitchell |publisher=McFarland |isbn=9781476609850 |page=7 |date=25 March 2010 |access-date=30 June 2018 |via=Google Books}} A year later, she began to work with the greats of the comedy genre, partnering with revue director Manuel Romero on the film The Tango Returns to Paris, Niní Marshall on {{ill|Porteña de corazón|es}} (1948) and Catita es una dama (1956), Pepe Iglesias on Avivato (1949), and {{ill|Alfredo Barbieri|es}} on Ritmo, amor y picardía (1955) and {{ill|El sonámbulo que quería dormir|es}} (1956).
She then began the second phase of her career within the New Wave movement (1960–1966) with director Enrique Carreras, who directed her in a trilogy of films. She began with the {{ill|Bizarro film|es|Cine bizarro|lt=bizarro}} genre in {{ill|Obras maestras del terror|es}} (1960), horror stories starring Narciso Ibáñez Menta, which was then followed by the New Wave film Un viaje al más allá (1964), and the last was the comedy-drama Arm in Arm Down the Street (1966). In television she entered the golden age of telenovelas (1971–1985), appearing in her first in 1971 with {{ill|Alma Bressan|es}}'s {{ill|Una luz en la ciudad|es}}. She then appeared in Me llaman gorrión (1972) by Abel Santa Cruz and {{ill|Libertad condicionada|es}} (1985) by Marta Reguera, both on Channel 9.
As a radio actress, she was an exclusive figure of {{ill|Radio El Mundo|es}}. In theater she showed her talent as a vedette, and later as a dramatic actress, forming a company with Enrique Serrano in 1956.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vOAuAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Lilian+Valmar%22+%22Enrique+Serrano%22 |title=De la fuga a la fuga: diccionario de films policiales |trans-title=From Escape to Escape: Dictionary of Political Films |first1=Roberto |last1=Blanco Pazos |first2=Raúl |last2=Clemente |publisher=Corregidor |isbn=9789500515283 |page=55 |language=Spanish |date=1 January 2004 |access-date=30 June 2018 |via=Google Books}}
Lilian Valmar died of natural causes on 4 August 2013 at age 84. Her remains rest in the {{ill|Argentine Actors Association|es|Asociación Argentina de Actores}} pantheon of La Chacarita cemetery.
Films
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- Albéniz (1947)
- Song of Dolores (1947)
- Vacaciones (1947)
- The Tango Returns to Paris (1948)
- El cantor del pueblo (1948)
- {{ill|Porteña de corazón|es}} (1948)
- The Bohemian Soul (1949)
- Avivato (1949)
- Ritmo, amor y picardía (1955)
- {{ill|El sonámbulo que quería dormir|es}} (1956)
- Catita es una dama (1956)
- {{ill|Obras maestras del terror|es}} (1960)
- Un viaje al más allá (1964)
- Arm in Arm Down the Street (1966)
TV series
- {{ill|Una luz en la ciudad|es}} (1971)
- Me llaman gorrión, Channel 9 (1972)
- {{ill|Papá corazón|es}} (1973)
- Festival de grandes comedias, with {{ill|Oscar Casco|es}} and {{ill|Julia Alson|es}} (1974)
- Entre el amor y el poder, Channel 9 (1984)
- {{ill|Libertad condicionada|es}}, Channel 9 (1985)
Theater
- Mi marido hoy duerme en casa, at the {{ill|Teatro Apolo (Buenos Aires)|es|lt=Teatro Apolo}} (1954){{Cite web |url=http://www.acceder.gov.ar/es/621669 |title=Festejan en el teatro Apolo las trescientas |trans-title=Apolo Theater's 300th Celebrated |publisher=Ministry of Culture |language=Spanish |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131020110157/http://www.acceder.gov.ar/es/621669 |archive-date=20 October 2013 |url-status=dead |access-date=30 June 2018}}
- Boina blanca (1956)
- El lustrador de manzanas, comedy in three acts premiered by the company of Luis Arata at the {{ill|Nescafé Theater of the Arts|es|Teatro Nescafé de las Artes|lt=Teatro Marconi}} (1957)
- Criaturas rebeldes, together with {{ill|Ubaldo Martínez|es}}, Maruja Montes, {{ill|Don Pelele|es}}, {{ill|Alfredo Barbieri|es}}, {{ill|Nené Cao|es}}, {{ill|Gloria Montes|es}}, {{ill|Oscar Villa (actor)|es|Oscar Villa|lt=Oscar Villa}}, Oscar Valicelli, Beba Bidart, Thelma del Río, and {{ill|Rafael García (dancer)|es|Rafael García (bailarín)|lt=Rafael García}} (1960)
- Blum, play by Enrique Santos Discépolo and Julio Porter, together with Zulma Faiad, Juan Verdaguer, and Silvia Legrand (1963)
- Departamento de soltero, directed by {{ill|Eduardo Sánchez Torel|es}} at the Teatro Florida (1963)
- Los cocodrilos (1966)
- Payasín y Bonín (1966)
- El caso del señor Valdemar, together with {{ill|Osvaldo Pacheco|es}}
References
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Category:20th-century Argentine actresses
Category:Actresses from Buenos Aires
Category:Argentine film actresses
Category:Argentine radio actresses
Category:Argentine stage actresses