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Olga San Juan (March 16, 1927 – January 3, 2009) was an American actress and comedian. Born in Brooklyn, she began her brief film career with Paramount Pictures after being scouted at Copacabana. She performed in several Hollywood musicals in the 1940s and on Broadway in Paint Your Wagon (1951).
Olga San Juan. Actress: Are You with It?. She possessed the same tiny frame and fervid temperament as Brazilian Carmen Miranda and, for most her career, Puerto Rican singer/dancer Olga San Juan, like Miranda, was a welcome distraction by American audiences.
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- Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
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- Burbank, California, USA
He married his second wife, actress Olga San Juan in 1948. San Juan was the mother of his three children, television producer Bridget O'Brien and actors Maria O'Brien and Brendan O'Brien. The marriage ended in divorce in 1976. In the late 1970s, O'Brien fell ill with Alzheimer's disease. In a 1983 interview, his daughter Maria remembers seeing ...
Brooklyn-born and raised rumba singer and dancer from radio who found a few comedic roles as a spitfire type in WWII musical films. While just a child, she performed with a group of school kids, at the White House, for President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Performed at the Copacabana in New York when she was a teenager.
- Actress, Soundtrack
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- March 16, 1927
Jan 9, 2009 · Olga San Juan, the actress dubbed the “Puerto Rican Pepperpot” for singing and dancing roles alongside stars that included Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire, has died. She was 81.
Jan 3, 2009 · BURBANK, Calif. - Olga San Juan, the actress dubbed the "Puerto Rican Pepperpot" for singing and dancing roles alongside the likes of Bing Crosby, died Saturday. She was 81.
Jan 7, 2009 · Actress, singer, dancer and comic Olga San Juan died Jan. 4 after a long illness. She was 81. Born and raised in Brooklyn of Puerto Rican descent, San Juan began her career in New York in...
