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American actress (1927–2009)
Olga San Juan
Born (1927-03-16 ) March 16, 1927
New York City, U.S.
Died January 3, 2009(2009-01-03) (aged 81 )
Resting place San Fernando Mission Cemetery Other names The Puerto Rican Pepper Pot Occupations
dancer
comedian
Years active 1943–1960 Spouse
(m. 1948; div. 1976)
Children 3; including Brendan O'Brien
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).
Early years
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Olga San Juan was born on March 16, 1927,[1] in Flatbush, Brooklyn ,[2] New York, to Puerto Rican parents.[3] [4] [5] Her family went to Puerto Rico when she was three and then returned to New York City two years later, moving to East Harlem .[6] Her singing career reportedly began when she performed with a group of schoolchildren from New York at the White House for President Franklin Delano Roosevelt .[7] She left high school in ninth grade after her father became ill, performing at venues including El Morocco and the Hotel Astor .[7]
Career
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San Juan was contracted to Paramount Pictures in 1943 after being scouted at Copacabana and performing at the Paramount Theatre .[2] [4] In Blue Skies (1946), San Juan performs a dance to "Heat Wave" with Bing Crosby .[8] She was especially keen to be cast as Amber La Vonne in Variety Girl (1947).[2] In Variety Girl , a film about the film world, Amber La Vonne is desperate to make it in Hollywood; critics Charles Higham and Joel Greenberg call the film's "funniest scene" one in which San Juan's character causes a commotion in a restaurant just to be seen by the glitterati.[9]
In the 1940s, San Juan mainly appeared in musicals as "a Latina entertainer or love interest".[3] She was nicknamed the "Puerto Rican Pepper Pot",[3] ostensibly "for her vivacious and spicy personality".[10] Her last Hollywood film came out in 1949.[11] According to critic Boze Hadleigh (writing under the pseudonym George Hadley-Garcia),[12] San Juan's departure from film was driven by a shift in the public's musical preferences and by the end of World War II , which caused the Good Neighbor policy to wane.[13]
In 1951, San Juan starred on Broadway in the Lerner and Loewe musical, Paint Your Wagon .[14] She played Jennifer Rumson, a woman who finds gold and gets rich during the California Gold Rush .[3]
Personal life
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San Juan was married to actor Edmond O'Brien . They had met at a publicity luncheon for Fox studios,[15] and married on September 26, 1948, in Santa Barbara, California .[16] They had three children including television producer and actor Brendan O'Brien .[15] O'Brien and San Juan divorced in 1976.[15]
San Juan's health began to fail after a stroke in the 1970s. She died of kidney failure on January 3, 2009, at Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, California .[15] She was buried at San Fernando Mission Cemetery in Mission Hills, Los Angeles .[17]
Awards
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Filmography
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Notes
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^ a b c d Otfinoski, Steven (2007). "San Juan, Olga". Latinos in the Arts . Facts on File . pp. 205–206 . ISBN 978-0-8160-6394-9 . OCLC 69331998 .
^ a b Rosado, Luis (September 6, 1943). "Meet the Stars" . Big Spring Daily Herald . Texas, Big Spring. Big Spring Daily Herald. p. 3. Archived from the original on March 14, 2016. Retrieved March 13, 2016 – via Newspapers.com .
^ Chabrán, Richard; Chabrán, Rafael, eds. (1996). "San Juan, Olga". The Latino Encyclopedia . Vol. 5. Marshall Cavendish . p. 1430 . ISBN 0-7614-0125-3 . OCLC 32236934 .
^ Sheaffer, Louis (December 4, 1951). "Olga San Juan Glad She Went to Those Two Parties" . Brooklyn Daily Eagle . p. 8. Archived from the original on November 2, 2021. Retrieved November 2, 2021 – via Newspapers.com .
^ a b "Lively Latin". Photoplay . 31 (3 ): 28 . August 1947.
^ Stern, Lee Edward (1975). The Movie Musical . Pyramid Publications . pp. 105–106 . OCLC 1036768130 .
^ Higham, Charles ; Greenberg, Joel (1968). Hollywood in the Forties . Tantivy Press; A.S. Barnes. pp. 166–167 . OCLC 1035606607 .
^ Hischak, Thomas S. (2008). "San Juan, Olga" . The Oxford Companion to the American Musical (1 ed.). Oxford University Press . pp. 655–656. doi :10.1093/acref/9780195335330.001.0001 . ISBN 978-0-19-533533-0 .
^ Rodriguez, Clara E. (2004). Heroes, Lovers, and Others: The Story of Latinos in Hollywood . Smithsonian Books . pp. 101–102 . ISBN 1-58834-111-9 . OCLC 52766003 .
^ "Hadleigh, Boze 1954– (George Hadley-Garcia)" . Contemporary Authors . Archived from the original on October 21, 2020. Retrieved November 2, 2021 .
^ Hadley-Garcia, George (1990). Hollywood Hispano: Los Latinos en el Mundo del Cine . Carol Publishing Group. p. 82 . ISBN 0-8065-1185-0 . OCLC 22494688 .
^ Robinson, Mark A. (April 17, 2014). The World of Musicals: An Encyclopedia of Stage, Screen, and Song . ABC-Clio . p. 528. ISBN 978-1-4408-0097-9 . Archived from the original on November 1, 2021. Retrieved November 1, 2021 .
^ a b c d "Actress, dancer Olga San Juan dies at 81" . New York Daily News . Associated Press . Archived from the original on February 14, 2017. Retrieved November 1, 2021 .
^ "Edmond O'Brien, Olga San Juan Are Married in Santa Barbara" . The Scranton Times-Tribune . Associated Press . September 27, 1948. Archived from the original on November 2, 2021. Retrieved November 2, 2021 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "Olga San Juan dies at 81; actress sang and danced with Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire" . Los Angeles Times . Associated Press . January 9, 2009. Archived from the original on August 15, 2018. Retrieved November 1, 2021 .
^ a b "Fallece actriz boricua Olga San Juan" . Primera Hora (in Spanish). January 6, 2009. Archived from the original on November 1, 2021. Retrieved November 1, 2021 .
^ Barris, Alex (1978). Hollywood According to Hollywood . A.S. Barnes & Co. p. 53 . ISBN 0-498-01748-6 . OCLC 3380309 .
^ Kael, Pauline (August 2, 2011). 5001 Nights at the Movies . Henry Holt and Company . p. 58. ISBN 978-1-250-03357-4 . Archived from the original on November 2, 2021. Retrieved November 2, 2021 .
Sources
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Aylesworth, Thomas G. (1984). History of Movie Musicals . Hamlyn . ISBN 0-600-34754-0 . OCLC 12512911 .
Bishop-Sanchez, Kathryn (October 20, 2016). Creating Carmen Miranda: Race, Camp, and Transnational Stardom . Vanderbilt University Press . ISBN 978-0-8265-2114-9 .
Hanson, Patricia King, ed. (1999). Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States: Feature Films 1941–1950 Indexes . American Film Institute ; University of California Press . ISBN 978-0-520-21521-4 .
Parish, James Robert (1972). The Paramount Pretties . Arlington House Publishers . ISBN 0-87000-180-9 . OCLC 539884 .
Richard, Alfred Charles (1993). Censorship and Hollywood's Hispanic Image: An Interpretive Filmography, 1936–1955 . Greenwood Publishing Group . ISBN 0-313-28842-9 . OCLC 27067799 .
Sadlier, Darlene J. (December 1, 2012). Americans All: Good Neighbor Cultural Diplomacy in World War II . University of Texas Press . ISBN 978-0-292-73930-7 .
Webb, Graham (July 13, 2020). Encyclopedia of American Short Films, 1926–1959 . McFarland & Company . ISBN 978-1-4766-8118-4 .
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