While talking about their first movies with Sampaguita Pictures, Bella Flores talks about how she wrestled with Lillian Leonardo on ‘Kilabot sa Makiling!’
Category
😹
FunTranscript
00:00The talent field!
00:02Let's watch the first movie first.
00:04What's your first movie?
00:06Me! I know, I remember.
00:08Very first, in Tabelia.
00:10Kilabot sa Makiling.
00:12I was given a screen test there.
00:14I was brought here by our friends.
00:16Did you have a contraband?
00:18Not yet, not yet.
00:20I was given a screen test in Sapa fight scene.
00:22Kilabot sa Makiling with Oscar Moreno
00:24and Lilian Neolardo.
00:26There are screen tests.
00:28We had a fight scene at the swamp.
00:30That's where I fell.
00:32And I fell.
00:34We had a fight scene at the top of a mountain.
00:3615 feet below
00:38or 30 feet below.
00:40But the net of the fireman hit us.
00:42So you were doing
00:44your own stunts?
00:46No.
00:48I told Lilian,
00:50when we were at the edge,
00:52I told her to turn around.
00:54She didn't turn around.
00:56But the net of the fireman
00:58hit us.
01:00It hit the cement.
01:02You know what?
01:04Honest to the truth is
01:06I was dead in so many seconds.
01:08You were dead?
01:10Yes.
01:12I lost consciousness.
01:14For me, my first movie here in Sampaguita
01:16was introduced
01:18by me
01:20and Lolita Rodriguez.
01:22The title of my movie
01:24was
01:26Piliya.
01:28Piliya.
01:30That's a good title.
01:32It suits you.
01:34I did an extra first
01:36between Marikit
01:38with Amalia and Juancho.
01:40Sinong Maysala, Romay Vasquez
01:42and Susan.
01:44That's where I started.
01:46You, James?
01:48Susan Susay Susy starring Susan Rosas.
01:50I hope.
01:52Lito was there
01:54and also Marie.
01:56I was one of the sidekicks
01:58of one of the Susan there.
02:00With the help
02:02of Director Rosa Mia,
02:04I met her
02:06at Rita Gomez's house.
02:08I asked her if I could
02:10be an extra in her movie.
02:12She asked me to go to Sampaguita
02:14for a shooting.
02:16My first movie here in Sampaguita
02:18was All Over The World.
02:20I was with
02:22Eddie Gutierrez,
02:24Josephine Estrada,
02:26Rox Marie,
02:28Sonora.
02:30James was also there.
02:32I didn't do
02:34a screen test.
02:36I studied
02:38to improve
02:40my voice.
02:42I enrolled in the Chemists Guild.
02:44I studied
02:46to improve my voice.
02:48I also studied
02:50to improve my talent.
02:52Talent fee?
02:54Talent fee.
02:56Talent fee?
02:5825 pesos per movie?
03:00Per week.
03:02Because I was under contract.
03:04I got 75 pesos
03:06per movie.
03:08My first contract,
03:10I signed up in 1963
03:12and for four years,
03:14my first movie was 75 pesos.
03:16Then the second year,
03:18it will be...
03:20Why are you so cheap?
03:22Of course, we didn't start there.
03:24But I'm 500 pesos.
03:26You're famous now.
03:28500 pesos per movie.
03:32Why am I different?
03:34Because I signed up
03:36for a contract here
03:38for four years.
03:402,000 pesos.
03:42Wow!
03:48You're lucky because my allowance
03:50is 30 pesos per week.
03:52200 pesos per movie.
03:54That's why I got 3,000 pesos
03:56when I got my first starring role
03:58with Susan.
04:00So, Lito, I'll do it for 10 days.
04:02How much is 2,000 pesos?
04:04200 pesos.
04:06How are you?