Blanca Pozas | |
Birth Date: | 1893 |
Birth Place: | Valparaiso, Chile |
Death Date: | 29 August 1978 |
Death Place: | Madrid, Spain |
Burial Place: | Cementerio de la Almudena |
Nationality: | Chilean |
Occupation: | Vedette and actress |
Spouse: | Miguel Ligero |
Children: | Luis Ligero Pozas Blanca Ligero Pozas |
Blanca Pozas Oliveira (sometimes accredited as Blanquita Pozas) (1893 - 29 August 1978) was a Chilean vedette and actress who participated in nine movies during her cinematographic career which lasted from 1926 to 1953.
Born in Valparaíso, she soon triumphed in Spain as a vedette at the Teatro Martín. Until the outbreak of the Civil War, she premiered the most popular shows of the billboard, among which stand out: Frivolina (1918), Las corsarias (1919), Ris, Ras (1927), Los faroles (1928), Los caracoles (1928), La casa de Quirós (1931), La camisa de la Pompadour (1934) and Las Peponas (1934).[1] She worked with the most popular comedians of her time: Lino Rodríguez, Castrito, Ramón Peña, Faustino Bretaño, etc.
Unlike her husband Miguel Ligero, she worked little in the cinema, appearing in a total of nine films, among which Marianela (1940), Viaje sin destino (1942) and El rey de las finanzas (1944) stand out.[2]