Nina Campana Explained

Nina Campana
Birth Name:	Esperanza Susanna de Ybarrondo
Birth Date:	December 23, 1897
Birth Place:	Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Death Date:	June 21, 1950 (age 52)
Death Place:	Venice, California, U.S.
Other Names:	Nena Campana, Nina Wolfskill
Occupation:	Actress

Nina Campana (December 23, 1897 – June 21, 1950), born Esperanza Susanna de Ybarrondo, was an American film actress.

Biography

Esperanza de Ybarrondo was born in Los Angeles, the daughter of Tomas de Ybarrondo and Vicenta Botiller (later Wucherer). Her father was a medical doctor, who died when Esperanza was very young. Ybarrondo was married first to Italian singer Ettore Campana, in 1922; they divorced in 1938. Her second husband was Martin A. Wolfskill. Campana died in 1950, at the age of 52, in Venice, California.^[1]

Filmography

Campana usually played small roles as Latina women, but she was also cast as Polynesian, Native American, or Italian characters. In addition to her credited roles, Campana had dozens of uncredited film appearances in the 1930s and 1940s, including a Three Stooges short, "Pardon My Scotch" (1935). She toured nationally in a 1945 comedy, The Bad Man, in a production starring Leo Carrillo.^{[2] [3] [4]}

• The Suspect (1944)^[5]
• Can't Help Singing (1944)^[6]
• Call of the South Seas (1944)
• Tortilla Flat (1942)^[7]
• Honolulu Lu (1941)
• Arizona (1940)^[8]
• South of Pago Pago (1940)
• Outlaw Express (1938)
• Call of the Yukon (1938)
• It Could Happen to You (1937)
• Man of the People (1937)
• Night Key (1937)^[9]
• Rootin' Tootin' Rhythm (1937)^[10]
• It Happened Out West (1937)
• White Legion (1936)
• The Petrified Forest (1936)^[11]
• Sunset of Power (1936)
• The Melody Lingers On (1935)^[12]
• A Night at the Opera (1935)
• Hi Nellie! (1934)^[13]

Notes and References

1. News: 1950-06-23 . Nina Campana Wolfskill . 2024-08-18 . The Los Angeles Times . 23 . Newspapers.com.
2. News: Paulding . Litti . 1945-08-06 . Leo Carrillo's 'Bad Man' Makes Lobero Welkin Ring . 2024-08-18 . Santa Barbara News-Press . 7 . Newspapers.com.
3. News: 1945-09-18 . Leo (Bad Man) Carrillo Comes to Fresno Wednesday . 2024-08-18 . The Hanford Sentinel . 7 . Newspapers.com.
4. News: 1945-09-30 . 'The Bad Man' Will Arrive Oct. 3 . 2024-08-18 . The Austin American . 9 . Newspapers.com.
5. Book: Redfern, David A. . Charles Laughton: A Filmography, 1928-1962 . 2021-08-04 . McFarland . 978-1-4766-4263-5 . 94 . en.
6. Book: Lowe, Barry . Deanna Durbin in Hollywood: Her Life, Films and Music . 2024-02-09 . McFarland . 978-1-4766-5175-0 . 201 . en.
7. Book: Gevinson, Alan . Within Our Gates: Ethnicity in American Feature Films, 1911-1960 . 1997 . University of California Press . 978-0-520-20964-0 . 507, 633, 713-714, 751-752, 1057. en.
8. News: Saunders . Mae . 1940-12-24 . 'Arizona' With Jean Arthur Proves Lively Western Film . 2024-08-18 . The Bakersfield Californian . 9 . Newspapers.com.
9. Book: Nollen, Scott Allen . Karloff and the East: Asian, Indian, Middle Eastern and Oceanian Characters and Subjects in His Screen Career . Nollen . Yuyun Yuningsih . 2021-01-27 . McFarland . 978-1-4766-8063-7 . 360-361 . en.
10. News: 1937-10-07 . Gene Autry Comes to Ideal Tomorrow Musical Western . 2024-08-18 . Corsicana Daily Sun . 3.
11. Book: Roberts, Jerry . The Great American Playwrights on the Screen: A Critical Guide to Film, Video, and DVD . 2003 . Hal Leonard Corporation . 978-1-55783-512-3 . 475 . en.
12. News: 1935-12-02 . Fine Drama Top on Hipp Screen . 2024-08-18 . The Buffalo News . 23 . Newspapers.com.
13. Book: Nollen, Scott Allen . The Making and Influence of I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang . 2016-10-06 . McFarland . 978-0-7864-6677-1 . 150. en.