July 6






JULY 6

Ace Superheroes Komiks Taon 1 Blg. 6, Hulyo 6, 1995

Nasa taklob-pahina ang superhero na likha ni Rod Santiago na “Asero.”

Events that happened on July 6:

1765 – Jose Antonio Gutierrez Raon arrived in Manila to assume the position of governor-general. A street in Sta. Cruz, Manila, was named after him.

1839 – The Precios Corrientes de Manila, the first commercial newspaper in Spanish and English began its circulation.

 

Personalities and celebrities born on July 6:

1902 – Carlos Vander Tolosa, dance, film writer and director – in Manila (d. 1965).

1928 – Nestor de Villa (real name Gines Francisco Soriano), actor and dancer – Cabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija (d. February 21, 2004).

Nestor de Villa (with Nida Blanca for the film Hiyasmin)
on the cover of Bulaklak (Hiyas ng Tahanan) December 30, 1953 issue.

 

1943 – Liberty Ilagan, actress and businesswoman.

Liberty Ilagan
on the covers of Bulaklak (Hiyas ng Tahanan) and Holiday Komiks (September 27, 1969).

1949 – Noli de Castro (real name Manuel Leuterio de castro Jr), radio-TV broadcaster, senator and 14th Vice-President – in Pola, Oriental Mindoro.

Noli de Castro (then Vice-President)
on the cover of Philippine Free Press (December 13, 2008).

 

14-year-old Sue Lyon (as Lolita)
on the cover of‘Teen June 1963 issue.

Picture Trivia
           Actress Sue Lyon (full name Suellyn Lyon, born July 10, 1946) was only 14 years old when she portrayed the role of Dolores Haze, the sexually charged adolescent and the object of an older man’s obsessions in the 1962 film, Lolita, directed by Stanley Kubrick. She was chosen for the role partly because her curvy figure suggested an appearance of an adult. Based on the novel of the same title by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1899-1977), Kubrick’s Lolita, although a toned-down version of the story, was nonetheless one of the most talked about films of its day. Only barely 15 years old when the film premiered, Sue Lyon became an instant celebrity and won a Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer – Female.

          In what can be considered as scruples amid society’s double standard, Lyon went to a moviehouse to see her own film, Lolita, but ironically was not permitted to enter the theater because she was a minor.

          The following year, Lyon was again casted as a precocious and seductive young teen in the John Huston directorial The Night of the Iguana, where she fitted charm and beauty against the like of Deborah Kerr and Ava Gardner to gain the attention of Richard Burton.

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