Tita Duran

Name: Tita Duran
Native name: Teresita Rigo Durango
Also Known as: Teresita Rigo Durango Magalona
Nationality: Filipino
Gender: Female
Born: September 30, 1928
Died: December 2, 1991

Tita Duran as a Filipina film actress who began as a child actress. She was the first successful child star of Philippine cinema.

Duran joined a movie in her early career as an eight-year-old child abandoned by her mother in 1936 family-drama of Awit ng mga Ulila. In 1938, Sampaguita Pictures spotted the child and cast her in a tear-jerker movie titled Inang Mahal. Her second movie for Sampaguita was Ang Magsasampaguita. Duran made two movies under LVN Pictures: Pangarap and Sawing Gantimpala both in 1940.

After World War II, she made a comeback in her studio Sampaguita Pictures. She joined in a war film with Carmen Rosales titled Guerilyera and typecasted in numerous musical films paired by some of Sampaguita's finest actors. Her last movie with Sampaguita was Isang Halik Mo Pancho. She made Maria Went to Town under Deegar Cinema Inc.

She was the mother of Francis Magalona and grandmother to Maxene Magalona.

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Year	Title	Role
1946	Maynila Filipino Movie, 1946, (Main Role)	Main Role
1946	Guerilyera Filipino Movie, 1946, (Support Role)	Support Role
1940	Nang Mahawi ang Ulap Filipino Movie, 1940, (Support Role)	Support Role
1940	Sawing Gantingpala Filipino Movie, 1940, (Main Role)	Main Role
1940	Pangarap Filipino Movie, 1940, (Main Role)	Main Role
1939	Ang Magsasampaguita Filipino Movie, 1939, (Support Role)	Support Role
1939	Palaboy ng Dios Filipino Movie, 1939, (Main Role)	Main Role
1939	Yaman ng Mahirap Filipino Movie, 1939, (Guest Role)	Guest Role
1939	Inang Mahal Filipino Movie, 1939, (Support Role)	Support Role
1939	Tunay na Ina Filipino Movie, 1939, Tita (Main Role)	Tita Main Role