Mameng and Pol’s third and last starrer

The comeback picture of Carmen Rosales, Sampaguita’s Sandra (1959), is her third and last with Leopoldo Salcedo. Jose de Villa helmed Sandra.

Mameng and Pol earlier starred in Kaaway ng Bayan (1946), directed by Paquito Bolero, and Hindi Kita Malimot (1948), directed by Eddie Romero.

Sandra is billed ‘the year’s most dramatic story,’ Mameng played an aging movie queen, the martyr wife of a gambler (Pol).

Pablo S. Gomez wrote Sandra, especially for Mameng, her favorite actress. But then PSG penned most of his novels with Mameng in mind. —RKC