Without fanfare, Sampaguita Pictures, Inc. (SPI) turned Diamond on Dec. 27 last year, the same date 75 years ago when it released Bituing Marikit, the company’s maiden production directed by Carlos ...

Readers have been asking why Tessie Agana, among many others, was not included in the Gallery of Sampaguita Stars published in this corner a few issues ago. After all, wasn’t Tessie, the child ...

If Carlos Vander Tolosa was the most-admired and Chaning Carlos the most-loved movie director in the Sampaguita studio, it was Octavio Silos (“Paru-Parong Bukid”) who was the most respected—and ...

In 1955, the three biggest movie productions at that time—Sampaguita Pictures, LVN Pictures, and Premiere Productions—threw their doors open to the public for an event they called "Trip To Movieland" ...

LUIS Gonzales was a big star of Sampaguita Pictures in the 1950s and 1960s, when he was the screen consort of the beauteous Gloria Romero, the reigning Queen of Philippine Movies in the post-World War ...