Maria Luisa “Movita” Castaneda was an American actress best known for being Marlon Brando’s second wife. Movita portrayed exotic women/singers in films such as Flying Down to Rio (1933) and Mutiny on the Bounty . Miko Castaneda Brando (born 1961) and Rebecca Brando Kotlizky were her children.
Movita began her acting career by singing the Carioca to Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire’s first dance number in Flying Down to Rio, the first film in which the famous duo appeared together (1933). In the 1930s, she continued to play exotic women in American and Spanish-language films, most notably as Tehanni, a Tahitian girl, in Mutiny on the Bounty (1935), alongside Clark Gable and Franchot Tone.
Movita married Irish boxer, singer, and actor Jack Doyle in Mexico in 1939. The marriage did not last. Movita met actor Marlon Brando in the late 1950s, after his breakup with Anna Kashfi, after appearing in a few more minor westerns and a few television parts. They were married in 1960 and had two children.
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Movita Castaneda dies at the age of 98.
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