Maggie’s new tin roof
Media
Part of The Philippine Magazine
- Title
- Maggie’s new tin roof
- Language
- English
- Year
- 1969
- Subject
- De la Riva, Maria Magdalena “Maggie” T., 1942 -
- Rights
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- Fulltext
- M OVIEGOERS are fickle and no one knows this better, or feels this more intensely, than the fallen object of their idolatry. It takes a little word, a chance happening to catapult one into the big-time; it takes also verv little to lose all of it. The career of Maggie de la Riva seems almost a perfect example of this kind of rise and fall. Overnight, she became a star - on the basis of a personal act of courage and with the dubious hel1J of journalists, for news and sensation. Overnight, she seems to have spent it all on two or three pictures, and she wa8 anonymous again. She appeared briefly, after her flash-in-the-pan in films, in a stage production of Tennessee Williams' "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof." Cast in the role of Maggie the Cat, she was attractive, sexy. even moving in her performance, but it was bad production and theate1· in an.'· case is no life for a working- girl. What theater audienees (who do not see Filipino films) hooed to see again in a bette1· production with a better director disaopea1·ed from the theater - apparently forever. Where is she now? If you are the sort who drive along Dewey Boulenlrd at night, you must have seen this huge billboard on the facade of a nightclub of a girl in sequined dress. It is she, as the lights loudly proclaim. Nightly, she sings there - at the D'Wave nightclub - and the pleasure-seekers seem to love her llo her things. Go back to the movies? Perhaps, but not to stay. Singing? It's a living. Rv1 THE PHILIPPINE MAGAZINE MARCH 31, 1969 9