Trivia

She is the first actress to kiss onscreen in Philippine cinema.

One of the most enduring stars in the Philippines showbiz. She started at age 16 during the silent film era in 1927 up to 1993, the year she died. With a period of 66 years, she then held the longest-running career in Philippine cinema. Anita Linda broke the record in 2009 as she continued a 77-year showbiz career until 2019.

She grew up in Bacon, a small town in Sorsogon which faces the Pacific Ocean in the Philippines.

Her German-born, naturalized American father, Eugene Walter, was a veteran of the Boxer Rebellion in China. A first lieutenant of the Constabulary (then controlled by the Americans), Walter arrived in the Philippines on April 30, 1898 with Dewey's fleet, the U.S. Asiatic Squadron led by Commodore George Dewey during the Spanish-American War, He participated in the Battle of Manila Bay in 1898.