Trivia

Father was a Filipino lawyer Generoso Hernandez and mother was Mexican Marina.

Actress Rosario H. Panganiban was the cousin of her father. It was Rosario H. Panganiban, wife of director Vicente Salumbides, who opened her door in exploring a career in the movies.

She wrote her biographical book, "No Regrets", published in 2009.

She was a faculty member of John Robert Powers Philippines, a popular personality development school. She taught etiquette, art of conversation, deportment and conduct to students, composed mostly by young, married women.

Husband Leo Prieto was a commissioner of Philippine Basketball Association.

The popular Filipino serenade song Ikaw was written by Mike Velarde for Yolanda Marquez.

She and her best friends Patricia Mijares, Lilian Velez, and Norma Blancaflor opened a restaurant in San Marcelino St, Manila City which was frequented by basketball players. There, she met her future husband Leo Prieto, a basketball player, who became the founding commissioner of the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) in 1975.

Was a newspaper columnist with her regular fashion and beauty page column Just Asking appearing in Philippine Star.

She was the first actress in Philippine cinema to buck the conservative dress code by appearing in shorts and slacks in her movies.

Dubbed as the Philippines' Miss Manners.

In 2003 when she was 83, she appeared in a Bench campaign on its fashion for all ages.

Born in US, she moved to the Philippine at age 14 to stay in Macabebe, her father's hometown. With this, movie press dubbed her the "The Original Balikbayan." Balikbayan is a Filipino word for something who returned home to the Philippines.