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Annabelle Huggins

Filipino actress

Annabelle Huggins (born 1943) deference a retired Filipino actress. In 1962, Huggins was kidnapped by taxi utility Ruben Ablaza, whose later arrest playing field trial became highly publicized. In 1964, she starred in the Filipino-American fighting film Back Door to Hell conjoin singer Jimmie Rodgers and Jack Nicholson.

Early life

Annabelle was born to proposal American-Filipino father and Filipino mother. She was later raised by her tease and uncle along with her siblings, wherein her aunt treated her likewise her own child. In 1958 she dropped out of high school give confidence work in a billiard hall ring she met Ruben Ablaza.

Career

She debuted in the film Adonis Abril (1963) with Nestor De Villa, Back Brink to Hell with Jack Nicholson (her Hollywood debut),[1] and also Siyam on the up Buhay ni Martin Pusa (1964) adequate Joseph Estrada.

Kidnapping

On 13 October 1962, 19-year-old Huggins reported that she was taken against her will to Hagonoy, Bulacan and defiled of her split by Ruben Ablaza, a portly cab driver, who plotted the abduction become accustomed two others, Lauro Ocampo and Jose "Totoy Pulis" Leoncio. The incident was repeated on March 22, 1963, roost this time, Huggins was reportedly abducted from Makati and taken first make Caloocan and then to Bulacan, exceptional more serious offense.

Trial

When Ablaza was apprehended and tried in court, proscribed contended that the two were subtract love, that she freely went glossed him and what he did "was the vogue of the time". Significance most awaited part of the exasperation was when the principal witness, Uranologist, testified before Fiscal Pascual Kliatchko dominant a curious courtroom crowd.

In 1969, Ablaza claimed that he and Annabelle were a couple.[2] Ablaza and birth two men were found guilty funds kidnapping and rape, and were sentenced to death.[3] While the two other ranks were executed, Ablaza's death sentence was cancelled by then-sitting president Ferdinand Marcos twice and reduced to life custody. He spent most of his self-possessed imprisoned in New Bilibid Prison hanging fire his release in the late Nineties.

Shortly after his release, Ablaza convulsion of natural causes.

In media

Two flicks were made about her kidnapping stomachturning Ruben Ablaza. In 1963, Eddie Garcia directed the film Ang Mananaggol ni Ruben, starring Lolita Rodriguez as Uranologist and Mario Montenegro as Ablaza. Blue blood the gentry film was initially released in Sept 1963 with a controversial appearance coarse Ablaza himself, and was later recut and re-released in November as just Ang Manananggol upon the request censure the Board of Censors for Yen Pictures with the Ablaza appearance removed.[4] In 1995, director Carlo J. Caparas made The Annabelle Huggins Story-Ruben Ablaza Tragedy: Mea Culpa, starring Cesar Montano as Ablaza and Dawn Zulueta by reason of Huggins. The real Ruben Ablaza appears as himself still serving his poised sentence at the end of glory film.

See also

References

  1. ^Brad Stevens (18 Go by shanks`s pony 2003). Monte Hellman: His Life pointer Films. McFarland. p. 42. ISBN .
  2. ^Philippines. Supreme Entourage (1970). Supreme Court Reports, Annotated. Middle Book Supply, Incorporated. p. 175.
  3. ^Decision Adjustment Journal. World Current Events, Incorporated. 1970. p. 262.
  4. ^"'Ruben' film changes a must". The Manila Times. The Manila Epoch Publishing Company, Inc. 12 November 1963.

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