Chelo Alonso

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Chelo Alonso
Actress
Years active	1959–1969

Chelo Alonso (born Isabel Apolonia García Hernández, 10 April 1933 – 20 February 2019) was a Cuban actress who became a star in

with fiery tempers and sensual dance scenes.

Biography

Alonso was born Isabel Apolonia García Hernández in Central Lugareño, Camagüey, Cuba, to a Cuban father and Mexican mother. She initially achieved recognition in Cuba for her dancing ability, becoming a sensation at Cuba's National Theatre in Havana.

Soon after, she emerged as a new exotic dancing talent at the

".

Alonso was first noticed internationally in the 1959 film, Nel segno di Roma (Sheba and the Gladiator), which starred Anita Ekberg and Georges Marchal. Owing to a particularly erotic dance number, her picture and name became more prominent on the movie's publicity posters than either of the two leads, much to Ekberg's dismay.

Most of Alonso's films were

(1960). Goliath and the Barbarians earned Alonso the award of "Italian Cinema's Female Discovery".

In 1960, while making Morgan il pirata, Alonso met and married Aldo Pomilia, a production manager and producer. After making together Quattro notti con Alba (Desert War) in 1962, they had one son, Aldino Pomilia, and she retired for a while.

During a visit to Aldo in Spain, where he was the production supervisor of

as Dolores, which is arguably the best film role of her career. Chelo then made a brief appearance in a variation of that previous role, also called Dolores, in another cult western, the bizarre La notte dei serpenti (Nest of Vipers) after which she abandoned the film scene and focused on Italian TV.

After the death of her husband in 1986, Alonso moved to the city of

.

Chelo Alonso died on 20 February 2019, at the age of 85.^[1]

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1959	Guardatele ma non toccatele	Pepita Garcia
	Nel Segno di Roma (Sheba and the Gladiator)	Erica
	Tunis Top Secret	Sherazad / Soraya
	Il terrore dei barbari (Goliath and the Barbarians)	Landa
	La scimitarra del Saraceno (The Pirate and the Slave Girl)	Princess Miriam
	I Reali di Francia (Attack of the Moors)	Suleima
1960	Il terrore della maschera rossa (Terror of the Red Mask)	Karima
	La strada dei giganti (Road of the Giants)	Stella Von Kruger
	Le signore	Rosaria
	La regina dei tartari (The Huns)	Tanya, Queen of the Tartars
	Morgan il pirata (Morgan, the Pirate)	Concepcion
	Maciste nella Valle dei Re (Son of Samson)	Queen Smedes
	Gastone	Carmencita
1961	Maciste nella terra dei ciclopi (Atlas Against the Cyclops)	Capys
	La ragazza sotto il lenzuolo [it] (Girl Under the Sheet)	Maria Celeste Cortez d'Aragona
1962	Quattro notti con Alba (Desert War)	Alba Petti
1966	Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly)	Stevens' Wife	Uncredited
1968	Corri uomo corri (Run, Man, Run)	Dolores
1969	La notte dei serpenti [de] (Night of the Serpent / Nest of Vipers)	Dolores	(final film role)

References

External links

• Chelo Alonso at
  IMDb
• Chelo Alonso on Java's Bachelor Pad
• Chelo Alonso on Glamour Girls of the Silver Screen