Paraluman – Silver Screen Icon of the 1940s In the photo stands Paraluman, the dazzling screen goddess of Philippine cinema, born Sigrid Sophia Agatha de Torres von Giese in Tayabas, Quezon, in 1923. The daughter of a German father and a Filipina mother, she carried in her features an arresting blend of East and West—an otherworldly beauty that set her apart. Hailed as the “Greta Garbo of the Philippines,” she possessed a face carved with perfect bone structure, eyes that seemed to hold a hypnot

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