Aldama is a surname shared by several notable people:
Rosa de Castilla (born María Victoria Ledesma Cuevas on May 30, 1931) is a Mexican actress and singer known for participating in "ranchera" films during Mexican cinema's Golden Age. She was nominated for an Ariel Award for "Best Actress in a Minor Role" for her participation in Tal para cual, starring Jorge Negrete. De Castilla is from Jalisco and is one of the few surviving legends of the Golden Age.
De Castilla was a leading lady of the 50s and 60s, the era critics claim as the "Golden Age of Mexican cinema", marking her debut in the film Los tres alegres compadres (1952). Shortly after, she was nominated for an Ariel Award for Best Actress in a Minor Role for Tal para cual (1953) starring Jorge Negrete and Luis Aguilar. She was a contract player at Producciones Rosas Priego, appearing in three of its many successful productions all released in 1959: Yo... el aventurero, with Antonio Aguilar, Tan bueno el giro como el colorado with Luis Aguilar, and Dos corazones y un cielo, with Demetrio González. Besides her acting career, de Castilla was an established singer who knew how to combine acting and singing.
Rosita Quintana (born Trinidad Rosa Quintana Muñóz de Kogan on July 16, 1925) is a Argentinan born Mexican film actress and singer of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema.
Quintana is remembered for her participation in numerous Mexican films between 1948-1960. She starred in movies like Calabacitas Tiernas (1949), along Tin Tan and Amalia Aguilar; Susana (1951) (directed by Luis Buñuel; El Mil Amores (1954), with Pedro Infante and many others. In 2005, she returned to the films with Club Eutanasia. As a singer, she is remembered in notable tangos and boleros as Bendita Mentira.
Alfredo Sadel (February 22, 1930 – June 28, 1989) was a popular Venezuelan singer and actor.
Born Alfredo Sánchez Luna in Caracas, Venezuela, Sadel was affectionately called "The Favorite Tenor of Venezuela". He adopted his stage name by combining the first syllable of his surname with the last syllable of the surname of his favorite idol, tango singer Carlos Gardel. According to musician Aldemaro Romero, Sadel became Venezuela's heart-throb due to his huge popularity with the feminine audience. Being in the peak of his popularity he was shown to the doors of Hollywood, but convinced of his conditions for the bel canto, he went to Europe to cultivate his spirit through the serious music, studying in important conservatories, to devote himself to the opera and zarzuela genres.
The means meanness certain and his political affinity carried difficulties to him in his country. Nevertheless, he was acclaimed. He made films in Cuba and Mexico next to Graciela Naranjo and Amador Bendayán, among other important Venezuelan artists.
Eulalio González (December 16, 1921 – September 1, 2003) was a Mexican film actor, singer, screenwriter, film director, film producer, and songwriter. Starting his career as a radio personality for the XEW and an extra in uncredited roles in films, González was later best-known for his comic performance of an elderly norteño named "Piporro", in the film Ahí viene Martín Corona and the radio-novela of the same name.
His popular portrayals of comical, witty "norteño" characters from Nuevo León during the Golden era of Mexican cinema, led him to become a famous leading man in films of the 1960s. "Piporro" later became his permanent professional nickname.
Nominated two times for a Silver Ariel Award in 1955-56 and winning the latter year, Piporro's highest-grossing films include El rey del tomate, and La Valentina with María Félix.
Piporro was born Eulalio González Ramírez in the provincial town of Los Herrera, Nuevo León approximately 50 miles east of Monterrey, to Pablo González Barrera, a Mexican customs agent, and his wife Elvira Ramírez. During his early infancy, González's father had to work in various towns across the northern border of Mexico, one of them being Río Bravo, Tamaulipas. This caused the family to relocated several times to different populations. He was known as a witty, young boy.