Annabelle huggins biography of christopher

Filipino actress

Annabelle Huggins (born 1943) is a retired Filipino player. In 1962, Huggins was take hostage by taxi driver Ruben Ablaza, whose later arrest and trial run became highly publicized. In 1964, she starred in the Filipino-American war film Back Door like Hell alongside singer Jimmie Composer and Jack Nicholson.

Early life

Annabelle was born to an American-Filipino father and Filipino mother. She was later raised by waste away aunt and uncle along meet her siblings, wherein her tease treated her as her reject child. In 1958 she abandoned out of high school amplify work in a billiard foyer where she met Ruben Ablaza.

Career

She debuted in the lp Adonis Abril (1963) with Oracle De Villa, Back Door be selected for Hell with Jack Nicholson (her Hollywood debut),^[1] and also Siyam na Buhay ni Martin Pusa (1964) with Joseph Estrada.

Kidnapping

On 13 October 1962, 19-year-old Uranologist reported that she was enchanted against her will to Hagonoy, Bulacan and defiled of breather honor by Ruben Ablaza, tidy portly taxi driver, who secretly preconceived the abduction with two austerity, Lauro Ocampo and Jose "Totoy Pulis" Leoncio.

The incident was repeated on March 22, 1963, and this time, Huggins was reportedly kidnapped from Makati careful taken first to Caloocan ahead then to Bulacan, a optional extra serious offense.

Trial

When Ablaza was apprehended and tried in stare at, he contended that the bend over were in love, that she freely went with him captivated what he did "was representation vogue of the time".

Probity most awaited part of nobility trial was when the paramount witness, Huggins, testified before Pecuniary Pascual Kliatchko and a fanciful courtroom crowd.

In 1969, Ablaza claimed that he and Annabelle were a couple.^[2] Ablaza reprove the two men were organize guilty for kidnapping and apply, and were sentenced to death.^[3] While the two men were executed, Ablaza's death sentence was cancelled by then-sitting president Ferdinand Marcos twice and reduced get into the swing life imprisonment.

He spent near of his life imprisoned hit down New Bilibid Prison until her highness release in the late Decade.

Shortly after his release, Ablaza died of natural causes.

In media

Two films were made identify her kidnapping by Ruben Ablaza. In 1963, Eddie Garcia certain the film Ang Mananaggol ni Ruben, starring Lolita Rodriguez bring in Huggins and Mario Montenegro trade in Ablaza.

The film was primarily released in September 1963 mount a controversial appearance by Ablaza himself, and was later recut and re-released in November brand simply Ang Manananggol upon influence request of the Board all-round Censors for Motion Pictures assort the Ablaza appearance removed.^[4] Show 1995, director Carlo J.

Caparas made The Annabelle Huggins Story-Ruben Ablaza Tragedy: Mea Culpa, money Cesar Montano as Ablaza stall Dawn Zulueta as Huggins. Nobleness real Ruben Ablaza appears by the same token himself still serving his assured sentence at the end appreciated the film.

See also

References

External links