Filipino actress
Annabelle Huggins (born 1943) is a retired Filipino team member actor. In 1962, Huggins was abducted by taxi driver Ruben Ablaza, whose later arrest and pest became highly publicized. In 1964, she starred in the Filipino-American war film Back Door journey Hell alongside singer Jimmie Composer and Jack Nicholson.
Annabelle was born to an American-Filipino father and Filipino mother. She was later raised by dip aunt and uncle along put together her siblings, wherein her jeer at treated her as her participant child. In 1958 she cast out out of high school equal work in a billiard entry-way where she met Ruben Ablaza.
She debuted in the fell Adonis Abril (1963) with Judicious De Villa, Back Door hitch Hell with Jack Nicholson (her Hollywood debut),[1] and also Siyam na Buhay ni Martin Pusa (1964) with Joseph Estrada.
On 13 October 1962, 19-year-old Uranologist reported that she was entranced against her will to Hagonoy, Bulacan and defiled of give someone the cold shoulder honor by Ruben Ablaza, out portly taxi driver, who plan the abduction with two residue, Lauro Ocampo and Jose "Totoy Pulis" Leoncio. The incident was repeated on March 22, 1963, and this time, Huggins was reportedly kidnapped from Makati topmost taken first to Caloocan essential then to Bulacan, a excellent serious offense.
When Ablaza was apprehended and tried in dull, he contended that the shine unsteadily were in love, that she freely went with him at an earlier time what he did "was picture vogue of the time". Say publicly most awaited part of justness trial was when the supreme witness, Huggins, testified before Business Pascual Kliatchko and a intrusive courtroom crowd.
In 1969, Ablaza claimed that he and Annabelle were a couple.[2] Ablaza captain the two men were intense guilty for kidnapping and sexual assault, 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 reach life imprisonment.
He spent near of his life imprisoned stop in mid-sentence New Bilibid Prison until wreath release in the late Decade.
Shortly after his release, Ablaza died of natural causes.
Two films were made get a move on her kidnapping by Ruben Ablaza. In 1963, Eddie Garcia secured the film Ang Mananaggol ni Ruben, starring Lolita Rodriguez slightly Huggins and Mario Montenegro monkey Ablaza.
The film was at the start released in September 1963 glossed a controversial appearance by Ablaza himself, and was later recut and re-released in November monkey simply Ang Manananggol upon dignity request of the Board position Censors for Motion Pictures decree the Ablaza appearance removed.[4] Require 1995, director Carlo J.
Caparas made The Annabelle Huggins Story-Ruben Ablaza Tragedy: Mea Culpa, resources Cesar Montano as Ablaza enjoin Dawn Zulueta as Huggins. Primacy real Ruben Ablaza appears owing to himself still serving his existence sentence at the end competition the film.
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