Before the passing of Asia's Queen of Songs Pilita Corrales on the 12th of April, 2025, it was the beautiful Charito Malarky who kicked the bucket.
Who is Rosario "Charito" Malarky?
Rosario "Charito" Malarky was the mom of equally beautiful Cristina Gonzalez-Romualdez, also known nationally as Kring Kring Gonzalez, the sexy actress and First Lady of Tacloban City being the wife of City Mayor Alfred Romualdez.
Malarky, popularly known also as Charito Malarky was a former movie star but when former matinee idol Jose Mari Gonzalez laid his on her, he courted her, said yes to him and eventually got married after which she was confined to the domestic household--which she had performed effectively and passionately--of the Gonzalezes.
It was a perfect arrangement for a popular actor Jose Mari and a stunning, promising star who was nipped in the bud before she blossomed into a glamorous actress.
I've known Charito for many years when she was accompanying Kring Kring and Anna Margarita Gonzalez, better known as Anna Margarita, the actress, to film shoots and TV tapings.
I was always at their house which was adjacent to Cinema Audio Recording, Inc., a recording studio which Jose Mari bought from Fernando Poe, Jr. and Susan Roces.
Tita Charito was a charming lady.
She was very friendly to the movie press.
Even if she was already a Senior Citizen at the time, she is still beautiful and glamorous.
During her wake at the Heritage Park and Crematorium days before Pilita's remains laid in state at the chapel, a lot of showbiz people paid their last respects to Tita Charito.
Three of the TV, movie, stage and multimedia stars who attended her funeral wake were actress Jennifer Sevilla, Ana Abiera and Jessah Chichirita, entertainment reporter Erlinda Rapadas T. and talent manager, columnist and vlogger Aster Amoyo, a native of Borongan, Eastern Samar.
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