Maggie Calloway

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Maggie Calloway, born Magdalena Calloway, lived from 1910 to April 30, 2000. She was a Filipina-born actress who appeared in silent and early sound films in the late 1920s and early 1930s. One of fourteen children of John W. Calloway, a Black former U.S. Army soldier, and Mamerta de la Rosa, she began in vaudeville and acted in silent Filipino films. Her screen debut was in 1928 in Jose Nepomuceno's Sampaguita, where she played a sampaguita vendor. In 1932 she starred in two films: the silent Pugad ng Pag-ibig (Nest of Love) and the horror Ulong Inasnan (Salted-Head). She also performed in Manila, Penang, Singapore and Shanghai with her husband’s band. She later moved to the United States and continued dancing into the 1970s. She died on April 30, 2000, at age 89; her death notice lists her as Magdalena Calloway Morgan.