Nelly Baylon was an actress in the Philippines

Philippines

The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...

. She was discovered by the owner of Sampaguita Pictures

Sampaguita Pictures

Sampaguita Pictures was a Philippine film production company. It was named for the Philippine National Flower, Sampaguita. The company has been long-defunct since the 1980s with Mike de Leon's classic "Batch '81" being the last film released...

 while she was selling Sampaguita flowers on the streets of Manila

Manila

Manila is the capital of the Philippines. It is one of the sixteen cities forming Metro Manila.Manila is located on the eastern shores of Manila Bay and is bordered by Navotas and Caloocan to the north, Quezon City to the northeast, San Juan and Mandaluyong to the east, Makati on the southeast,...

. She was born in 1937 under the name Bienvenida Anong and was raised by her mother Justa Santiago Vda De Anong along with her older siblings Eugenio Anong and Dolores Mapugay. She immediately took the film Chavacano of Dolphy

Dolphy

Rodolfo Vera Quizon, Sr. , known by his screen name Dolphy, is a Filipino comedian-actor in the Philippines. He has appeared in a number of works on stage, radio, television and movies.-Biography:Dolphy was born on P. Herrera St...

 in 1956. She also supported the movie of Gloria Romero

Gloria Romero

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 and Ric Rodrigo Hahabul-Habol. She was also associated with Susan Roces

Susan Roces

Jesusa Purificación Sonora , better known as Susan Rocés, is a Filipina actress and widow of Ronald Allan Kelley Poe, better known as Fernando Poe, Jr...

' films "Prinsesang Gusgusin" and "Mga Reyna ng Vicks". She was on her way to her first starring role shooting when a car accident took her life.

Films

• 1955 - Binibining kalog
• 1956 - Chavacano
• 1956 - Boksingera
• 1957 - Hahabul-Habol
• 1957 - Ismol but Teribol
• 1957 - Mga Ligaw na Bulaklak
• 1957 - Prinsesang Gusgusin
• 1958 - Mga Reyna ng Vicks