Nina Quartero was a motion picture actress from New York City

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, whose career spanned the years 1928 - 1943. Often she played supporting roles and sometimes a diversive love interest for the lead male actor.

In One Stolen Night (1929) Quartero was cast with Betty Bronson

Betty Bronson

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 and William Collier

William Collier

William Collier, Jr. was an American film and stage actor who appeared in 89 films.-Biography:Collier was born as Charles F. Gal, Jr. in New York City...

. The story concerns a British

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 World War I

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 soldier who comes to the assistance of an enslaved dancer. In Frozen River (1929) she was paired with Raymond McKee as the motion picture's romantic leads. Wonder dog, Rin Tin Tin

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, is the most unlikely of heroes in the screen drama.

In 1931 Quartero appeared in Arizona, an early John Wayne

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 movie. Playing Conchita, she is a source of strife in Wayne's relationship to the characters depicted by Laura La Plante

Laura La Plante

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 and June Clyde

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. She performed again with Wayne in The Man From Monterrey (1933).

Her final screen performances show Quartero playing smaller parts, such as the role of a Cuban

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 dancer in Torchy Blane In Panama (1938), a native dancer in Green Hell (1940) and a bar-girl in A Lady Takes A Chance (1943).

Nina Quartero died in Woodland Hills, California in 1985.

Publicity seeker

Quartero once tried a publicity stunt by claiming that she was betrothed to Notre Dame

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 All-American Quarterback

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 Frank Carideo

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. Carideo demanded a retraction of Quartero's engagement announcement, although admitted he knew her from a time when each resided in Mount Vernon, New York

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. He had also visited her home, in Beverly Hills, California

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, prior to the 1930 University of Southern California

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game, to exchange greetings.