in a
film still for the 1935 Argentine film
Por buen camino, directed by
Eduardo Morera. Blanca de Castejón Otero was born in
Comerío, Puerto Rico, to Rafael Castejón Arnáiz, a telegraph operator, and Josefa Otero Rivera, a housewife. Had a younger sister named Margarita, a dancer. She began her career by participating in the theater and
radio of Puerto Rico. After stops in Mexico City and Havana, where she worked in the theater, Castejón went to Buenos Aires, where she made two feature films:
Crimen a las tres (1935, a box-office flop) and
Por buen camino (1935). By the late 1930s she returned to
Hollywood and starred in
Spanish-language films, notably
Mis dos amores (1938), starring the popular Mexican star
Tito Guizar, and
Los hijos mandan (
Gabriel Soria, 1939), with
Fernando Soler and
Arturo de Córdova. Castejón co-wrote the screenplay of
Los hijos mandan and both films were produced by Puerto Rican Rafael Ramos Cobián. The actress was married to Mexican actor
Rafael Banquells when she relocated to Mexico City and joined the national film industry, where she made about thirty movies, taking part in what is known as the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema. Castejón's last film was
Los Signos del Zodiaco (1963). ==Filmography==