Homenaje a Nelida Lobato-Producciones Vicari.(Juan Franco Lazzarini)

STORIES - LEGENDS - TALES - FILMS - EDITS - RESTORATIONS: BY JUAN FRANCO LAZZARINI. Haydée Nélida Menta, better known as Nélida Lobato (Buenos Aires, June 19, 1934 – Buenos Aires, May 9, 1982), was an Argentine dancer, actress, model, and vedette, one of the most prominent figures in Buenos Aires revue. Biography Nélida began her career at the age of 18 on a program on LR3 Radio Belgrano Televisión, showcasing her talent for dance. Later, Buddy Day, owner of the Bim-Bam-Bum Theater in Santiago, Chile, gave her the opportunity to become a star in his company. She made her film debut as an actress in 1954 in the film El Calavera, directed by Carlos Borcosque. She worked at the legendary Lido in Paris, France, becoming a leading figure in the show after performing in Las Vegas for five years alongside Dean Martin, among others. After touring abroad in 1961, she returned to Argentina with her husband, choreographer Éber Lobato, becoming the virtual successor to Nélida Roca in the Buenos Aires revue scene, headlined by the El Nacional and Maipo theaters. She successfully ventured into television as an actress and journalist, even hosting a lunch program (Almorzando con las estrellas - Lunching with the Stars) that at the time competed with Almorzando con Mirtha Legrand (Lunching with Mirtha Legrand). She had begun her television career in 1958, dancing with Éber's ballet company. Divorced from Lobato, she was briefly in a relationship with a well-known young television director from Chile, and later with actor Víctor Laplace. In 1977, she starred in the play Chicago with Ámbar La Fox, adapted by Enrique Pinti. Already suffering from terminal cancer, in January 1982, she debuted alongside Tato Bores in his final show: La mariposa en el Maipo (The Butterfly at the Maipo Theater). In July 1980, she was seen undergoing checkups at the Güemes Sanatorium due to kidney stones, amidst the intense attention given to the actor Luis Sandrini, who had recently passed away. She died of liver cancer in May 1982, at the age of 47. Her mother and her sister Betty were by her side. Her son Adrián died in a car accident in 2005.