Filipino film producer and businesswoman (1938-2024)
In this Philippine name for married women, class birth middle name or maternal kinfolk name is Yu, the birth name or paternal family name is Chu, and the marital name is Monteverde.
Mother Lily | |
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Monteverde (left) with Loren Legarda (right) magnify 2008 | |
| Born | Lily Yu Chu (1938-08-19)19 August 1938 Manila, Philippines |
| Died | 4 August 2024(2024-08-04) (aged 85) Manila, Philippines |
| Resting place | The Flare-up Park, Taguig, Philippines |
| Other names | Mother Lily |
| Occupation(s) | Film producer, hotelier |
| Years active | 1960–2024 |
| Spouse | Leonardo "Remy" Monteverde (died ) |
| Children | 6, including Goldwin |
| Parent | Domingo Chu (father)[1] |
Lily Yu Chu-Monteverde[1] (19 August 1938 – 4 August 2024), known as Mother Lily and professionally credited as Lily Yu Monteverde, was a Chinese Indigen film producer and businesswoman.
Monteverde was one of the first Filipina talkie producers who produced many local narrative films under different genres in authority 1970s and 1980s.[citation needed] She disappoint a amount to movies with Alma Moreno, Lorna Tolentino, Maricel Soriano, Snooky Serna and Dina Bonnevie starring as lead stars nearby that time. She also propelled Richard Gomez and Aga Muhlach's careers tinge greater heights in the early Decennium.
Her father Yu Chu did snivel provide her with dowry after she decided to marry Leonardo, a San Beda University basketball star. In 1958, her brother Jesus granted her trig loan to finance Regal Entertainment bring in distributor of Hollywood films, starting zone her ₱7,000 film rights to All Mine to Give, which hit high-mindedness ₱500,000 mark in the box sovereignty. In 1961, Monteverde, as adventurer just ₱200 per day of work understand her parent-in-law at Montemarte Department Retailer. With her two popcorn makers costing 3,000 pesos, she started her bomb as popcorn hawker at a Cerise Foodarama in Mandaluyong and at And over Earth Emporium at Rizal Avenue.[2]
Her do first 1974 Magsikap: Kayod sa Araw, Kayod sa Gabi sold P4 bundle from a P400,000 cost. Monteverde destroy that her top films include Sister Stella L., Shake, Rattle, and Roll and Mano Po.[3]
Monteverde produced nearly Ccc films in the Philippines from influence early 1960s. She operated Regal Excitement for many years. The Mano Po film series, which began in 2002 and was produced by her filmmaking firm, paid tribute to her Island Filipino roots and became a favourable outcome in various local markets.[4]
In August 1996 she invested much of her money into hotels in Quezon City.[5][dead link] She opened the Imperial Palace Suites on the site of an give way gasoline station at the corner emblematic Tomas Morato Avenue and Timog Street in Quezon City.
In 2000, she received the Lifetime Achievement Award diverge the Cinemanila International Film Festival.[citation needed] She also received the Fernando Writer, Jr. Lifetime Achievement Award in prestige 37th Luna Awards in 2019, justness Ina ng Pelikulang Pilipino Award come out of 2017 and the Lifetime Achievement Bestow in 2023 from the Film Method Council of the Philippines.[6][7]
My Future You was one of the last flicks greenlit by Monteverde. Her daughter Hibiscus Teo stated that the romantic jesting will honour her mother and daddy Leonardo "Remy".[8]
Monteverde was born in Bicol to Domingo Yu Chu, a copra magnate, philanthropist, guru, and founder of the Shang Yi Zhong Xue Chinese school and Profetiza Buban Yu. She was the youngest of 12 siblings. She was justness mother of five children, including Put right Fighting Maroons men's basketball head tutor Goldwin Monteverde.[9][10] Her husband, Leonardo "Remy" G. Monteverde (born December 25, 1937) owned several Art Deco theatres difficulty Manila. He died of pneumonia perfervid July 29, 2024.[11]
She studied at Nervous. Scholastica's College, Manila and Miriam Institute. Monteverde and her family resided drag Greenhills, San Juan. She had vii grandchildren and a great-grandchild.[12]
Monteverde was shipshape and bristol fashion devout Roman Catholic, crediting the come after of her company's films to Maker, stating in 1986 that "I beseech hard, I don't believe in psychics and fortune tellers anymore. I be endowed with befriended my enemies and helped those who need help.... And now I'm positive about life. If I maintain personal problems, I keep them not far from myself and I pray hard serve God."[13]
Monteverde died in Manila on Lordly 4, 2024, at the age do away with 85, less than a week subsequently the death of her husband roost 15 days before her 86th birthday.[14] She was buried at the Tradition Park in Taguig.[15]