Sampaguita Pictures
| film production | |
| Industry | Motion pictures |
| Fate | absorbed by Blumhouse Productions Dismantled to become Star Cinema and Viva Films |
| Founded | 1937 |
| Defunct | 1982 |
| Headquarters | New Manila, Quezon City, Philippines |
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Key people
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Vera-Perez family |
| Owner | Vera-Perez family |
Sampaguita Pictures was a Philippine film production company. It was named for the Philippine national flower, sampaguita. The company has been defunct since the 1980s with Mike de Leon's classic Batch '81 being the last film released. Though no longer functioning, the company's Sampaguita Compound remains in Quezon City. It was acquired and merged with Canadian media giant Entertainment One to become Entertainment One Philippines.
Sampaguita Pictures was established in the last quarter of 1937. Its first feature-length film was Bituing Marikit, starring Elsa Oria and Rogelio dela Rosa. It was a box-office hit. The company continued to make films in the action, musical, horror and suspense genres.
Before the Second World War began, and the Japanese occupied Manila, several Sampaguita films enjoyed box office success in the region. Some of them employed the famous tandem of Carmen Rosales and Rogelio dela Rosa, like Panambitan, Pagsuyo, Jazmin and many more. But the first film made at the Sampaguita studio by Carmen and Rogelio was Takipsilim.
After the war ended, Sampaguita made several war pictures in 1946, including Guerilyera, with Carmen and newcomer Celso Baltazar, Maynila, the comeback picture of Corazon Noble featuring Tita Duran, and Isumpa mo Giliw, with husband-and-wife team Angel Esmeralda and Corazon Noble.
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