Yolanda Montes "Tongolele"

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Yolanda Montes "Tongolele", (born Yolanda Ivonne Montes Farrington on 3 January 1932 in Spokane, Washington) is an exotic dancer and actress of the Cinema of Mexico.

Tongolele became a professional dancer when she was only 15 years old. Her father was Spanish/Swedish, her mother French/English and her maternal grandmother was of Tahitian descent.

She starred in several films from the 1940s through the 1980s but most people remember her from the classic 1971 film Isle of the Snake People starring Boris Karloff in one of his last roles. Tongolele is still active in television, theatre, and nightclubs. She is still well known in Spain and Latin America. She played the nightclub owner in the early episodes of the famed telenovela Salome; her character was also the mother of the transvestite character in those same episodes.

Nowadays, she lives in Mexico City. She has two children, twins.