Juanita Antido

Juanita Antido (died 1945) was a controversial early 20th-century vaudeville performer. She was born in Cebu, Philippines around 1900. She became internationally known via performance tours in Penang, Shanghai, Singapore, and Hong Kong during the early 1920s with Filipina companion Conchita Blus.

Career While in Hong Kong, Antido and Blus served as live accompanying performers at screenings of the American silent film White Hands, which featured contemporary Filipina actress Elena Jurado. Each night before the showing, they would entertain the audience with song and dance. Antido and Blus were credited with the introduction of the flapper-era 'shimmy-shake' jazz dance to Singapore and Hong Kong during their tours in 1921 and 1922.

Some references, including a playbill in Hong Kong, suggest that Antido appeared in White Hands as a bit player, but no evidence indicates that Antido had made the trans-Pacific crossings during the October to December 1921 time period during which the film was produced. Indeed, during that time period she and Blus were touring in the Straits Settlements.

Controversy Antido's performances were often controversial and deemed scandalous in the Philippines. In October 1924, Antido entered the Convent of the Good Shepherd in Manila for the purported reason that her father had neglected her education,