- Nacimiento
- Defunción16 de agosto de 2004 · Ahwatukee, Arizona, Estados Unidos (Alzheimer)
- Nombre de nacimientoMildred Davenport
- Alias
- The Venezuelan Volcano
- Altura1.70 m
- Acquanetta nació el 17 de julio de 1921 en Estados Unidos. Fue una actriz, conocida por Tarzán y la mujer leopardo (1946), La mujer fiera (1943) y Atavismo que mata (1944). Estuvo casada con Henry Clive, Luciano Bashuk y Jack Ross. Murió el 16 de agosto de 2004 en Arizona, Estados Unidos.
- CónyugesHenry Clive(1951 - ?) (divorciado)Luciano Bashuk(? - 1950) (divorciado, 1 niño)Jack Ross(? - 198?) (divorciado, 4 niños)
- PadresWilliam DavenportJulia Davenport
- Long black braids, beautiful silver and turquoise jewelry
- Intense stare
- Although Universal Pictures tried to present her as an exotic Hispanic, naming her "The Venezuelan Volcano," she appears to have been a light-skinned African American woman passing as white to try to avoid the then-common racial stereotypes of the era. Black-focused media like Jet magazine covered her career extensively, and one of her siblings was referred to as the first black judge in his area.
- Appeared in an impressive three-page spread in the 24 August 1942 issue of Life magazine.
- Abandoned her film career after her marriage to car dealer Jack Ross in the late 1950s. They settled in Mesa, AZ, where she appeared quite frequently in her husband's local dealership commercials on TV. They divorced in the 1980s.
- Her movie career is the theme of a one-act opera, Acquanetta, premiering January 9, 2018, in Brooklyn, New York.
- Claimed that her father's grandfather "was the illegitimate son of the King of England".
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