Tita Duran as a Filipina film actress who began as a child actress. She was the first successful child star of Philippine cinema.

Duran joined a movie in her early career as an eight-year-old child abandoned by her mother in 1936 family-drama of Awit ng mga Ulila. In 1938, Sampaguita Pictures spotted the child and cast her in a tear-jerker movie titled Inang Mahal. Her second movie for Sampaguita was Ang Magsasampaguita. Duran made two movies under LVN Pictures: Pangarap and Sawing Gantimpala both in 1940.

After World War II, she made a comeback in her studio Sampaguita Pictures. She joined in a war film with Carmen Rosales titled Guerilyera and typecasted in numerous musical films paired by some of Sampaguita's finest actors. Her last movie with Sampaguita was Isang Halik Mo Pancho. She made Maria Went to Town under Deegar Cinema Inc.

She was the mother of Francis Magalona and grandmother to Maxene Magalona.

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