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Mother Lily
owes it all to a popcorn machine!
Manila Bulletin

Much has been written about Mother Lily (Monteverde), how she started out, how she succeeded (and failed too along the way), her outbursts, her shrewdness, her sometimes unorthodox ways, and even her personal life. Continue below.

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It's not always that she is written about in a flattering light, and one thing is certain - in the history of Philippine cinema, Mother Lily is a legend in her own right! Her reputation precedes her and no matter what, many people would think they owe their lives to her.

Today, she is among the very few who has continued to produce movies even if sometimes her films fail to break even at the box-office, because according to her, filmmaking is her passion and mission in life.

But how did she really start in the business? How did she succeed? Believe it or not, she said she owes it all to a popcorn machine!

During a recent well-attended Anvil event, Mother Lily bares her heart and soul to her fellow Chinese-Filipinos. She related how she began building her own business empire almost 50 years ago through her inmate business acumen, how she survived the odds and how she attained this stature of local moviedom's demigod.

In her well-applauded speech (she was actually given a standing ovation at the end), Mother emphasized that "I am self-made, I never depended on my parents, I never got a cent from them. My father (the conservative Domingo Chu) was a copra magnate who could afford to give me a mansion, but I never got one from him. Neither did I get anything from my father-in-law."

Why she never got anything from her parents was because among 12 children, she was the black sheep she confessed. Her father had to put her in convents (at St. Scholastica's and Maryknoll where she spent eight years in all but never finished her college course!) in an effort to tame her, but the young and adventurous Lily got her own ways, sneaking during the day or even night either to go to Sampaguita or LVN Studios to see her favorite movie stars, or to meet her suitors at nearby Ateneo de Manila University.

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