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Anita Jordán

Argentinian actor

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ5696128 ↗
Source-derived summary

Anita Jordán (1917-1946) was an Argentine film and stage actress.

Selected filmography

Only the Valiant (1940)

The Englishman of the Bones (1940)

References

Bibliography

Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.

Editorial summary

“Anita Jordán” enters the record as argentinian actor. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Anita, Jordán and Argentinian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1917, 1946, 1940, 1999—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1917-11-20. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Anita, Jordán and Argentinian.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Anita Jordán” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Anita, Jordán and Argentinian provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5696128. VIAF identifies the subject as 51530911. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1917, 1946, 1940 and 1999.

Critical limits

Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “Anita Jordán” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.