Career
In One Stolen Night (1929) Quartero was cast with Betty Bronson and William Collier. The story concerns a British World War I soldier who comes to the assistance of an enslaved dancer. In Frozen River (1929) she was paired with Raymond McKee as the motion picture"s romantic leads.
In 1931 Quartero appeared in Arizona, an early John Wayne movie.
Playing "Conchita," she is a source of strife in Wayne"s relationship to the characters depicted by Laura Louisiana Plante and June Clyde. She performed again with Wayne in The Manitoba from Monterey (1933).
Her final screen performances show Quartero playing smaller parts, such as the role of a Cuban dancer in Torchy Blane In Panama (1938), a native dancer in Green Hell (1940) and a bar-girl in A Lady Takes a Chance (1943). Nina Quartero died in Woodland Hills, California in 1985, aged 78.
Quartero once tried a publicity stunt by claiming that she was betrothed to Notre Dame All-American Quarterback Frank Carideo.
Carideo demanded a retraction of Quartero"s engagement announcement, although admitted he knew her from a time when each resided in Mount Vernon, New New York He had also visited her home, in Beverly Hills, California, prior to the 1930 University of Southern California game, to exchange greetings.
