Actress Nati Abascal (1944)

Woody Allen’s Bananas (1971) follows the story of Fielding Mellish, a neurotic blue-collar worker. His attempts to impress social activist Nancy lead him to the fictional ‘banana republic’ of San Marcos, which is undergoing a coup d’état led by Gen. Emilio Molina Vargas. Despite his efforts to show compassion for the local people, Mellish becomes entangled in the political turmoil when Vargas orders his own men to kill him as part of a plan to gain financial aid from the U.S. Although Mellish narrowly escapes these assassination attempts, he is eventually captured by the real rebels and declared ...