Titien Sumarni

They had met in 1939, when Sumarni was seven years old, and he who was already working as a Hollandsche Beton Maatschappij employee in Surabaya.

Sumarni later often came to his house and made a friend with his wife's sister, they stopped seeing each other after Sumarni's married to Mustari and moved to Jakarta.

Sumarni is considered as one of glamorous Indonesian stars by Film Varia, she owned two luxury cars through her life.

She was called the most beautiful actress of the 1950s.

Born in Surabaya, she moved to Tasikmalaya as a child and developed an interest in stage acting, trained by her uncle and future husband Mustari, later acting for republican troops during the Indonesian National Revolution.

Sumarni became interested in the Indonesian film industry in 1950, after seeing Nana Mayo in Inspektur Rachman.

Sumarni began acting in film in 1951, making her debut with Seruni Laju.

Over her five-year career Sumarni acted in thirty films, established her own film production company, and became one of the most popular Indonesian actresses of her time.

With her husband's permission, she entered the industry in 1951 through an acquaintance, Harun Al-Rasyid, who was an employee at the Golden Arrow Film Company.

Al-Rasyid in turn introduced her to Rd Ariffien, a director.

Sumarni soon made her feature film debut in Golden Arrow's Seruni Laju; this was followed by a role in Kino Drama Atelier's Kenangan Masa and Gadis Olahraga (both 1951), though as the films' production schedules coincided Sumarni had contract difficulties.

After the death of Dr. Huyung, the manager and director for Kino Drama Atelier, Sumarni was contracted to Djamaluddin Malik's Persari, but migrated to Fred Young's Bintang Surabaja after she promoted cigarettes during an exhibition.

Sumarni's first production with Bintang Surabaja, Putri Solo (1953), was a major commercial success, breaking box-office records throughout the country.

Sumarni's fan mail increased from 20 to 30 letters a day to several hundred.

She was praised for her acting and sex appeal by film critique, who later said that she was quite interesting for Indonesian cinema.

There would subsequently be rumors into 1955 that her relations with Persari were stressed, though she later made peace with Malik.

On 7 August 1959, Sumarni who was in a state of depression was seeing walking barefoot in the street of Bandung, and later caused traffic jam.

She was reportedly depressed due to failed on suing her lover, Muhammad Jahja Ali, who she claimed to be the biological father of her children.

After being found depressed and sick, she was treated by pedicab driver, who then took her for treatment to a shaman called Mamah Atjeng.

Sumarni then lived with Atjeng for two months, and was later found by a journalist, Hajat Tatos Kusuma, who later took her to Bandung Advent Hospital in Coblong, Bandung.

The Indonesian entertainment news website KapanLagi.com reports that, at the time, she was living alone, had lost a considerable amount of weight, and was suffering from a lung infection.

After being treated for a week, Sumarni's health began to improved.

But later, she received and eat a black sticky rice from anonymous person, which made her health began to deteriorated.

Raden Ajeng Titien Sumarni (28 December 19? – 13 May 1966) was an Indonesian actress and producer who was active in the 1950s.

Following her final film, Sumarni fell out of the spotlight, eventually dying in 1966.

Sumarni was born on 28 December 19?

in Surabaya, Dutch East Indies.

She was the only child of mixed Javanese–Sundanese descent.

Her father, an assistant wedana in Surabaya, died when she was three.

Sumarni's mother, RA Sarimanah, started a hotel business to earn money for their daily need, and when Sumarni was aged six she moved to her mother's town in Tasikmalaya.

While in junior high school in Bandung, at the age of 15, Sumarni began studying acting under her uncle R. Mustari, who was 16 years her senior.

He later became her husband; according to the author Rd. Lingga Wisjnu, this was taken as revenge against her lover, an Indonesian military officer who cheated on her with Mustari's wife.

After marriage, Sumarni dropped out of school and began a career as a stage actress, entertaining troops fighting in the Indonesian National Revolution until she moved with her husband to Jakarta.

The couple had one children, a son named Tommy Sjarif.

Sometime after she gained popularity, she divorced Mustari and married Laurens Saerang, a rich entrepreneur from North Sulawesi.

Sumarni was reported to have had affair with several man such as Enoch Datubrata, former West Java Police Chief Entje Senu Abdul Rachman, and Sampetoding, which later made her pregnant, and then gave birth to her another four son.

Sumarni was involved in a romantic relationship with Muhammad Jahja Ali, a businessman who was her father colleague.

The doctor then planned to doing operation on her, but Sumarni died at 23.53 WIB (UTC+07:00) before the midnight of 14 May 1966, and her age was reported as 38.

Her doctor, Benjamin K. Supit, stated that she died from poisoning.

But on 13 June 1966, Harian Selecta wrote that Sumarni died from the complication of her long illness coupled with bouts of defecation continuously which makes her dehydrated.