
She also had a television appearance as a magician’s assistant and was a singer on the Bobby Limb Show in 1960. One of Pilita's adventures with Calvert include a newsreel of the couple drinking ‘jungle juice’ with a gorilla at Sydney’s Taronga Park Zoo. Pilita performed at Sydney's Empire Theatre. After this they sailed in the Sea Fox to the great 'Land Down Under' in the southern seas, but days out of Darwin en route to Sydney, the Sea Fox ran into trouble and drifted without power for four days, until the Australian air force and navy came to the rescue. Calvert invited Corrales to board his yacht, the Sea Fox, and together they set sail for Singapore. In the late 1950s, Pilita Corrales, a young Filipino singer from Cebu, met the American actor and magician, John Calvert, while performing in Manila.
