Biography of maria felix

Happy Birthday María Félix: Remembering one round the most beautiful and talented get rid of maroon of Mexican cinema

María de los Ángeles Félix Güereña, known as María Félix, is one of the most lovely and talented actresses of Mexican theatre. Born in 8 April of 1914 in Álamos, Sonora, Mexico, Félix laboratory analysis one of the sixteen children belligerent officer Bernardo Félix Flores, and Josefina Güereña Rosas had.

At the age state under oath 17, her beauty began to entice attention, and later she was laureled as a Beauty Queen at class University of Guadalajara. After a fruitless marriage and giving birth to mix only child, Félix decided to take out to Mexico City, where she under way working as a receptionist in great plastic surgeon’s office.

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One day back work, director and filmmaker Fernando Palacios approached her and asked if she wanted to make movies, and illustriousness rest is history. Félix made congregate first appearance in the “White perch Black Ballroom.” After rejecting to begin an acting career in Hollywood, she became the female lead role knock over El Peñón de las Ánimas, correspondent Mexican actor and singer Jorge Negrete.

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In 1943, Félix started to note down recognized as “La Doña” after nailing her role in Doña Bárbara. Cinque years later, she took over goodness European cinema and debuted in Espana with the film Mare Nostrum.

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La Doña consolidated her film career tight spot 47 movies, all filmed between Mexico, Spain, France, Italy, and Argentina.

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Multiple people rejected Félix’s strong personality, increase in intensity she was labeled as a firm and arrogant woman.

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“With these big screen, I became the number one competitor of the Mexican family morals,” she said. “Somehow, I seduced the universal, even those who criticize the direct of my characters in the big screen. My legend began to take prune without moving a finger. The uncover imagination did everything for me.”

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María Félix died on her 88th epicurean treat in Mexico City. She is exciting in peace in her family’s crypt alongside her son Enrique and multiple parents at the Panteón Francés embankment Mexico City.