Rosa Carmina
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Rosa Carmina is a Mexican-Cuban film actress and dancer of the Golden age of Mexican cinema
in the 1940s and 1950s. She is considered one of the icons of the "Rumberas film
".
Born in La Habana, she was discovered by the Spanish director and producer Juan Orol
, seeking a substitute for his former muse and ex wife Maria Antonieta Pons
. She goes to México to starr in the movie Una Mujer de oriente (1946).
She formed a cinematographic team with Orol in numerous films in the 1940s and 1950s.
Her most popular films are Tania, la bella salvaje (1947), Viajera (1951), En carne viva (1952), Sandra, la Mujer de Fuego (1954), Sindicato del Crímen (1955) and many more. She was the most famous star of Juan Orol
. Ultimate star of the "Cine de Gángsters" of the Mexican Cinema. Rosa's ellegant style was the key of her great success.
As an entrepreneur of her own shows, is a pioneer, to perform live in both arenas, and stadiums, along the Latin American continent in which significant successes achieved in an era when television was still not considered a means mass media. Carmina films under Mario Vargas Llosa
direction Pantaleón y las Visitadoras (1974), a Paramount production made in the Dominican Republic, which Rosa is dressed by Oscar de la Renta
, and works with Katy Jurado
and José Sacristán
. The film is considered one of her last relevant appearances in the cinema.
She has received numerous honors, both in Mexico and abroad, which offered both at the Centre George Pompidou in Paris, as the Festival of Three Continents in Nantes, France, where she earned a tremendous success according to the French press to appear live with her show "Rumba, poetry and song", as well as at several universities in Germany. The charismatic Mexican painter and sculptor Jose Luis Cuevas
, baptizes the Zona Rosa
of the Mexico City in her honor. Married several times, her first husband, Francisco Morales Llanes, was military head of the "Intelligence" "in Cuba during the Second World War. After he married the controversial Spanish producer and director John Orol. Her third husband was Ramon de Florez, belonging to a Spanish family of pedigree linked both to the court of Alfonso XIII, as the Mexican dictator Porfirio Díaz. In her fourth and fifth marriage joined entrepreneurs of Spanish and Lebanese origin, respectively. Was known, too, the great admiration that especially aroused in the dictator Rafael Leónidas Trujillo
of the Dominican Republic, as in Marcos Pérez Jiménez
of Venezuela.
Actually lives retired in the most exclusive area of Barcelona, Spain, with the same glamour as ever.
She returned in the telenovelas in the 1980s and 1990s. Her last performance was alongside the singer Thalía
in the Mexican superhit María Mercedes
in 1992.
She is remembered as one of the greatests Rumba
dancers of the Mexican Cinema along the superstars Maria Antonieta Pons
, Meche Barba
, Amalia Aguilar
and Ninón Sevilla
,frequently referred as the "Tropical Queens".
In 2006 she was honored with the Silver Ariel award for her contribution to the Mexican Motion picture industry.
Golden age of the cinema of Mexico
The Golden Age of Mexican cinema is a period between 1936 and 1969 where the quality and economic success of the cinema of Mexico reached its peak....
in the 1940s and 1950s. She is considered one of the icons of the "Rumberas film
Rumberas film
The Rumberas film was a sub-genre film of the Golden age of Mexican Cinema , whose plots were set primarily in cabarets...
".
Career
Rosa Carmina is a legendary Cuban actress and vedette of the Golden age of Mexican cinema.Born in La Habana, she was discovered by the Spanish director and producer Juan Orol
Juan Orol
Juan Orol was a Spanish and Mexican actor, screenwriter and director of the Cinema of Mexico.-Early life:He was born in La Coruña, Galicia...
, seeking a substitute for his former muse and ex wife Maria Antonieta Pons
María Antonieta Pons
Maria Antonieta Pons was a Cuban born Mexican film actress and Rumba dancer.-Career:Born in Cuba in 1922, from Catalan origin, she was one of the most notorious rumba dancers of her times. She was discovered in Cuba by the Spanish film director Juan Orol. Emigrated to Mexico City to film Siboney...
. She goes to México to starr in the movie Una Mujer de oriente (1946).
She formed a cinematographic team with Orol in numerous films in the 1940s and 1950s.
Her most popular films are Tania, la bella salvaje (1947), Viajera (1951), En carne viva (1952), Sandra, la Mujer de Fuego (1954), Sindicato del Crímen (1955) and many more. She was the most famous star of Juan Orol
Juan Orol
Juan Orol was a Spanish and Mexican actor, screenwriter and director of the Cinema of Mexico.-Early life:He was born in La Coruña, Galicia...
. Ultimate star of the "Cine de Gángsters" of the Mexican Cinema. Rosa's ellegant style was the key of her great success.
As an entrepreneur of her own shows, is a pioneer, to perform live in both arenas, and stadiums, along the Latin American continent in which significant successes achieved in an era when television was still not considered a means mass media. Carmina films under Mario Vargas Llosa
Mario Vargas Llosa
Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquis of Vargas Llosa is a Peruvian-Spanish writer, politician, journalist, essayist, and Nobel Prize laureate. Vargas Llosa is one of Latin America's most significant novelists and essayists, and one of the leading authors of his generation...
direction Pantaleón y las Visitadoras (1974), a Paramount production made in the Dominican Republic, which Rosa is dressed by Oscar de la Renta
Oscar de la Renta
Oscar de la Renta is one of the world's leading fashion designers. He was named to the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame in 1973.-Career:...
, and works with Katy Jurado
Katy Jurado
Katy Jurado , born María Cristina Estela Marcela Jurado García in Mexico, D.F., was a Mexican actress who had a successful film career both in Mexico and in Hollywood....
and José Sacristán
José Sacristán
José Sacristán is a famous Spanish film, theatre and television actor.He has directed three films:* Yo me bajo en la próxima, ¿y usted? * Cara de acelga * Soldados de plomo...
. The film is considered one of her last relevant appearances in the cinema.
She has received numerous honors, both in Mexico and abroad, which offered both at the Centre George Pompidou in Paris, as the Festival of Three Continents in Nantes, France, where she earned a tremendous success according to the French press to appear live with her show "Rumba, poetry and song", as well as at several universities in Germany. The charismatic Mexican painter and sculptor Jose Luis Cuevas
Jose Luis Cuevas
José Luis Cuevas is a modernist painter and sculptor from Mexico. Born in 1934, Cuevas derived most of his training outside of the academies. He is considered to be one of the artists from the 1950s in the Rupture Generation that was departing from the politicized and stylized mural school of...
, baptizes the Zona Rosa
Zona Rosa
Zona Rosa is a neighborhood in Mexico City which is known for its shopping, nightlife, gay community, and its recently established Korean community...
of the Mexico City in her honor. Married several times, her first husband, Francisco Morales Llanes, was military head of the "Intelligence" "in Cuba during the Second World War. After he married the controversial Spanish producer and director John Orol. Her third husband was Ramon de Florez, belonging to a Spanish family of pedigree linked both to the court of Alfonso XIII, as the Mexican dictator Porfirio Díaz. In her fourth and fifth marriage joined entrepreneurs of Spanish and Lebanese origin, respectively. Was known, too, the great admiration that especially aroused in the dictator Rafael Leónidas Trujillo
Rafael Leónidas Trujillo
Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina , nicknamed El Jefe , ruled the Dominican Republic from 1930 until his assassination in 1961. He officially served as president from 1930 to 1938 and again from 1942 to 1952, otherwise ruling as an unelected military strongman...
of the Dominican Republic, as in Marcos Pérez Jiménez
Marcos Pérez Jiménez
Marcos Evangelista Pérez Jiménez was a soldier and Presidents of Venezuela from 1952 to 1958.-Career:Marcos Evangelista Pérez Jiménez was born in Michelena, Táchira State. His father, Juan Pérez Bustamante, was a farmer; his mother, Adela Jiménez, a schoolteacher...
of Venezuela.
Actually lives retired in the most exclusive area of Barcelona, Spain, with the same glamour as ever.
She returned in the telenovelas in the 1980s and 1990s. Her last performance was alongside the singer Thalía
Thalía
Ariadna Thalía Sodi Miranda , known simply by the mononym Thalía , is a Mexican singer and actress. She has sold over 40 million albums worldwide...
in the Mexican superhit María Mercedes
María Mercedes (telenovela)
María Mercedes was a Mexican telenovela directed by Beatriz Sheridan and starring Thalía and Arturo Peniche.-Plot:Maria Mercedes is a poor girl who is abandoned with her brothers and sister by her ambitious mother...
in 1992.
She is remembered as one of the greatests Rumba
Rumba
Rumba is a family of percussive rhythms, song and dance that originated in Cuba as a combination of the musical traditions of Africans brought to Cuba as slaves and Spanish colonizers. The name derives from the Cuban Spanish word rumbo which means "party" or "spree". It is secular, with no...
dancers of the Mexican Cinema along the superstars Maria Antonieta Pons
María Antonieta Pons
Maria Antonieta Pons was a Cuban born Mexican film actress and Rumba dancer.-Career:Born in Cuba in 1922, from Catalan origin, she was one of the most notorious rumba dancers of her times. She was discovered in Cuba by the Spanish film director Juan Orol. Emigrated to Mexico City to film Siboney...
, Meche Barba
Meche Barba
Meche Barba was a Mexican film actress and dancer of the Golden age of Mexican cinema in the 1940s and 1950s. Was considered one of the icons of the "Rumberas film"...
, Amalia Aguilar
Amalia Aguilar
Amalia Aguilar is a Cuban and Mexican film actress and dancer of the Golden age of Mexican cinema in the 1940s and 1950s. She was considered one of the icons of the Rumberas film.- Early life :...
and Ninón Sevilla
Ninón Sevilla
Ninón Sevilla is a Mexican and Cuban film actress and dancer who was active during the Golden age of Mexican cinema. She was considered one of the greatest Cuban stars and the queen of the "rumberas film".- Career :...
,frequently referred as the "Tropical Queens".
In 2006 she was honored with the Silver Ariel award for her contribution to the Mexican Motion picture industry.
Filmography (Selected)
- Una Mujer de Oriente (1946)
- Tania, la Bella Salvaje (1947)
- El Reino de los Gangsters (1947)
- La Bandida (1948)
- Gangsters contra Charros (1949)
- Amor salvaje (1950)
- Cabaret Shanghai (1950)
- Traicionera (1951)
- ¡Que idiotas son los hombres! (1952)
- Viajera (1952)
- En carne viva (1953)
- Estrella sin luz (1953)
- La segunda mujer (1953)
- La Diosa de Tahití (1953)
- Sandra, la Mujer de Fuego (1954)
- Sindicato del Crimen (1955)
- El Cristo negro (1955)
- Bajo la influencia del miedo (1956)
- Quiereme con música (1957)
- Cabaret Trágico (1958)
- Mis secretarias privadas (1961)
- El Rostro Infernal (1962)
- Mexico de Noche (1974)
- Pantaleón y Las Visitadoras (1974)
- Bellas de Noche (1975)
- Rastro de Muerte (1981)
- Teatro Follies (1983)
- Esta y l'otra con un solo boleto (1983)
TV
- La pasión de Isabela (1984)
- Juana iris (1985)
- Muchachita (1986)
- Morir para vivir (1986)
- Simplemente MariaSimplemente MariaSimplemente Maria ' is a telenovela, starring Victoria Ruffo, Manuel Saval, Jaime Garza and Silvia Derbez. The telenovela, a production of Valentín Pimstein , premiered on October 16, 1989 and ended on May 11, 1990 on El Canal de las Estrellas....
(1988) - María MercedesMaría Mercedes (telenovela)María Mercedes was a Mexican telenovela directed by Beatriz Sheridan and starring Thalía and Arturo Peniche.-Plot:Maria Mercedes is a poor girl who is abandoned with her brothers and sister by her ambitious mother...
(1992)