
Maria Félix died in her sleep on her birthday in 2002 at the age of 88 and was memorialized Sunday by Google on what would have been her 104th birthday.Īlthough she did not star in a Hollywood film, even though multiple roles were offered to her, Félix became an international star without any compromise. She also released two albums, La Voz de María y la Inspiración de Agustín in 1964 and Enamorada in 1998. Her last film came in 1970 with La Generala. Later in the Forties and Fifties, she starred in movies in Spain, Argentina, Italy, and France, but made her return to Mexico in 1955. She was one of the 16 children born to Bernardo Flix Flores, an army officer, and Josefina Gerea Rosas.The family moved to Guadalajara when Flix was 17 and that is where she went to university. She received the lead role in Doña Bárbara when the writer of the novel that inspired the movie, Rómulo Gallegos, saw Félix and declared, “Here is my Doña Bárbara!” Mara de Los ngeles Flix Gerea, better known as Mara Flix, was born on April 8, 1914, in Alamos, Sonora, Mexico. Maria Felix is known for her work on Broken Innocence (2016), Next Male Model (2019) and Freaks of Nature (2015). The two initially butted heads during filming but eventually married in 1952.
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2 The series tells the story of Mexican actress and singer Mara Flix, based on reporting and testimony from those.

1 It premiered on the streaming service Vix+ on 21 July 2022 and ended on 1 September 2022. Along with Pedro Armendáriz and Dolores del Río, she was one of the most successful figures of Latin American cinema in the 1940s and 1950s. Her first starring role was 1942’s El Peñón de las Ánimas, which she co-starred with the already famous Jorge Negrete. Mara Flix: La Doa a Mexican biographical streaming television series produced by Carmen Armendriz for TelevisaUnivision. María de los Ángeles Félix Güereña was a Mexican actress and singer. He asked if she wanted to make movies, to which she reportedly responded: “When I want to, it will be through the big door.” It was a random encounter on the street one day with a filmmaker Fernando Palacios that started her career in films. The legendary story behind the design is that La Doa waltzed in Cartier with a live little baby crocodile as a source of inspiration. Photo via The Red List In 1975 Flix commissioned her most exceptional reptile jewel, a double crocodile necklace. After a divorce from her first husband in 1937, she moved to Mexico City, where she worked as a receptionist for a plastic surgeon who used her as a model for what he could do for patients. Maria Felix wearing her Cartier Snake earrings at a horse race in Paris in 1972. In her teen years, her family moved to Guadalajara, where her beauty began being recognized and eventually won her the title of beauty queen of the University of Guadalajara. She became an icon during its golden age in the 1940s - a period of.

Her last performance was on a Mexican historic soap opera, in 1970.Félix was one of 11 children in her birth city of Álamos. The actor Maria Felix, who has died aged 88, was widely agreed to be 'the most beautiful face in the history of Mexican cinema'. Doña Diabla (1950) Also known as The Devil is a Woman, the drama would be Félix’s last film in Mexico before moving to Europe to star in roles in Spain, France, and Italy. After her last film, she was linked to a number of film projects, but never came back to the screen. That's the main reason why her fame was related almost exclusively to Latin countries. Uninformative, pointless, badly edited and with a lousy soundtrack this DVD just shows some Maria Felix film clips over a narration that repeats the same cliches about the famous Mexican actress. She always refused to learn English, so she never acted in any English language movie. The beautiful cover picture of Maria Felix and the tantalizing title only hides one of the worst documentaries ever put together anywhere. Her fame went beyond Mexico to Latin America, Spain, France and Italy.


Her marriage to Agustín Lara the most popular Latin composer from the 30s to the 60s, was a great event itself.
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More a star than an actress, she constructed an image of a tough woman, a sort of one-liner she-male that went beyond the traditional role of Latin American women. Mini Bio (1) Doubtlessly the most famous Mexican movie star, María Félix created a larger-than-life character: herself. La Doña, as the star was known after the character of her 1943 movie Doña Bárbara, starred in 47 movies, most of them forgettable except for her presence in them. Doubtlessly the most famous Mexican movie star, María Félix created a larger-than-life character: herself.
