Deemed as Latin America’s Marlene Dietrich, Andrea Palma was a versatile theater, film and television actress in Mexico, Hollywood and Spain. Born as Guadalupe Bracho on April 16, 1903 in Durango City, Mexico, she was one of eleven children. Palma was not the only member of her family to pursue a film career during the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema . Her brothers, Julio Bracho and Jesus Bracho, were a director-writer and set designer working in the Mexican Studio System and her cousins were one of Hollywood’s most well known “Latin Lovers,” Ramon Novarro, and Latin American to Hollywood crossover star Dolores Del Rio.
Palma began a career in the arts in Mexico City, working at local theater companies and contributing her talents to the Mexican fashion industry. After the success of her cousins, Novarro and Del Rio, in Hollywood’s silent film industry, Palma traveled to Los Angeles and was hired as the wardrobe consultant for Marlene Dietrich on the set of Josef von Sternberg’s Blonde Venus (1932). On the set she was used as an uncredited stand-in and stunt double to Dietrich. Palma was inspired by this experience to change her appearance and modeled her new look after Dietrich.
Palma’s reinvented sultry style caught the attention of Russian filmmaker Arcady Boytler and
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Stars from all over Latin America, including those who were exiled from Spain during the Spanish Civil War, joined this new artistic effort, but Palma was one of the first actress to sign onboard. After returning to Mexico, Palma resumed her career and her later film credits included: Adventura (1950), Sensuallidad (1951), Luis Buñuel’s Ensayo de un Crimen (1955), Miércoles de ceniza (1958) and The White Sister (1960). In the 1960s she began appearing in several televised Mexican
Afterwards, in the 1990s films portraying Latinos would take a somehow new direction, one of the most famous filmmakers would be Gregory Navas, he directed the movie My Family/Mi Familia, a film that portrays the lives of a Mexican-American family and the difficulty that the couple faced in order to establish in the U.S. “by passing as immigrants and all the struggle to integrate their family in another country” (Peña Acuña, 2010). The film let the audience see a potential reality that most immigrants went through when they first moved to the United States and how the system worked differently and the way immigrants had to adapt not only to the system, but also to the language and culture.
Christine De Pizan’s work in The Book of The City of Ladies pioneers a new genre of feminist literature that exposes a time period from the perspective of its female population. Due to this, De Pizan justifiably earns the title of a revolutionary author. However, to say that De Pizan revolutionized the conditions of women in the medieval ages and onward is an overstatement. In her book, De Pizan critiques sexist arguments in order to defend women against misogyny. The change that De Pizan presented in medieval culture was gradual because she was attempting to amend people’s perspectives on women rather than offer any institutional rectifications. She worked to establish that women can be just as mighty as men, and thus, they are not innately inferior. However, her goal was not to ensure that women have equal access to exercise and pursue their virtuous roles. Therefore, if observed
Selena, “Le Reina de Tejano”, was born on April 16, 1971, in Lake Jackson. She was the youngest of three children of Abraham Quintanilla Jr. and Marcela, his wife. At a young age, Abraham had a strong passion for music that he still has. During the 1950s and 1960s, him and his friends made a group called “Los Dinos” and played at nightclubs and restaurants. Even though his passion for music, he gave it up when he got married and earned a job at Dow Chemical as a shipping clerk.
Blasting off into space was once an all-male’s game. But on the heels of such trailblazers as Sally Ride, engineer and inventor Ellen Ochoa became part of growing breed of NASA female astronauts who have since helped change all that. Ellen Ochoa, a veteran astronaut, is the 11th director of the Johnson Space Center. She is JSC’s first Hispanic director, and its second female director. In 1993, she made history by becoming the first Hispanic woman from any country to travel in space. She would follow up this journey with three more space flights in 1994, 1999 and 2001, logging more than 700 hours in space. Despite being rejected two times from NASA’s Training Program,
...e best dramatic female performance in Del Rio’s honor. Vestiges of Del Rio remain in America, such as a statue at Hollywood-La Brea Boulevard in Los Angeles, honoring ethnic leading ladies of the cinema, featuring Del Rio with Mae West, Dorothy Dandridge and Anna May Wong. Del Rio also has a star on the iconic Walk of Fame, located on 1630 Vine Street.
Isabel: Elpidia Carrillo an el Salvadorian, who's father was a disliked leader of a union there, an illegal alien working as a nanny for a rich couple. When she married jimmy she became, "free" but her morals and religious beliefs wouldn't let her take the vows of marriage lightly. She was a loving, persistent woman who didn't let her anger eat her alive.
Following her heart, she continued pursuing her dreams; winning fancy cakes and more opportunities to showed her talent. Her big break was in 1950 when La Sonora Matancera was looking for a new leading singer, because her previous singer Mirtha Silva decided to quit to returned to her native Puerto Rico. Even though Celia Cruz was rough around the edges, they decided to give her a break. A lot of people call local radio station complaining about Cruz, also the executive in the industry did not believe that a female singer could sell albums. She proved them wrong. Celia ‘s perseverance ove...
Zill de Granados, Oriana. Nuestra Familia: Our Family. Center for Investigative Reporting and Latino Public Broadcasting, Sep. 2006. Web. http://nuestrafamiliaourfamily.org/pages/film.html
As the first major U.S. success for a Spanish language film, Como Agua Para Chocolate (Alfonso Arau, 1992) has had a major impact on Hispanic culture and the future of Hispanic cinema. This film has many implicit and explicit layers that challenge typical cultural ideals, not only in Hispanic culture, but in various cultures across the world. Based on his wife, Laura Esquivel’s novel, Arau used this film, known commonly as Like Water for Chocolate, to bring to the surface the liberation of females through the empowerment of food. Although food and cooking are often associated with the oppression and generalization of Hispanic women, Like Water for Chocolate captivates an empowering view of women using intimate and heightened cinematography of the food.
Dona Barbara is a 1943 Mexican film directed by Fernando de Funters the film is based on Romulo Gallegos 1920 novel of the same name. While the film was produced in Mexico, the story takes place on Los Llanos de Aruca Vally Venezuela (Aruca Vally lowlands). Important natural resources themes enforced on this movie are the use of The Orinoco River as means of transportation and communication and the use of agrarian activities as the way to make a profit.
Before and during her rapid rise to Hollywood stardom, Temple’s family played an important role in her childhood. Born in Santa Monica, California on April 23, 1928, Temple was welcomed into the world by her parents and two older brothers. Mr. George Temple worked as banker while Mrs. Gertrude Temple devoted her time to nurturing her baby girl, since her two older sons, George Jr. and John, were already independent teenagers (Dubas 7-8). ...
Marilyn bleached her hair and grew highly independent. She started studying in the field of acting at the Actors’ Lab in Hollywood. Sh...
In 1964, Leticia was born in Chavinda which is a very small town in Mexico. Leticia had a very difficult life growing up because her dad left to go to the United States to work but eventually he passed away and her mother would always be working in never had time for Leticia and her siblings so her grandparents would be the one taking care of her and her siblings, so she called them her parents. Leticia would also start working so she can help her mother with paying bills because he stopped going to school in middle school because they couldn’t afford money so she could continue school. Back in the 1960s, it was very easy to cross the border because there weren’t any policies there to stop you and there were better ways to cross like you could have someone else’s passport that you look pretty similar to you and they would just let you go with no
Noted in Yvonne Tasker’s Working Girls: Gender and Sexuality in Popular Cinema, Goldie Hawn says this about women's role in the film business “There are only thee ages for women in Hollywood: Babe, District Attorney and Driving Miss Daisy” (1998, p. 3). While Haw...
Marilyn was not the usual movie idol. She was called many different things like: sex appeal, and a vulnerability, and determined to a legend. She wasn’t just your average girl. ( “ Marilyn Monroe.” Encyclopedia Britannica.). She craved attention and was also a very needy person. She loved the spotlight her directors gave her and that’s why she was in or made that many movies. She was always caught saying her lines while walking down the street. She played as many different people in movies. Giving her the desire ...