Actriz miroslava y cantinflas biography

Miroslava Šternová Beková (Praga, 26 de febrer de -Ciutat de Mèxic, 9 de març de 1955), coneguda com Miroslava Stern, va ser una actriu txecoslovac-mexicana. És considerada una de les actrius més importants del cinema a Mèxic, això a causa de la seva participació a pel·lícules com; ¡A volar joven! (1947), La liga de las muchachas (1950), La casa chica (1950), La muerte enamorada (1951), Cárcel de mujeres (1951), Las tres perfectas casadas (1953), per la qual va ser nominada a un Premi Ariel, Escuela de vagabundos (1955), i Ensayo de un crimen (1955).

La seva carrera es trobava en ascens en 1955, però va quedar truncada aquest mateix any quan va ser trobada morta a l'habitació de la seva casa en cometre un suposat suïcidi amb una sobredosi de barbitúrics.

Biografia i carrera

Fins 1946: infància i començament de carrera

Miroslava Šternová Beková, va néixer amb dia i any de naixement disputats entre el 26 o 27 de febrer de 1925, 1926 o 1927 a Praga, Txecoslovàquia, actual República Txeca. Stern no va conèixer als seus pares ja que es diu que ambdós van morir. Va ser adoptada pel doctor i psicoanalista jueu Oscar Šternová/Oskar Štern i la seva esposa Miroslava Bečka Stern/Miroslava Beková. Va tenir un germà anomenat Ivo Stern Becka (mort en 2011 i qui va ser president del Consell Interamericà d'Escoltisme). La seva família gaudia d'una bona posició econòmica, però malgrat això, es van veure obligats a fugir i abandonar el seu país a causa de l'inici de la Segona Guerra Mundial i la persecució nazi, abandonant a tots els seus familiars, incloent-hi la seva àvia paterna, qui fora una figura femenina molt important en la vida de Miroslava i la qual mai va tornar a veure.

Biography

Czechoslovak-born actress

Miroslava Šternová (née Stanclová; 26 February 1926 – 9 March 1955), known professionally as Miroslava Stern, was a Czechoslovak-Mexican actress.

Biography

Born in interwar Prague as Miroslava Stanclová, her father died and she was adopted by a Jewish doctor, the psychoanalyst Dr. Oskar Leo Stern (1900–1972) who married her mother, Miroslava (née Becka; 1898–1945), and became known as Miroslava Šternová. Dr Stern and his wife had a son, Ivo (1931–2011), the actress's half-brother. The family was, at one point, interned in a concentration camp after they fled their native Czechoslovakia in 1939. They sought refuge in various Scandinavian countries before emigrating to Mexico in 1941. Her mother died of cancer four years later.

After winning a national beauty contest, Miroslava began to study acting. She worked steadily in films produced in Mexico, from 1946 to 1955, as well as three Hollywood films during that period. She filmed her last Mexican film, Ensayo de un crimen (The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz), in 1955, directed by Luis Buñuel. Stranger on Horseback with Joel McCrea marked her last Hollywood film appearance.

Death

Miroslava died by suicide in March 1955 by overdosing on sleeping pills, her body found lying outstretched over her bed. According to Miroslava's friends, she had a portrait of bullfighter Luis Miguel Dominguín in one hand, and they stated that her suicide was due to unrequited love for Dominguín, who had recently married Italian actress Lucia Bosè. Others, such as actress Katy Jurado, claimed that the picture that Miroslava had between her hands was of Mexican comedian Cantinflas and that her unrequited love was for Cantinflas, but her artistic manager Fanny Schatz exchanged the photo for that of the Dominguín. Jurado based this claiming she was the first to find the body;^[5