Requiebro carmen sevilla biography

Spanish actress (–)

In this Nation name, the first or paternal surname is García and the in two shakes or maternal family name esteem Galisteo.

María del Carmen García Galisteo (16 October – 27 June ),^[1] known professionally as Carmen Sevilla, was a Spanish actress, crooner, and dancer.

She began bring about career in the s mushroom became one of the first popular and highest paid stars of Spanish cinema until rendering s. In , at say publicly age of sixty, she began her career as a pack presenter, working for the duo major Spanish networks until equal finish retirement in ^[2] At rendering time of her death, she was one of the determined surviving stars from the Flourishing Age of Mexican cinema pole from the Golden Age go along with Hollywood.

As an actress, she had leading roles in copious films, including Imperial Violets (), Academy Award nominee Vengeance (), Don Juan (), and Searching for Monica (). She extremely had supporting roles in English-language epic films including King be more or less Kings () and Antony countryside Cleopatra ().

As a songstress she released over fifteen shop albums and numerous singles additional compilations.

Early life

María del Carmen García Galisteo was born pustule the Heliópolis neighborhood of Seville on 16 October , female child of composer Antonio García Padilla&#;[es] and Florentina Galisteo Ramírez, streak the eldest sister of team a few siblings.^[3] Decades later she confirmed that her year of inception was , as she challenging to add an extra class to her age to produce able to work earlier endure comply with labor regulations.^[4] Aft the Spanish Civil War, say publicly family moved to Madrid, veer her father and grandfather attacked as lyricists for the big screen of Concha Piquer and Imperio Argentina.^[5]

As a child, Sevilla was already attracted to the the theater arts and soon began stain sing and dance.

In truth, at the age of xii she went on stage crave the first time with Estrellita Castro, with the show Rapsodia española, starring Paquita Rico.^[3] Socialist became her artistic godmother, who met her when Carmen went to take some of shrewd father's letters to the theater.^[5] She soon formed part help the theater companies of Flier Príncipe Gitano and of Paco Reyes.^[3] In the s, she began her studies at excellence Conservatory of Music and put back dance classes.^[4]

Career

Sevilla made her single debut in with the picture Hombres Ibéricos and with topping supporting role in Serenata española in ^[5][4] That year she participated in the Miss Espana contest.^[4] She had her gain victory leading film role in 's Jalisco Sings in Seville.^[6] Set aside rise to fame came competent her starring role in The Troublemaker () with Tony Leblanc.^[7] She then became one range the most popular and extreme paid stars of Spanish cinema.^[8]

In she starred in Imperial Violets along with Luis Mariano.^[9] Metropolis starred in in the Juan Antonio Bardem film Vengeance, decency first Spanish film to achieve nominated for an Academy Grant for Best Foreign Language Film.^[5] She also played Mary Magdalene in the American Nicholas Ray's epic film King of Kings ().^[10]

She also established herself by reason of a singer thanks to high-mindedness songs she performed in accumulate films.

She released over xv studio albums, with many songs composed by her then hubby Augusto Algueró, including coplas, boleros, and tangos, and performed them on stage and television.^[11] Sendup 3 January , she obliged her first appearance on Dweller television on The Ed Educator Show, where she performed last the songs "Mis noches public Madrid" and "Estando contigo", both composed by Algueró.^[12]

Thanks to assimilation popularity, she also starred plod several important advertising campaigns, together with the very first Coca-Cola correspondents commercial in Spain and character campaign for Philips household fittings where she sang a euphonious flamenco-yeyé jingle.^[13]

In , she false Octavia in the English-language Charlton Heston film Antony and Cleopatra. She also starred in No es bueno que el bozo esté solo (), Nadie oyó gritar (), and Beatriz ().^[14] She retired from acting rope in the late s, making pull together last film performance in illustriousness film Rostros.^[15]

In , at magnanimity age of sixty, she began a new career as skilful television presenter working in changing shows and specials for honourableness three major Spanish networks unfinished her retirement in Her entirety as presenter include Telecupón&#;[es] (–97) on Telecinco, La noche indication Carmen (–98) on Antena 3, and Cine de Barrio&#;[es] (–10) on Televisión Española.

She too presented the broadcast of magnanimity New Year's Eve clock bell strikes live from Puerta depict Sol in Madrid once kindness each of the three networks, being the only person relate to have done so on fulfil three networks.^[a][16]

Personal life and death

Carmen Sevilla married composer and manager Augusto Algueró, whom she reduction in during the filming exhaust The Taming of the Shrew, on 23 February in primacy Zaragoza's Cathedral-Basilica of Our Dame of the Pillar.^[17] Their son, Augusto José, was inborn in ^[4] The couple divorced in Carmen Sevilla remarried overload to Vicente Patuel, whom write down she settled on a acreage near Herrera del Duque awaiting Patuel's death from a nerve attack in ^[17][18]

In , she was announced to be hit down a "very advanced stage" a mixture of Alzheimer's disease, with which she was diagnosed three years earlier.^[19] In it was reported go off at a tangent she no longer recognized brush aside home.^[20] In , she went to live in a nursing home in Aravaca, Madrid.^[21] Boardwalk , her son announced dump his mother's Alzheimer's was even now at such an advanced custom that she did not admit him and could not call to mind her artistic career.^[22]

On 26 June , it was made universal that Sevilla had been hospitalised in serious condition at distinction Puerta de Hierro hospital predicament Majadahonda (near Madrid) on 25 June , where she dreary on 27 June from qualifications of Alzheimer's.

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Selected filmography

Accolades

CEC Awards

Main article: CEC Awards

Honours

Notes

References

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