Miroslava

Miroslava

Born: February 27, 1925
Died: March 9, 1955
in Prague, Czechoslovakia
Miroslava (February 26, 1925 – March 9, 1955) was a Czechoslovakian-born Mexican film actress who appeared in thirty two films. Born Miroslava Šternová in Prague, Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic), Miroslava moved to Mexico as a child with her adoptive parents in the late 1930s, seeking to escape war in their native country. After winning a national beauty contest, Miroslava began to study acting. She appeared in a few Hollywood and Mexican films. She was offered a role in Ensayo de un crimen (Rehearsal for a Crime) in 1955, directed by Luis Buñuel. Soon after the final wrap of the film, Miroslava committed suicide by overdosing on sleeping pills.[2] Her body was found lying outstretched over her bed, she had a portrait of bullfighter Luis Miguel Dominguín in one hand. Her friends stated her suicide was due to unrequited love for Dominguín, who had recently married Italian actress Lucia Bosé. Bosè would go on to star in Buñuel's next movie, Cela s'appelle l'aurore (1956). The Mexican and Hollywood star Katy Jurado claimed to be one of the first people to find the body of Mexican actress Miroslava Stern after her tragic suicide. According to Katy, the picture that Miroslava had between her hands was Cantinflas, but the artistic manager Fanny Schatz exchanged the photo to that of the Spanish bullfighter Luis Miguel Dominguín. In his 1983 autobiography, Mon dernier soupir ("My Last Breath"), Buñuel recalls the irony of Miroslava's cremation following her suicide, when compared to a scene inEnsayo de un crimen, her last film, in which the protagonist cremates a wax reproduction of Stern's character. Her life is the subject of a short story by Guadalupe Loaeza, which was adapted by Alejandro Pelayo for his 1992 Mexican film called Miroslava, starring Arielle Dombasle.

Movies for Miroslava...

Torero!
Title: Torero!
Character: Herself
Released: May 9, 1957
Type: Movie
The life of the famed Mexican bullfighter Luis Procuna, from his boyhood through his training and the triumphs that followed as Procuna rose to the peak of his profession. Written by Jim Beaver
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The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz
Title: The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz
Character: Lavinia
Released: May 19, 1955
Type: Movie
A bizarre black comedy about a man whose overwhelming ambition in life is to be a renowned serial killer of women, and will stop at nothing to achieve it - but not everything goes according to plan...
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Stranger on Horseback
Title: Stranger on Horseback
Character: Amy Lee Bannerman
Released: March 22, 1955
Type: Movie
A circuit judge in the old west attempts to bring a suspected killer to justice. The judge runs afoul of the killer's rich cattle baron father in the process.
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Stronger Than Love
Title: Stronger Than Love
Character: Bárbara Peñafiel
Released: March 17, 1955
Type: Movie
Carlos, a former factory worker of humble origins, has made millions - but the upper class refuses to accept him as one of their own. Meanwhile, Barbara, the spoiled daughter of an industrialist, is to enter into a loveless marriage of convenience. Tensions arise when the two fall madly in love.
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School for Tramps
Title: School for Tramps
Character: Susana Valverde
Released: January 27, 1955
Type: Movie
Alberto Medina is a very famous composer and is on a field trip when his car runs out of gas and goes downhill. While looking for help, he finds the Valverdes' house and is welcome by Emilia, the mother of the family, who is known for giving shelter to tramps. The rest of the family disagrees, because the last one disappointed her. In a story of family situations, funny moments and jealousy, Alberto ends up earning everyone's respect and has a special connection with the oldest daughter, the beautiful Susana, and they fall in love.
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La visita que no tocó el timbre
Title: La visita que no tocó el timbre
Character: Emma
Released: September 11, 1954
Type: Movie
Two underachieving brothers take responsibility for an abandoned baby.
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Reportaje
Title: Reportaje
Character: Nurse
Released: November 13, 1953
Type: Movie
Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve.
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The Three Perfect Married
Title: The Three Perfect Married
Character: Leopoldina
Released: June 8, 1953
Type: Movie
Three married couples gather to celebrate the eighteenth anniversary of their marriage mourning the absence of a friend who was best man at all three weddings.
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The Magnificent Beast
Title: The Magnificent Beast
Character: Meche
Released: May 22, 1953
Type: Movie
The Magnificent Beast (Free Fight) is a 1953 Mexican film. It was directed by Chano Urueta. The first film of the Luchadores genre.
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Sueños de gloria
Title: Sueños de gloria
Character: Elsa
Released: March 3, 1953
Type: Movie
Auto mechanic invents a new-improved carburetor; industrial spies steal his invention, romance with a manufacturer's daughter, and he drives a cross-country race.
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The Revived Monster
Title: The Revived Monster
Character: Nora
Released: January 1, 1953
Type: Movie
Set in the Balkans, this story concerns a bored journalist, Nora who is ordered by her boss to follow up a mysterious advertisement placed by Dr Ling. Ling turns out to be a misshapen creature who, rejected by his peers, has become the stereotypical mad scientist, here specializing in plastic surgery. He falls in love with Nora but fearing she will betray him he resuscitates a young man who committed suicide, Ariel by transplanting a new brain into him, and order him to fetch Nora so that he can kill her.
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Música, mujeres y amor
Title: Música, mujeres y amor
Character: Elisa Méndez
Released: July 3, 1952
Type: Movie
Two women are installed in the cabin of a ship that was already occupied by two gentlemen.
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Two Faces Have the Destiny
Title: Two Faces Have the Destiny
Character: Anita
Released: March 21, 1952
Type: Movie
Ruined alcoholic doctor escapes a tropical plague and begins a new life back in civilization, taking over the identity of a dead man.
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The Port of the Seven Sins
Title: The Port of the Seven Sins
Character: Colomba
Released: November 11, 1951
Type: Movie
Career criminals vie for ownership of a disreputable waterfront dive and for the love of the cabaret-gal that sings there.
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Ella y Yo
Title: Ella y Yo
Character: Irene Garza
Released: October 2, 1951
Type: Movie
Pedro Muñoz is a womanizer that does not escape one until Irene Garza arrives and makes him to see his luck, while the aunt of her tries to separate them.
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Women's prison
Title: Women's prison
Character: Evangelina
Released: September 28, 1951
Type: Movie
Evangelina murders her lover Alberto. In prison she meets Dora, Alberto's girlfriend, who was deprived of her freedom for his illicit business. An interesting story is about to be woven.
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Monte de piedad
Title: Monte de piedad
Character: Elena
Released: August 1, 1951
Type: Movie
Anthology-movie, series of anecdotes about the personal tragedies that lead people to take their values posessions to the state-run pawnshop.
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Streetwalker
Title: Streetwalker
Character: Elena
Released: June 22, 1951
Type: Movie
In Mexico City, two sisters, Maria and Elena, fight over the love of pimp Rodolfo. Elena escapes her sad marriage to an old banker into Rodolfo's arms. Meanwhile, life is hard for sex worker Maria, who-along with her supportive group of fellow sex workers-must deal with exploitative clients.
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The Brave Bulls
Title: The Brave Bulls
Character: Linda de Calderón
Released: April 18, 1951
Type: Movie
A matador must recover his courage after being gored in the ring.
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Death in Love
Title: Death in Love
Character: Tasia - La Muerte
Released: January 13, 1951
Type: Movie
A man's life changes forever when death -- in the form of a female grim reaper -- moves in with him and his family, all so that he can buy a bit more time on earth. The only catch is, his family has no idea that their houseguest, a woman their father says is a foreign relative, is there to take their daddy away. Miroslava Stern, Fernando Fernandez and Jorge Reyes star in this inventive Spanish-language comedy.
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The Love Nest
Title: The Love Nest
Character: Lucila del Castillo
Released: February 9, 1950
Type: Movie
Amalia, aged, remember when Fernando Mendoza, his former medical school, came to San Esteban, the town where she lived. They worked together and became his love. Although he was engaged to another, Fernando decided to return to the city to complete his commitment to her and finally reunited with Amalia, but the facts do not happen as they had planned.
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The League of Girls
Title: The League of Girls
Character: Marta
Released: February 1, 1950
Type: Movie
Two women form The League of Girls invite an interesting repertoire of young ladies to become members and get rid of men and all the evils that come with them.
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The Possession
Title: The Possession
Released: January 1, 1950
Type: Movie
Two old friends get hinky with each other over the deed to a tract of land, and their children's engagement gets broken over it.
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Secreto entre mujeres
Title: Secreto entre mujeres
Released: April 1, 1949
Type: Movie
A big ol' player has different stages of a thing happening with each of the five women in a household.
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Una aventura en la noche
Title: Una aventura en la noche
Character: Elena
Released: July 9, 1948
Type: Movie
Film version of the 'hitchhiking ghost' urban legend.
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Juan Charrasqueado
Title: Juan Charrasqueado
Released: February 5, 1948
Type: Movie
Hard-living horse-trainer has a thing with an aristocratic woman... but her brothers aren't happy to see her involved with someone beneath her station.
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Nocturno de amor
Title: Nocturno de amor
Character: Marta Reyes
Released: January 11, 1948
Type: Movie
Venice Film Festival 1948
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¡A volar, joven!
Title: ¡A volar, joven!
Character: María
Released: December 23, 1947
Type: Movie
Cantinflas is a private in the military, who doesn't know anything about discipline or following rules. He only wants to think about his girlfriend, the maid in an opulent hacienda. The owner of the hacienda has an ugly and shy daughter, who is in love with Cantinflas. The problems arrive when the family arranges a wedding between the ugly girl and Cantinflas, who in order to avoid the commitment gets himself arrested. During his punishment, Cantinflas learns to fly with a silly and poorly trained flight instructor.
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Cinco rostros de mujer
Title: Cinco rostros de mujer
Character: Beatriz
Released: February 26, 1947
Type: Movie
"The great love of his life" happened five times; one of those women just wrote him a letter. Which one will it be?
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Tragic Weddings
Title: Tragic Weddings
Released: May 30, 1946
Type: Movie
Romantic triangles, rural/hacienda setting.