Carmen Sánchez

Carmen Sánchez
Carmen Sánchez
Birth name	Carmen Sánchez
Born	20 April 1899; Madrid, Spain
Died	November 20, 1985 (aged 86); Madrid, Spain
Genres	folklore , Zarzuela
Occupation(s)	Singer and actress
Instrument(s)	Voice, castanets
Years active	1920–1969

Carmen Sánchez (April 21, 1899 – November 20, 1985) was a Spanish singer, dancer, and actress.

Professional career

Carmen Sánchez was born in Madrid, Spain. She became a famous opera dancer, and singer of Spanish folklore at zarzuela a very young age. At age 20, she finished works of copla or chotis and was featured in films between 1927 and 1929. She was a pioneer film star in silent films. As her first work after the Civil War, becoming a famous Spanish actress character.

In the 1920s, she began triumph of theatre in Spain, and she became a famous actress of drama. 1930s Carmen established a theater company and achieved much success in theaters in Madrid, Lara, Princess Beatrice, Princess Elizabeth, Cervantes, Cómico and in all of Spain.

During the first half of the twentieth century, she primarily worked in the theater, working alongside famous Spanish actors like Rafael Bardem, Manuel Luna, Carmen Ruiz Moragas, Carola Fernán Gomez ... The civil war in Spain suspended her work. In the 1940s she went back to the theatre to continue her work with the national company of Spanish dramatic art with which she worked throughout the country and in the cinema as well successfully.

In her long career in the Spanish film industry she had the honor to participate in famous films made by directors well known and even in some European co-productions. Next to nothing unless act Fernando Fernán Gómez, Vittorio de Sica, Carmen Sevilla, Angel de Andres, Tony Leblanc, Marifé de Triana ...

Personal life

She was a niece of José María Alvira which she beginning in 1910s in Opera.
In 1920s she was a lover of Duke of Berwick the ambassador of London, a famous rich man.
She had three children: Carmen Sánchez jr, Pedro and Emilio.
Her sister was a grandmother of the Videgain´s today.
In 1969 she retired from cinema and died in 1985.
Carmen Sánchez died in 1985, was interred in the Cementerio de la Almudena in Madrid.

Films

Jacobito el castigador (1927).
Los héroes de la legión (1928).
El emigrado (1946).
Obsesión (1947).
La Fe (1947).
The Holy Queen (1947)
Locura de amor (1948).
The Troublemaker (1950)
El capitán veneno (1950).
La noche del sabado (1950)
Sangre en Castilla (1950).
Tales of the Alhambra (1950)
Día tras día (1951).
Surcos (1951).
Esa pareja feliz (1951).
La patrulla 1954.
Las aventuras del barbero de Sevilla (1954).
Roberto el diablo (1956).
El malvado carabel (1956).
El pequeño ruiseñor (1956).
Pan amor y... Andalucia (1958).
Canto para ti (1958).
Bajo el cielo andaluz (1959).
Los golfos (1960).
Sor citroen 1967.

References

www.nuestrocine.com/personal.asp?idpersona=2384
Diary ABC of Madrid (1930), [1]
Diary ABC of Madrid (1930), [2]
Diary ABC of Madrid (1932), [3]
Instituto Cervantes Virtual, [4]
Catálogo del cine español películas 1941-1950 author: Angel Luis Hueso Ed.Catédra Filmoteca española. (1998) ISBN 84-376-1690-5
Un siglo de cine español (1998), author: Luis Gasca enciclopedias Planeta ISBN 84-08-02309-8.
Diccionario Akal de teatro (1997) author: Manuel Gómez García.
Historia del teatro María Guerrero (1998).
Así se vive en Hollywood (2007), author: Juan José Videgain .
Newspapers of the time since the 1920s across Spain: La vanguardia,ABC,El heraldo de Madrid,El Sol,El Liberal, El correo vasco, La voz, Ya, Blanco y Negro ...