Spanish actress and singer
Manolita Saval (5 February 1914 in Paris, France – 23 August 2001 in Mexico City, Mexico) was a Spanish actress and singer.
Family and life
She was born in Paris of Spanish parents and named 'Juana María Saval'.[1]
She was the mother of the actor Manuel Saval,[1] and the niece of the Spanish opera singer Vicente Ballester Aparício.[2]
Saval died in Mexico City on August 23, 2001 of cardiac arrest due to thrombosis.[1]
Career
She studied music and drama in Spain, and began her career performing the opera Marina in Valencia. As a lyric interpreter, she toured Latin America, eventually settling in Mexico in 1938.[1] Over the course of her career, she appeared in over 30 films and television programs, as well as in plays, operettas, and operas.[1][3]
Recognition
In a review of her film debut in El capitán aventurero, the New York Times described her as "a new and charming Mexican actress."[4]
Filmography
Film
Television
- Un amor en la sombra (1960)
- Divorciadas (1961)
- La duda (1967)
- La casa de las fieras (1967) as Mercedes
- El padre Guernica (1968)
- La hiena (1973)
- Mundo de juguete (1974)
- Querer volar (1980) as Paquita
- Vivir enamorada (1982) as Merceditas
- Madres egoístas (1 episode, 1991) as Rosario
- Muchachitas (1991) as Enriqueta
- El abuelo y yo (1992)
- Hasta que la muerte los separe (1 episode, 1994) as Manolita
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