Tuesday, August 2, 2022

RIP Rosa de Castilla

 

Actress and singer Rosa de Castilla, icon of the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema, died

 

Milenio

8/1/2022

 

The actress of the Mexican gold cinema Rosa de Castilla, passed away this first of August at the age of 90.

Rosa de Castilla was born in Jalisco and later moved to the city of Aguascalientes where she would begin her career as a singer, her success led her to settle in Mexico City where she debuted on the XEX station "La Voz de México".

María Victoria Ledesma Cuevas was artistically known as Rosa de Castilla, she was a Mexican singer and actress, nominated for the Ariel Award of the Mexican Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences in 1954. Belonging to the so-called Golden Age of Mexican cinema.

Who was Rosa de Castilla, singer and actress of the Mexican cinema?

“They are looking for the relatives of the dearest "Rosa de Castilla", they have not answered the calls they do not know that the beautiful one has already gone to heaven RIP – Laura Zapata (@LAURAZAPATAM) August 2, 2022

Some of her most recognized successes are Dawning , Te Vas and No Me Extrañes Nunca, her talent led her to be the winner of the Ariel Award in 1954.

Her career as a singer

She triumphed on the radio and left her voice recorded on dozens of albums with the companies Columbia, Musart, RCA Víctor and Orfeón. Some of her successes are Goodbye, canoe, The arrow, Cursed abyss, White-legged dove, Half love, The law of the mountain and With a broken soul . I have toured the entire world on tours of hers, and even sang in Israel.

Important piece of the Golden Cinema

See was one of the most beautiful women of the fifties and sixties, and is remembered as one of the folkloric women of the golden age of Mexican cinema, for her starring roles in ranchera comedies.

She made films with actors like Jorge Negrete, Pedro Armendáriz, Luis Aguilar, Joaquín Cordero, Antonio Aguilar, Fernando Casanova, Demetrio González, José Venegas "El Bronco" and Miguel Aceves Mejía, and with comedians like Tin Tan, Resortes, Manolín and Shilinsky. , Clavillazo and El Piporro, among others.

Among her best-known films are The three cheerful compadres, Hot rumba, Such for which, The unknown mariachi, Sandunga for three, The girls of 7, Land of men, Here are the Aguilares!, I... the adventurer, Two hearts and heaven, my grandmothers... no more! and Hero to the force.


de CASTILLA, Rosa (María Victoria Ledesma Cuevas)

Born: 5/30/1932, Cañada Honda, Jalisco, Mexico

Died: 8/1/2022, Encarnación de Díaz, Jalisco, Mexico

 

Rosa de Castilla’s westerns – actress:

El lobo solitario - 1952 (Marta de Alba)

Vuelve el lobo - 1952 (Marta de Alba)

¡Aquí están los aguilares! - 1957 (Charito) [singer]

Tan bueno el giro como el colorado - 1959 (Alicia González)

Yo... el aventurero - 1959 (Gloria Cisneros) [singer]

Bala de Plata en el pueblo maldito - 1960 (Elisa)

Me importa poco - 1960 (Bárbara)

Northern Courier - 1960 (Carmela)

Ay Chabela...! - 1961 (Chabela)

La justicia de los Villalobos - 1961 (María)

The Mask of Death - 1961 (Carmela)

Ahí vienen los Argumedo - 1962 (Rosita Alvírez)

Aquí están los Villalobos - 1962

Los forajidos - 1962

Horizontes de sangre - 1962

Pueblo de odios - 1962 (Polvorilla/Silvia)

Vuelven los Argumedo - 1963 (Rosa)

Pistoleros del oeste - 1965 (Paz)

El tigre de Guanajuato: Leyenda de venganza - 1965 (Trinidad Muñoz)

El jinete justiciero en retando a la muerte – 1966

Los amores de Juan Charrasqueado - 1968 (Bárbara)

Cuatro hombres marcados - 1968 (Luisa) [singer]

El asesino enmascarado - 1970 (Rosario)

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