María Félix

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María Félix (April 8, 1914 – April 8, 2002) was a Mexican actress. Commonly known, particularly in her later years, by the honorific La Doña, she was one of the leading figures of the golden era of Mexican cinema.

She was born in Álamos, Sonora.

Her beauty and flamboyant personality propelled her to international fame and icon status, in movies like Woman Without a Soul and La Generala. She died in Mexico City of congestive heart failure at age 88.







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Upon being asked her age by a female journalist:

Mire, señorita, yo he estado muy ocupada viviendo mi vida y no he tenido tiempo de contarla. ("Look, young lady, I have been very busy living my life and I've not had time to count it.")

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Upon being asked her age by a female journalist:. They were married in 1920 in a double ceremony with actress Constance Talmadge and businessman John Piagoglou and were divorced in 1935.
. She was married to James Rennie (1890-1965), a Canadian-born actor who was her co-star in Remodeling Her Husband (filmed in 1920, it was sister Lillian's only movie as director).
. She did make several appearances in anthology television series in the early 1950s.
. From 1930 until her death, she only appeared in five more movies, and one television movie.


. She moved to England, where she turned her attention to the stage.
. Overshadowed by her sister's popularity, Dorothy virtually retired from motion pictures when talkies came along.
. Dorothy would go on to star in over 100 short films and features, many of them with Lillian. She died in Mexico City of congestive heart failure at age 88. Griffith's An Unseen Enemy.

Her beauty and flamboyant personality propelled her to international fame and icon status, in movies like Woman Without a Soul and La Generala. Dorothy and Lillian both debuted in D.W. She was born in Álamos, Sonora. In 1912 they met Mary Pickford, and she got them work at the Biograph Studios. Commonly known, particularly in her later years, by the honorific La Doña, she was one of the leading figures of the golden era of Mexican cinema. When they were old enough, Dorothy and Lillian were brought into their mother's act, and they also modeled. María Félix (April 8, 1914 – April 8, 2002) was a Mexican actress. Dorothy's mother Mary began acting in order to support the family after her husband left.

Born Dorothy Elizabeth de Guiche in Dayton, Ohio, she was the sister of actress Lillian Gish. Dorothy Gish (March 11, 1898 - June 4, 1968) was an American actress.