Isabela Corona

{{Short description|Mexican actress (1913–1993)}}

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| birth_name = Refugio Pérez Frías

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1913|07|02}}

| birth_place = Autlán de Navarro

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1993|07|08|1913|07|02}}

| death_place = Mexico City

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| occupation = Actress (theater, film, TV)

| years_active = 1930s – 1990s

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Isabela Corona[http://www.arts-history.mx/sitios/index.php?id_sitio=664140&id_seccion=112710&id_subseccion=154314&id_documento=1869 Cronología de Teatro en México - 1926/10] (in Spanish)[http://www.autlan.gob.mx/turismo/personajes-ilustres/isabela-corona Autlán de Navarro official website (in Spanish)] (July 2, 1913 – July 8, 1993) was a Mexican actress. She debuted during the first decade of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema.

Biography

Isabela Corona was born as Refugio Pérez Frías in El Chante, a municipio of Autlán, Jalisco. In her early years she moved to Mexico City, where she started her career on stage of the teatro Ideal as a teenager in 1926. Afterwards she participated in the Teatro Ulises and the Teatro Orientación[http://escritores.cinemexicano.unam.mx/biografias/B/BRACHO_gavilan_julio/biografia.html Bracho Gavilán, Julio] (Spanish) movement of the Los Contemporáneos group, and made afterwards a career in the theater, movie and television businesses.Gabriel Careaga: [http://www.articlearchives.com/210223-1.html La cara amena de las divas: Rostros e imágenes, de Luis Moreno.] (Spanish), May 11, 2003. She became better known in the end of the 1930s, when she played in La noche de los mayas.

She was considered, along with Esther Fernández, Andrea Palma and Lupe Vélez, a great Mexican cinema diva of the 1930s.{{cite book|last=Agrasánchez Jr.|first= Rogelio|title=Bellezas del cine mexicano/Beauties of Mexican Cinema|year= 2001|publisher=Archivo Fílmico Agrasánchez|isbn= 968-5077-11-8}} Corona died six days after her 80th birthday from a heart attack.

Filmography

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  • "Lo blanco y lo negro" ("Black and White") as Citlalli, 1992
  • "Yo compro esa mujer" as Soledad, 1990
  • "Victoria", 1987
  • "Los años pasan" ("Years Passed") as Apolonia, 1985
  • "Bianca Vidal" as Nana Maria, 1985
  • "La fiera", 1983 Dona Heloisa
  • "Vanessa" as Grandmother Cècile de Saint-Germain, 1982
  • "Caminemos", 1980
  • "Una mujer marcada" as Sofia, 1979
  • "Donde termina el camino" ("Where the Road Ends"), 1978
  • "Viviana" as ''Consuelo", 1978 (unknown episodes)
  • "Pobre Clara" as Nieves, 1975
  • "Muchacha italiana viene a casarse" as Mercedes de Castro, 1971
  • "Risas amargas", 1961

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References

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  • {{cite book |last= Moreno. |first= Luis |title= Rostros e Imagenes |year= 2002 |publisher= Editorial Celuloide |isbn= 9789709338904 }}

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Category:Mexican stage actresses

Category:Mexican telenovela actresses

Category:Mexican television actresses

Category:Mexican film actresses

Category:Golden Age of Mexican cinema

Category:People from Autlán, Jalisco

Category:1913 births

Category:1993 deaths

Category:20th-century Mexican actresses