Marina Cisternas

{{Short description|Chilean-American actress, writer, and journalist}}

{{Infobox actor

| name = Marina Cisternas

| image = Photo of Marina Cisternas.jpg

| birth_name = Marta Natalia Filomena Cisternas Holley

| birth_date = {{birth date|1897|5|5|mf=y}}

| birth_place = Iquique, Tarapacá, Chile

| death_date = {{death date and age|1992|1|26|1897|5|5|mf=y}}

| death_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S.

| father = Eliseo Cisternas Peña

}}

Marta Natalia Filomena "Marina" Cisternas Holley (5 May 1897 – 26 January 1992){{Cite web |date=4 October 2021 |title="Chile, Registro Civil, 1885-1932," database with images, Marta Natalia Filomena Cisterna Halley, Birth Registration; FamilySearch digital folder 004701825. |url=https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KZ7K-PD6 |url-status= |website=FamilySearch |publisher=Registro Civil Archivo General (Civil Registry General Archives) |location=Santiago |page=34, certificate #67}} was a Chilean American actress, author, and journalist. She became active as a journalist in Hollywood and in the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA). She is credited with helping design the Golden Globe trophy.{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-18LAAAAYAAJ&q=marina+cisternas+chile|title=Adelante Con Vida Nueva|year=1979}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.architecturaldigest.in/content/golden-globes-2018-all-you-need-to-know-about-the-golden-trophy-6-facts/|title=Golden Globes 2018: All you need to know about the golden trophy|date=January 9, 2018|website=Architectural Digest India}} She was the leading Spanish language columnist in Hollywood.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SLhMDQAAQBAJ&dq=marina+cisternas&pg=PT281|title=I Like What I Know: A Visual Autobiography|first=Vincent|last=Price|date=October 18, 2016|publisher=Open Road Media|isbn=9781504042147|via=Google Books}}

Cisternas was the daughter of Eliseo Cisternas, late Chief Justice of Chile.{{Cite web |last=Pilleux Sepúlveda |first=Mauricio |title=Familia Cisternas |url=https://www.genealog.cl/Apellidos/Cisternas/ |access-date=2022-09-08 |website=www.genealog.cl}} Her maternal grandfather was Adolfo Holley, a Chilean general who served in the War of the Pacific.

She was president of the HFPA from 1945 to 1946. She was engaged to Harold Lloyd Jr. She influenced Vincent Price's art collecting.

Bibliography

  • Andina (1949)
  • Forever Damned, Vantage Press (1955), a novel of historical fiction set in Chile

References