Cultural depictions of Eva Perón

Statue of Eva Perón by sculptor Ricardo Gianetti, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Eva Perón (May 7, 1919 – July 26, 1952), former First Lady of Argentina, has been a consistent presence in popular culture in her homeland and internationally ever since her debut as an actress. The following lists cover various media to include items of historic interest, enduring works of art, and recent representations in popular culture.

Literature and theater

Date	Title	Author	Actress playing Evita	Notes
1970	Evita, vida y obra de Eva Perón	Héctor Germán Oesterheld and Alberto Breccia	Inapplicable	Comic book biography of Eva Perón, narrated from a strong peronist point of view. It wasn't a conventional comic book, as it lacks speech balloons or sequential action from one panel to the other; being instead a written biography by Oesterheld with related interpretations by Breccia. It wasn't published at the time of creation due to political censorship, but the originals were found and it was edited at 2002 and 2007.
1979	Evita	Andrew Lloyd Webber, Tim Rice	Patti LuPone	Internationally, perhaps [1] the most famous depiction of Eva Perón. The musical was preceded by a concept album then debuted in London's West End. Its subsequent Broadway debut was with Patti LuPone in the title role, for which she won a Tony Award.
1986	Eva	Pedro Orgambide	Nacha Guevara	Argentine musical made in response to the one by Webber and Rice.[2] With Nacha Guevara in the leading role. The play was performed a second time during 2008.[2]
1996	Santa Evita	Tomas Eloy Martinez	Inapplicable	Fictionalized account of Eva Perón's life and the transcontinental travel of her corpse. Translated into 32 languages and published in 50 countries.
2007	Farklı Rüyalar Sokağı (Street of Assorted Dreams)	Nazlı Eray	Inapplicable	Turkish novel following multiple stories, including the events following the death of Evita as well as an anonymous narrator visited nightly by an angel describing her life.
2009	The Big Wake-Up	Mark Coggins		Altered conclusion of the bizarre history of Eva Perón's peripatetic remains. Rather than resting in the Duarte family tomb in La Recoleta Cemetery in Buenos Aires, Coggins posits that the body in La Recoleta is a duplicate and that Eva's specially embalmed corpse has been secretly buried in the San Francisco Bay Area under a false name. [1] [2]

Television and motion pictures

Date	Title	Director	Actress playing Evita	Notes
1980	Evita Peron	Marvin J. Chomsky	Faye Dunaway	Faye Dunaway stars in this TV movie [3].
1984	Evita: Quien quiera oír que oiga	Eduardo Mignona	Flavia Palmiero	With Flavia Palmiero as Evita, the movie represents her early times, leaving her born city and moving to Buenos Aires. The movie uses as well archive material from the '40 and '50 decades, and interviews with people who meet her.[3]
1996	Evita	Alan Parker	Madonna	Major motion picture adaptation of the stage musical starring Madonna in the title role.
1996	Eva Perón: The True Story	Juan Carlos Desanzo	Esther Goris	Argentine submission for Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. Starring Esther Goris in title role [4].
2003	The President Wore Pearls	Mike B. Anderson	Inapplicable	Episode of The Simpsons where Lisa Simpson becomes politically active in her school. Lisa Simpson dresses as Eva Perón and sings songs inspired by the musical Evita. Episode ends with a note from the directors that says, "based on the advice of their lawyers, we swear that we have never heard of a musical based on the life of Eva Perón".
2007	La Señal	Ricardo Darín and Martín Hodara	None	Movie set in Argentina in the respective time period. Although Evita is not represented directly, there are references to the social impact of Evita's declining health and death, setting parallelisms between it and the story of the characters.
2010	Lo que el tiempo nos dejó	Israel Adrián Caetano	Laura Novoa	Miniseries of unrelated television films focused at different key events of he history of Argentina, made during the Argentina Bicentennial. The first one represents the last year of Evita, from the point of view of her nurse (played by Vanesa González).[4]
2011	Juan y Eva	Paula de Luque	Julieta Díaz

Stage persona homage

Date	Character name	Actor	Notes
? – present	"Evita Bezuidenhout" and "Tannie Evita"	Pieter-Dirk Uys	In tribute to Eva Perón, South African comedian Pieter-Dirk Uys developed this character that is alternately known as "Evita Bezuidenhout" and "Tannie Evita".

Songs

Date	Title	Artist	Notes
1948	Evita Capitana ("Captain Evita")	Unknown	Argentine Peronist anthem. This is the female version of "The Peronist March", the same melody but with lyrics focused on Eva Perón [5]
2006	Maria Eva	Ignacio Copani	A popular Argentine singer from a Peronist background records a defense of Eva Perón. Song is in response to the 2006 London revival of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Evita. [6] [7]
2006	Olvidarte No Podran ("They Can't Forget You")	Patricia Sosa	Tribute to Eva Perón. The singer claims that people can love or hate Eva Perón, but they can't forget her.[8] [9]

See also

• Che Guevara in popular culture

References

1. ^ (Fraser, 1980; 1996)
2. ^ ^{a b} Nacha, impactante como Evita (Spanish)
3. ^ En la pantalla (Spanish)
4. ^ Lo que el tiempo nos dejó levantó el rating de Telefé (Spanish)

External links

• Evita Story Gets Lively After Death by Chris Klimek, The Washington Post, May 29, 2009