Miroslava Stern

Infobox Actor
name = Miroslava Stern


imagesize =
birthdate = February 26, 1926
location = Prague, Czechoslovakia
birthname = Miroslava Šternová
deathdate = death date and age|1955|3|10|1926|2|26
deathplace = Mexico City, Mexico
othername = Miroslava

Miroslava Stern (February 26, 1926 - March 10, 1955) was a Mexican actress.

Biography

Born Miroslava Šternová in Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic), Stern moved to Mexico as a child with her adoptive parents in the late 1930s, seeking to escape war in their native country. After winning a national beauty contest, Miroslava began to study acting. She participated in various Mexican films and also spent some time in Hollywood, but was typecast in the roles of mysterious women or foreign beauties due to her native accent.

After a standard career, she was offered a role in which would become her last and most remembered film: "Ensayo de un crimen" ("Rehearsal for a Crime") in 1955, directed by Luis Buñuel. Soon after the final wrap of the film, Miroslava committed suicide (apparently because of a love deception). In a macabre coincidence, at the premiere of the film, a wax statue of herself was incinerated, and coincided with her own cremation in a Mexican graveyard.

Her life inspired a short story in 1990, and also a Mexican film called "Miroslava" in 1993, starring Arielle Dombasle.

Filmography

United States

* "Adventures of Casanova" (1947) as Casania's sister
* "The Brave Bulls" (1951) as Linda de Calderón
* "Stranger on Horseback" (1955) as Amy Lee Bannerman

Mexico

Documentaries

* "El charro inmortal" (1955)
* "Torero" (1956)

Full features

* "Bodas trágicas" (1946) as Amparo
* "Cinco rostros de mujer" (1946) as Beatriz
* "¡A volar joven!" (1947) as María
* "Una aventura en la noche" (1947) as Elena
* "Juan Charrasqueado" (1947) as María
* "Nocturno de amor" (1947) as Marta Reyes
* "Secreto entre mujeres" (1948) as Claudia
* "La liga de las muchachas" (1949) as Marta
* "La casa chica" (1949) as Lucila del Castillo
* "La posesión" (1949) as Rosaura
* "La muerte enamorada" (1950) as Tacia, la muerte
* "Monte de piedad" (1950) as Elena
* "Trotacalles" (1951) as Elena
* "Cárcel de mujeres" (1951) as Evangelina Ocampo
* "Ella y yo" (1951) as Irene Garza
* "El puerto de los siete vicios" (1951) as Colomba
* "Dos caras tiene el destino" (1951) as Anita
* "La bestia magnífica" (1952) as Meche
* "Sueños de gloria" (1952) as Elsa
* "Las tres perfectas casadas" (1952) as Leopoldina
* "Música, mujeres y amor" (1952) as Elisa Méndez
* "Más fuerte que el amor" (1953) as Bárbara
* "El monstruo resucitado" (1953) as Nora
* "Reportaje" (1953) as Nurse
* "La visita que no tocó el timbre" (1954) as Emma
* "Escuela de vagabundos" (1954) as Susana o Susi
* "Ensayo de un crimen" (1955) as Lavinia

ee also

*Foreign-born artists in Mexico

External links

*imdb|id=0827797|name=Miroslava Stern
*InSpanish|url=cinemexicano.mty.itesm.mx/estrellas/miroslava.html|name=Miroslava at the Cinema of Mexico site of the ITESM
*

Persondata
NAME= Stern, Miroslava
ALTERNATIVE NAMES= Šternová, Miroslava; Miroslava
SHORT DESCRIPTION= Actress
DATE OF BIRTH= February 26, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH= Prague, Czechoslovakia
DATE OF DEATH= March 10, 1955
PLACE OF DEATH= Mexico City, Mexico