Mar�a Felix
1914-2002

Mar�a Felix was M�xico's answer to Hollywood's starlets of the golden age. Felix became a fixture of the Mexican Epoca de Oro (Golden Age) of film during the 1940s. She won three Ariel awards for best actress, and, in 1985, a lifetime achievement award and the Mexico City Prize.

From one of the obituaries I found on la Do�a

"Many feminine images have ignited the fantasy of the Mexicans," wrote Octavio Paz, Mexico's Nobel Prize-winning poet, in a 1992 essay on cinema and myth-making.

"But the myth of Mar�a Felix is different," Paz said. "Mar�a Felix is a woman - such a woman - with the audacity to defy the ideas machos have constructed of what a woman should be. She's free like the wind, she disperses the clouds, or illuminates them with the lightning flash of her gaze."

I wrote something about her death back in April, 2002. Maybe if she was at the height of her career these days, Hollywood wouldn't have to find a Spanish woman to play a Mexican nanny.

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