María Félix was an actress as great as her personality, the muse of writers, designers and singers who brought the name of Mexico to the most important screens and film festivals in the world. María Bonita or María de los Ángeles Félix Güereña, the Sonoran who, with the mystery that surrounded her, built the most important character of her career, her own.
Who was Maria Felix?
María Félix was a Mexican actress, known as the diva of the golden age of Mexican cinema. She was the largest representative of the big screen in Mexico at an international level, also participating in well-known films in different European countries. Known as María Bonita or La Doña for her role in the film Doña Bárbara (1943), she also became a style icon of the time for her extravagant taste and ironic personality.
Career
During her career, María Félix devoured the big screen with her perfect features and overwhelming personality. She was the femme fatale, the unrestrained rebel, a volcanic diva impossible to tame. She made her debut in 1942 with her future husband Jorge Negrete in El peñón de las ánimas. The following year, she played Doña Bárbara after the Venezuelan novelist Rómulo Gallegos, upon seeing her, exclaimed that he had found his literary heroine in a woman of flesh and blood. That was how she acquired, thanks to the third film of her filmography, the nickname "La Doña".
10 memorable quotes by María Félix
"In a world of men like this, I want to warn you to be careful, here comes the revenge of women, when we are the majority we are going to rule and to rule you have to be informed and learn and be prepared."
"I cannot give beauty secrets, but only one thing for everyone and for all times: discipline".
"I have never loved anyone as I love myself, so no one has been able to make me suffer."
"It's not enough to be pretty, you have to know how to be."
"Flowers! I hate flowers! They last a day and are to be appreciated for a lifetime."
"I prefer to speak well of myself than to speak ill of others"
"In a conversation about his place of origin: 'I must have been born in Sonora, in my land of Alamos, with my mountains, with my air, I believe that beauty is born there."
"I think I knew how to direct my life and I directed my career well, because there are people who directed their work well but do not direct their lives well. Of course I have directed my life well, because first of all I have had a fabulous time".
"An original woman is not one that does not imitate anyone, but one that no one can imitate." "
Between the public in Mexico and I there is a love story."
