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Miroslava

Miroslava

Actor · 1926 – 1955 · Prague, Czechoslovakia

Miroslava (February 26, 1926 – March 9, 1955) was a Czechoslovakian-born Mexican film actress who appeared in thirty two films. Born Miroslava Šternová in Prague, Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic), Miroslava 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 appeared in a few Hollywood and Mexican films. She was offered a role in 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 by overdosing on sleeping pills.[2] Her body was found lying outstretched over her bed, she had a portrait of bullfighter Luis Miguel Dominguín in one hand. Her friends stated her suicide was due to unrequited love for Dominguín, who had recently married Italian actress Lucia Bosé. Bosè would go on to star in Buñuel's next movie, Cela s'appelle l'aurore (1956). The Mexican and Hollywood star Katy Jurado claimed to be one of the first people to find the body of Mexican actress Miroslava Stern after her tragic suicide. According to Katy, the picture that Miroslava had between her hands was Cantinflas, but the artistic manager Fanny Schatz exchanged the photo to that of the Spanish bullfighter Luis Miguel Dominguín. In his 1983 autobiography, Mon dernier soupir ("My Last Breath"), Buñuel recalls the irony of Miroslava's cremation following her suicide, when compared to a scene inEnsayo de un crimen, her last film, in which the protagonist cremates a wax reproduction of Stern's character. Her life is the subject of a short story by Guadalupe Loaeza, which was adapted by Alejandro Pelayo for his 1992 Mexican film called Miroslava, starring Arielle Dombasle.

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  • Movie7.3

    Ensayo de un crimen

    The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz

    1955 · 182 votes

  • Movie8.1

    ¡A Volar, Joven!

    Fly Away, Young Man!

    1947 · 127 votes

  • Movie5.8

    Stranger on Horseback

    1955 · 26 votes

  • Movie8.0

    Escuela de vagabundos

    School for Tramps

    1955 · 81 votes

  • Movie6.0

    México de mis amores

    1979 · 4 votes

  • Movie6.7

    Cinco rostros de mujer

    1947 · 6 votes

  • Movie4.7

    Las tres perfectas casadas

    The Three Perfect Wives

    1953 · 9 votes

  • Movie7.5

    Juan Charrasqueado

    1948 · 8 votes

  • Movie5.7

    La bestia magnifica

    The Magnificent Beast

    1953 · 9 votes

  • Movie6.2

    The Brave Bulls

    1951 · 6 votes

  • Movie6.2

    Dos caras tiene el destino

    Two Faces Have the Destiny

    1952 · 6 votes

  • Movie5.5
  • Movie6.2

    El puerto de los siete vicios

    The Port of the Seven Sins

    1951 · 6 votes

  • Movie6.3

    Una aventura en la noche

    An Adventure in the Night

    1948 · 6 votes

  • Movie6.8
  • Movie5.7

    Trotacalles

    Streetwalker

    1951 · 12 votes

  • Movie6.2

    Adventures of Casanova

    1948 · 4 votes

  • Movie6.0

    Torero!

    1957 · 11 votes

  • Movie7.3

    Reportaje

    1953 · 14 votes

  • Movie5.4

    Sueños de gloria

    1953 · 5 votes

  • Movie5.9

    Cárcel de mujeres

    1951 · 14 votes

  • Movie6.2

    La Liga de las Muchachas

    The League of Girls

    1950 · 4 votes

  • Movie5.8

    Más fuerte que el amor

    Stronger Than Love

    1955 · 9 votes

  • Movie5.8

    Monte de piedad

    1951 · 5 votes

Series1

  • TV5.1

    Suspense

    1949 · 12 votes