Malú Gatica
Henrietta Maria de la Luz Boisier Gatica, known as Malú Gatica (January 15, 1922, Purén – August 10, 1997, Santiago) was a Chilean actress and singer.
Biography
With her parents, the journalist Roberto Gatica and Leonie Boisier, Gatica moved to New York in 1928 where she attended elementary and secondary school, as well as studying languages and music. Her first public appearance occurred as a singer at the age of 16 on NBC, where her father worked.
Later, in Buenos Aires, she studied theater at the Conservatoire Cunill Cabanellas. Her maternal grandfather was the French settler, French José Boisier Bourgeaux. In 1948 in the US, she married Eugene Fell, an American military attaché at the Mexican Embassy; they had a son, Leon. The marriage did not last long and she lost custody of her child. In 1995, she received the Orden al Mérito Gabriela Mistral, issued by the Ministry of Education of Chile in recognition of his outstanding and long career.[1]
Filmography
- Verdejo gasta un millón (1941) Chile
- Verdejo gobierna en Villaflor (1942) Chile
- Se abre el abismo (1944) Argentina
- Seven Women (1944) Argentina
- Amar es vivir (1946) Mexico
- Los que volvieron (1946) Mexico
- Todo un caballero (1946) Mexico
- Ocho hombres y una mujer (1946) Mexico
- El Prícipe del desierto (1947) Mexico
- Príncipe del desierto (1947) Mexico
- Extraña obsesión (1947) Mexico
- El Casado casa quiere (1948) Mexico
- Target unknown (1951) US
- The Lady and the Bandit (1951) US
- Captain Pirate (1952) US
- El Gran Circo Chamorro (1955) Chile
- Sábado Negro (1959) Mexico
References
- ↑ "Malú Gatica" (in Spanish). Cine Chile. Retrieved 19 January 2014.
External links
Malú Gatica at the Internet Movie Database