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MARIA ANTONIETA PONS - Las Rumberas - MEXICAN CINEMA
Born in Cuba in 1922, from Catalan origin, she was one of the most notorious rumba dancers of her times. She was discovered in Cuba by the Spanish film director Juan Orol. Emigrated to Mexico City to film Siboney (1938). She became a most popular movie actress during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema.
Her impressive physique as well as her extraordinary faculties as a rumba dancer will not be forgotten. She starred numerous Orol's films in the 1940s. After break her relationship with Orol, she passing the baton from her second husband, the Cuban director Ramón Pereda.
Her sensuous dancing can still be seen in movies such as La Reina del Mambo (1950), María Cristina (1951) and La Niña Popoff (1952), directed by Pereda. Among other films by her we have to mention: Noche de ronda (1942), Konga roja (1943, La mujer del puerto (1949), La Sinventura (1949), Una estrella y dos estrellados (1959), Las mil y una noches (1957), Teatro del crimen (1956), and Caña Brava (1964) among many others, including some in the "ranchero" gender. Some of her partners were Pedro Armendáriz, Tin Tan, Enrique Rambal and Luis Aguilar.
From 1964 she had been retired from the artistic activity. She died at age 82 at a private hospital in Mexico City.
Pons (together with Meche Barba, Amalia Aguilar, Ninón Sevilla and Rosa Carmina), is considered as one of the "Tropical Queens" of the Rumberas film of Mexican Cinema.
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“Study the past if you would define the future.”
― Confucius

"Estudia el pasado si quieres definir el futuro."
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― Michael Crichton

"Si usted no sabe la historia, entonces no se sabe nada. Usted es una hoja que no sabe que es parte de un árbol. "
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“I don't mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual. Beauty and femininity are ageless and can't be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won't like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it's based on femininity.”
― Marilyn Monroe

"No me importa tener que responsabilizarse de ser glamorosa y sexual. Belleza y la feminidad no tienen edad y no puede ser artificial, y el glamour, aunque los fabricantes no le va a gustar esto, no pueden ser fabricados. No es muy atractivo, que se basa en la feminidad ".
- Marilyn Monroe

"No me importa tener que responsabilizarse de ser glamorosa y sexual. Belleza y la feminidad no tienen edad y no puede ser artificial, y el glamour, aunque los fabricantes no le va a gustar esto, no pueden ser fabricados. No es muy atractivo, que se basa en la feminidad ".
- Marilyn Monroe

“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”
― Pablo Picasso

"El arte lava lejos del alma el polvo de la vida cotidiana."
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“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.”
― Émile Zola

"Si me preguntan lo que vine a hacer en este mundo, yo, un artista, le respondo: Estoy aquí para vivir en voz alta."
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Kiss a love, dance a measure, find your name and buried treasure.

Beso el amor, bailar una medida, encontrar su nombre y tesoro enterrado.

Everything you can imagine is real. Pablo Picasso

Todo lo que puedas imaginar es real. Pablo Picasso

Study history! It is upon history that we can build a better now.

Estudiar la historia! Es en la historia que podemos construir un mejor momento.
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When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

Cuando haces las cosas comunes en la vida de una manera poco común, que estará al mando de la atención del mundo.

They cannot make history who forget history.

Los que no saben de la historia no lo pueden mejorar.