Carmen Sánchez

Carmen Sánchez (April 21, 1898 – November 20, 1985) was a Spanish singer, dancer, and actress.

Professional career

Carmen Sánchez was born in Madrid, Spain. She became a famous opera dancer, and singer of Spanish folklore at zarzuela a very young age. At age 20, she finished works of copla or chotis and was featured in films between 1927 and 1928. She was a pioneer film star in silent films. As her first work after the Civil War, becoming a famous Spanish actress character.

In the 1920s, she began triumph of theatre in Spain, and she became a famous actress of drama. 1930s Carmen established a theater company and achieved much success in theaters in Madrid, Lara, Princess Beatrice, Princess Elizabeth, Cervantes, Cómico and all of Spain.

During the first half of the twentieth century, she primarily worked in the theater, working alongside famous Spanish actors like José Romeu, Enrique Ramball, Pepita Meliá, Rafael Bardem, Manuel Luna, Carmen Ruíz Moragas, Carola Fernán Gomez ... The civil war in Spain suspended her work but her work in the Pavón theathre of Madrid in 1938–39. In the 1940s she went back to the theatre to continue her work with the national company of Spanish dramatic art with which she worked throughout the country and in the cinema as well successfully.

In her long career in the Spanish film industry she had the honor to participate in famous films made by directors well known and even in some European co-productions. Next to nothing unless act Sara Montiel, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Vittorio de Sica, Carmen Sevilla, Ángel de Andrés, Tony Leblanc, Marifé de Triana, Joselito, Luis Mariano, Manuel Alexandre, Conrado San Martín...

Personal life

• She was a niece of José María Alvira which she beginning in 1910s in Opera.
• In 1930s, 1940s, 1950s she was a couple lover of Duke of Berwick the ambassador of London, a famous rich man.
• She had three children: Carmen Sánchez jr, Pedro and Emilio.
• Her sister was a grandmother of the Videgain´s today.
• In 1969 she retired from cinema and died retired in 1985.
• Carmen Sánchez died in November 1985, was interred in the Cementerio de la Almudena in Madrid.

Films

• Jacobito el castigador (1927).
• The Heroes of the Legion (1928).
• Yebala (1945).
• El emigrado (1946).
• In 1947 Obsesión, The Faith and The Holy Queen.
• Locura de amor (1948).
• Luis Candelas el ladrón de Madrid and La revoltosa (1949).
• In 1950 The Troublemaker, El capitán veneno, Saturday Night, Blood in Castilla, and Tales of the Alhambra.
• In 1951 Day by Day, Surcos, Esa pareja feliz, La trinca del aire, and El Negro que tenía el alma blanca.
• From Madrid to Heaven (1952).
• Ha desaparecido un pasajero, Airport (1953).
• In 1954 La patrulla, La ciudad de los sueños, and Aventuras del barbero de Sevilla.
• In 1956 Roberto el diablo, El malvado Carabel, and El pequeño ruiseñor.
• In 1957 La estrella del rey and El inquilino.
• In 1958 Pan, amor y Andalucía, and Canto para ti.
• Bajo el cielo andaluz (1959).
• Los golfos (1960).
• Nunca pasa nada (1963).
• Sor Citroên 1967.

References

• www.nuestrocine.com/personal.asp?idpersona=2384
• The real life and history of the theater (2005) Juan José Videgain ISBN 84-7828-135-5 . His life and his family.
• Dictionary of Spain and Spanish zarzuela MªLuz González and others (2002) ICCMU Vol II. ISBN 84-89457-23-9, His family biography.
• Catálogo del cine español películas 1941–1950 author: Angel Luis Hueso Ed.Catédra Filmoteca española. (1998) ISBN 84-376-1690-5
• Un siglo de cine español (1998), author: Luis Gasca enciclopedias Planeta ISBN 84-08-02309-8.
• Diccionario Akal de teatro (1997) author: Manuel Gómez García.
• Historia del teatro María Guerrero (1998).
• Así se vive en Hollywood (2007), Ed. Vulcano, author: Juan José Videgain.
• The scene M.Fca.Vilches Madrid between 1926–1931 and Dru Dougherty (1998) Ed.Fundamentos. His career as an actor, director and entrepreneur during those years.
• Newspapers of the time since the 1920s across Spain: La vanguardia,ABC,El heraldo de Madrid,El Sol,El Liberal, El correo vasco, La voz, Ya, Blanco y Negro ...
• Dictionary theater akal (1997) Manuel Gómez García ISBN 84-460-0827-0, listed as company director and author on various pages.
• Diary ABC of Madrid (1930)
• Diary ABC of Madrid (1930)
• Diary ABC of Madrid (1932)
• Instituto Cervantes Virtual
• Nosotros los artistas (2017), P & V ISBN 978-1-9796-6135-5