Rosita Yarza

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Rosita Yarza (actually María Rosa Yarza Manrique , born November 5, 1922 in Madrid , † October 13, 1996 there ) was a Spanish actress .

Yarza began her career in the post-war years and enjoyed popularity in theater and cinema alike. She often played alongside her husband José María Seoane under important directors such as Cayetano Luca de Tena , Luis Escobar Kirkpatrick and José Luis Alonso at the Teatro Español de Madrid . In addition to classics by Shakespeare , Cervantes and Lope de Vega, they also performed contemporary plays by José López Rubio and Edgar Neville . Yarza's interpretation as "Doña Inés" was particularly praised alongside Seoane in the title role of " Don Juan Tenorio ".

In the cinema she starred in 27 films; among them was the parodic trilogy of 1944 and 1945 by director Ramón Barreiro and a number of melodramas such as Malvaloca , Mariona Rebull , El hombre que se quiso matar or A mí no me mire usted . She last played in the cinema in 1969; ten years later she also retired from theater work.

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Individual evidence

  1. Manuel Gómez García: Diccionario del teatro. 1998, p. 770.
  2. ^ Obituary in El País