After urgently entering a hospital in Madrid this Sunday, the popular actress and television presenter, Carmen Sevilla, has died in Madrid this Tuesday 27 at the age of 92. Nicknamed ‘The Bride of Spain’, she was for decades one of the most charismatic actresses in Spanish cinema. She was born in Heliópolis, Seville (city that she gave her stage name, because she was actually called Carmen Garcia Galisteo), her outpouring of sympathy, beauty and talent led her to work in a Hollywood from which she came quickly to continue her career in Spain.
Born in 1930, that he dedicated himself to the show came from the family. Her father was a composer and lyricist and she very soon entered the conservatory, which led her to dedicate herself first to the world of music back in the 40s.
His first big break in film came to him thanks to a Spanish-Mexican co-production with Jorge Negrete, Jalisco sings in Seville. Along with another great musical film, Louis Marianostarred in another of the great milestones of his career, the Spanish-French production imperial violets. Drawing the attention of international producers, she ended up playing María Magdalena in King of Kings (United States, 1961).
But another great foreign film in which he participated was Mark Antony and Cleopatra (1972) together with the legendary Charlton Hestonand in which he played the octavia role in this play adapted from Shakespeare. On the occasion of Heston’s death, Carmen Sevilla wrote on ABC a columnin which he recalled how “wonderful” that filming was. The most notorious of that text is the memory of how Heston he touched her breasts in the famous sequence, something that she did not know was in the script. A surprise that came repeated years later, when the Antena 3 Surprise Surprise program brought Heston to him after a legion of gladiators.
That Hollywood experience wasn’t enough, and he ended up slamming the movie mecca shut by turning down a six-year contract from Paramount to, as he put it, “not leave my family alone, to my parents, to my two little brothers”.
The arrival of uncover cinema was to our cinema what the arrival of talkies was to Hollywood, as tapes like Singing under the rain either The artist: a blow to the career of many actresses. Although Carmen Sevilla continued to work, the truth is that she no longer reached the level of popularity of yesteryear.
Today we have practically forgotten its merits of yore, but these titles made her one of the biggest stars of our country, so much so that her wedding to the composer Augusto Algueró in 1961 It was quite a media event.
The telecoupon and the sheep
It had to be the arrival of the Telecupón to Telecinco when he returned to the homes of all Spaniards. With the help of Augustine Bravo and his charisma, turned an apparently nondescript space such as the ONCE raffle into a television phenomenon for years. That’s where we met his well-known “sheep”which has given rise to so many imitations, and which we also remember in the video above.
In 2004 he received the Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Artsby the hand of King Juan Carlos I. In that year he took over from Jose Manuel Parada in ‘Cine de barrio’, the popular Spanish Television program. After this stage, in 2010, Carmen Sevilla retired permanently.
In 2012 we found out that had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and we did not see her again until in 2022 some photos of her were published.
Until this Tuesday, in which his only son Augusto has confirmed his death at the age of 92, he was in the Sanyres de Aravaca residence, in Madrid, where he has had limited visits to his closest circle.
Source: Lasexta
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