Background
María was born on April 8, 1914, in Álamos, Sonora, Mexico.
María was born on April 8, 1914, in Álamos, Sonora, Mexico.
María Félix the most dazzling beauty in Mexican cinema was born in Alamos, Sonora on April 8. Before moving to Guadalajara, the family spends their lives between Alamos and Quiriego, a ranch where the grandparents lived, there María preferred to play whit her brothers climbing the tree and riding horses and other things that only the boys in the family did. He turned away from the girl's games that his sisters and dolls practiced with their dolls and meals. At fourteen she was elected queen of the carnival. It was expelled from several schools. His mother insisted that he received a religious education for what he studied with the nuns of the Sacred Heart and with the Adoratrices.
Known by the nickname ¨La Doña¨ from her character in the film: Doña Bárbara (1943), she is also known as ¨María Bonita¨ thanks to the song composed exclusively for her as a wedding gift by the composer Agustín Lara. She always knew how to say no to HOLLYWOOD and was never satisfied with the roles she played in almost fifty movies. He interpreted peas and melodramas, revolutionary themes, urban dramas, and novel adaptations.
