Angélica María
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Angélica María Hartman Ortiz (born September 27, 1944) is an Mexican
Mexico
The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...

-American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 actress and a Grammy Award
Grammy Award
A Grammy Award — or Grammy — is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry...

 winning singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...

. She is a legendary entertainer and is known as La Novia de Mexico (Mexico's Sweetheart).

Early life

Born in New Orleans, Louisiana
New Orleans, Louisiana
New Orleans is a major United States port and the largest city and metropolitan area in the state of Louisiana. The New Orleans metropolitan area has a population of 1,235,650 as of 2009, the 46th largest in the USA. The New Orleans – Metairie – Bogalusa combined statistical area has a population...

, she is the daughter of the American enterpreneur Arnold Hartman and Angélica de Jesús Ortiz Sandoval, a theater producer. When she was 5 years old, Angélica's parents divorced and she moved with her mother to Mexico City
Mexico City
Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole...

.

Early career

Her mother's sister, Yolanda Ortiz, introduced little Angélica to the Mexican Cinema when Gregorio Wallerstein, a movie producer, was looking for a boy for his next movie. Angélica told the producer, "Give me a haircut and I'm that boy" http://www.lanoviademexico.com.mx/Default.asp?SelectedPage=1. Charmed by the girl, he let her into his audition. She got the role in the movie Pecado ("Sin"). Soon afterwards, she worked on, Una Mujer Decente ("A Decent Woman"), La Hija de la Otra ("The Daughter of the Mistress"), Los Amantes ("The Lovers"), Fierecilla (Little Beast), Sígueme, Corazón ("Follow Me, Sweetheart"). She obtained the Ariel award for her role in Mi Esposa y la Otra ("My Wife and the Mistress") when she was 6. She also performed in her first fotonovela
Fotonovela
A fotonovela also known as novela or novelita, is a small pamphlet akin to comic-book format, with photographs instead of illustrations, combined with small dialogue bubbles...

 Rayito del Sol ("Little Sunray"). She sang in her two next movies, 2 Caras Tiene el Destino ("Destiny Has Two Faces") and Los Gavilanes (The Hawks) with superstar Pedro Infante
Pedro Infante
José Pedro Infante Cruz , better known as Pedro Infante, is the most famous actor and singer of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema and is an idol of the Latinamerican people, together with Jorge Negrete and Javier Solís, who were styled the Tres Gallos Mexicanos . He was born in Mazatlán, Sinaloa,...

, who told her she would be a great actress, because she spoke with her eyes, as she did.

Teen idol

In 1955, Rita Macedo offered her a role in the play La mala semilla (The Bad Seed), which would be the first of a series of plays she was involved with while she filmed. When she was 16 she joined the telenovela
Telenovela
A telenovela is a limited-run serial dramatic programming popular in Latin American, Portuguese, and Spanish television programming. The word combines tele, short for televisión or televisão , and novela, a Spanish or Portuguese word for "novel"...

 industry with the production Cartas de amor(Love Letters). Next year she acted in musicals as well as in "lucha libre
Lucha libre
Lucha libre is a term used in Mexico, and other Spanish-speaking countries, for a form of professional wrestling that has developed within those countries...

" movies such as El Señor Tormenta (Lord Torment) and Muerte en el ring (Death in the Ring). At that time she was beginning to be referred to as La novia de la juventud (Youth's girlfriend) and after her first musical, a journalist, Octavio de Alba, named her La novia de México, (Mexico's girlfriend or Mexico's sweetheart) which is a title she would keep thereafter.

Singing career

After a few musicals, she asked for her mother's assistance (who was also her manager) and together with Armando Manzanero
Armando Manzanero
Armando Manzanero Canché is a Mexican musician and composer of Maya descent, widely considered the premier Mexican romantic composer of the postwar era and one of the most successful composers of Latin America....

, then a new songwriter, she sang 1962's Eddy Eddy
Angélica María (album)
-Track listing:# "EDDY EDDY"# "AMAR Y SER AMADA"# "TOCO A TU PUERTA"# "AMAME"# "MI PASTEL"# "PEQUEÑITA TWIST"# "JOHNNY EL ENOJON"# "DILE ADIOS"# "FORTACHON"# "NUNCA EN UN MILLON DE AÑOS"# "PURE DE PAPAS"# "UN PESO"# "FORTACHON" [*]...

which would eventually become one of her greatest musical successes. Manzanero took Angélica to see a producer, and in the same year she released her first album on the Musart record label. The album was a success, so she began touring and making movies with teen idols such as César Costa
César Costa
César Costa is a Mexican actor and rock-and-roll singer.Costa was born in Colonia Condesa of the Mexican capital. He studied elementary and Junior Highschool at the Colegio Alemán and Law at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México ....

 and Venezuela
Venezuela
Venezuela , officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America. It borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south...

n actor/singer Enrique Guzmán
Enrique Guzmán
Enrique Guzmán is a Mexican singer. He is the father of Mexican singer Alejandra Guzmán by his former wife, actress and politician Silvia Pinal....

 who she would date later.

In 1965, she filmed "Fray Torero" (Friar Bullfighter) in Spain and came back to Mexico to work in two movies, and to record her sixth album. Then, she acted in such successful films as 5 de chocolate y 1 de fresa
5 de chocolate y 1 de fresa
5 de chocolate y 1 de fresa is a 1968 Mexican film. The story involves a student at a convent who undergoes a radical transformation after consuming strange "mushrooms"....

(Five of chocolate and one of strawberry) and obtained the starring role in the 1968 film version
Corazón salvaje (1968 film)
Corazón salvaje was the second film adaptation of the Caridad Bravo Adams 1957 novel of the same name. It is considered the closest to the original story....

 of Corazón salvaje
Corazón salvaje
Corazón salvaje was a novel written by prolific Mexican writer Caridad Bravo Adams and published in 1957 after it had been adapted to the screen the previous year....

a movie that made her famous in places as far as China. After joining RCA, she would later become one of the biggest stars in Latin America
Latin America
Latin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages  – particularly Spanish and Portuguese, and variably French – are primarily spoken. Latin America has an area of approximately 21,069,500 km² , almost 3.9% of the Earth's surface or 14.1% of its land surface area...

. In 1971, she acted in Ernesto Alonso
Ernesto Alonso
Ernesto Ramirez Alonso was a Mexican producer, director, cinematographer and actor. He was nicknamed "Señor Telenovela" because most of his work centered around telenovelas known around the world....

's telenovela Muchacha italiana viene a casarse
Muchacha italiana viene a casarse
Muchacha italiana viene a casarse is a 1971 Mexican telenovela by Televisa produced by Ernesto Alonso and directed by Alfredo Saldaña, starring Angélica María and Ricardo Blume...

("Italian girl comes to get married") which opened the Spanish television market in the United States, and was a success in Central America
Central America
Central America is the central geographic region of the Americas. It is the southernmost, isthmian portion of the North American continent, which connects with South America on the southeast. When considered part of the unified continental model, it is considered a subcontinent...

 and South America. In 1973 she met the aspiring singer Juan Gabriel
Juan Gabriel
Alberto Aguilera Valadez , better known by his stage name Juan Gabriel , is a Mexican singer and songwriter who is one of the most famous living representatives of the Mexican ranchera, ballad, mariachi, and pop music....

 who would become one of the biggest selling artists in the world. Together, they would record ballads performed by mariachi bands, thus creating the style "balada ranchera". The single Tú sigues siendo el mismo ("You are still the same") sold one million copies in the United States alone, and has since then been performed by dozens of other singers. She also filmed one of her biggest telenovelas Ana del aire ("Ana of the air", playing a flight attendant role) and recorded three more albums in 1974. In 1977, she made the telenovela version of her film Corazón salvaje, released two albums, and performed in the play Papacito Piernas Largas ("Daddy Long-legs"), a play that would spun off an album, and broke the record of more than 1000 performances sold out in the next 3 years.In 1980, she recorded for the first time in a U. K. studio, making an album of ballads and a single record with two pop songs in English, in order to search some kind of crossover. During these years, she signed with Marsal Productions, then Caytronics, Melody, RCA again, and finally CBS, which was her last contract with a foreign record company. Since then, she established her own recording company in which she has produced 7 albums.
In fact, her singing career spans through 2004, being her most recent album "Amor del Bueno", produced by Joan Sebastian, and launched by Ole Music/Universal.

Personal life

In 1974, she met Venezuelan singer/comedian Raúl Vale, soon after, in april 1975, they got married. Their wedding was the first to be televised in Mexico. In 1975, in an already advanced pregnancy, she broke records in New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...

 when her show was sold out twice the same day at the Madison Square Garden
Madison Square Garden
Madison Square Garden, often abbreviated as MSG and known colloquially as The Garden, is a multi-purpose indoor arena in the New York City borough of Manhattan and located at 8th Avenue, between 31st and 33rd Streets, situated on top of Pennsylvania Station.Opened on February 11, 1968, it is the...

, a record that has never been broken three decades later. That same year, in november 1975, her daughter, the international actress, comedian, singer, and impersonator Angélica Vale
Angélica Vale
Angélica Vale is a Mexican actress, singer and comedienne, known also as the daughter of Angélica María, "La Novia de Mexico" , and as the daughter of comedian Raul Vale...

, was born.

She is fluent in Spanish, English, French, Italian.

International tours

In 1980, she recorded her 28th album and created the show La historia del cine ("The history of cinema") in which she sang, danced, and performed various characters. She changed wardrobes 15 times without leaving the stage. That same year she recorded another album with Juan Gabriel and starred in El hogar que yo robé ("The home I stole") that would be remade in the 2000s as La usurpadora
La usurpadora
La Usurpadora is a Mexican romantic drama telenovela produced by Salvador Mejia Alejandre and originally broadcast on Canal de las Estrellas from February 9, 1998 to July 24, 1998. It starred Gabriela Spanic and Fernando Colunga. This was one of the last telenovelas to feature Libertad Lamarque,...

. Next year she took her show in a tour throughout the Americas. In 1982, she recorded another "balada ranchera" album and obtained a role in her first English-language film Matar a un extraño ("To kill a stranger") and presented a second show La magia de Angélica María ("The magic of Angélica María") in places from New York to Chile
Chile
Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...

.

In 1986, she starred in Herencia Maldita ("Cursed inheritance") singing the theme-song and releasing an album called "El Hombre de Mi Vida". She later acted with her daughter in a production by Angélica Ortíz titled Una Estrella. In 1988 she divorced Vale and starred in a TV show titled Tres generaciones
Tres Generaciones
Tres Generaciones is an award-winning super-premium tequila produced in Tequila, a municipality of the state of Jalisco, Mexico. It was created in 1973 by Don Francisco Javier Sauza to honor the three successive generations of tequila makers of the Sauza family since 1873: Don Cenobio, Don...

("Three generations") with Carmen Montejo
Carmen Montejo
Carmen Montejo is a Mexican actress of telenovelas, stage and the Golden age of the cinema of Mexico....

 and Sasha Sokol
Sasha Sokol
Sasha Sökol is a Mexican singer, composer, actress, and TV host. She has sold more than 5 million albums worldwide.-Biography:...

. In 1990 she acted in the play Mamá ama el rock ("Mom loves rock") with her daughter and Ricky Martin
Ricky Martin
Enrique "Ricky" Martín Morales , better known as Ricky Martin, is a Puerto Rican and Spanish pop singer and actor who achieved prominence, first as a member of the Latin boy band Menudo, then as a solo artist since 1991.During his career he has sold more than 60 million album copies worldwide...

. In 1994, she acted in Luis de Llano's Agujetas de color de rosa which would be such a great success that it was extended to 600 episodes.

In 2001, Reader's Digest
Reader's Digest
Reader's Digest is a general interest family magazine, published ten times annually. Formerly based in Chappaqua, New York, its headquarters is now in New York City. It was founded in 1922, by DeWitt Wallace and Lila Bell Wallace...

 released an album of her hits, and she acted in the movie ¿Qué me va a hacer?. In 2003 she got a role in Sea of dreams with Sonia Braga
Sônia Braga
Sônia Maria Campos Braga is a Brazilian actress. She has been nominated for both a Golden Globe Award and an Emmy Award.-Early life:...

. In 2006, she and her daughter reteamed for the telenovela La fea mas bella
La fea más bella
La Fea Más Bella is a Mexican telenovela produced by Televisa. It is the second Mexican version of the popular Colombian telenovela: Betty la fea...

(The Prettiest Ugly Girl). The series was a ratings smash, and in 2009 they reteamed for the second season of Mujeres asesinas
Mujeres Asesinas
Mujeres Asesinas is a Mexican drama and psychological thriller type television series produced by Pedro Torres. The series is an adaptation of the Argentine series with the same name, produced by Pol-ka from 2005–2008.-Plot:...

(Murderous women).

International Humanitarian Initiatives

In 2007, Angélica María was appointed as a Goodwill Ambassador of the Intergovernmental Institution for the use of Micro-algae Spirulina
Spirulina
Spirulina may refer to:* Spirulina , a health-food supplement* Spirulina , a cyanobacterium group* Ochthephila spirulina, species of gastropod in the Hygromiidae family...

 Against Malnutrition, IIMSAM, to help the organisation realise a world free of malnutrition and hunger, and in support of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by mainstreaming the use of Spirulina
Spirulina
Spirulina may refer to:* Spirulina , a health-food supplement* Spirulina , a cyanobacterium group* Ochthephila spirulina, species of gastropod in the Hygromiidae family...

 to eradicate malnutrition, achieve food security, and bridge the health divide with a special priority for the Developing and the Least Developed Countries.

Angélica María joins the list of distinguished IIMSAM Goodwill Ambassadors from across the world such as eminent footballer Diego Maradona
Diego Maradona
Diego Armando Maradona is a retired Argentine football player and widely regarded as one of the greatest football players of all time. Over the course of his professional club career Maradona played for Argentinos Juniors, Boca Juniors, Barcelona, Napoli, Sevilla and Newell's Old Boys, setting...

, philanthropist Dr.Sulaiman Al-Fahim
Sulaiman Al-Fahim
Sulaiman Abdul Kareem Mohammad Al-Fahim is the ex-CEO of the Abu Dhabi based Hydra Properties real estate development company, and president of the Arab Union for Real Estate Development...

, fashion designer Carolina Herrera
Carolina Herrera (fashion designer)
Carolina Herrera Carolina Herrera Carolina Herrera (born María Carolina Josefina Pacanins y Niño (born January 8, 1939) is a Venezuelan and naturalized American fashion designer and entrepreneur who founded her eponymous company in 1980.-Early life:...

 and actor Sanjay Dutt
Sanjay Dutt
Sanjay Dutt is an Indian Hindi film actor and politician. Dutt, son of Hindi film actors Sunil and Nargis Dutt, made his acting debut in 1981.-Personal life:...

 who have committed themselves selflessly towards the mandate of the organisation. Sanjay Dutt's priority area would be to help the malnutrition initiatives of IIMSAM where Spirulina
Spirulina
Spirulina may refer to:* Spirulina , a health-food supplement* Spirulina , a cyanobacterium group* Ochthephila spirulina, species of gastropod in the Hygromiidae family...

 would be utelised to save innumerable lives lost to malnutrition and to counter various deprivations associated with it.

Music

  • 1962: Angélica María
  • 1962: Angélica María Vol.2
  • 1963: Angélica María Vol.3
  • 1964: Angélica María Vol.4
  • 1965: Angélica María Vol.5
  • 1965: Perdoname Mi Vida Angélica María Y Alberto Vázquez
    Alberto Vazquez
    Alberto Vazquez is an American actor, screenwriter, teacher, director and producer. He founded the Alberto Vazquez Actors Workshop, organized primarily for beginners, semi-trained and working actors.- TV :-Film:-Off-Broadway:...

     (Soundtrack) (EP)
  • 1966: Cantos De Navidad (single)
  • 1966: La Novia De La Junventud Angélica María con Los Rebeldes del Rock
  • 1966: Angélica María Vol.6
  • 1967: Angélica María Vol.8
  • 1967: Me Quiero Casar Angélica María y Alberto Vázquez (Soundtrack) (EP)
  • 1968: Cuando me enamoro
  • 1968: Angélica Y Armando Angélica María y Armando Manzanero
    Armando Manzanero
    Armando Manzanero Canché is a Mexican musician and composer of Maya descent, widely considered the premier Mexican romantic composer of the postwar era and one of the most successful composers of Latin America....

  • 1968: Cinco De Chocolate Y Uno De Fresa (Soundtrack) (EP)
  • 1969: Somos Novios (Corazón Contento)Angélica María, Palito Ortega y Armando Manzanero (Soundtrack) (EP)
  • 1969: La Paloma
  • 1970: El Primer Amor
  • 1971: Angélica María 1971
  • 1972: El Primer Nobel Amor Angélica María y Roberto Jordán (Soundtrack) (EP)
  • 1972: Angélica María 1972
  • 1973: Tonto
  • 1973: Por Nosotros Angélica María y Roberto Jordán
    Roberto Jordan
    Roberto Jordán is a popular singer whose heyday occurred during Mexico's nueva ola of music in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Many of his songs were covers of English-language rock and pop songs, with arrangements provided by music teachers and producers Enrique Okamura and Eduardo Magallanes...

     (single)
  • 1974: Voy A Escribirte Una Carta
  • 1974: Yo Amo, Tu Amas, Nosotros... (EP)
  • 1974: Gigi Theatre
    Theatre
    Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...

    (single)
  • 1974: Ana Del Aire (EP)
  • 1974: ¿Donde Estas Vidita Mia?
  • 1975: Una Muchach Igual Que Todas
  • 1976: Tranpas Para Un Amor Angélica María y Raúl Vale (Soundtrack) (EP)
  • 1976: Angélica María Con El Mariachi Mexico
  • 1976: Ha Nacido Mi Niña (EP)
  • 1976: Angélica María Con Mariachi
  • 1977: Papacito Piernas Largas Theatre
    Theatre
    Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...

    (single)
  • 1977: Angélica María 1977
  • 1979: Cuanto Habla El Corazon
  • 1979: Angélica María y Raúl Vale
  • 1980: Loving in the Moonlight
  • 1980: Confia en Mi
  • 1981: Y la sentir de Juan Gabriel
  • 1983: La magia de Angélica María
  • 1983: Sera lo que sera
  • 1984: Cantar es siempre amor
  • 1985: Revelaciones
  • 1986: El Hommbre De Mi Vida
  • 1988: Una Estrella
  • 1989: Pero Amanecio
  • 1990: Reina y Cenicienta
  • 1990: Mom loves Rock
  • 1992: Revolution
    Revolution
    A revolution is a fundamental change in power or organizational structures that takes place in a relatively short period of time.Aristotle described two types of political revolution:...

  • 1993: Las Grandes de Rock
  • 1994: Gracias
    Gracias
    Gracias is a small Honduran town/municipality that was founded in 1536, and has a population of approximately 25,000 people...

  • 1996: La viuda Alegre
  • 1998: Island with babies
  • 1999: Mis Exitos
  • 2000: Sabor a Nada
  • 2002: Bring me the Phone
  • 2003: Bring me the phone... en espanol
  • 2004: Boleros Reloaded
  • 2006: Amor del Bueno
  • 2007: Estrella mia
  • 2008: Por Supuesto
  • 2009: Que Emane (single)
  • 2010: Ven A Mi Soledad (Single)

TV shows

  • Premier Orfeon 1964
  • TV Musical ( several seasons)
  • Los Días Felices (several seasons)
  • Los Grandes Años del Rock And Roll(1975)
  • Exitos Bacardí (several seasons)
  • Arriba El Telón (1977)
  • Siempre En Domingo ( yearly seasons)
  • Angélica María En..... (1984, 1985)
  • La Hora Marcada (1986)
  • Tres generaciones
    Tres Generaciones
    Tres Generaciones is an award-winning super-premium tequila produced in Tequila, a municipality of the state of Jalisco, Mexico. It was created in 1973 by Don Francisco Javier Sauza to honor the three successive generations of tequila makers of the Sauza family since 1873: Don Cenobio, Don...

    (1989)
  • Angélica María Show (2009 - 2008 - 2010)

Telenovelas

  • 1960: Cartas de amor
  • 1966: Más fuerte que tu amor
  • 1968: Águeda as Agueda
  • 1968: Leyendas de México
  • 1969: Puente de amor
  • 1973: Ana del aire as Ana
  • 1973: Muchacha italiana viene a casarse
    Muchacha italiana viene a casarse
    Muchacha italiana viene a casarse is a 1971 Mexican telenovela by Televisa produced by Ernesto Alonso and directed by Alfredo Saldaña, starring Angélica María and Ricardo Blume...

    as Valeria Donatti
  • 1975: El milagro de vivir as Aura
  • 1977: Corazón salvaje as Mónica
  • 1979: Yara as Yara
  • 1981: El hogar que yo robé as Victoria/Andrea Velarde
  • 1986: Herencia maldita as Adela Beltrán
  • 1994: Agujetas de color de rosa as Elisa viuda de Armendáres
  • 1996: Bendita mentira as Esperanza
  • 1997: La antorcha encendida as Doña Bernarda de Muñiz
  • 1999: Rosalinda as Soledad Martha Romero
  • 2002: Tu historia de amor as Esperanza/Martha
  • 2003: Amar otra vez as Balbina Eslava viuda de Castañeda
  • 2006: La fea más bella
    La fea más bella
    La Fea Más Bella is a Mexican telenovela produced by Televisa. It is the second Mexican version of the popular Colombian telenovela: Betty la fea...

    as Julieta Solis de Padilla
  • 2007: Muchachitas como tu
    Muchachitas como tú
    Muchachitas como tú is the new version of the hit Muchachitas, a telenovela produced by Emilio Larrosa in 1991 for Televisa. This telenovela tells the story of four girls: Elena Olivares, Isabel Flores, Leticia Hernández and Monica Sánchez Zuñiga...

    as herself
  • 2008: Amor sin maquillaje
    Amor sin Maquillaje
    Amor sin Maquillaje ' is a mini novela that was shown in 2007. It is a production of Rosy Ocampo, who also produced La Fea Mas Bella. The stars are Sergio Goyri and Marlene Favela; and the novela marks the return of the famous actress Lucía Méndez to Televisa after a 17 year absence...

    as herself
  • 2009: Mujeres Asesinas 2 as Julia, Madre (2009)
  • 2011: Aurora
    Aurora (Telenovela)
    Aurora is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by the United States-based television network Telemundo.Telemundo aired this serial from November 1, 2010 to May 20, 2011...

    as Pasion Urquijo
  • 2011: Mi Corazón Insiste as Isabel "Chabela" Volcán

Hollywood films

  • 1982: To Kill a Stranger as Christina Carver
  • 2003: Sea of Dreams as Rina
  • 2010: Pacal's Votan (Announced)

Mexican films

  • 1950: Pecado as Miguelito (estreno 1951)
  • 1950: Una mujer decente as Hijito de Rosa (estreno 1950)
  • 1950: La hija de la otra as Lupita pequeña (estreno 1951)
  • 1950: Los amantes as Gloria (estreno 1951)
  • 1950: Fierecilla as Rosita niña (estreno 1951)
  • 1951: Sígueme corazón as María Luisa (estreno 1952)
  • 1951: Mi esposa y la otra as Carmelita (estreno 1952)
  • 1951: Dos caras tiene el destino as Rosa María (estreno 1952)
  • 1951: La ausente as Rosita (1952)
  • 1952: Secretaria particular as Venus (1952)
  • 1952: La Cobarde as Rosa María (1953)
  • 1952: Sucedió en Acapulco as Niña empleada por chantajistas (1953)
  • 1954: Los gavilanes as Florecita (1956)
  • 1955: Sublime melodía as Clarita (1956)
  • 1956: El buen ladrón as Angélica (1957)
  • 1956: Música de siempre as Bailarina (estreno 1958)
  • 1957: Mexican Manhunt/Flores para mi general as Rosa María
  • 1959: Aventuras de la pandilla as La Cachuquis
  • 1959: La pandilla en acción
  • 1959: La pandilla se divierte
  • 1959: Triunfa la pandilla
  • 1961: Las hijas del Amapolo
    Las hijas del Amapolo
    Las hijas del Amapolo is a 1960 Mexican film. It stars Sara García....

    (1962)
  • 1961: Muchachas que trabajan as Tere (1961)
  • 1962: Bajo el manto de la noche as Margot (1962)
  • 1962: El Señor Tormenta as Rosita (1963)
  • 1962: Tormenta en el ring as Rosita (1963)
  • 1962: El cielo y la tierra as Marisa (1963)
  • 1962: Mi vida es una canción as Marta (1963)
  • 1962: Los signos del zodiaco as Sofía (1964)
  • 1963: Adorada Enemiga (1965)
  • 1963: Vivir de sueños as María (1964)
  • 1963: Mi alma por un amor as Marga (1964)
  • 1963: La sombra de los hijos as Nora (1964)
  • 1963: Napoleoncito as Rosita (1964)
  • 1964: El gángster' (1965)
  • 1964: Mi héroe as Mané (1965)
  • 1964: Perdóname mi vida as Dina (1965)
  • 1965: Fray Torero (Spain, 1966)
  • 1966: Sólo para tí as Elena Montero (1966)
  • 1966: Me quiero casar (1967)
  • 1967: 5 de chocolate y 1 de fresa
    5 de chocolate y 1 de fresa
    5 de chocolate y 1 de fresa is a 1968 Mexican film. The story involves a student at a convent who undergoes a radical transformation after consuming strange "mushrooms"....

    as Esperanza/Brenda/Domitila (estreno 1969)
  • 1967: Corazón salvaje
    Corazón salvaje (1968 film)
    Corazón salvaje was the second film adaptation of the Caridad Bravo Adams 1957 novel of the same name. It is considered the closest to the original story....

    (1968)
  • 1968: Romeo contra Julieta
    Romeo contra Julieta
    Romeo contra Julieta is a 1968 Mexican film. It was written by Luis Alcoriza. Starring Angelica Maria....

    (1968)
  • 1968: Como perros y gatos (1969)
  • 1968: El cuerpazo del delito (1969)
  • 1968: Somos novios (1969)
  • 1969: Alguien nos quiere matar as Carlota (1970)
  • 1970: Ya se quién eres (te he estado observando) as Rosalba (1971)
  • 1971: La verdadera vocación de Magdalena as Magdalena, "Magui"/"Irene Durán" (1972)
  • 1972: Entre monjas anda el diablo
    Entre monjas anda El Diablo
    Entre monjas anda El Diablo is a 1972 Mexican film. It stars Sara García....

    as María (1973)
  • 1972: ¡Quiero vivir mi vida! as Lucía (1973)
  • 1972: El Premio Nobel del amor as Leonarda Tomasa Isaaca (1973)
  • 1974: Yo amo, tu amas, nosotros... (1975)
  • 1977: Penthouse de la muerte (1978)
  • 1978: La guerra de los pasteles (1979)
  • 2002: ¿Qué me va a hacer? (cortometraje)
  • 2007: Huevos revueltos (mediometraje) (2009)
  • 2010: Anos Despues
  • 2010: Salsa Tel Aviv

Theatre

  • 1955: La mala semilla
  • 1960: El canto de la cigara
  • 1961: Las fascinadoras
  • 1965: Sí quiero
  • 1966: Cuando oscurezca
  • 1968: Marat/Sade
    Marat/Sade
    The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade , almost invariably shortened to Marat/Sade, is a 1963 play by Peter Weiss...

    as Charlotte Corday
  • 1974-1975: Gigi
    Gigi
    Gigi is a 1944 novella by French writer Colette. The plot focuses on a young Parisian girl being groomed for a career as a courtesan and her relationship with the wealthy cultured man named Gaston who falls in love with her and eventually marries her....

    as Colette
  • 1976: Te encontre en abril
  • 1976: Trampas de amor
  • 1977-1979: Papacito piernas largas Daddy Long Legs
  • 1987-1988: Una estrella
  • 1990-1991: Mamá ama el rock
  • 1993: La viuda alegre
  • 1995: La isla de los ninos
  • 1996: La mujer del ano
    La Mujer del Año
    La Mujer del Año is a recording of the music for the play Mujer del Año performed by Mexican singer Verónica Castro. It was released in 1995...

    Woman of the Year
    Woman of the Year (musical)
    Woman of the Year is a musical with a book by Peter Stone and score by John Kander and Fred Ebb.Based on the Ring Lardner Jr.-Michael Kanin screenplay for the 1942 Katharine Hepburn-Spencer Tracy film of the same name, the musical changes the newspaper reporters of the original to television...

    as Tess Harding
  • 1999: Mama nos quita los novios
  • 2007: Emociones encontradas by Richard Baer ... as Cristina

Facts

  • Angélica María is known as La Novia de México (Girlfriend of Mexico).
  • Although she was one of the main movie and TV attractions during 60s and 70s and the no. 1 record seller in the country during the same period, she is still one of the most respected and beloved performers in Mexico.
  • For her work on stage, screen, television and as a singer, Angélica María has been inducted into the Paseo de las Luminarias at Mexico City
    Mexico City
    Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole...

    's Plaza de las Estrellas
    Plaza de las Estrellas
    Plaza de las Estrellas is a shopping center located in Mexico City. It was built in 1982. It is best known as the site of the Paseo de las Luminarias, the Mexican equivalent of the Hollywood Walk of Fame...

    ; she and Angélica Vale are among the few mother and daughter entertainers to be honored as such.
  • Angélica Maria, Raul Vale and Angélica Vale were included in the 2007 book Televisa Presenta, paying tribute to the first 50 years of the network.

External links

Angelica Maria: Official site
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