Eva Perón

Eva Perón

María Eva Duarte de Perón was the second wife of President Juan Perón and served as the First Lady of Argentina from 1946 until her death in 1952. She is often referred to as simply Eva Perón, or by the affectionate Spanish language diminutive Evita.She was born in the village of Los Toldos in...

(May 7, 1919 – July 26, 1952), former First Lady of Argentina

First Lady of Argentina

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, has been a consistent presence in popular culture

Popular culture

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 in her homeland and internationally ever since her debut as an actress. The following lists cover various media to include items of historic interest, enduring works of art, and recent representations in popular culture.

Literature and theater

Date	Title	Author	Actress playing Evita	Notes
1970	Evita, vida y obra de Eva Perón	Héctor Germán Oesterheld Héctor Germán Oesterheld Héctor Germán Oesterheld , also known as his common abbreviation HGO, was an Argentine journalist and writer of graphic novels and comics who has come to be celebrated as a master in his field....  and Alberto Breccia Alberto Breccia Alberto Breccia was an Uruguay-born Argentine comics artist and writer.-Biography:Born in Montevideo, Uruguay, Breccia moved with his parents to Buenos Aires, Argentina when he was three years old...	Inapplicable	Comic book biography of Eva Perón, narrated from a strong peronist point of view. It wasn't a conventional comic book, as it lacks speech balloon Speech balloon Speech balloons are a graphic convention used most commonly in comic books, comic strips and cartoons to allow words to be understood as representing the speech or thoughts of a given character in the comic... s or sequential action from one panel to the other; being instead a written biography by Oesterheld with related interpretations by Breccia. It wasn't published at the time of creation due to political censorship, but the originals were found and it was edited at 2002 and 2007.
1979	Evita	Andrew Lloyd Webber Andrew Lloyd Webber Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber is an English composer of musical theatre.Lloyd Webber has achieved great popular success in musical theatre. Several of his musicals have run for more than a decade both in the West End and on Broadway. He has composed 13 musicals, a song cycle, a set of... , Tim Rice Tim Rice Sir Timothy Miles Bindon "Tim" Rice is an British lyricist and author.An Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, Tony Award and Grammy Award-winning lyricist, Rice is best known for his collaborations with Andrew Lloyd Webber, with whom he wrote Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus...	Patti LuPone Patti LuPone Patti Ann LuPone is an American singer and actress, known for her Tony Award-winning performances as Eva Perón in the 1979 stage musical Evita and as Madame Rose in the 2008 Broadway revival of Gypsy, and for her Olivier Award-winning performance as Fantine in the original London cast of Les...	Internationally, perhaps the most famous depiction of Eva Perón. The musical Musical theatre Musical theatre is a form of theatre combining songs, spoken dialogue, acting, and dance. The emotional content of the piece – humor, pathos, love, anger – as well as the story itself, is communicated through the words, music, movement and technical aspects of the entertainment as an...  was preceded by a concept album then debuted in London's West End. Its subsequent Broadway Broadway theatre Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City...  debut was with Patti LuPone Patti LuPone Patti Ann LuPone is an American singer and actress, known for her Tony Award-winning performances as Eva Perón in the 1979 stage musical Evita and as Madame Rose in the 2008 Broadway revival of Gypsy, and for her Olivier Award-winning performance as Fantine in the original London cast of Les...  in the title role, for which she won a Tony Award Tony Award The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway... .
1986	Eva	Pedro Orgambide	Nacha Guevara Nacha Guevara Nacha Guevara is an Argentine singer and actress from Mar de Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina.Trained as a dancer and actress, she discovered by chance a career as a singer becoming a symbol in the song of protest movement around 1968 in the avant-garde Instituto Di Tella in Buenos Aires, the...	Argentine musical Musical theatre Musical theatre is a form of theatre combining songs, spoken dialogue, acting, and dance. The emotional content of the piece – humor, pathos, love, anger – as well as the story itself, is communicated through the words, music, movement and technical aspects of the entertainment as an...  made in response to the one by Webber and Rice. With Nacha Guevara Nacha Guevara Nacha Guevara is an Argentine singer and actress from Mar de Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina.Trained as a dancer and actress, she discovered by chance a career as a singer becoming a symbol in the song of protest movement around 1968 in the avant-garde Instituto Di Tella in Buenos Aires, the...  in the leading role. The play was performed a second time during 2008.
1996	Santa Evita	Tomas Eloy Martinez Tomás Eloy Martínez Tomás Eloy Martínez was an Argentine journalist and writer.-Life and work:Born in San Miguel de Tucumán, Martínez obtained a degree in Spanish and Latin American literature from the University of Tucumán, and an MA at the University of Paris...	Inapplicable	Fictionalized account of Eva Perón's life and the transcontinental travel of her corpse. Translated into 32 languages and published in 50 countries.
2007	Farklı Rüyalar Sokağı (Street of Assorted Dreams)	Nazlı Eray	Inapplicable	Turkish novel following multiple stories, including the events following the death of Evita as well as an anonymous narrator visited nightly by an angel describing her life.
2009	The Big Wake-Up	Mark Coggins Mark Coggins Mark Coggins is the American author of a series of novels featuring private eye protagonist AugustRiordan. He was born in New Mexico in 1957 and attended Stanford University, where he earned an...		Altered conclusion of the bizarre history of Eva Perón's peripatetic remains. Rather than resting in the Duarte family tomb in La Recoleta Cemetery La Recoleta Cemetery La Recoleta Cemetery is a famous cemetery located in the exclusive Recoleta neighbourhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina. It contains the graves of notable people, including Eva Perón, Raúl Alfonsín, and several presidents of Argentina.- History :...  in Buenos Aires Buenos Aires Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent... , Coggins posits that the body in La Recoleta is a duplicate and that Eva's specially embalmed corpse has been secretly buried in the San Francisco Bay Area San Francisco Bay Area The San Francisco Bay Area, commonly known as the Bay Area, is a populated region that surrounds the San Francisco and San Pablo estuaries in Northern California. The region encompasses metropolitan areas of San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose, along with smaller urban and rural areas...  under a false name. http://www.markcoggins.com/book/wakeup.html http://therapsheet.blogspot.com/2009/11/story-behind-story-big-wake-up-by-mark.html

Television and motion pictures

Date	Title	Director	Actress playing Evita	Notes
1980	Evita Peron	Marvin J. Chomsky Marvin J. Chomsky Marvin J. Chomsky is an American television and film director. He has also worked as a producer. He is a cousin of academic Noam Chomsky....	Faye Dunaway Faye Dunaway Faye Dunaway is an American actress.Dunaway won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Network after receiving previous nominations for the critically acclaimed films Bonnie and Clyde and Chinatown...	Faye Dunaway Faye Dunaway Faye Dunaway is an American actress.Dunaway won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Network after receiving previous nominations for the critically acclaimed films Bonnie and Clyde and Chinatown...  stars in this TV movie http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082347/.
1984	Evita: Quien quiera oír que oiga	Eduardo Mignona	Flavia Palmiero	With Flavia Palmiero as Evita, the movie represents her early times, leaving her born city and moving to Buenos Aires. The movie uses as well archive material from the '40 and '50 decades, and interviews with people who meet her.
1996	Evita Evita (film) Evita is the 1996 film adaptation of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical of the same name based on the life of Eva Perón. It was directed by Alan Parker and written by Parker and Oliver Stone. It starred Madonna, Antonio Banderas, and Jonathan Pryce...	Alan Parker Alan Parker Sir Alan William Parker, CBE is an English film director, producer, writer and actor. He has been active in both the British cinema and American cinema and was a founding member of the Directors Guild of Great Britain.-Life and career:...	Madonna	Major motion picture adaptation of the stage musical starring Madonna in the title role.
1996	Eva Perón: The True Story Eva Perón: The True Story Eva Perón is a 1996 Argentine movie based on the life of Eva Perón. It was directed by Juan Carlos Desanzo and starred Esther Goris and Víctor Laplace. It was released on October 24, 1996. It was awarded 3 "Cóndor" awards by the Argentine Film Critics Association in 1997.-Plot:The movie does not...	Juan Carlos Desanzo	Esther Goris Esther Goris Esther Goris is an Argentine actress. Her film career started in 1983 with Los enemigos and Gracias por el fuego...	Argentine submission for Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. Starring Esther Goris Esther Goris Esther Goris is an Argentine actress. Her film career started in 1983 with Los enemigos and Gracias por el fuego...  in title role http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116238/.
2003	The President Wore Pearls The President Wore Pearls "The President Wore Pearls" is the third episode of the The Simpsons fifteenth season, first broadcast on November 16, 2003. The episode was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Music And Lyrics .-Plot:...	Mike B. Anderson Mike B. Anderson Mike B. Anderson, sometimes credited as Mikel B. Anderson, is a television director who works on The Simpsons and has directed numerous episodes of the show, and was animated in "The Secret War of Lisa Simpson" as cadet Anderson. While a college student, he directed the live action feature films...	Inapplicable	Episode of The Simpsons The Simpsons The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series is a satirical parody of a middle class American lifestyle epitomized by its family of the same name, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie... where Lisa Simpson Lisa Simpson Lisa Marie Simpson is a fictional main character in the animated television series The Simpsons. She is the middle child of the Simpson family. Voiced by Yeardley Smith, Lisa first appeared on television in The Tracey Ullman Show short "Good Night" on April 19, 1987. Cartoonist Matt Groening...  becomes politically active in her school. Lisa Simpson dresses as Eva Perón and sings songs inspired by the musical Evita. Episode ends with a note from the directors that says, "based on the advice of their lawyers, we swear that we have never heard of a musical based on the life of Eva Perón".
2007	La Señal La Señal The Signal is a 2007 Argentine film written by Eduardo Mignogna. Mignogna was going to direct the film as well. However, due to his death one year before the start of production, his friend and frequent collaborator, Ricardo Darín, took up the task. He was aided by Martín Hodara, who had his...	Ricardo Darín Ricardo Darín Ricardo Darín is an Argentine actor, screenwriter and film director.Darín is one of the biggest movie stars in Argentina. He played a number of parts in TV series for several years where he became popular as a young leading actor...  and Martín Hodara	None	Movie set in Argentina in the respective time period. Although Evita is not represented directly, there are references to the social impact of Evita's declining health and death, setting parallelisms between it and the story of the characters.
2010	Lo que el tiempo nos dejó Lo que el tiempo nos dejó Lo que el tiempo nos dejó is a 2010 Argentine miniseries of six telefilms about key events of the History of Argentina during the 20th century. They were produced by historian Felipe Pigna...	Israel Adrián Caetano Israel Adrián Caetano Israel Adrián Caetano is an Uruguayan-Argentine film director, producer and screenplay writer.-Biography:He's often credited as Adrián Caetano. He works mainly in the cinema of Argentina and at times obtains funding for his films in Europe. He lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina.At age of sixteen his...	Laura Novoa	Miniseries of unrelated television films focused at different key events of he history of Argentina History of Argentina The history of Argentina is divided by historians into four main parts: the pre-Columbian time, or early history , the colonial period , the independence wars and the early post-colonial period of the nation and the history of modern Argentina .The beginning of prehistory in the present territory of... , made during the Argentina Bicentennial Argentina Bicentennial The Argentina Bicentennial is a series of celebrations and observances celebrated on May 25, 2010, and throughout the year. They commemorated the 200th anniversary of the May Revolution, a sequence of historical events that led to the Viceroy Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros' being ousted from office... . The first one represents the last year of Evita, from the point of view of her nurse (played by Vanesa González).
2011	Juan y Eva Juan y Eva Juan y Eva is a 2011 Argentine movie based on the Argentine president Juan Perón and his wife Eva Perón. It features Osmar Nuñez as Juan Perón and Julieta Díaz as Eva Perón.-Plot:...	Paula de Luque	Julieta Díaz Julieta Díaz Julieta Díaz is an Argentine film, television, and theatre actress. She began her career at age 13.Díaz works in the cinema of Argentina.-Filmography:* Lobos marinos * Déjala correr...

Stage persona homage

Date	Character name	Actor	Notes
? – present	"Evita Bezuidenhout" and "Tannie Evita"	Pieter-Dirk Uys Pieter-Dirk Uys Pieter-Dirk Uys is a South African satirist, active as a performer, author, and social activist. He is the son of a Calvinist Afrikaner father and Berlin-born Jewish mother and had an NG Kerk upbringing. He began his dramatic career as a serious playwright, switching to one-man revues at the...	In tribute to Eva Perón, South African comedian Pieter-Dirk Uys developed this character that is alternately known as "Evita Bezuidenhout" and "Tannie Evita".

Songs

Date	Title	Artist	Notes
1948	Evita Capitana ("Captain Evita")	Unknown	Argentine Peronist anthem. This is the female version of "The Peronist March", the same melody but with lyrics focused on Eva Perón http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaMN2m5x8Jc
2006	Maria Eva	Ignacio Copani	A popular Argentine singer from a Peronist Peronism Peronism , or Justicialism , is an Argentine political movement based on the programmes associated with former President Juan Perón and his second wife, Eva Perón...  background records a defense of Eva Perón. Song is in response to the 2006 London revival of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Evita. http://www.gustavocoronel.com.ar/Maria-Eva-Ignacio-Copani.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zv0CL9SqLs
2006	Olvidarte No Podran ("They Can't Forget You")	Patricia Sosa	Tribute to Eva Perón. The singer claims that people can love or hate Eva Perón, but they can't forget her.http://www.cmtv.com.ar/discos_letras/letra.php?bnid=281&tmid=43685&tema=OLVIDARTE_NO_PODRAN http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1LEubdYmdA

External links

• Evita Story Gets Lively After Death by Chris Klimek, The Washington Post, May 29, 2009