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Along with Gracita Morales and Rafaela Aparicio,

Florinda Chico

was one of the film maids most loved by viewers.

Just a decade ago, the actress

born in Don Benito

(Extremadura) in 1926, died of

cardiac arrest

at 84 years old.

After being orphaned of a father, she left her studies to work as a

typist at ONCE,

but since the money was insufficient, she combined it as a

dressmaker

in wedding dress

arrangements

and at night as

an ice cream seller.

Until that

s 14 years

she was so skinny and ugly

that when she walked with her sisters, people asked her parents who she was.

But at 15 the chrysalis began to open to become a

beautiful woman with spectacular legs,

but those endorsements were of no use when two years later he lived

his first love disappointment

because her boyfriend had left her for being poor.

"And that which was like a luxury train, it stopped even the clocks," he recalled decades later.

At the age of 20, he arrived on a train in third class to visit Madrid and attend the baptism of a nephew, where he was also

the Guerrero master.

He stared at her because he thought she was a theater actress, but when he received a negative for an answer,

He cited her at the La Latina theater

the next day where she was hired as

set girl

in the work

The double white

(1947) with the comic trio Zori, Santos and Codeso.

From left to right: Pedro Lazaga, Florinda Chico, Sebastián Palomo Linares and Paco Martínez Soria.

Her beauty captivated the queen of the magazine

Celia Gámez, who incorporated her into her company

and a few years later, the legendary

Maria Fernanda Ladrón de Guevara

-mother of Amparo Rivelles and Carlos Larrañaga- discovered her as a dramatic actress when Florinda's husband, who had been hired as a leading man, José María Labernié, spoke of her good acting skills.

The result was seen in

The papirusa

(1956).

In life he was always moved when he spoke of Doña María Fernanda, "for me it was always doña" - he assured with humility - because he knew how to glimpse her talent.

Despite being somewhat prudish, in 1950

she married Labernié pregnant

, who was calling

the well done

and after a few months

Maria Teresa was born.

The family's financial situation was so tight that

they lived rented in a room

with the right to cook, so they had to send the little girl to Don Benito in the care of her grandmother.

In 1955 their second daughter, Paloma, was born.

The marriage fell apart in 1963 when

Labernié was unfaithful with a minor

and abandoned his family for her.

That plunged her into a strong

depression

which led to him gradually gaining weight.

Over time

forgiveness and divorce arrived

as soon as the law was passed.

Good news because

since 1977 she was in love with an electrician

from Lina Morgan's company named Santos Pumar,

23 years younger

than she, whom he married in 1989.

The actress, with her second husband, Santos Pumar.

Soon after, he served as manager of Florinda's company.

She always considered herself a bit old-fashioned in love because

it was tremendously conventional

and a one-man woman.

He went out of his way for his two daughters who gave him wonderful grandchildren who made his life happy: "They are like toys," he said.

Florinda

she was a naughty vedette

who intelligently avoided censorship, her verbiage made her famous among the public, she dared with flamenco and the music hall and starred in dramas at the María Guerrero y el Español.

But

television was the one that gave him national fame

after forming a couple with Rafaela Aparicio as servants in

The Martinez house

(1966).

From that moment, his presence in the cinema as a luxury high school was very common.

Ozores

directed it 22 times and with

Paco Martinez Soria

starred in eight others, the best known

Grandfather made in Spain

(1969),

The calzonazos

(1974),

The bingueros

(1979) or The priest already has a son (1984).

Carlos Saura

showed an unknown side of her in

Breeding ravens

(19759.

On television his last great success was

The house of messes

(1996-2000)

together with Arturo Fernández and Lola Herrera.

Among the numerous awards that he obtained, the Gold Medal for Merit in Work (1997) and Merit in Fine Arts (2002), the Golden TP for his career, the Ercilla for a lifetime dedicated to theater or the Medal of Extremadura.

Boy, in an 80s pose.

What little free time he had he loved

collect pillboxes,

He was a lover of astrology and lost him literature, especially the stories of

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

, whom he continually reread.

How good taurus was

stubborn

Lover of earthly pleasures without hurting anyone, he had his feet on the ground, he always knew what he wanted and he loved flattery, but he hated balls.

He worked on what he wanted and did very

good friendships between people of the profession

because his optimistic, smiling and cheerful demeanor was contagious.

She always took to show having been a self-made woman who felt poverty, so for her

stealing was not a sin if it was done out of necessity.

Adored the

King Juan Carlos I

, he was a right-wing sympathizer, he said the tacos with great grace, he loved to be given tarot cards and astral charts made to him, his great frustrated love was Marlon Brando, of whom he had a photo in his dressing room, and before he died he said that he would like

to be remembered as a good woman.

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