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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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