Cinema The other truth of Marisol: "The 'thanks' that I have to give God for 'all' what he has 'damaged' me"
Cinema Marisol turns 70: the current quiet life of the child prodigy
Cine Marisol heading to Rio, "racist" film
Everything seems impossible for Marisol, today Pepa Flores, to recover her public facet as an actress or singer at some point.
The star by popular acclaim
She lives far from everything that is the world of entertainment,
dedicated to a family life
to which she dedicates all her time and in which she seems to be happy. In any case, we know that he
continues to sing for his friends
and that he closely follows the careers of some of his colleagues who watch in astonishment how he is capable of not collecting a Goya de Honor or rejecting blank checks for being in front of a camera.
Despite having
been retired for more than three decades,
the Spanish and American public continues to have it in mind and from time to time it becomes news for different reasons beyond its control and its coherent trajectory.
That child prodigy who seduced the world with her art, beauty and photogenicity
has been imprinted forever on the collective conscience of many generations who sooner or later surrendered to unfading charms that distanced the obscurantism of a time in which we were so in need of that light that radiated from its beginnings.
When
Goyanes discovered her
in a Coros y Danzas performance
, he realized her talent and beauty
and very soon managed to sign an exclusive contract to turn that girl into a true children's myth that crossed all imaginable borders.
To do this, he surrounded her
with unprecedented
merchandising that helped
the child star become popular around the world
.
Marisol had her own doll, her cut-outs, sticker albums, fan magazines, pennants, stories... A world created for her...
Everything revolved around that girl who, with her first film
A Ray of Light,
directed by Luis Lucia
, exceeded all the expectations of the producers,
becoming a
film with multimillion-dollar earnings
. She immediately began
touring around the world
where she was received with honors as head of state by the authorities and by a public that adopted her as their own from the first moment. In the first year
he managed to catch more than 50 planes
to travel from one country to another for his promotion. On those tours he visited the most watched shows in the world, he would soon be on
The Ed Sullivan Show
with
Harpo Marx.
After shooting
An Angel Has Arrived
and having a success that surpassed that of the previous film, the production company
Columbia
expressed great interest in the star and decided to have several
meetings with Manuel Goyanes
to try to
buy the contract of the girl
he had in mind.
exclusive.
This is how she herself told me in the statements she gave me at the time: "I went to a meeting with the producers of La Columbia.
I was in Hollywood in the office
and those gentlemen said they wanted to buy the contract and
this gentleman said that no way.
They proposed that they take me there to live to learn English and all that, start a great career from there and this man said no way...".
Marisol in an image from 1967.EM
Goyanes did not consider giving in to his star since
the fortune that Marisol generated at the time is very difficult to quantify.
The
amounts were astronomical
and while
she grew up surrounded by older people who organized an overwhelming agenda
full of commitments and responsibilities that kept her away from the life of any girl her age.
She was too young to know what that meant: "I wasn't aware of it at all.
I envied all the girls who lived normal
lives, the life they led, being with their parents, playing... What I did before I left from my house... You don't realize that dimension, especially when they
isolate you in such a way that you don't have access to touch the street..."
.
His career continued unstoppable shooting other titles that enjoyed the acceptance of the public, who saw how
the girl became a beautiful teenager
who also surrendered.
The titles of that stage Marisol heading to Rio by Fernando Palacios or
The new Cinderella
by George Sherman, in which she shared stardom with Antonio the dancer,
managed to open the doors of Japan and the African continent to her
.
She and Antonio always had a very special relationship.
Pepa Flores affirmed: "Almost the first person they taught me was Antonio the dancer at Goyanes' house..., I think it was on the second day,
Antonio was very surprised and said: Manolo, there is a future here, there is a future here...
He was like God to me.
"
Marisol and Mel Ferrer in the 80s.
In the filming of
Cabriola
, the director was
Mel Ferrer, then husband of the iconic Audrey Hepburn
with whom Marisol made a
close friendship
.
Her relationship with him was something else...
Pepa assured me that that shoot was tremendous
, that she had a
terrible character
and that she tried to do impossible things creating situations of great tension.
Pedro Mari Sánchez
, who also worked on the film, confirmed that he had never forgotten the shooting of that film...
The incessant work caused serious
problems in her voice, as she was really exhausted.
She described it like this: "Think that I lost my voice before doing
The Four Weddings
. I was speechless. Of course, nobody found out about that...
I spent two years studying opera
to be able to get the sound I have now because it was impossible . The instrument broke. It broke."
ORSON WELLES
Everything in Marisol's life was legendary,
even Orson Welles himself surrendered at her feet
.
He wanted her for a major project and there were quite a few meetings for a film in which she would be the lead.
Pepa assured me that it was charming and that she didn't really know why that project hadn't come out, but that nothing was wrong.
The most surprising thing is that
Pepa downplays any event
.
It is as if she is not interested in any of the things that many dream of.
Now I haven't talked to her in a long time, it's getting more and more difficult.
The myth is still valid, feeding on her account and discovering from time to time a new edge of her polyhedral contour.
Behind the mirror of the vanities, his serene gaze contemplates each one of the pieces of a board that is no longer his.
Over time she caresses her preserving the essence of a beauty that is shown in an absolutely natural dimension.
Each of her memories of that golden age for her means the
steps that led her to her true freedom as a woman.
Today the star in the shadow senses the countenance of Eva herself who gave her the apple.
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