Elisa Christy (born Elisa Crochet Asperó, September 1917, in

Mexico City Mexico City ( es, link=no, Ciudad de México, ; abbr.: CDMX; Nahuatl: ''Altepetl Mexico'') is the capital and largest city of Mexico, and the most populous city in North America. One of the world's alpha cities, it is located in the Valley o ...

) was a cast

actress An actor or actress is a person who portrays a Character (arts), character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek ...

and

dancer Dance is a performing art form consisting of sequences of movement, either improvised or purposefully selected. This movement has aesthetic and often symbolic value. Dance can be categorized and described by its choreography, by its repertoi ...

Career

Elisa Christy was involved in several movies, including "''La Valentina''" in 1938, " ''Juntos, pero no revueltos''" (which was also known as "''Together But Not Mixed''") in 1939, and "''La Viuda Celosa''" in 1946.

Personal life and Death

Elisa Christy is the daughter of the actress Elisa Asperó and the great Spanish actor

Julio Villarreal Julio Villarreal (7 December 1885 – 4 August 1958) was a Spanish actor who later settled and worked in Mexico. He also directed two films in the early 1930s.Taibo p.155 Born as Julio Crochet i Martínez Villarreal in Madrid to a family of theat ...

(Julio Crochet). Christy married

Jorge Negrete Jorge Alberto Negrete Moreno (; 30 November 1911 – 5 December 1953) was a Mexican singer and actor. Life and career Negrete was born in the city of Guanajuato and had two brothers and three sisters; his father was a Mexican Army Colonel who ...

, a Mexican

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and actor. She gave birth to their only child,

Diana Negrete Diana most commonly refers to: * Diana (name), a given name (including a list of people with the name) * Diana (mythology), ancient Roman goddess of the hunt and wild animals; later associated with the Moon * Diana, Princess of Wales (1961–1997) ...

. They divorced in 1942, after which Christy remarried. She died May 26, 2018, at the age of 100.

Selected filmography

* ''

Lola Casanova ''Lola Casanova'' is a 1948 Mexican western film directed by Matilde Landeta and starring Meche Barba, Isabela Corona and Enrique Cancino. The film's sets were designed by Luis Moya. The movie traces the history of a creole woman who goes to live ...

'' (1949)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Christy, Elisa 1917 births 2018 deaths Actresses from Mexico City 20th-century Mexican actresses Mexican people of Spanish descent Mexican film actresses