Marta Natalia Filomena "Marina" Cisternas Holley (5 May 1897 – 26 January 1992) was a Chilean American actress, author, and journalist. She became active as a journalist in Hollywood and in the

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(HFPA). She is credited with helping design the

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trophy. She was the leading Spanish language columnist in Hollywood. Cisternas was the daughter of Eliseo Cisternas, late Chief Justice of Chile. Her maternal grandfather was

Adolfo Holley Adolfo Holley Urzúa (born in Talca; 1833—11 November 1914) was a Chilean general who served in the War of the Pacific and in the 1891 Chilean Civil War and held posts in the resulting government. Holley embarked upon his military career in the ...

, a Chilean general who served in the

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. She was president of the HFPA from 1945 to 1946. She was engaged to

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She influenced

Vincent Price Vincent Leonard Price Jr. (May 27, 1911 – October 25, 1993) was an American actor, art historian, art collector and gourmet cook. He appeared on stage, television, and radio, and in more than 100 films. Price has two stars on the Hollywood Wal ...

's art collecting.

Bibliography

*''Andina'' (1949) *''Forever Damned'', Vantage Press (1955), a novel of historical fiction set in Chile

References

1897 births American people of Chilean descent 20th-century American actresses 20th-century American novelists 20th-century American women writers 20th-century American journalists 1992 deaths {{US-novelist-1890s-stub