Isabel Garcés Cerezal (28 January 1901 – 3 February 1981) was a Spanish
stage
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and
film actress
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.
She is particularly remembered for being a regular sidekick (a grandmother or mother figure) in
Marisol's movies: ''
An Angel Has Arrived'' (1961), ''
Marisol rumbo a Río
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Marisol and her mother travel to Rio de Jan ...
'' (1963), ''
Búsqueme a esa chica'' (1965), ''
Las cuatro bodas de Marisol'' (1967), ''
Solos los dos'' (1968).
Biography
Isabel Garcés was born in Madrid in 1891.
At only five years of age, she started performing at the Madrilenian
Teatro del Príncipe
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as part of the children's
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...
led by
Jacinto Benavente.
Later, Tirso Escudero booked her into his . Her first role there was as the "ugly woman" in ', a play in three acts by French playwright
Pierre Veber
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.
Her next theatre was , where she moved together with
Catalina Bárcena and
Gregorio Martinez Sierra. In that theatre, she notably was Pepita Morer's substitute in ''Las lágrimas de la Trini'' by playwright
Carlos Arniches
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.
After that, she moved to the and became part of its troupe led by . She stayed with the theatre for twenty seasons, notably beating the record of 200 performances in 40 comedy plays.
At that theatre, she was part of the original casts of such plays as
Pedro Muñoz
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's ''El refugio'', ''El alfiler'' and ''La tonta del rizo'', ''El famoso Carballeira'', ''Chiruca'' and ''Mosquita en palacio'' and
Jacinto Benavente's ', ''El alfiler en la boca'', ''El marido de bronce'' and '.
She appeared in her first film at the age of 58. Her roles were that of typical sweet, absent-minded grandmother. In particular, she starred in many musical "child prodigy" comedies, playing a humorous counterpoint to child protagonists such as
Pili and Mili and
Marisol.
She died in Madrid on 3 February 1981, at the age of 80.
Selected filmography
References
Bibliography
* Bentley, Bernard. ''A Companion to Spanish Cinema''. Boydell & Brewer, 2008.
External links
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1901 births
1981 deaths
Spanish film actresses
Spanish stage actresses
Actresses from Madrid
20th-century Spanish actresses