Birth name Carmen Sanchez Years active 1920–1969 Instruments Voice, castanets | Occupation(s) Singer and actress Genres folklore , Zarzuela Name Carmen Sanchez | |
Died November 20, 1985(1985-11-20) (aged 86)
Madrid, Spain | ||
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Carmen Sánchez (April 21, 1899 – November 20, 1985) was a Spanish singer, dancer, and actress.
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Professional career
Carmen Sánchez was born in Madrid, Spain. She became a famous opera dancer, and singer of Spanish folklore at zarzuela a very young age. At age 20, she finished works of copla or chotis and was featured in films between 1927 and 1929. She was a pioneer film star in silent films. As her first work after the Civil War, becoming a famous Spanish actress character.
In the 1920s, she began triumph of theatre in Spain, and she became a famous actress of drama. 1930s Carmen established a theater company and achieved much success in theaters in Madrid, Lara, Princess Beatrice, Princess Elizabeth, Cervantes, Cómico and in all of Spain.
During the first half of the twentieth century, she primarily worked in the theater, working alongside famous Spanish actors like Rafael Bardem, Manuel Luna, Carmen Ruiz Moragas, Carola Fernán Gomez ... The civil war in Spain suspended her work. In the 1940s she went back to the theatre to continue her work with the national company of Spanish dramatic art with which she worked throughout the country and in the cinema as well successfully.
In her long career in the Spanish film industry she had the honor to participate in famous films made by directors well known and even in some European co-productions. Next to nothing unless act Fernando Fernán Gómez, Vittorio de Sica, Carmen Sevilla, Angel de Andres, Tony Leblanc, Marifé de Triana ...