Miroslava

Miroslava

Miroslava (February 26, 1925 – March 9, 1955) was a Czechoslovakian-born Mexican film actress who appeared in thirty two films. Born Miroslava Šternová in Prague, Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic), Miroslava moved to Mexico as a child with her adoptive parents in the late 1930s, seeking to escape war in their native country. After winning a national beauty contest, Miroslava began to study acting. She appeared in a few Hollywood and Mexican films. She was offered a role in Ensayo de un crimen (Rehearsal for a Crime) in 1955, directed by Luis Buñuel. Soon after the final wrap of the film, Miroslava committed suicide by overdosing on sleeping pills.[2] Her body was found lying outstretched over her bed, she had a portrait of bullfighter Luis Miguel Dominguín in one hand. Her friends stated her suicide was due to unrequited love for Dominguín, who had recently married Italian actress Lucia Bosé. Bosè would go on to star in Buñuel's next movie, Cela s'appelle l'aurore (1956). The Mexican and Hollywood star Katy Jurado claimed to be one of the first people to find the body of Mexican actress Miroslava Stern after her tragic suicide. According to Katy, the picture that Miroslava had between her hands was Cantinflas, but the artistic manager Fanny Schatz exchanged the photo to that of the Spanish bullfighter Luis Miguel Dominguín. In his 1983 autobiography, Mon dernier soupir ("My Last Breath"), Buñuel recalls the irony of Miroslava's cremation following her suicide, when compared to a scene inEnsayo de un crimen, her last film, in which the protagonist cremates a wax reproduction of Stern's character. Her life is the subject of a short story by Guadalupe Loaeza, which was adapted by Alejandro Pelayo for his 1992 Mexican film called Miroslava, starring Arielle Dombasle.

  • Title: Miroslava
  • Popularity: 13.053
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1925-02-27
  • Place of Birth: Prague, Czechoslovakia
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  • Also Known As: Miroslava Sternova, Miroslava Stern, Miroslava Šternová Beková
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Miroslava Movies

  • 1955
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    The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz

    The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz

    7.3 1955 HD

    A bizarre black comedy about a man whose overwhelming ambition in life is to be a renowned serial killer of women, and will stop at nothing to...

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  • 1951
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    Death in Love

    Death in Love

    6 1951 HD

    A man's life changes forever when death -- in the form of a female grim reaper -- moves in with him and his family, all so that he can buy a bit more...

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  • 1955
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    Stranger on Horseback

    Stranger on Horseback

    5.4 1955 HD

    A circuit judge in the old west attempts to bring a suspected killer to justice. The judge runs afoul of the killer's rich cattle baron father in the...

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  • 1957
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    Torero!

    Torero!

    5.1 1957 HD

    The life of the famed Mexican bullfighter Luis Procuna, from his boyhood through his training and the triumphs that followed as Procuna rose to the...

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  • 1953
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    The Magnificent Beast

    The Magnificent Beast

    5.1 1953 HD

    The Magnificent Beast (Free Fight) is a 1953 Mexican film. It was directed by Chano Urueta. The first film of the Luchadores genre.

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  • 1950
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    The League of Girls

    The League of Girls

    5.3 1950 HD

    Two women form The League of Girls invite an interesting repertoire of young ladies to become members and get rid of men and all the evils that come...

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  • 1952
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    Música, mujeres y amor

    Música, mujeres y amor

    5.2 1952 HD

    Two women are installed in the cabin of a ship that was already occupied by two gentlemen.

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  • 1947
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    Cinco rostros de mujer

    Cinco rostros de mujer

    6 1947 HD

    "The great love of his life" happened five times; one of those women just wrote him a letter. Which one will it be?

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  • 1946
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    Tragic Weddings

    Tragic Weddings

    5 1946 HD

    Jalisco, 19th century. Diego, a wealthy landowner, secretly marries Amparo, defying her father Juan Manuel, who fiercely opposes the union. Juan...

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  • 1951
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    Ella y Yo

    Ella y Yo

    4.4 1951 HD

    Pedro Muñoz is a womanizer that does not escape one until Irene Garza arrives and makes him to see his luck, while the aunt of her tries to...

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  • 1950
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    The Possession

    The Possession

    5.6 1950 HD

    Two old friends get hinky with each other over the deed to a tract of land, and their children's engagement gets broken over it.

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    Women's prison

    Women's prison

    5.4 1951 HD

    Evangelina murders her lover Alberto. In prison she meets Dora, Alberto's girlfriend, who was deprived of her freedom for his illicit business. An...

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  • 1952
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    Two Faces Have the Destiny

    Two Faces Have the Destiny

    6 1952 HD

    Ruined alcoholic doctor escapes a tropical plague and begins a new life back in civilization, taking over the identity of a dead man.

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  • 1954
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    La visita que no tocó el timbre

    La visita que no tocó el timbre

    6.4 1954 HD

    Two underachieving brothers take responsibility for an abandoned baby.

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  • 1951
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    The Port of the Seven Sins

    The Port of the Seven Sins

    5.6 1951 HD

    Career criminals vie for ownership of a disreputable waterfront dive and for the love of the cabaret-gal that sings there.

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  • 1955
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    Stronger Than Love

    Stronger Than Love

    5.7 1955 HD

    Carlos, a former factory worker of humble origins, has made millions - but the upper class refuses to accept him as one of their own. Meanwhile,...

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  • 1948
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    Juan Charrasqueado

    Juan Charrasqueado

    6.8 1948 HD

    Hard-living horse-trainer has a thing with an aristocratic woman... but her brothers aren't happy to see her involved with someone beneath her...

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  • 1951
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    Monte de piedad

    Monte de piedad

    5 1951 HD

    Anthology-movie, series of anecdotes about the personal tragedies that lead people to take their values posessions to the state-run pawnshop.

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  • 1955
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    School for Tramps

    School for Tramps

    7.9 1955 HD

    Alberto Medina is a famous composer whose car breaks down while he is on a trip. While looking for help, he finds the Valverdes' house and is...

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  • 1948
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    Una aventura en la noche

    Una aventura en la noche

    5.6 1948 HD

    Film version of the 'hitchhiking ghost' urban legend.

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  • 1953
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    The Revived Monster

    The Revived Monster

    5.7 1953 HD

    Set in the Balkans, this story concerns a bored journalist, Nora who is ordered by her boss to follow up a mysterious advertisement placed by Dr...

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  • 1947
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    ¡A volar, joven!

    ¡A volar, joven!

    8.1 1947 HD

    Cantinflas is a private in the military, who doesn't know anything about discipline or following rules. He only wants to think about his girlfriend,...

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  • 1953
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    The Three Perfect Married

    The Three Perfect Married

    4.4 1953 HD

    Three married couples gather to celebrate the eighteenth anniversary of their marriage mourning the absence of a friend who was best man at all three...

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  • 1951
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    Streetwalker

    Streetwalker

    5.1 1951 HD

    In Mexico City, two sisters, Maria and Elena, fight over the love of pimp Rodolfo. Elena escapes her sad marriage to an old banker into Rodolfo's...

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  • 1948
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    Nocturno de amor

    Nocturno de amor

    5.6 1948 HD

    Venice Film Festival 1948

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  • 1951
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    The Brave Bulls

    The Brave Bulls

    5.8 1951 HD

    A matador must recover his courage after being gored in the ring.

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  • 1953
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    Sueños de gloria

    Sueños de gloria

    5 1953 HD

    Auto mechanic invents a new-improved carburetor; industrial spies steal his invention, romance with a manufacturer's daughter, and he drives a...

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  • 1949
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    Secreto entre mujeres

    Secreto entre mujeres

    5 1949 HD

    A big ol' player has different stages of a thing happening with each of the five women in a household.

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  • 1953
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    Reportaje

    Reportaje

    6.9 1953 HD

    Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve.

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  • 1950
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    The Love Nest

    The Love Nest

    5 1950 HD

    Amalia, aged, remember when Fernando Mendoza, his former medical school, came to San Esteban, the town where she lived. They worked together and...

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