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Suffered a heart attack, Tuesday, April 19, 2005, while undergoing a health 'check-up' test at Medica Sur hospital, in Mexico City.

She was Pedro Infante's most frequent leading lady. They made six films together.

Her parents were Spanish and hailed from the municipalities of Coín and Churreana in Málaga, Spain.

Of Spanish parentage, she was born and raised in Argentina but became a star and lived most of her life in Mexico.

Third actress, after María Félix and Dolores Del Río, to win two Ariel Awards for Best Actress (1950, 1955). She also received nominations on five other occasions (1952, 1953, 1954, 1956, and 1958), making her a seven-time nominee (she was the most nominated leading actress of the classic era of Mexican cinema). She was also nominated for Best Supporting Actress in 1947 and won in the same category in 1948, making her a nine-time nominee and three-time winner overall. In 1993, she won a special Golden Ariel Award for lifetime achievement.

Frequent co-star Arturo de Córdova became her real-life partner, despite the fact that he was never divorced from his wife.

She was the most honored Argentine leading actress at the Ariel Awards; she won two of her seven nominations for Best Actress. She was the only Argentine actress to win the Ariel Award for Best Actress in the classic era of Mexican cinema. Fellow Argentines Rosario Granados, Libertad Lamarque, and Laura Hidalgo were nominated but never won.