MARIA FELIX BIOGRAPHY
The last Diva of Mexican Cinema, Maria de Los Angeles Felix Guerrean was born in Alamos, Sonora, Mexico, April 8, 1914 during the Mexican Revolution – a period of national pride, male supremacy and the incarnation of the strong, sexual woman.
Her father, Bernard Felix was a descendant of Yaqui Indians and her mother, Josefina Guerreau was of Spanish blood, educated in a convent at Pico Heights, California
With her 11 brothers and sisters Maria spent a good part of her childhood in Alamos horseback riding. In 1929 the family left Alamos and settled in Guadalajara where she studied and was named beauty queen.
“A woman with a man’s heart” she called herself, also known as “Maria Bonita, La Generala, Juana Gallo and the Devourer of Men who from this land of machos took their machismo and flung it back into their faces with superhuman force”.
A beautiful, intelligent, powerful and outspoken woman, far ahead of her time, she lived her life to the fullest with style, pizazz and without fear to the day she died, April 8, 2002, exactly 88 years from the day she was born.
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Today Maria continúes to live on through the Maria Felix Museum founded by Lynda de Rohan Barondes, formerly of Canada, and located in the Hotel Casa de Maria Felix, Alamos, Sonora, Mexico.
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