Emilia Guiu

Emilia Guiú (Manresa, Spain, March 21, 1922-San Diego, United States, February 7, 2004) was a Mexican actress of Spanish origin who worked in the golden age of mexican cinema. She generally played villain and femme fatale roles, thanks to which she achieved resounding success.

Biography

Emilia Guiú Estivella was born on March 21, 1922 in Manresa, capital of the Bages region in Barcelona, Spain, the daughter of Pascual Guiú, who opposed the dictatorship of Francisco Franco during the Spanish civil war, and Carmen Estivella, This is why she and her sister Serafina decide to emigrate to France, where Emilia meets her first husband: Manuel Suárez Ballesteros, with whom she has her son Emmanuel. Shortly after entering Mexico as a refugee, where she arrived in Veracruz, on the ship Nyassa on October 16, 1942, already in Mexico City, she found out that a Spanish film director (Jaime Salvador) hires immigrants as extras to help them get ahead.

Barely two years had passed since her foray as an extra, when the actress hired to play the main female character in the film Nosotros (1945) with Ricardo Montalbán, could not appear to shoot, it is then that Guiú convinced the director that he knew the role and thus managed to get his first leading role, he immediately managed to work with the greatest comedian of the time: Mario Moreno "Cantinflas" in I am a fugitive (1946), then together with Víctor Manuel Mendoza and Ramón Armengod, she appeared in Pervertida (1946), the first film with a suggestive title in which she participated and with the type of role that would have to classify her, so much so that it was said that her participation in some movie gave the key to the subject it was dealing with just by seeing her lead the cast.

Already consolidated and turned into a well-known figure, she participated in films such as: Bel ami (1947), together with Andrea Palma, Gloria Marin and her countryman Armando Calvo, El niño perdido (1947), with Germán Valdés “Tin Tan”, Pecadora (1947), with Ninón Sevilla in which, according to chronicles of the time, Guiú must have felt swift regret for giving him the opportunity to Seville, since critics noted that in that intervention Seville achieved its consecration, although Emilia achieved new triumphs with Little Black Angels (1948), alongside Pedro Infante.

In 1949, the director José Díaz Morales took her to star in her native country: Paz, but her life already made in Mexico made her return immediately, following her career with great success, in blockbuster films such as: Fifth Patio (1950) with Emilio Tuero, Red Fury (1951), with Arturo de Córdova and Sara Montiel, Los amantes (1951), with David Silva, Luis Aldás and Rodolfo Acosta, The strange passenger (1953) with Víctor Manuel Mendoza and Tito Junco, From rancher to businessman (1954) with Tito Guízar and Pancho Villa and Valentina (1958) with Pedro Armendáriz, Elsa Aguirre and Carlos López Moctezuma.

In Mexico, Emilia married Enrique de la Concha, and later with doctor Guillermo Méndez, with whom she had her son, the composer and producer Memo Méndez Guiú, both of whom she divorced. In 1958, she left everything behind to marry Abraham Piceno, with whom she went to live in the United States, they were together for 32 years until Piceno died in 1990, he was the one who convinced her to leave her career at the end of the 50s, at which only returned in the 80s to make special appearances in 4 films. In 1993 she published her memoirs under the title "A Naked Star."

In the year 2000 she acted in the telenovela Abrázame muy fuerte, but she did not like the work rhythm of television and decided to leave the project, inventing that her fiancé (William Hieb) had given her an ultimatum, get out of the soap opera and come back, or lose it. She told them that she was choosing love and the soap opera writers killed her character, she returned to San Diego, California, where she had been living lately, there she underwent several operations, but began to feel weaker and was finally diagnosed with cancer. in the liver, a disease from which he died on February 7, 2004, he was almost 82 years old, his ashes were scattered throughout the northern lands of his adoptive homeland, leaving the message in the voice of his children: "Tell him to Mexico that I love him, and that I thank him for so many happy years, of love, of a career and a wonderful life".

Filmography

• Wildflower (1943)
• The rebel (1943)
• Long live my misfortune! (1944)
• The blacksmith (1944)
• The useless life of Pito Pérez (1944)
• Nana (1944)
• The rosary (1944)
• The crazy doctor (1944)
• The Lady Windermere fan (1944)
• The king has fun (1944)
• We (1945)
• Green Club (in Mexico, I remember a waltz.(1945)
• I'm a fugitive. (1946)
• Love is living (1946)
• Pervert (1946)
• Our husbands (1946)
• Women against women (1946)
• Bel Ami (in Mexico, Good boy. or The story of a channel(1947)
• The lost child (1947)
• Pecadora (1947)
• The woman of the other (1948)
• Synthetic marriage (1948)
• You'll see. (1948)
• Black Angels (1948)
• Peace (1949)
• Charter Brava (1949)
• Two souls in the world (1949)
• Women in my life (1950)
• Fifth patio (1950)
• Footprints of the past (1950)
• Red Fury (1951)
• A widow without a bra (1951)
• Good night, my love (1951)
• Lovers (1951)
• Mount of piety (1951)
• Port of temptation (1951)
• Radio patrol (1951)
• Theatre women (1951)
• Paco the elegant (1952)
• The night is ours (1952)
• Live whatever. (1952)
• I prefer your dad. (1952)
• Love, you're so bad! (1953)
• The strange passage (1953)
• Last round (1953)
• Give me white angels. (1954)
• Just once. (1954)
• Mining Union (1954)
• From rancher to businessman (1954)
• Impossible motherhood (1955)
• Thieves of children (1958)
• Lovely women (1958)
• Ladies (1959)
• Seven sins (1959)
• Pancho Villa and the Valentina (1960)
• Marriage confidence (1961)
• The nude models (1983)
• Hunt of a criminal (1984)
• Corruption (1984)
• Always on Sunday (1984)

Soap Operas

• Hold me tight. (2000) Flora Falcon vda. of Bravo