OLGA ZUBARRY ,ARGENTINA ACTRESS BORN 1929 OCTOBER 30,

OLGA ZUBARRY ,ARGENTINA ACTRESS BORN
1929 OCTOBER 30,

Olga Zubarry (30 October 1929- 15 December 2012) was a classic Argentine actress who appeared in film between 1943 and 1997. She made over 60 appearances in film, spanning 6 decades of Argentine cinema, but is best known for her work during the Golden Age of Argentine Cinema. Throughout the course of her career, she received four Silver Condor Awards, two Martín Fierro Awards, a Konex Foundation Award and several others for her films and television performances. She is credited with starring in the first film in Argentina which featured nudity, though only her back was shown and she stated repeatedly that she wore a flesh-colored mesh and was not truly nude.

Biography[edit source]

Olga Adela Zubiarriaín was born on 30 October 1929[1][2] in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Parque de los Patricios.[3] She attended 3 years at the Liceo Nacional de Señoritas Nº1 José Figueroa Alcorta, but quit school when her acting career began.[4]






Promotional photo for El ángel desnudo, 1946.

She started as an extra at Lumiton studios in 1943 in the movie Safo, historia de una pasión[3] directed by Carlos Hugo Christensen and starring Mecha Ortiz and Roberto Escalada.[5] In 1944 she starred in La pequeña señora de Pérez with Mirtha Legrand and Juan Carlos Thorry.[6] Her rise to fame occurred with the film adaptation (El ángel desnudo)[5] of the novel Frau Elsie, by Arthur Schnitzler.[7] Often billed as the first nude film in Argentina, in reality, the film showed only her bare back,[5] which she claimed was not nude, but was covered with flesh-colored mesh.[8][9] Zubarry won the 1924 Silver Condor Award of the Film Critics Association for Best New Actress for "El ángel desnudo".[10][11]

In 1950, she made Yo quiero una mujer así for Bolívar Films[12] in Venezuela, directed by Juan Carlos Thorry[11] and in 1951, was in El extraño caso del hombre y la bestia, an adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, which was directed by Mario Soffici.[13] She starred with Nathan Finch, in the 1953 film El vampiro negro directed by Uruguayan Román Viñoly Barreto, which was Viñoly's remake of the classic M by Fritz Lang.[14] Zubarry won the Film Critics Association Silver Condor Award for Best Actress for her performance in "El vampiro negro".[2][10]

In 1955 she played the main character of the same name in Marianela, under director Julio Porter.[5] It won herthe Film Critics Association Silver Condor Award for Best Actress of 1955.[10][11] In 1959 she starred in La sangre y la semilla, a historical film set in 1870 during the War of the Triple Alliance and shot in Itauguá and Capiatá, Paraguay.[15] In 1961 she appeared in the role of "Salui" in "Hijo de hombre", one of her personal favorites,[5] which was an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Paraguayan writer Augusto Roa Bastos and directed by Lucas Demare[16] and with Spanish actor Francisco Rabal.[5] She won a "Concha de Oro" (Golden Shell) at the San Sebastian Festival for her work on the film.[1][17]

Zubarry at the premier of the Berlin (Germany) Film Festival in 1961. Left to right: unknown woman, Isabel Sarli, Zubarry, Tita Merello, unknown actress in second row and Mirtha Legrand.

Zubarry appeared in A hierro muere in 1962 with Alberto de Mendoza,[18] Invasión by writer Jorge Luis Borges (1969), Crecer de golpe (1976), ¿Somos? (1982) and Plaza de almas (1997).[10] In her career, she made over 60 films.[4]

Beginning in the early 1970s, she started doing television. Her television debut was with the series La comedia de la noche, and she followed that with Alta comedia, Nosotros y los miedos, Situación límite, Atreverse, El precio del poder, El Sillón de Rivadavia[10] and "Fulanas y menganas".[5] She earned two Martín Fierro Awards, one in 1972 for "Alta Comedia" and one in 1988 for "De Fulanas y Menganas".[10][17] In 1991, Zubarry received a Diploma of Merit from the Konex Foundation for best dramatic actress in radio and television.[10]

In 1997, she won the Silver Condor Award for Best Supporting Actress for "Plaza de almas" and retired. She said, "You have to retire at the right time."[3] The following year, she won the ACE award for Best Actress for the same film.[17]

Beginning in 1983 she served as matron to two MAMA (Mis Alumnos Más Amigos) homes. The organization is an NGO, which provides homes for street children, giving them a pace to live, study and train for employment.[4][11] She was also a staunch fan of the Club Atlético Huracán (Hurricane Football Club of Buenos Aires).[3]

She died in Buenos Aires on 15 December 2012, aged 83.[3]

Awards[edit source]
1946: Silver Condor Award of the Film Critics Association for Best New Actress for "El ángel desnudo"[10][11]
1953: Silver Condor Award of the Film Critics Association for Best Actress for "El vampiro negro"[2][10]
1955:Silver Condor Award of the Film Critics Association for Best Actress for "Marianela".[2][10][11]
1961: Spanish American Award "Concha de Oro" (Golden Shell) at the San Sebastian Festival for "Hijo de hombre"[1][10][17]
1972: Martín Fierro APTRA Award as best actress for "Alta Comedia"[10][17]
1983: Santa Clara de Asis Award for "El sillón de Rivadavia"[2]
1988: Martín Fierro Protagonista Award for best female performance for "De Fulanas y Menganas"[2][10][17]
1991: Konex Diploma of Merit for best dramatic actress in radio and television[10][17]

1994: Podestá Award for Lifetime Achievement.[17]
1997: Silver Condor Award of the Film Critics Association for best supporting actress for the film "Plaza de almas"[4]
1998: ACE for Best Actress for "Plaza de almas"[17]
Filmography[edit source]
Films[edit source]
1943: Safo, historia de una pasión
1943: Dieciséis años (uncredited)
1944: La pequeña señora de Pérez
1945: Las seis suegras de Barba Azul
1946: El ángel desnudo
1946: No salgas esta noche
1946: Adán y la serpiente
1948: Los pulpos
1948: La muerte camina en la lluvia
1949: Yo no elegí mi vida
1950: Valentina
1950: Abuso de confianza
1951: Yo quiero una mujer así
1951: El extraño caso del hombre y la bestia
1951: La comedia inmortal
1951: ¡Qué hermanita!
1951: El honorable inquilino
1952: El baldito
1952: Ellos nos hicieron así
1953: Mercado negro
1953: El vampiro negro
1954: Sucedió en Buenos Aires
1954: Maleficio
1954: Tres citas con el destino
1955: Concierto para una lágrima
1955: La simuladora
1955: Vida nocturna
1955: De noche también se duerme
1955: Marianela
1956: Pecadora
1958: Los dioses ajenos
1959: En la vía
1959: La sangre y la semilla

1959: The Candidate
1960: Todo el año es Navidad
1960: Las furias
1961: Hijo de hombre
1962: Misión 52
1962: A hierro muere
1964: Proceso a la conciencia or Proceso a la ley
1965: Los guerrilleros
1965: Ahorro y préstamo... para el amor
1968: Amor y un poco más
1968: Asalto a la ciudad
1969: Somos novios
1969: Invasión
1970: El hombre del año
1972: Mi hijo Ceferino Namuncurá
1973: Si se calla el cantor
1974: La Mary
1974: Yo tengo fe
1974: El Encanto del amor prohibido or Sobre gustos y colores
1975: El inquisidor de Lima or El inquisidor
1975: Las procesadas
1976: Los chicos crecen
1977: La nueva cigarra
1977: Crecer de golpe
1978: Mi mujer no es mi señora
1980: Desde el abismo
1982: Los pasajeros del jardín
1982: ¿Somos?
1984: Los tigres de la memoria
1985: Contar hasta diez
1985: Luna caliente
1986: En busca del brillante perdido
1996: Luces de ayer (short)

1997: El ángel y el escritor (short)
1997: Plaza de almas