Mexican film actress considered one of the most important female figures of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema, one of the most beautiful film actresses of her time, and one of the greatest erotic myths of Spanish-language cinema. Along with Pedro Armendáriz and Dolores del Río, she is one of the most important figures of Latin American cinema of the 1940s and 1950s. She is known by the nickname ‘La Doña,’ derived from her character in the film Doña Bárbara (1943). She is also known as María Bonita, thanks to the anthem composed exclusively for her, as a wedding gift by her second husband, the composer Agustín Lara.
María’s first husband was the executive Enrique Álvarez, father of her only child, the actor Enrique Álvarez Félix (born 5 April 1935, died 24 May 1996). The couple married in 1931 and divorced in 1938. She met her second husband, the famous Mexican musician and composer Agustin Lara, in 1943; they married in 1945. On their honeymoon in Acapulco, Lara composed one of his most famous songs, “María Bonita” (Pretty María). She achieved international fame with this song. The couple divorced in 1947.
Her third husband was the Mexican actor and singer Jorge Negrete. They met in 1942 during the filming of El Peñón de las Ánimas. Their dislike was mutual, but that changed when María returned to Mexico from Spain in 1953. Negrete was suffering from liver cirrhosis. He died in Los Angeles eleven months after they were married.
Her last husband was a French banker, Alex Berger, whom she married in 1956. When Berger died in 1974, Félix inherited his thoroughbred horse racing stable, worth millions of dollars.
María Félix died on 8 April 2002, her 88th birthday, in Mexico City from cardiac arrest.
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