Silvia Legrand
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María Aurelia Paula Martínez Suárez better known as Silvia Legrand or Goldie (born 23 February 1927), is a retired Argentine
film actress.
She is the twin sister of actress Mirtha Legrand
, with whom she debuted and co-starred in a number of films and sister of director José A. Martínez Suárez. She starred in some 20 films between 1940 and 1972.
, a town in the province
of Santa Fe
located some 200 km from Rosario. Her parents were both Spanish
immigrants, her father the owner of a bookstore and her mother a schoolteacher. In 1934 her parents separated. Her mother relocated to Rosario to ensure a better education for her three children, while her father remained in Villa Cañás.
In Rosario, with her twin sister Mirtha Legrand
she took basic courses at the Municipal Theater. After the death of their father in 1936, the family relocated permanently to Buenos Aires
, to the barrio of La Paternal. There they lived in poverty, mitigated by sporadic employment, until in 1939 the sisters were offered small roles in a film starring Niní Marshall
which would be released in 1940 under the title Hay que educar a Niní.
The Legrand sisters' next film together was Novios para las muchachas in 1941. Mirtha's first leading role came later that year in Los martes, orquídeas. The same year her mother would be contacted by a well-known film industry figure, Ricardo Cerebello, who offered to represent the sisters. It was Cerebello who devised the stage names Mirtha and Silvia Legrand.
During the same period, Mirtha and Silvia hosted El club de la amistad for Radio Splendid.
In 1960 she appeared in the Antonio Cunill Jr. film Los Acusados.
Her last film was Juan Manuel de Rosas
in 1972 before she moved into television
.
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
film actress.
She is the twin sister of actress Mirtha Legrand
Mirtha Legrand
Rosa María Juana Martínez, better known by the stage name Mirtha Legrand is an Argentine actress and television personality and twin sister of the actress Silvia Legrand.-Early life:...
, with whom she debuted and co-starred in a number of films and sister of director José A. Martínez Suárez. She starred in some 20 films between 1940 and 1972.
Biography
Legrand was born in Villa CañásVilla Cañás
Villa Cañás is a small city in the south of the , some 370 km from the provincial capital and not far from Venado Tuerto. It has about 9,300 inhabitants as per the ....
, a town in the province
Provinces of Argentina
Argentina is subdivided into twenty-three provinces and one autonomous city...
of Santa Fe
Santa Fe Province
The Invincible Province of Santa Fe, in Spanish Provincia Invencible de Santa Fe , is a province of Argentina, located in the center-east of the country. Neighboring provinces are from the north clockwise Chaco , Corrientes, Entre Ríos, Buenos Aires, Córdoba, and Santiago del Estero...
located some 200 km from Rosario. Her parents were both Spanish
Spain
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immigrants, her father the owner of a bookstore and her mother a schoolteacher. In 1934 her parents separated. Her mother relocated to Rosario to ensure a better education for her three children, while her father remained in Villa Cañás.
Mirtha Legrand
Rosa María Juana Martínez, better known by the stage name Mirtha Legrand is an Argentine actress and television personality and twin sister of the actress Silvia Legrand.-Early life:...
she took basic courses at the Municipal Theater. After the death of their father in 1936, the family relocated permanently to Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...
, to the barrio of La Paternal. There they lived in poverty, mitigated by sporadic employment, until in 1939 the sisters were offered small roles in a film starring Niní Marshall
Niní Marshall
Niní Marshall was a popular Argentine comedienne and actress.-Life and work:She was born Marina Esther Traveso in Buenos Aires to Pedro and María Ángela Traveso, a well-to-do family in Rosario, in 1903...
which would be released in 1940 under the title Hay que educar a Niní.
The Legrand sisters' next film together was Novios para las muchachas in 1941. Mirtha's first leading role came later that year in Los martes, orquídeas. The same year her mother would be contacted by a well-known film industry figure, Ricardo Cerebello, who offered to represent the sisters. It was Cerebello who devised the stage names Mirtha and Silvia Legrand.
During the same period, Mirtha and Silvia hosted El club de la amistad for Radio Splendid.
In 1960 she appeared in the Antonio Cunill Jr. film Los Acusados.
Her last film was Juan Manuel de Rosas
Juan Manuel de Rosas
Juan Manuel de Rosas , was an argentine militar and politician, who was elected governor of the province of Buenos Aires in 1829 to 1835, and then of the Argentine Confederation from 1835 until 1852...
in 1972 before she moved into television
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
.