In it Golden Cinema there were a large number of actresses who shone for their talent and beauty, although some of these were foreigners, as is the case of the Italian Martha Rothwho conquered the national big screen with her beautiful face, because she had the most beautiful eyes of the time, but he had a life full of misfortunes and finally tragically died of a heart attack while eating.
Martha Roth Pizzo was born in Padua, Italy, on May 29, 1932. As a child, she arrived with her parents in Mexico, a time when she already showed interest in art, for which she took music classes, however, it was in adolescence. when she was attracted to acting and entered to study drama with the famed teacher Seki Sano, who was accused of mentally destroying an actress with his teaching method.
In her quest to achieve an important role on the big screen, the beautiful Italian with colored eyes signed up for two beauty contests, a strategy that paid off, as she was the winner of one of the contests, which led her to be seen by director Alejandro Galindo, who sought her out to have a starring role in his film “Una familia de tantas”, a film for which she won an Ariel award.
Martha Roth and her time at the Golden Cinema
After the success of the film, he filmed other films, among which stand out: “El abandoned” (1949), together with Pedro Armendáriz and Carlos López Moctezuma, “Una gringuita en México” (1951), with Antonio Badú, “Nunca debieron amarse ” (1951) with Víctor Manuel Mendoza, “El mar y tú” (1952), together with Jorge Mistral and Columba Domínguez, “Forgotten Faces” (1952), with Julián Soler, Libertad Lamarque and Ramón Gay, “El caso de la murdered woman” (1955), with Gloria Marín and Abel Salazar and “A media luz los tres” (1958) with Arturo de Córdova and Lilia Prado.
In 1954 he worked in Hollywood, in the movie “The Black Pirates” and in 1956 in “Massacre”. In the 60s, Roth she married the composer Rubén Fuentes, who wrote hits for Pedro Infante, with whom she had two sons, Leonardo and Alejandro. However, years later they divorced. Years later, the Italian actress married again, this time with the film producer Fernando Pérez Gavilán.
The actress lost her children and had a tragic death
Martha She was one of the celebrities who faced the greatest pain for a mother, since she had to experience the most shocking tragedies of her life, this after her firstborn Leonardo lost his life in a car accident in 1984, however, he managed to recover and continued with his work. However, years later her second son, Alejandro, also died, which marked her existence.
His last participation was the film “Morirse está en hebreo” in 2007, while he was last seen on the small screen in the same year, in the soap opera “Distilling love.” Martha Roth He passed away on October 7, 2016 in Mexico City at the age of 84. Fernando Pérez Gavilán, her last husband, spoke about it for the “Ventaneando” program, and explained: “His death was quick. He was eating, he started coughing and from there he had a cardiac arrest. The doctor told us that it was a heart attack. fulminant”.
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