Actress, Voice Actress, Performer and Singer. She was a Cuban singer and radio, voice, film and theater actress. Born Estrella de la Caridad Díaz y Carballo, she started her career as a teenager in her birthplace. Thanks to her great soprano voice, she performed various operas and operettas, such as "The Merry Widow," "The Charm of a Waltz," "Artist's Blood," "The Dollar Princess" and "The Wonderful Magazine." In the 1940s, the famous Cuban radio program entitled "The Supreme Court of Art" also had the artistic presence of Estrellita among its ranks. In 1941, she won a contest in La Habana, and was hired by CBS to work in New York in its radio studios. Later she was hired in 1944 by Metro Goldwyn Mayer to do voice acting, forming part of that initial group of about 50 people that would make Mexican voice acting a prosperous and recognized industry. She voiced actresses such as Elizabeth Taylor, Judy Garland and Kathryn Grayson. In 1947, after her contract with Metro Goldwyn Mayer ended, Estrellita traveled to Mexico to continue her career as a voice actress at the Churubusco studios. She was hired by businessman Emilio Azcárraga Vidaurreta and by company R. K. Tompkins y Asociados, in which she made translations, adaptations, directions and voice performances. Among her most outstanding works in Mexico, there are voice in Spanish to Disney characters Si, Darling and Am in "Lady and The Tramp" (1955), and Princess Aurora in Sleeping Beauty (1959), her final work. On Friday, July 3, 1959, after completing her work at her work center, she went to her house, located on Corridos Street, where she minutes later she would suffer a decompensation. In that same star early morning, she would be taken to a hospital. Estrellita died on Saturday, July 4, 1959, minutes before three in the afternoon at age 33. Her remains were buried in the Panteón Jardín, on the afternoon of Sunday, July 5, 1959.
Actress, Voice Actress, Performer and Singer. She was a Cuban singer and radio, voice, film and theater actress. Born Estrella de la Caridad Díaz y Carballo, she started her career as a teenager in her birthplace. Thanks to her great soprano voice, she performed various operas and operettas, such as "The Merry Widow," "The Charm of a Waltz," "Artist's Blood," "The Dollar Princess" and "The Wonderful Magazine." In the 1940s, the famous Cuban radio program entitled "The Supreme Court of Art" also had the artistic presence of Estrellita among its ranks. In 1941, she won a contest in La Habana, and was hired by CBS to work in New York in its radio studios. Later she was hired in 1944 by Metro Goldwyn Mayer to do voice acting, forming part of that initial group of about 50 people that would make Mexican voice acting a prosperous and recognized industry. She voiced actresses such as Elizabeth Taylor, Judy Garland and Kathryn Grayson. In 1947, after her contract with Metro Goldwyn Mayer ended, Estrellita traveled to Mexico to continue her career as a voice actress at the Churubusco studios. She was hired by businessman Emilio Azcárraga Vidaurreta and by company R. K. Tompkins y Asociados, in which she made translations, adaptations, directions and voice performances. Among her most outstanding works in Mexico, there are voice in Spanish to Disney characters Si, Darling and Am in "Lady and The Tramp" (1955), and Princess Aurora in Sleeping Beauty (1959), her final work. On Friday, July 3, 1959, after completing her work at her work center, she went to her house, located on Corridos Street, where she minutes later she would suffer a decompensation. In that same star early morning, she would be taken to a hospital. Estrellita died on Saturday, July 4, 1959, minutes before three in the afternoon at age 33. Her remains were buried in the Panteón Jardín, on the afternoon of Sunday, July 5, 1959.
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