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Known For

Acting

Known Credits

54

Gender

Female

Birthday

1929-03-04

Day of Death

2014-08-13 (85 years old)

Place of Birth

Guaymas, Sonora, Mexico

Also Known As

Columba Domínguez Alarid

Колумба Домингес

Columba Domínguez

Biography

Columba Domínguez Adalid (March 4, 1929 – August 13, 2014) was a Mexican film actress. Considered a crucial figure in theGolden Age of Mexican cinema. Considered one of the muses of the film director Emilio Fernández, who, moreover, was romantically linked for several years. She is remembered particularly for her performance in the film Pueblerina (1949), considered one of the jewels of the Mexican Cinema. Columba Domínguez Adalid born on March 4, 1929 in Guaymas, Sonora, Mexico, reaching very young with her family to the Mexico City. When she went to a party with one of her sisters, was discovered by the Mexican film director Emilio Fernández, who was amazed by her beauty with very marked Mexican features and gives you entry to a movie with little roles in films such as La perla (1945) and Río Escondido (1947). In 1948, Fernandez give her the antagonistic role in the film Maclovia (1948), with María Félix. Her performance is praised by critics and thanks to this film, Fernández entrusted with the leading role that would become her best film: Pueblerina (1948). Thanks to this movie Columba rises the stardom rapidly and becomes known worldwide to be presented at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. In that same year she participated in La Malquerida, with Dolores del Río and Pedro Armendáriz. Preceded by the success of Pueblerina, Columba was contracted in Italy to participate in the film L'Edera (1950).[1] The same year, she filming Un día de vida, which went unnoticed in Mexico, but became a huge success in the former Yugoslavia, released in 1952. Encased in native roles, Columba separates professionally Fernandez in 1952, which allowed them to become one first figure and work under the orders of other filmmakers, such as Luis Bunuel (with whom she worked in El río y la muerte (1955)), Fernando Méndez (director of the cult film Ladrón de cadáveres (1957), considered one of the best Mexican horror films) and Ismael Rodriguez (who took her to star in two masterpieces: Los Hermanos de Hierro (1961) and Ánimas Trujano (1962), with the Japanese actorToshiro Mifune), among others. In 1962 she participated in El tejedor de milagros, a film that represented Latin America in the IX Berlin Film Festival. Columba also made the first official nude in the Mexican Cinema in the film La virtud desnuda. (1956). In the television, Domínguez participed in some telenovelas like La tormenta (1967) and El carruaje (1972). Her last appearance in the television was in Aprendiendo a amar(1979). After her retirement in 1987, Columba was devoted to dance, humanistic art, painting (coming to exhibit in Europe) and piano. In 2008, after more than 20 years of retirement from cinema, the Mexican director Roberto Fiesco, returned her to the cinema with the short film Paloma. That same year, Dominguez was honored by the International Film Festival de la Frontera, in Ciudad Juarez, in which some of the most representative titles in which he participated were projected.[2] In 2010, Domínguez made a special appearances in the films La cebra and Borrar la memoria.[3] In 2012, she participates in the film El último trago. In May 2013, Columba Domínguez was honored with the Golden Ariel Award for her contributions to the Mexican film industry.

Known For

Acting

La malquerida

1949

La malquerida

as

Acacia

The River and Death

1954

The River and Death

as

Mercedes

Pueblerina

1949

Pueblerina

as

Paloma

My Son, the Hero

1961

My Son, the Hero

as

The Widow

The Body Snatcher

1957

The Body Snatcher

as

Lucía

Borrar de la Memoria

2010

Borrar de la Memoria

as

Mamá de Roberto

Devotion

1950

Devotion

as

One Day of Life

1950

One Day of Life

as

Belén Martí

The She-Wolf

1965

The She-Wolf

as

Marcela de Fernandez

Ramona

2014

Ramona

as

Ramona

Little Town

1962

Little Town

as

Asunción

Reportaje

1953

Reportaje

as

Petra

Maclovia

1948

Maclovia

as

Sara

Ambición sangrienta

1968

Ambición sangrienta

as

Regina Villegas

The Pearl

1947

The Pearl

as

Duelo indio

1961

Duelo indio

as

Xochicalpa

The Paper Man

1963

The Paper Man

as

Señorita Directora de casa hogar

Tragic Cabaret

1957

Tragic Cabaret

as

Simona

Lawless Youth

1965

Lawless Youth

as

Sra. Silva

Pepita Jimenez

1946

Pepita Jimenez

as

Joven andaluza (uncredited)

Five lives and one destiny

1957

Five lives and one destiny

as

María Flores

Mujeres que trabajan

1953

Mujeres que trabajan

as

Isabel Villada

El mar y tu

1952

El mar y tu

as

Julia

Rio Escondido

1948

Rio Escondido

as

Merceditas

Paloma

2008

Paloma

as

Paloma

Production

Crew

Directing