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Miroslava Stern

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Miroslava Stern (born Miroslava Sternova, on February 26 1926 in Prague, Czechoslovakia, now Czech Republic, and died March 10, 1955 in Mexico City) was a Mexican actress.

Miroslava moved to Mexico with her adoptive parents in the late 1930s, seeking to escape war in their native country. After winning a beauty contest in Mexico, she began to study acting and spent some time in Hollywood, but because of her native accent, she hardly found roles other than those of mysterious women or foreign beauties.

After returning to Mexico she obtained roles in films. After a standard career, she was offered a role in which would become her last and most remembered film: Ensayo de un Crimen ("Rehearsal for a Crime") in 1955, directed by Luis Buñuel. Soon after the final wrap of the film, Miroslava commited suicide (apparently because of a love deception). In a macabre coincidence, at the premiere of the film, a wax statue of herself was incineraded, and coincided with her own cremation in a Mexican graveyard. Her tragic life inspired a short story in 1990, and also a Mexican film called Miroslava in 1993.

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