Blanca Pozas Explained

Blanca Pozas
Birth Date:1893
Birth Place:Valparaiso, Chile
Death Date:29 August 1978
Death Place:Madrid, Spain
Burial Place:Cementerio de la Almudena
Nationality:Chilean
Occupation:Vedette and actress
Spouse:Miguel Ligero
Children:Luis Ligero Pozas
Blanca Ligero Pozas

Blanca Pozas Oliveira (sometimes accredited as Blanquita Pozas) (1893 - 29 August 1978) was a Chilean vedette and actress who participated in nine movies during her cinematographic career which lasted from 1926 to 1953.

Biography

Born in Valparaíso, she soon triumphed in Spain as a vedette at the Teatro Martín. Until the outbreak of the Civil War, she premiered the most popular shows of the billboard, among which stand out: Frivolina (1918), Las corsarias (1919), Ris, Ras (1927), Los faroles (1928), Los caracoles (1928), La casa de Quirós (1931), La camisa de la Pompadour (1934) and Las Peponas (1934).[1] She worked with the most popular comedians of her time: Lino Rodríguez, Castrito, Ramón Peña, Faustino Bretaño, etc.

Unlike her husband Miguel Ligero, she worked little in the cinema, appearing in a total of nine films, among which Marianela (1940), Viaje sin destino (1942) and El rey de las finanzas (1944) stand out.[2]

Filmography

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Blanquita Pozas Historia del teatro CDAEM · Teatro Español . 2023-10-12 . www.teatro.es . es.
  2. Web site: Miguel Ligero/Blanca Pozas. 11 March 2022. Memoria de Madrid.