Gilda recalls: “‘Rocambole contra las mujeres arpías,’ in 1966, was my first feature film in Mexico. I played the villain, along with Cuban-Mexican Victor Junco, a popular, international and magnificent actor that l loved very much. The lead role of Rocambole was played by Mexican television and movie actor Julio Alemán, who starred in the first telenovela ever produced in his country. This leading man, Julio Alemán, appeared in more than 151 films and was elected, for a period, chairman of the Mexican actors’ union, the Asociación Nacional de Actores.”
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“Our costar Maria Duval was a singer plus a TV, film and stage actress. Maria made her film debut in the musical ‘Melodías inolvidables’ (1959), an experience she later described as ‘a great emotion’ and her ‘favorite memory’ of her entire career. She finished her film career in the 1970s with ‘Blue Demon.’ Her last appearance was in the telenovela ‘María José’ (1995). With Mexican-Spanish parents, Regina Torné made her first film in 1964, and so far has acted in more than 30 motion pictures. We worked together a couple of times. Her part in television with popular comedian Roberto Gomez Bolaños in ‘El Chavo del Ocho’ and her role in the award-winning film ‘Como aqua para chocolate’ enhanced her popularity.”
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Newspaper clipping, featuring Gilda’s dramatic climax of the play
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History is working to document and tell the story of Spanish-language broadcasting in the U.S. with an emphasis on television, as part of a new initiative, “Escuchame: the History of Spanish Language Broadcasting in the U.S.” Materials from the career of New York-based broadcaster, theater and screen actress and author Gilda Mirós were recently added to the national collections. Born in Puerto Rico, Mirós worked with numerous radio and television stations including WADO-AM, WJIT-AM radio stations in New York; WXTV-TV, Channel 41 (Univision) and WNJU-TV, Channel 47 (Telemundo), both in the New York area. While working for the Spanish Broadcasting System at WQBA-AM Miami, she hosted the first national live daily show to run simultaneously in New York and Los Angeles from Florida. Recently Puerto Rican Studies/Hunter/CUNY posted her oral history, and created the Gilda Mirós file in their archives, available to the public.
Raised in the Bronx, Gilda has done films, theatre, television, in Mexico, Puerto Rico and the USA. Her NYC radio programs transmitted from and to Latin America/Spain. Produced & narrated documentaries including: Viet Nam War/Hispanics in NYC Prisons; "March of Dimes"/"The Eye Bank of NYC.” Dubbed "Mother Angelica Live" EWTN. Mirós has 12 books "Celia Cruz & Sonora Matancera" (2003 Ebook/Soft/Audio 2017); "A Portrait of Puerto Rico" (2005); "Hortense and Her Happy Ducklings" Bilingual children's (2006); "Memorias De Los Espiritus y MI Madre" (2009); "Spirit Messages To My Mother" (2010); "Mystical Wings; "Alas Místicas (201; “In Touch With Mom in Spirit” “¡En Contacto Con Mami en Espiritu ,“De La Montaǹa Venimos – Ìconos Latinoamericanos.” (2017 Ebook/Soft/Audio 2016. "Poetisas de Hispanoamericana" (2016 Audio). Presently Produces "Latin Icons Past & Present" for All Access Cable TV, NYC.