1. Rosaura Revueltas Sanchez was a Mexican actress of stage and screen whose career was cut short by the entertainment industry blacklist in the 1950s.
21 Facts About Rosaura Revueltas
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Rosaura Revueltas is best known for her role in the 1954 film Salt of the Earth.
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Rosaura Revueltas was born in Lerdo, Durango, Mexico in 1910 to the famously artistic Revueltas family and had three brothers who were artists: Silvestre Revueltas, a composer; Jose Revueltas, a writer; and Fermin Revueltas, a painter.
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The family moved to Mexico City in 1921 and Rosaura enrolled in the Humboldt School, where she learned German and English.
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Rosaura Revueltas initially took up dance, making her public debut in Carmen at Bellas Artes in 1945.
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Rosaura Revueltas then participated in the Arte Folklorico Espanol production of La doma de la fiera.
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Rosaura Revueltas had her first acting success on stage in La desconocida de Arras.
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In 1950, Rosaura Revueltas obtained a minor part in Pancho Villa vuelve.
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Rosaura Revueltas portrayed Rosa Suarez, viuda de Ortiz, in Las Islas Marias, featuring Pedro Infante.
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In 1951, Rosaura Revueltas began a pattern of selecting roles in politically charged films when she starred as the "Madre superiora" in Muchachas de Uniforme.
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Rosaura Revueltas again sought a role that offered a progressive representation of women when she landed the main part in Herbert J Biberman's Salt of the Earth.
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Rosaura Revueltas played Esperanza Quintero, the wife of a mine worker.
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Rosaura Revueltas was one of the few professional actors in Salt of the Earth.
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Rosaura Revueltas's Academy Award-winning actress wife Gale Sondergaard supported Biberman throughout this time period, and she was blacklisted as well.
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Rosaura Revueltas was taken from the filming location in Silver City, New Mexico and driven 150 miles to El Paso, Texas.
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Rosaura Revueltas was released from custody on March 6,1953 and could return to Mexico, but she was never allowed to work in American films again.
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Rosaura Revueltas acted on stage in Cuba where she starred in The Caucasian Chalk Circle in 1961.
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Rosaura Revueltas moved back to Mexico in the early 1960s and found herself in difficult financial straits.
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Rosaura Revueltas appeared occasionally at film festivals, such as the 36th Berlin International Film Festival in 1986 where she served as one of the judges.
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Rosaura Revueltas died in Cuernavaca at age 85 on April 20,1996, six months after having been diagnosed with lung cancer.
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Rosaura Revueltas won a Cuauhtemoc Award for her work in Un dia de vida, and then a Best Supporting Actress honor at Mexico's 1953 Ariel Awards for El rebozo de Soledad.