María Duval: next May 17 she will be 96 years old.
Maria Mogilesky, known as Mary Duval. The actress, who knows how to work with figures like Mirtha Legrandnext week (May 17) he would have been 96.
“He left surrounded by family, peace and quiet,” she said Clarion one of the grandchildren, Federico Grossman.
“The Duval mystery is perhaps the most ignored secret of Argentine entertainment. An enigma, almost a surreal story. A woman shining in her forties in black and white, which is the cover of radioland and star with millions of contracts, but married in 1948, left the film industry and built a life within walls ”, this note began from Clarion with the actress, produced at the end of 2020.
Maria Duval, a recurring figure in entertainment magazines at the time such as “Radiolandia” or “Antena”.
He lost journalism, the surname was diluted, until the information came that he lives in Belgrano, is 94 years old and surgically remembers every film. “Here I am, full of life and love. What I experienced was a great fantasy.”
Duval is actually Mogilesky (“without v repeated by the archives “), a queen of crisp tapes shot during World War II.
It started out very small
He was 14 years old when he was appointed as the lead Lullaby, film directed by Gregorio Martínez Sierra (1941) released in Hollywood in 1933 (Song of the Cradle) with Dorothea Wieck. He has shot 21 films. At that speed, I would have had 50 more bodies, but someone blocked the road. At age 22, he fled success to try a “more earthly life.”
Maria Duval with Juan Carlos Thorry.
From popularity to acting to social volunteering. To work with Juan Carlos Thorry, Elsa O’Connor, Mecha Ortiz, Amelia Bence to get lost in the radio and magazines and talk to the unknown heroes of the Israelite Hospital.
He was in charge of the volunteer service, he helped the doctors, he toured the rooms overseeing the needs of the patients. The gold and the mud. A way of putting oneself to the test, of deconstructing oneself, of “abandoning” the fictional fascinating. “I was very comfortable and happy so I had to help,” he explains. “Because life was back and forth and I had someone help me.”
He is young
He was born in Bahía Blanca on May 17, 1926, 14 days before Marilyn Monroe. The third of four sisters, the son of a traveling salesman and a housewife, he was five years old when the family moved south of Buenos Aires, Avellaneda. A few years later, he returned to Bahía Blanca, attended a year and a half of high school, and his performance in declamation brought an alert to the director of his school.
“They invited me to speak at charity functions and one day I signed up for a reading contest for girls at the Municipal Theater of Bahia. I won and the director addressed my father: ‘Mary is not friend of accounting, but he pronounces it. Fine. Why don’t you take the kid to town? ‘”
She also shared the cast of “The Spring Bride” with Norma Castillo.
The father listened to the advice. A few days later, they arrived at the Reina del Plata to try their luck, initially without the other family members.
Immediately, María was received on the old Miter radio station. “I was charged for two weeks, and that’s when dad understood that could happen and asked my mom and sisters to come so we could live permanently.” The next step was his job at the company Daffodil Ibanez Mint.
With his shadow-like father overseeing every artistic step, he suggested contacting journalist Chas de Cruz, who summoned actors for the film. Lullaby. The sweetness of that woman “who wore socks” was hypnotized and “a world opened up”:
“I remember they lightened my hair a little and my mother cried. ‘Why would they want to replace you, María?’ He was scared. But I was lucky to find polite people on the set. José, along with Pepe Arias, directed Antonio Momplet, who first premiered. Critics praised Lullabyand that brought new possibilities. “
María Duval in the “16 years” poster.
Everything seemed like a dream. He thinks about it and he feels like he is floating, that he is in a state of mind, that all this has not happened to him, but to someone else. Throw giant names and not even them 12 grandchildren, or his 15 great -grandchildren consists of the magnitude of a golden trajectory:
“I was preceded by Mario Soffici, Francisco Mugica, Alberto de Zavalía, Ernesto Arancibia. The other day, I told a great -grandson that they were watching a movie and when they saw it they were shocked: “Grandma’s naughty.”
María swears that her olfactory memory is “intact”. It was enough for him to go through a construction site or smell fresh paint to get back to the SIDE studios on Campichuelo street, to the San Miguel studios, to the sheds where he landed dazzled. “In the first three films we came to work by tram. Later, we bought a second-hand car.”
The prosperity of that time meant that in 1942 he was able to film six films. Not everything the queen of white stories remembers is internal columns:
Together with Ángel Magaña, they worked on “When the orange tree blooms”.
“In 1943 I starred for 16 years. It was a true dramatic role in which towards the end my character wanted to commit suicide. We ended up in the woods of Palermo. I didn’t want to do the scene, but there were no stunt doubles. And I jumped into the cold water. And I came out with flying colors, “she laughs. “There was a time when I evolved and less dramatic roles came to me. Critics said: ‘She stopped being the crybaby.'”
-What do you think life would be like if that artistic path was not cut off? Will she have the popularity of Mirtha Legrand?
-That’s relative. And I’m not interested either. I miss all that so much, but I have no regrets. The world is different, I am from the time of judgment. Sadly now artists are losing the privacy, they give to the public. I raised a family. I love you so much.
Leave everything
-What made you want to give up all that adrenaline in just 22 years?
-When we started dating, my husband warned me that he didn’t want that life and he wanted me to leave. I went home crying. I met him at a friend’s engagement party. He was late, coming from a boxing evening. I was at a table with friends and he invited me to dance. He didn’t even know I existed, he didn’t watch Argentine cinema. I know what kind of actor you are. At 22 I got married; he is 31.
-And you don’t regret that you left the one you love because of a man’s selfishness?
-Don’t! I thought hard. I reasoned and I realized that the bigger it is, the fewer its roles. I got married in 1948 and that was the year my last films, Date with the Stars and Strange Case of the Murdered Woman, were released in 1949. When I was acting, I lived in a fantasy.
Later, I had three children, my husband had health problems and I had to dedicate myself. I was also able to travel a lot for his business. It had a wool washing during the times when the washed wool was exported. We even walked to Persia, Japan and Hong Kong. I was widowed ten years ago.
-You are a minor. Who then oversaw his earnings?
-I don’t know how much he charges or when. Everything was managed by my older sister, who was my assistant. He got good money. At 17 we bought a house in José Hernández and Amenábar. Pass the tram at the door. At 18 I was already leading my theater company. mad.
along with the work It doesn’t matter to the man We did an artistic tour of Montevideo, Córdoba, Rosario. Margarita Xirgu was waiting for me in the hall of the Rosario theater. “Boy, I’ve been told you’re a good actor. I already know what kind of actor you are,” he told me. I almost fainted.
-Did they tempt him to come back?
-Yes, the Carreras brothers. But I can’t because I am very dedicated to my children. And he faced life differently. I took a risk and my conscience was clear.
How to deal with so much fame
Did you deal with too many admirers? Are you bothered by popularity?
-No, I opened the door to everyone. He is not in vain. They came to ring my bell and I received anyone, those times without trust. I remember an admirer of Temuco looking for me. Afterwards, there was a time when I didn’t have much time to sign and sent photos with my signature to print and send to fans ’homes with stamped envelopes.
-What is the reason you see all the magazines talking about “the sweet queen”?
It was as if I were looking at myself in the mirror of the past. Radioland, Antenna ... I always have criticism, severe to me. And he didn’t like movement too much, he was unobtrusive, calm.
I’m already removing the prizes, I give them to my kids. Now I am amazed at how old I am and I think it has helped me to live the path I have chosen so hard, to help others, not focus on vanity. I had a lot of honor. It was more than I had ever dreamed of.
CJL
Source: Clarin
