Evita Muñoz "Chachita"
| Evita Muñoz | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Eva María Muñoz Ruíz November 26, 1936 Orizaba, Mexico |
| Died | August 23, 2016 (aged 79) Mexico City, Mexico |
| Occupation | Actress, comedian |
| Known for | Chachita, in Nosotros los pobres Hermana Carmela, in Mundo de juguete Hermelinda Linda, in Hermelinda Linda |
| Website | m3talent.net |
Eva María "Chachita" Muñoz Ruíz (November 26, 1936 – August 23, 2016), known professionally as Evita Muñoz, was a Mexican actress, comedian, singer, and dancer. Her professional career began at the age of four, and she began performing during the golden age of Mexican cinema. She achieved major stardom in her fourth film, at age 6. For more than 75 years, 'Chachita' was recognized as a successful artist in cinema, television, theater, radio, nightclub, and circus shows.
At a little under four years old, she shot her first motion picture, starting a career of starring roles as a child talent; beginning with a minor role in El secreto del sacerdote in 1941. After her second movie, (1941), she received the nickname "Chachita".
Around 1944, her popularity in the movies led to her starting a radio career in the radio show La legión de madrugadores on the XEQ radio station. In 1947, she signed a contract with CBS in New York to star in the radio serial: Aventuras de una niña, which was broadcast in all Central and South America, and produced by Carlos Montalbán. During the mid-fifties, she played all the female roles in Panzón Panseco's radio sketches, along with Pedro Vargas, and Juan García Esquivel's orquesta (1957): "Ahora es la hora". And in the late fifties, she starred in the show El Risámetro.
To promote her movie La Hija del Payaso (1946), in which she performed along with trained elephants and dogs. She learned to play the marimba and the xylophone. She made personal appearances with the Atayde Circus when she was only eight years old. During her teenage years, she costarred with Pedro Infante in the trilogy: Nosotros los pobres (1948), Ustedes los ricos (1948) and Pepe el Toro (1952), which jumpstarted a new cycle for Mexican cinema.
She was invited by Pérez Prado as a mambo dancer for a tour all over the Philippine islands and Japan where she became a sensation. During that tour they also performed in USO shows during the Korean War for the Hispanic-American troops of soldiers.
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