Su Muy Key
| Su Muy Key | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Rosa Su López 1929 México City, México |
| Died | 1951 Mexico City, Mexico |
| Occupation | film actress, dancer |
| Years active | 1948–1951 |
Su Muy Key was a Mexican vedette, film actress and dancer of Chinese descent. She was one of the first Burlesque performers in México. She was nicknamed "Muñequita China" ("Chinese Doll").
She was sister of Margo Su, actress, businesswoman and owner of the famous Teatro Blanquita in Mexico City. She acted in some Mexican films like the La bandida (1948), Carta brava (1950), Mujeres de teatro (1951) and Especialista en señoras(1951). As a vedette and burlesque performer, she worked in numerous theaters and cabarets of the time. Her famous night show consisted of painting her body with silver paint and remaining immobile as a statue, and then dancing oriental dances.
In 1949 it was rumored that she would be the star of a film titled Poor butterfly, which never was concretized. Possibly in this year Armando Herrera, the "photographer of the stars" and who had become famous for portraying Agustín Lara and the young Tongolele, gave her an anthology portrait where she reveals her exquisite Chinese eroticism. At the beginning of 1951 she was portrayed naked by photographer Niuglo, a persistent contributor to Veja magazine. The caricaturist Segura added to a piquant photomontage that bordered on pornography.
Her sister, Margo Su, followed her footsteps in the movies, participating in numerous films and telenovelas.
Her name occupied in 1951 great titleholders, because she was involved in a tragedy that cost her life and that of her lover, the businessman Roberto Serna. This fact has been one of the great unresolved enigmas in the world of entertainment in Mexico. The journalist Carlos Gómez M., related in this way the tragedy:
"Su Muy Key, Roberto Serna and Mrs. María López de Su, her mother, arrived at the Hotel Pal, Roberto's home. Roberto invited Su Muy Key to his apartment. She accepted and asked her mother to wait for her down saying: I'm going up with Roberto, we have an issue to solve, wait for me here, I will not be late.
The couple disappeared into the dark of the stairs. They were closely united in loving embrace. After a few minutes, three detonations disturbed the silence of the night and Su Muy Key's mother, hurried up the stairs. When she opened the apartment door, she found her daughter stretched out on the bed in agony in the middle of a puddle of blood. At her side, with the revolver still smoking in his right hand, Roberto Serna, lying on the bed and with a head wound. On a table in the room were some objects, including a letter in which Roberto ceded the entire ownership of the rights to the magazine "Oiga" to several people, including Su Muy Key."
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