Miroslava Pics

Miroslava

Sternova

Slim

Prague, Czechoslovakia

Suicide

White

Ensayo de un crimen

26 February 1925

Pisces

09 March 1955

Mexico City, Mexico

Czech

Female

Jewish

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Miroslava Stern (February 26, 1926 – March 9, 1955) was a Czechoslovakian-born Mexican film actress who appeared in thirty two films.

Her parents are Oscar Becka, a physician, and Miroslava Sternova. 39 under German occupation, she, her parents, and her younger brother Ivo flee Czechoslovakia. She and her family are interned in a concentration camp due to their being Jewish. 1941 via Belgium, Finland, and Sweden, they finally make it to Mexico c. 1941-42 after her parents settle in Mexico City, her father sends her to New York City to finish high school in New York City she falls in love with a U.S. soldier, and they make plans to marry, but he is killed in WWII. Deeply depressed, she tries to take her life. Due to her suicide attempt, she returns to Mexico City, and her parents enroll her at the American School for completion of her studies. Later she starts taking painting classes, too. 9 March 1955 takes her life by poisoning with barbiturates. two days later, she is found stretched out on her bed by her maid, Maria de Rosario Navarro. In one hand she clutches three farewell notes; in the other, a photo showing her with Dominguin and his mother. her first note is addressed to her father and remembers events in their happy life together with mother. This note is partly in Czech. The second note, to her brother, kindly asks for his understanding. It states: "Forgive me and forget." The third message, to her attorney Eduardo Lucio, deals with matters concerning her estate. The glass of Martini that she used to swallow the deadly dose is found at her bedside. Quickly her house is crowded by police, friends, and the press. Her close friends, actor Ernesto Alonso and actress Ninon Sevilla, are in her house a few minutes after her body is found. The police enter the house, alarmed by an unknown caller. A doctor of the Green Cross confirms her suicide. Her maid is never questioned by the police. 12 March 1955 an autopsy states that her death occurred thirty hours before she was found despite the fact that everything looks as if she took her own life over the marriage of Dominguin and Bosè, there are rumors that her death was no suicide at all. She may have had an affair with the married Pasquel, who disliked to be seen with her in public. Right after her death, Chula Prieto may have arranged her corpse with the letters and even written one or two herself to camouflage the truth. There are rumors she was a lesbian her corpse is prepared in a white transparent nightie beneath a strawberry-colored housecoat. At the funeral service she`s laid in state, her open coffin closed only by glass. Is cremated in Mexico City her father and friends are interviewed by the press. All try to confirm the version of a suicide. Her friend Caesar de Campo tells that she even had planned a trip to San Luis Potosi on May 7th.

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Miroslava Sternova

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