Rosa María Juana Martínez Suárezbetter known as Mirtha Legrandmeets This Sunday, February 23, 98 years old and honors an unmatched trajectory. How much with 80 years of career, 57 of them with its cycle of lunches that remains in force. In this way, “La Chiqui” becomes a show legend every day.
Owner of iconic phrases that accompany the general culture as “This program brings luck”, “As you see you, they treat you”, “so” and “fuck, shit”, the “lunch diva” continues as one of the figures of the small screen after overcoming various adversities.
Just as the pandemic marked a before and after in several areas, Mirtha had to travel, in addition, other difficulties: in 2019 she underwent cardiac surgery, in which she placed Stents to treat conditions in her arteries. However, he surpassed him in the best way and progressively, he resumed his work.
Mirtha Legrand’s 98 birthday: the story of the “Diva de los Lunzuejos”
Mirtha was born in the Santa Fe city of Villa Cañás and with only 14 years he debuted in his first film, “on Tuesdays, orchids” by Francisco Mugica and managed to work in almost 30 films during the “Golden Sege” of national cinema.
While filming “five kisses” in 1945, Legrand met the French director Daniel Tinayre, with whom he married on May 18, 1946. Two and three years later they had their two children Marcela and Daniel Tinayre. However, it was on television where Mirtha reached maximum popularity.
On June 3, 1968, he premiered on Channel 9, by Alejandro Romay, “lunching with the stars”, which would later become the already classic “lunching with Mirtha Legrand”, a program that marked a milestone in history of Argentine television.
Over the years, Mirtha turned her lunches into a scenario where figures from all areas sat: artists, politicians, intellectuals, and businessmen.
His driving style, which combined elegance, insight and a touch of irony, positioned it as one of the most beloved and respected conductors in the country.
Mirtha Legrand turns 98: 10 curious information about his life
- She has a twin sister, Silvia Legrand, known as “Goldy” (María Aurelia Paula Martínez Suárez), who also shone as an actress in national cinema and who died in 2020 during the strict quarantine for the pandemic. This Sunday, while Mirtha Legrand celebrates one more year of life, the anniversary of Goldy is also remembered, who would have fulfilled the same age.
- He had a male brother, José Antonio Martínez Suárez, who died in 2019, was a renowned film director and screenwriter.
- Mirtha met the love of his life, director Daniel Tinayre, in 1945 during the filming of five kisses. With only 19 years, she married Tinayre, 36, and together they had two children: Daniel, who died in 1999 for pancreatic cancer, and Marcela, also a television host.
- He was born just 77 years after the death of San Martín, three years before the first soccer World Cup in 1930 and when Pluto had not yet been discovered.
- By the time Walt Disney created Mickey Mouse in 1928, Mirtha Legrand was already one year old.
- Throughout his life, he used all the coins that circulated in the history of Argentina.
- He met 37 of the 50 presidents of the country from Bernardino Rivadavia.
- His last film was in 1965, but in 2012 he returned to the performance with the series La Dueña.
- Among the most recent anecdotes, Lionel Messi’s mother presented him with the footballer’s autograph shirt, which Mirtha Legrand decided to auction with a solidarity end: “We are going to finish it for it, it is all for the hospital,” he said, referring to the Victorio Maternal Hospital Victorio Mar del Plata Tetamanti.
- With this new birthday, Mirtha is just three to turn a hundred years.
Mirthe Legrand turns 98: between uncomfortable questions and epic moments
Among the meetings, a style was even criticized. Uncomfortable questions or even a little out of place that generated testimonies that went around the world.
One of the epic moments highlights the case of Yiya Murano, “the poisoner of Monserrat”, whom he asked if he wanted to eat the masitas that she herself had taken to the program.
Years later, in an encounter with Fernando Peña, the actor and journalist took a weapon that was under the table and pointed to the driver. “Now I’m going to shoot you,” he said. Legrand was completely paralyzed and did not respond to the artist’s sayings.
As for the moments with people who are or were part of the LGBT community, you can remember the encounter with Cris looked at who the diva insisted on questioning its gender: “I do not know how to treat you, Cris. I tell you the truth: Miss, Lord, I don’t know “, and the Flor de V case whom with only 20 years Mirtha said:” Oh, look what it is, if it weren’t because he has no hip you don’t realize that he is not a woman. “
Mirtha received eight presidents at his table, including Javier Milei who, there, met with his ex -girlfriend, actress and humorist Fatima Flórez.
But, as if it were not enough politics and lunches, Legrand had lunch with Raúl Alfonsín, Carlos Menem, Fernando de la Rúa, Eduardo Duhalde, Néstor Kirchner and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, and Mauricio Macri.
In addition, the driver met with a large range of recognized national and international figures between politicians, journalists and artists, among others.
Source: Ambito
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