Magaña, Delia

(Gudelia Flores Magaña)

(1906-1996)

   Delia Magaña started working on the stage at a young age. Eduardo Arozamena suggested that the feisty and diminutive actress change her name and concentrate on comic roles, which she did, to great success. During the 1920s and early 1930s, Magaña worked in Hollywood, both in silent films and Spanish-language sound productions. She returned to Mexico and the stage (at one time she was married to Roberto "El Panzón" Soto), and made her Mexican sound feature film debut in 1941. Over the next 40 years she appeared in many films, TV series, and in the theatre before finally retiring in the 1980s. She died of pneumonia. One of Magaña's most famous films is Nosotros los pobres, where she and Amelia Wilhemy played a pair of drunks, "La Guayaba" and "La Tostada."