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The actress Rosa “Rosita” Arenas was born in Caracas, Venezuela on August 19, 1933. She is the daughter of the Mexican actor Miguel Arenas, she was registered in the Mexican Embassy of that country, since her parents wanted their daughter to have the same nationality as they. She moved with her family to Mexico City, where she studied at the Motolinia school. Since she was little, she was in contact with the world of entertainment, as she accompanied her father to film sets and from time to time participated as an extra in a movie. In 1950 she was crowned Spring Queen of Mexico City and as a result of this she began to be offered some roles. It is the director Ismael Rodríguez who, in 1951, gives her her first big opportunity in What has that woman given you? From then on she made films such as The Great Detective Peter Pérez, The Minister’s Daughter, The Brute and The Photographer alongside the comedian Mario Moreno Cantinflas, with whom she is said to have had an affair. She participated in The Mad Doctor (1955), The Three and a Half Musketeers (1958) and School of Pickpockets (1958). After this she marries the Spanish aristocrat and actor Jaime de Mora y Aragón, but a couple of months later they divorce. She married for the second time, two years later, with the actor Abel Salazar. In 1963 she filmed her last film The Curse of La Llorona , and then dedicated herself solely to her family. Upon divorcing her, once again, she returned to acting, participating in different soap operas, her latest project being the film ¿Am you allowing me to kill you? (1994).
