CORTÉS, MAPITA

(1930? - )

   Puerto Rican-born niece of Fernando and Mapy Cortés who had a brief career as an ingenue in the late 1950s in pictures like Misterios de ultratumba (Mysteries of the Afterlife, 1958), before marrying singer Lucho Gatica and retiring from the screen. Their son, Luis Gatica, is a pop singer and sometimes actor. Mapita Cortés (real name, María del Pilar Mercado Cordero) has done some recent TV work, including telenovelas like "Mi pequeña Soledad."