CARMINA, ROSA

(Rosa Carmina Riverón Jiménez)

(1929? - )

   In 1946, director Juan Orol, recently divorced from María Antonieta Pons, traveled to Cuba to find another rumbera to star in his spy melodrama, Una mujer de Oriente. He met the exotically beautiful Rosa Carmina, who would star in most of his films for the next 9 years. Carmina continued to appear regularly in Mexican films for other directors into the early 1960s, making occasional pictures in later years, including a reunion with Orol in México de noche ('74).