Miroslava sternova biografia

Czechoslovak-born actress

Miroslava Šternová (née Stanclová; 26 February 1926 – 9 March 1955), known professionally as Miroslava Stern, was a Czechoslovak-Mexican actress.^[1]

Biography

Born in interwar Prague as Miroslava Stanclová, her father died and she was adopted by a Jewish doctor, the psychoanalyst Dr.

Oskar Leo Stern (1900–1972) who married her mother, Miroslava (née Becka; 1898–1945), and became known as Miroslava Šternová. Dr Stern and his wife had a son, Ivo (1931–2011), the actress's half-brother.^[2] The family was, at one point, interned in a concentration camp after they fled their native Czechoslovakia in 1939.

They sought refuge in various Scandinavian countries before emigrating to Mexico in 1941. Her mother died of cancer four years later.^[3]

After winning a national beauty contest, Miroslava began to study acting.

She worked steadily in films produced in Mexico, from 1946 to 1955, as well as three Hollywoo