Verónica Castro

She is rumored to have dated Los Temerarios member Adolfo Angel and have had an animosity towards soap opera actress Lucia Mendez. Jane Darwell has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contribution to Motion Pictures, at 6735 Hollywood Boulevard. Many of Veronica's private life's details have become items for paparazzi photographers and gossip magazines to feast on. She died from a heart attack in Woodland Hills, California and was interred in Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery. Her son, Cristian Castro, is a teen idol singer all over Latin America and is the son of a famous Mexican comedian Manuel El Loco Valdez who never married Castro. Always popular within the film industry, her final role as the old woman feeding the birds in Mary Poppins was personally given to her by Walt Disney. Castro embarked during the 1990s into the world of variety show hosting, and she has done that successfully for 12 years now. By the end of her career she had appeared in more than 170 films, including Huckleberry Finn (1931), Roman Scandals (1933), Jesse James, The Rains Came, Gone With the Wind (all 1939), The Ox-Bow Incident (1943), My Darling Clementine (1946) and Caged (1950).

In 1990 Castro participated in Mi Pequeña Soledad, where she had to play both a 40-year-old victim of rape who became pregnant and later was paralyzed in a car crash, and her 20-year-old daughter (Soledad), who was the product of the rape. She won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress as Ma Joad in The Grapes of Wrath (1940), a role she was given at the insistence of the film's star, Henry Fonda. The theme song for that soap opera, also named Rosa Salvaje, became one of her biggest #1 hits as a singer. Short, stout and plain faced she was quickly cast in a succession of films usually as the mother of one of the major characters. In 1987 her career got a huge boost internationally when she played the main character in Rosa Salvaje alongside Guillermo Capetillo. After a 15 year absence from films, she resumed her film career in 1930 with a role in Tom Sawyer, and her career as a Hollywood character actress began. This soap became a success in Latin America, Spain, France, Russia, China and the Philippines. She appeared in almost twenty films over the next two years before returning to the stage.

Her career took-off with Los Ricos También Lloran, playing a poor maid in a Mexican version of Cinderella. She began her acting career in theater productions in Chicago and made her first film appearance in 1913. She started her career as an actress in TV shows and soap operas. Born Patti Woodward in Palmyra, Missouri, Darwell originally intended to become a circus performer, however her family objected and she compromised by becoming an actress. Verónica Castro is a well-known Mexican actress and singer. Jane Darwell (October 15, 1879 – August 13, 1967) was an American theater and film actress.