Madhubala

But she silenced her critics in 1958, when four of her films turned out to be superhits - Phagun, Howrah Bridge opposite Ashok Kumar, Kala Pani opposite Dev Anand and Chalti ka Naam Gaadi opposite her future husband Kishore Kumar. On April of 2004, Mendez relocated for six months to Puerto Rico, for filming of a Hollywood movie. This also led to a lean phase in her career. On Saturday, February 29 of 2004, she married for the second time, this time to a person unknown to the public. Her romance with Dilip Kumar didn't blossom due to opposition by her conservative family. Mendez is rumored to be planning a comeback into Latin American and Spanish United States television channels. Madhubala's off-screen life was a tragedy. Lucia debutted as a writer of a soap opera in Miami in 1998.

Many other hits followed Mahal. The public and gossip magazines have also speculated of a supposed rivalry between her and Veronica Castro. The song Aayega Aanewaala made the careers of Madhubala as well as the playback singer Lata Mangeshkar. But even as she did lead a more private life, she was still under the public's eye, and she has been associated romantically with Luis Miguel and Vicente Fox, among others. The film became a super hit. After Amor de Nadie, Mendez semi-retired from acting, leading a more private life. In 1949, Madhubala starred in Bombay Talkies production Mahal. The soap opera's title song also became a smash hit for Mendez.

Her big break came when Kidar Sharma gave her a change to act opposite Raj Kapoor in Neel Kamal (1947). In Amor de Nadie, she played a rape victim who has five men fighting for her love. Her first film was Basant (1942). In 1990, Mendez came back with another super-hit soap opera, Amor de Nadie, alongside Saul Lisazo and Fernando Allende. She entered Bollywood as a child-artist under the name Baby Mumtaz. Later on, she and Pedro Torres divorced. Her birth name was Mumtaz Jahan Begum. In 1988, she married producer Pedro Torres, and in 1989, she had her son Pedrito, who is her only child so far.

Madhubala was born as the 5th child into a poor Muslim family of 11 children. In Tu o Nadie, her brother played a pshysically challenged person. She was married to the famous playback singer and actor Kishore Kumar. In 1986, she starred alongside Andres Garcia and Salvador Pineda in international super-hit Tu o Nadie, where she sang the Corazon de Piedra (Heart of Stone) song, which also became a smashing hit, on the Mexican and Latin American music charts. Her major motion pictures include Mahal and Mughal-e-Azam. In 1983, she was crowned as Queen of Vina Del Mar at the prestigious Viņa Del Mar Festival in Chile. Madhubala (February 14, 1933 - February 23, 1969) is considered one of most beautiful actresses to have graced the screens of Bollywood. During the 1980s, her star kept on growing, as she reached international superstar status.

Subsequently, she was cast on many other soap oeras, and by the mid 1970s, she was a well known superstar throughout Mexico. She acted in her first soap opera, Paloma, simultaneusly. Mendez began her career in 1972, acting in a movie named Cabalgando a la Luna (Horse-riding to the Moon). She has been the star of several Spanish soap operas.

Lucia Leticia Mendez (born January 26, 1955) is a Mexican actress and singer.