The Hollywood actress Marilyn Monroe visited Mexico in 1962 and was expected to have a meeting with the greatest Mexican diva María Félix.

María Félix is one of the most important figures of the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema , the actress is considered one of the greatest divas that our country has seen born. He shared all the characteristics that have made up the concept of that word; It is well known that the protagonist of Doña Bárbara had a strong character and at times came to rude other artists, as happened with Marilyn Monroe , whom she apparently despised on her visit to Mexico and did not want to receive her .

For her part, Marilyn Monroe was an actress and model; became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s and early 1960s. It remains an icon of pop culture in the United States and around the world. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked her sixth on its list of the greatest female film legends of Hollywood’s Golden Age . A very great similarity in terms of titles to both legends.

During the golden age, María Félix, already being the great life of Mexican cinema, caused controversy after having refused to receive one of the most iconic actresses in Hollywood, the sensual blonde Marilyn Monroe who had become a standard in the world thanks to interpretations in films such as The Knights Prefer Blondes (1953), An Eve and Two Adams (1959) or How to Catch a Millionaire (1953).

In February 1962 , for the first time the most famous blonde in the history of cinema – who was not really blonde, but brown – visited Mexico . It should be noted that the entertainment magazines of the time assured that one of the reasons why the diva decided to visit our country was because she was romantically involved with a Mexican heartthrob named José Bolaños .

Many people even affirmed that the American actress was proud of her Mexican roots, since her mother Gladys Baker Monroe was born in Piedras Negras, Coahuila . Norma Jeane Baker , the real name of the famous blonde, decided to visit our country and had a 7-day stay in which she enjoyed the gastronomy and got to know emblematic places such as Acapulco , the Pyramids of Teotihuacán and some towns near Mexico City.

However, being such a popular figure in the international artistic environment, it was expected that there would be a meeting with the film diva, María Félix, which did not happen because the Mexican said she was not interested in meeting Marilyn Monroe , so she must have be Emilio “El Indio” Fernández who received her at his home.

In an interview for El Universal , Professor Julieta González , from the staff of the Casa Fuerte de “El Indio” Fernández , confirmed that “La Doña” did not want to receive the American , as she assured that she had no interest in seeing her. “In reparation, Don Emilio offered him a meal at his house,” explained González.

The images in which the blonde is seen with the Mexican actor and his wife Columba Domínguez have become famous and recently became viral on social networks, because in these you can see Marilyn Monroe learning to drink tequila in the style of the Mexicans . Although a photograph where both divas posed smiling also went viral , the reality is that it is only a montage , since none of that happened. An encounter between the Mexican and American diva would have been one of the most epic moments for movie lovers and their greatest female exponents. Seeing María Félix and Marilyn Monroe will only remain in the world of the internet.

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