How Jorge Negrete helped Rosita Quintana in her career

Jorge Negrete, being the first leader of the National Actors Association (ANDA), became one of the main drivers of the careers of some of his teammates, as was the case with Rosita Quintana, who from a young age sought to succeed in Mexico.

Rosita Quintana, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, made her pininos in the art scene since she was a child, because her grandmother was a tango singer, which led her to learn about singing and make her debut in 15 years as a magazine theater actress, together with an orchestra. He became very famous for being so young and performing tangos impeccably.

The singer caught the attention of several artists thanks to her singing talent and that she was part of one of the most important orchestras in all of Argentina, so she began to get many job offers from composers and producers, but she had only one goal in mind: to get to Mexico.

Quintana was a big fan of Mexican cinema, so one of her dreams was to succeed alongside the country's great artists, such as Jorge Negrete, but she didn't imagine that he would become one of the main drivers of her acting career.

The actress had the opportunity to perform in different places, among which Charro Cantor would have seen her in one of his performances and would have liked her work, something that would greatly benefit Rosita when she began looking to take her career abroad.

As he revealed during an interview with TVyNovelas, on one of his work trips he met with Negrete, who was in the middle of one of his tours in America. Both recognized each other and introduced themselves, so she did not miss the opportunity to ask for his support to make their way in Mexico, because it was her dream to succeed in Aztec lands.

The Guanajuato did not hesitate to agree to help her and wrote a letter that would serve as a recommendation, so that, on the day she arrived in Mexico, she could back up with her words and get work.

“I traveled with my mother and on a stopover in Chile I met Jorge Negrete, who at that time was the ANDA union leader. He gave me a letter to make it easier for me to work in Mexico,” the singer revealed. This detail of the protagonist of Gran Casin didn't mean a lot to Quintana, because he used it as an impulse to start his journey in Mexico, so he said that “it's a detail I've never forgotten”.

With that letter and her talent, in 1947 Rosita managed to obtain a space for her function at the El Patio nightclub, one of the most famous cabarets in the City of Mexico. The histrionist on several occasions confessed that even when she arrived in the Mexican capital did she feel strange, since from Argentina she projected herself acting and singing in these lands.

El Patio was the place that opened the way to the big screen, as politicians, actors, singers and producers attended as audiences, so, from her shows in this place, the Argentinian got her first invitation to venture into cinema.

Chano Ureta offered her a supporting role in his film La santa del barrio and she accepted, managing since her acting debut in the seventh art to attract the attention of other filmmakers. It took just two years and five films in which he participated to catapult his fame in Calabacitas tendernas, alongside Germán Valdes Tin Tan and Ramón Valdes.

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