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= =**Rosaura Revueltas**= Rosaura Revueltas Sanches was born on August 6th, 1910 in Durango, Mexico. She was one of twelve brothers and sisters, some who went on to have very artistic jobs.She studied acting and ballet in Mexico city, she also made manymovies in mexico. To Americans her most pivotal role was as Esperanza Quintero in the 1950s movie "Salt of the Earth" in which she plays a miners wife in a Mexican- American family. They are struggling against discrimination and unequal treatment and the community comes together as a whole and fights for their rights. This movie got her deported from the U.S. before it was finished then she was blacklisted and labeled a communist.

She moved to Germany and stayed there for 3 years. While in Germany she worked with playwright Bertold Brecht in his theatre. After moving back to Mexico in 1960,Revueltas began taking acting classes and also began to write plays. In 1976 she got back on the silver screen in a movie named //Mina, viento de libertad// (//Mina, Wind of Freedom//). After her acting career she lived in Germany, Cuba, and Mexico.She died on April 20, 1996, six months after having been diagnosed with lung cancer, in [|Cuernavaca], [|Mexico] , at the age of 85. She had one child, a son, Arturo Bodenstedt.


 * Filmography**
 * 1) //Balún Canán// (1976)
 * 2) //Lo Mejor de Teresa//(1976)
 * 3) //Mina, Viento de Libertad//, aka//Mina, Wind of Freedom//(1976)
 * 4) // [|Salt of the Earth] //(1954)
 * 5) //Sombrero//(1953)
 * 6) //Islas Marías//(1951)
 * 7) //Muchachas de Uniforme//, aka//Girls in Uniform//(1950)
 * 8) //Un Día de Vida//(1950)
 * 9) //Vuelve Pancho Villa//, aka//Pancho Villa Returns//(1950)
 * 10) //The Torch//, aka//Bandit General//(1949), aka//Del Odio Nace el Amor//(1951)
 * 11) //La Deconocida de Arras//(1946)

By Solomon Gibson