Adriana Lamar

Adriana Lamar (born Amparo Gutiérrez Hernández; 9 May 1908 (Her birth date is unclear.) Most sources give 1908; others range from 1906 to 1909; while the claim that she died in January 1946 at the age of 38 Known by the pet name Monina, in her early work she was sometimes credited as Monina Lamar. including 1933's La Llorona, Mexico's first horror film with sound. In the 1930s, she also performed at Teatro Colón in El Paso, Texas, demonstrating how love and fight scenes were filmed.

She was married to the actor Ramón Pereda, with whom she co-starred in several films and who directed her in others. In 1946, during the filming of Ramón Peón's Rocambole, she underwent emergency surgery and died on 30 January at the age of 38. She was buried in Mexico City's .

Selected filmography (1931, directed by Carlos F. Borcosque) La Llorona (1933, directed by Ramón Peón) El vuelo de la muerte (1934, directed by Guillermo Calles) Women of Today (1936, directed by Ramón Peón) Malditas sean las mujeres (1936, directed by Juan Bustillo Oro) Beautiful Mexico (1938, directed by Ramón Pereda) I Will Live Again (1940, directed by Roberto Rodríguez) (1942, directed by José Díaz Morales), as Mary Magdalene Arsène Lupin (1947, directed by Ramón Peón) You Have the Eyes of a Deadly Woman (1947, directed by Ramón Peón)