María Luisa Bemberg
Gender: Female
Born: 14th April 1922
Died: 7th May 1995
Nationality: Argentina
Movies: Camila, I, the Worst of All, I Don't Want to Talk About It, Miss Mary, Nobody's Wife
María Luisa Bemberg (14 April 1922 – 7 May 1995) was a pioneer feminist, film writer, director and actress born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. One of the first Latin-American women film directors and a powerful presence in the intellectual Argentina of the 1970-1990. In her work, she specialized in portraying famous South American women and the Argentine upper class.
The daughter of Otto Eduardo Bemberg and Sofía Bengolea, she was born into one of the most powerful families in Argentina, as her great-grandfather, German Argentine immigrant Otto Bemberg, had established the Quilmes Brewery, Argentina's largest, in 1888.
On October 17, 1945, she married Carlos Miguens. Following their marriage - in the midst of the Perón era - the couple moved to Spain where they had four children before returning to Argentina.
In 1959 she established and managed the Buenos Aires's Teatro Del Globo with her associated Catalina Wolff.
She was one of the founders of the Mar del Plata film festival and the Feminist Union in Argentina.
In 1970, she wrote the script for Raul de la Torre "Crónica de una señora", a successful film on the Argentinean High-class with Graciela Borges and Lautaro Murúa and in 1975
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