Estela Inda

Stella or Estela Inda June 28 1917 December 7 1995 was a Mexican film actress She was the star of notable Mexican films including Los olvidados by Luis Buñuel in 1949 She started her career as extra in the successful film La Mujer del Puerto starred by Andrea Palma Also she participated in Mexican films such as La Noche de los Mayas 1939 Santa second souns version 1943 Bugambilia 1944 with Dolores del Río Amok 1945 with María Félix and the success films Los olvidados 1949 directed by Luis Buñuel and El Rebozo de Soledad 1955 In the later years she was an acting teacher in the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes in Mexico and directed a folkloric dance group called Stella Inda y su Conjunto In 1947 she had a prominent but uncredited role as the historical personage La Malinche in the Hollywood epic Captain from Castile opposite Cesar Romero as Hernán Cortés