Goldy, Mirtha Legrand's twin sister died

One of the last photos of Goldy Legrand

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The first rung of the path that would lead them to fame and success was a small scene in the film Niní must be educated along with Niní Marshall . Then a role in Boyfriends for the Girls . Its beauty and charm transcends the screen and the following year they star Dreaming costs nothing . Success accompanies them . Sisters are the ideal heroines to represent the stories that reigned in the year 40 that of good and candid girls who suffer but always achieve a happy ending. The sisters also animated a radio show Splendid, The Joy Club . The public loved them, the directors required them but those identical twins did not dream or want the same thing. In 1944, Silvia met Eduardo Lopina a second lieutenant in the Argentine Army and decided to abandon her artistic career. From his marriage, he changed fame to anonymity changed the bustle of the sets for the peace of his house and left Silvia Legrand to return to being Goldy. He had two daughters, ten grandchildren and ten great grandchildren. In 1962, at the request of his sister, he filmed Under the Same Face and in 1972 he acted in the film Juan Manuel de Rosas . From that moment he never again set foot on stage or in recording studios . They say that Silvia was the most talented but that Mirtha was the most determined perhaps that's why although they were the same they were so different. Mirtha became the luncheon diva Silvia chose a different path but no less happy. She settled in Olivos, where she enjoyed life doing her favorite activities: reading, writing, going to the movies, going out with friends and especially accompanying her daughters and grandchildren. Mirtha, who managed to get all the Argentine presidents and most of the stars of the national show business to participate in her famous lunches, only twice managed to get her sister to agree to be her guest .

"I would not go to Mirtha's table. They proposed it to me, but no, I'm already retired. A program with the three brothers would be nice, but I'm not going. One thing is a photograph when you go to Mirtha's birthday and another thing is to be sitting at a table for three hours ”, clarified one of the few times that he gave a note on the air. That time the driver Carlos Monti asked him: "Are you afraid of Mirtha, are you afraid of your own sister?" But she replied: “Don't make me laugh, Carlitos. No, I am not afraid of Mirtha. She knows as much about my life as I do about hers. ” It is that the sisters maintained a great bond and although they did not visit each other frequently they spoke every day. She is part of my life, she is my sister, my mother, my everything," said Mirtha. Silvia also dedicated words of love to her: She is a woman who always wants to go out, to change three times, she goes to the theater then she goes out to eat. Sometimes she invites me and I say enough is enough, and she says 'but look, Goldy, the play is good let's not stop going. It is tireless. Everything interests him and everything makes him curious. Perhaps that is the secret of long life. He has a brilliant mind. GoldyHe used to make suggestions for his program always with love and respect. One of Mirtha's best known phrases, What is not can become as they see you they treat you and if they see you badly they mistreat you was the creation of her sister, the same as the qualification of Mesaza with which the diva referred to her lunches. When Mirtha turned 50 on television, Goldy left her anonymity for a while and wrote her an emotional letter that ended with their favorite poem . A text that today becomes a wonderful farewell for Goldy, a woman who was much more than Mirtha Legrand's sister. My life was during the day and in January, outdoors under a round sun lit in the shade of a macondo happy Santa Fe and chacarero. The murmur was the sound of that piano and a small carnival as a background and we were running around the bottom with a tangerine in each hand. What more can I ask for joy, if life was just around the block and nobody ... was dead yet?