Isabel Garcés

Isabel Garcés Cerezal was a Spanish stage and film actress.
She is particularly remembered for being a regular sidekick in Marisol's movies: An Angel Has Arrived, Marisol rumbo a Río, Búsqueme a esa chica, Las cuatro bodas de Marisol, Solos los dos.

Biography

Isabel Garcés was born in Madrid in 1891. At only five years of age, she started performing at the Madrilenian Teatro del Príncipe as part of the children's troupe led by Jacinto Benavente.
Later, Tirso Escudero booked her into his. Her first role there was as the "ugly woman" in ', a play in three acts by French playwright Pierre Veber.
Her next theatre was, where she moved together with Catalina Bárcena and Gregorio Martinez Sierra. In that theatre, she notably was Pepita Morer's substitute in Las lágrimas de la Trini by playwright Carlos Arniches.
After that, she moved to the and became part of its troupe led by. She stayed with the theatre for twenty seasons, notably beating the record of 200 performances in 40 comedy plays. At that theatre, she was part of the original casts of such plays as Pedro Muñoz's El refugio, El alfiler and La tonta del rizo, El famoso Carballeira, Chiruca and Mosquita en palacio and Jacinto Benavente's ', El alfiler en la boca, El marido de bronce and .
She appeared in her first film at the age of 58. Her roles were that of typical sweet, absent-minded grandmother. In particular, she starred in many musical "child prodigy" comedies, playing a humorous counterpoint to child protagonists such as Marisol and Pili and Mili.
She died in Madrid on 3 February 1981, at the age of 80.