Eva Duarte de Perón

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Eva María Duarte de Perón (1919-1952) was an Argentine actress and political leader, the wife of Argentine President Juan Perón and First Lady of Argentina from 1946 until her early death. She is usually referred to as Eva Perón or Evita. Juan Perón was elected President of Argentina in 1946; during the next 6 years, Eva Perón became powerful within the pro-Peronist trade unions, primarily for speaking on behalf of labor rights. She also ran the Ministries of Labor and Health, founded and ran the charitable Eva Perón Foundation, championed women's suffrage in Argentina, and founded and ran the nation's first large-scale female political party, the Female Peronist Party. In 1951, Eva Perón announced her candidacy for the Peronist nomination for the office of Vice President of Argentina, receiving great support from the Peronist political base, low-income and working-class Argentines who were referred to as descamisados or "shirtless ones". However, opposition from the nation's military and bourgeoisie, coupled with her declining health, ultimately forced her to withdraw her candidacy. In 1952, shortly before her death from cancer at 33, Eva Perón was given the title of "Spiritual Leader of the Nation" by the Argentine Congress. She was given a state funeral upon her death, a prerogative generally reserved for heads of state.

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2024
Los Eternos
Movie Eva Perón
2023
Prins Bernhard
TV show Self (archive footage)
2020
The Most Dangerous Man in Europe: Otto Skorzeny's After War
Movie Self - Politician (archive footage)
2015
Jornal Português (1938-1951)
Movie Self (archive footage)
2012
Looking for Buenos Aires
Movie Self (archive footage)
2011
Eva from the Argentina
Movie Eva Perón (Voz archivo)
2008
Evita
Movie Self (archive footage)
2003
Comandante
Movie Self (archive footage)
2000
Perón, Symphony of Feeling
Movie Material de archivo
1998
Legenden
TV show Self (archive footage)
1997
Evita: A Grave Without Peace
Movie Herself (Archive)
1993
Intimate Portrait
TV show Self (archive footage)
1983
The Lost Republic
Movie Material de archivo
1976
Songs for After a War
Movie Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1957
El mito
Movie Ella misma (archivo)
1952
Eva Perón inmortal
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