page_title: Tita Merello
section_title: Late career (1958–1985)
hierarchical_section_title: Tita Merello / Biography / Late career (1958–1985)
caption_attribution_description: Español: Hugo del Carril , Tita Merello y Ricardo Alfieri
context_page_description: Tita Merello was a prominent Argentine film actress, tango dancer and singer of the Golden Age of Argentine Cinema. In her 6 decades in Argentine entertainment, at the time of her death, she had filmed over thirty movies, premiered twenty plays, had nine television appearances, completed three radio series and had had countless appearances in print media. She was one of the singers who emerged in the 1920s along with Azucena Maizani, Libertad Lamarque, Ada Falcón, and Rosita Quiroga, who created the female voices of tango. She was primarily remembered for the songs "Se dice de mí" and "La milonga y yo".
  She began her acting career in theater and may have made silent films. She debuted on the first sound movie produced in Argentina, ¡Tango!, with Libertad Lamarque in 1933. After making a series of films throughout the 1930s, she established herself as a dramatic actress in La fuga, directed by Luis Saslavsky. In the mid-1940s, she moved to Mexico, where she filmed Cinco rostros de mujer, which earned her an Ariel Award from the Mexican Academy of Film. She returned to Argentina and starred in Don Juan Tenorio and Filomena Marturano, which were subsequently taken to the theater.
context_section_description: She immediately returned to the stage in 1958 with two productions: Amorina by Eduardo Borrás followed by Luces de Buenos Aires starring Merello, Hugo del Carril and Mariano Mores. She starred in Miércoles de ceniza by Luis Basurto in 1959 under the direction of Cecilio Madanes, sharing the lead alternately with Eva Frano and in 1961 she performed Estrellas en el Avenia under the direction of Cecilio Madanes. In 1961, she also made a film of the earlier play she had been in Amorina under the direction of Hugo del Carril, who also acted in the film with Golde Flami.
  She returned to the theater in 1962 with La Moreira by Juan Carlos Ghiano and the following year performed Carolina Paternóster by Eduardo Pappo. In 1964, Merello accepted a television role starring in the Channel 11 telenovela Acacia Montero under the direction of Martín Clutet. That same year, she also made three films. Los evadidos was directed by Enrique Carreras and Merello played opposite Jorge Salcedo. Mercedes Carreras and Ángel Magaña starred with her in Ritmo nuevo, vieja ola, directed by Carreras and it wouldn't be released until 1965. In La industria del matrimonio, she again teamed with Magaña and Enrique Carreras.
  Merello filmed Los hipócritas in 1965 under the direction of Enrique Carreras and in 1966 returned to the stage appearing in El andador by Norberto Aroldi, which was made into a film of the same name in 1967 under the direction of Enrique Carreras. She made two more films with Carreras directing, ¡Ésto es alegría! (1967) and ¡Viva la vida! (1969) to finish the 1960s. According to her autobiography, Merello also made nearly 40 recordings during this period with the orchestra of Carlos Figari and Héctor Varela.
  Merello hosted a talk show, Charlando de todo con Tita on channel 13 from 1970 to 1971 where she told anecdotes, sang and gave advice. In 1972, she played in Mar del Plata with a production of Astros y estrellas. Merello published her autobiography La calle y yo (The Street and I) in 1972.
  She starred in the production of En vivo y al desnudo by Gerardo and Hugo Sofovich in 1973 and in 1974 made the film La Madre María under the direction of Lucas Demare with José Slavin and Hugo Arana, which was well received.
  Merello starred in La risa es salud by Hugo Moser in 1976 and then joined the cast of the Teatro Astros in a theatrical revue led by Adolfo Stray and Thelma Tixou. She filmed El canto cuenta su historia (1976) and finished out the year at Mar del Plata in a revue with Los Chalchaleros, Héctor Gagliardi, and Mariano Mores.
  In 1980, she filmed Los miedos under the direction of Alejandro Doria with Soledad Silveyra and Miguel Ángel Solá. The following year, she revived a talk show format for television with the ATC Channel's Todo Tita. She received a Konex Foundation Diploma of Merit for Best Actress of Dramatic Film and Theater in 1981 and a building, called the Tita Merello Complex on Suipacha Street was named in her honor by the Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts to acknowledge her stature in Argentine film.
  After a cancer scare in the 1980s, Merello became the spokeswoman for a series of PSAs reminding women to get annual Pap tests and gynecological exams. In 1984, Merello made her last theatrical appearance in Para alquilar balcones as 1/3 of the lead trio with Hugo del Carril and Osvaldo Pacheco. She made her last film in 1985, Las barras bravas and later that same year won a second Diploma of Merit from the Konex Foundation for recognition as Female Tango Singer.
  In the late 1980s and early 1990s she did many guest appearances on television. In 1987 Merello was awarded the title "honorable neighbor" of the city of Villa Gesell and shortly thereafter named "Living Legend Citizen of the City of Buenos Aires". From 1990 to 1992 she appeared in the ATC series Polémica en el bar.
  Merello received the Argentina Association of Actors (AAA) Premio Pablo Podestá in 1991, a plaque was affixed marking the place of her birth in 1993, in 1996 she was honored by the National Endowment for the Arts and in 1999 the Neighborhood As
caption: Hugo del Carril, Tita Merello and Ricardo Alfieri in 1972
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