Ana Bertha Lepe, a Cine de Oro actress who suffered from depression after her father murdered her boyfriend, was this actor
Ana Bertha Lepe established herself as one of the most recognized actresses in the golden age of Mexican cinema, but despite her success, she experienced a strong depression after suffering the murder of her boyfriend.
Ana Bertha Lepe, a Golden Cinema actress was a beauty queen
Within the Cine de Oro in Mexico, various personalities shone and triumphed on the international scene due to their success and their audacity to transmit stories through films in those years that were so important for the seventh art in our country.
One of them was precisely Ana Bertha Lepe, a prominent Mexican actress who shone in the golden age of Mexican cinema; however, her trajectory also covers a great path within the world of beauty pageants.
Under this scenario, it is easy to understand that Lepe's success was such that she was even recognized as one of the most beautiful women in Mexico, a virtue that, together with her talent for transmitting stories through the big screen, consolidated her as a complete star. with diverse abilities and full of talent.
However, the success of Ana Bertha, which she has enjoyed since she was 20 years old, was not enough for the famous to move away from living bad experiences since it would be her own father who would cause her one of the greatest pains in her life. life.
The trajectory of Ana Bertha Lepe
In addition to participating in beauty pageants, Ana Bertha also dedicated herself to dancing, being a popular vedette, this at the beginning, and thanks to her physical appearance, she was invited to participate in the Miss Mexico beauty pageant, representing her home state of Jalisco. and after winning this contest in 1954, she was selected to participate in Miss Universe, consolidating herself in fourth place in the competition, with which she managed to be the first Mexican to reach this position in the contest that seeks the most beautiful woman in the world.
Her participation in Miss Universe opened many doors for her that consolidated her career as an actress, so after participating in said contest she starred in successful films such as "The Viscount of Monte Cristo" "Rebelde sin Casa" and "Los Gavilanes".
The great love in the life of Ana Bertha Lepe
It was precisely after she passed through the recording sets that the already renowned actress met fellow actor Agustín de Anda, who had established himself as a promise of acting in Mexican cinema.
Eventually, both artists began to have a relationship and even though Bertha loved him, the truth is that the actress's father, Guillermo Lepe, was strongly opposed to his mother, his daughter, dating men who were not to her liking or that they did not have great wealth to offer to improve the family.
Despite the adversities in their love, the couple formalized to such a degree that they got engaged and prepared everything to have a beautiful wedding, which would be scheduled for June 1960.
However, the nuptials would not materialize due to the wickedness of Ana Bertha's father, who would have murdered Agustín de Anda even though he had a promising career in the acting world at the time of Mexican gold cinema.
Ana Bertha Lepe's father murdered her boyfriend
It is known that during a verbal confrontation, Guillermo Lepe, father of the famous actress, would have exploded in his fury after Agustín de Anda touched on the subject of the wedding, for which his future father-in-law took out a 360 caliber pistol and shot him twice. times to her daughter's boyfriend, who died a few minutes after he was 26 years old due to blood loss.
Heartbroken, Ana Bertha Lepe fell into a severe depression because, in addition to losing the love of her life, she had also lost her father, who hours after the murder turned himself in to the authorities, however, after being imprisoned and murdered to too, the father's sentence of Ana Bertha Lepe did not materialize because she left before paying her sentence, this according to what was told by the journalist Paco Macías.
And it was precisely after suffering this traumatic event in her life that the actress decided to put her artistic career aside for a few years because she suffered a deep depression, in addition to the fact that various companies closed the door on her in support of the filmmaker Raúl de Anda, who was the father of her late boyfriend.
However, shortly after she returned to try to find opportunities in the world, and later she returned to the screens; however, her life was never the same after her father murdered the love of her life.
After so many tragedies, the famous woman said goodbye to her career and gave herself to alcohol. Ana Bertha Lepe was 79 years old when she died on October 24, 2013, due to complications caused by hernia surgery.
