camino del amor (1943), Julio de Fletchner's Y tú, ¿quién eres? (1944), Miguel Pereyra's Una herencia en París (1944) and Edgar Neville's La vida en un hilo, su último trabajo (1945), opposite Conchita Montes and Rafael Durán. During this period she also did work as an assistant director, as a screenwriter and from 1942, she was a columnist in the film magazine Primer Plano, appearing on the cover twice. She also participated as an actress in soap operas of the Radio Nacional. She later appeared in television from 1966. In 1946, de al Torre formed her own theatre company, Compañía de Comedias Josefina de la Torre, in collaboration with her actor husband Ramón Corroto, and her director brother Claudio. They put on numerous plays, including productions of Miguel Mihura's El caso de la mujer asesinadita and Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House. Until 1958, she also worked in theatres such as Teatro María Guerrero, Dido Pequeño Teatro, and Ensayo del Teatro Español. In the 1960s, she often worked with the likes of Amparo Soler Leal, Nuria Espert, María Fernanda D'Ocón and Vicente Parra. In the late 1960s, she was one of the first actresses, along with Camille Carrión and Eider Barber, to appear in a Spanish musical version of The Sound of Music, for which she earned critical acclaim. Return to writing and death In 1954, she published the novels En el umbral and Memories de una estrella. In her later years, she returned to her poetic roots, with a retrospective named Marzo incompleto in 1968. In 1989, the Biblioteca Básica Canaria published an anthology of her works. However, despite her success in the Spanish-speaking countries, her poems were not translated into English until 2000 when a bilingual edition of Poemas de la Isla was published with translations of two volumes of her poetry by Carlos Reyes. Josefina de la Torre died in Madrid in 2002. References External links 1907 births 2002 deaths People from Las Palmas Spanish women poets Spanish women novelists 20th-century Spanish novelists 20th-century Spanish women opera singers Spanish stage actresses Spanish television actresses Spanish radio actresses Spanish film actresses 20th-century Spanish actresses 20th-century women writers 20th-century Spanish poets Las Sinsombrero members