una noche (1941), her first of several films with Spanish actor Pedro López Lagar; Malambo (1942); and others. In 1941 she won a Premios Sur for Best Actress from the Argentine Academy of Cinematography Arts and Sciences for Veinte años y una noche and repeated the award in 1942 for Malambo, which was presented by Orson Welles. Garcés starred in "La maestrita de los obreros" in 1942 directed by her husband with Oscar Valicelli, Felisa Mary, Orestes Caviglia, among others. In 1943, she made Casa de muñecas and was highly praised for her portrayal of "Nora" in the film which was directed by Ernesto Arancibia. Filming began in 1944 for La Dama Duende in which Garcés starred, directed by Luis Saslavsky, in an elaborate film based on a seventeenth-century Spanish play by Pedro Calderón de La Barca. With the exception of Saslavsky and Garcés, all the other facets of the play were done by the Spanish émigré community. Garcés won her third Premios Sur Best Actress award from the Argentine Academy of Cinematography Arts and Sciences in 1945. That same year, Garcés formed her own theatrical company and in March premiered the first play of Homero Manzi and Ulises Petit de Murat, La novia de arena, at the Odeón Theater. In her troupe, besides herself were: Alba Castellanos, Orestes Caviglia, Margarita Corona, Enrique Alvarez Diosdado, Alita Román, Domingo Sapelli, and Milagros de la Vega. Having completed a run of the play, her company continued at the Odeón and performed her "farewell" theatrical production in Argentina, Claudia by Rose Franken. After the performance, due to the political situation with Juan Peron's government, she and her husband planned to leave Argentina. But, they stayed and in 1946, she performed La eterna ninfa at the Odeón and filmed Rosa de América directed by her husband with Orestes Caviglia, Antonia Herrero, Elsa O'Connor, among others. She earned praise for her roles in El gran amor de Bécquer (1946) and El hombre que amé (1947) and in 1948, she performed in the play El otro yo de Marcela which was so successful that it led to a film by the same name two years later, in which she sang and danced. In 1951, Garcés and de Zavalía went to Mexico and she made one of her most memorable films there in 1951-1952. In Él directed by Luis Buñuel, she played Gloria, the wife of the