work in Concierto de almas. She also did theater in the 1940s, starring with Luis Arata in Cada cual a su juego in 1944 with Arata’s Company which was performing at the Teatro Buenos Aires. In 1945, Román appeared in a musical comedy Los maridos engañan de 7 a 9 staged by "The Argentine Company of Comedy and Musical Comedy of Gloria Guzmán and Juan Carlos Thorry". The play opened in March at the Teatro Astral in Buenos Aires to excellent reviews. She performed in Delia Garcés' farewell production in Argentina, Claudia by Rose Franken, which played at the Odeón Theater in 1945. From the late 1940s, she was a sought–after supporting actress, and participated in many award-winning films. In 1951, she made Los isleros (1951) directed by Lucas Demare and starring Tita Merello. Los isleros was submitted to the Cannes Film Festival as Argentina's entry and it was awarded a Silver Condor Award for Best Film, Best Director and Best Actress to Merello for 1952 from the Argentine Film Critics Association. In 1956, Román appeared in Graciela, which starred Chilean actor Lautaro Murúa and earned him the 1957 Silver Condor Award for Best Actor. In 1954 she starred in the one-woman television programme Mariquita y su teléfono, with only a phone as a prop. In 1960, she appeared in the Antonio Cunill Jr. film Los Acusados and in 1969 she was in the comedy El Profesor hippie alongside actors such as Luis Sandrini and Roberto Escalada. From the mid-1960s, she worked in television series such as Ella, la gata (1967), Nino, las cosas simples de la vida (1971), Novia de vacaciones (1979), Trampa para un soñador (1980) and made her last performances in Aprender a vivir (1981) and Los días contados (1983). She made her last two movies Días de ilusión, and then Toto Paniagua in 1980. Death Alita Román died on 15 April 1989 in Buenos Aires, aged 76. Filmography Film Riachuelo (1934) La barra mendocina (1935) El alma del bandoneón (1935) Mateo (1937) Mujeres que trabajan (1938) Jettatore (1938) Mi suegra es una fiera (1939) La modelo y la estrella (1939) Margarita, Armando y su padre (1939) El Loco Serenata (1939) Encadenado (1940) Fragata Sarmiento (1940) Con el dedo en el gatillo (1940) Confesión (1940) Napoleón (1941) Concierto de almas (1942) Ceniza al viento (1942) Ponchos azules (1942) Eclipse de sol (1942) Cuando florezca el naranjo (1943)