Evita: The Woman Behind the Myth - 1/5

A 1996 Biography on the legendary first lady of Argentina. Includes a short segment on the then up-coming film version starring Madonna and extensive interviews with biographers and experts on Eva Peron's life.

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[emlodik]

Let's say Eva DID sleep her way to the top? Why is that a crime? This was a dark time for women in Argentina and women didn't have much options to advance in life. I, for one, salute Eva that she was able to channel her beauty and charisma into getting out of poverty and becoming the First Lady of Argentina. She may have seduced a country, but she was a smart and intelligent woman who achieved in her short lifetime more than most people do in a 100 years.

[alpe1987]

she was the princess diana of argentina

[MadameGypsy]

@MauiLevi She was uneducated. Although the will to give the poor a better deal was there, she had neither the skills nor the backup & support she needed to set up the necessary stuctures. So, sadly the social reform that she brought about didn't survive her, and it wasn't in the military's interest to continue her work. She wasn't a princess, an angel, or a saint. Neither was she a villain. She was just a strong woman trying to do her best with what she had. How many of us can claim that?

[macrent2]

So what she ran away at age 15! If I was 15, I might have done the same thing!

[MauiLevi]

OMG The face-based responses to this post are indeed frightening. She was not the Princess Di of Argentina nor was she just channeling her beauty and charisma to achieve more in her short lifetime as most people do in 100 years. Miss Thing was a self-serving dynamo that indeed took a nation by storm and then left it bereft of the ability to sustain itself after her untimely passing. The government collapsed, the economy collapsed and all the while she looked good screwing them.

[kurtspiano]

she was Beautiful 

[emlodik]

I love how the real Magaldi was a handsome young man, but most movies about Evita portray him as a disgusting dirty old man in order to offset the middle aged actresses they always cast as the 15-33 year old Eva.

[Yaveyta]

wow TWO of his three wives died of cancer? Hm.

[musicaltheatergeek79]

@emlodik Hear, hear! That''s what I've been trying to ell those around me. It's not like today. She had many obstacles in her way. I admire people who go against the grain and succeed.

[evitastories]

@emlodik Tomas Eloy Martinez said that during her highly sexist time (before women could even vote) sleeping with men was often a simple matter of survival; he also says that most people who knew said she was utterly "sexless" in person. Fraser and Navarro write that if she truly was as cold and promiscuous as people say, then she would've abandoned Juan Peron when he was imprisoned. Instead, she stood by his side.

[EnochMcDonald]

@emlodik who cares if she fucked her way to the top people like sex right?

[VanitasxAura]

@macrent2 So, are you saying Eva put on an act for her people? She genuinely loved them and helped them until she died. As for the acting career...yeah, she wasn't good.