We will have to think very hard about Marisa Paredes, as she cried out for it in the iconic scene from Pedro Almodóvar's High Heels (1992), which made her famous the world over. "Piensa en mí," she sang then on stage, dubbed by Luz Casal's voice, gloved in crimson satin, pumps in the same tone, in an unforgettable number, where she externalized to the point of tears all the pain of the heartbreaking bolero.

With her ample lion's mane and flamboyant femininity of a green-eyed diva, Paredes was a seasoned actress, grande dame of theater, television, and later, cinema. She died on December 17 at the age of 78 following a coronary problem at the Fundación Jiménez Díaz hospital in Madrid, the city where most of her career was played out.

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