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{{Short description|Mexican actress (1895–1980)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Sara García
| image = Sara García in No Basta Ser Madre (1937).jpg
| caption = García in ''[[No basta ser madre]]'' (1937)
| birth_name = Sara García Hidalgo<ref name="SaraGarcíaEstrellasDelCineMexicano">{{cite web|url=http://cinemexicano.mty.itesm.mx/estrellas/sara_garcia.html|title=Sara García|access-date=24 March 2018|language=es|work=Estrellas del cine Español }}</ref>
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1895|09|08|df=y}}<ref name="SaraGarcía"/>
| birth_place = [[Orizaba]],Veracruz [[Porfiriato|Mexico]]<ref name="SaraGarcía"/>
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1980|11|21|1895|09|08|df=y}}<ref name="SaraGarcíaEstrellasDelCineMexicano"/>
| death_place = [[Mexico City]], [[Mexico]]
| resting_place = Panteón Español<br>Mexico City
| other_names = La Abuelita de México<ref name="SaraGarcíaBiografía"/>
| occupation = Actress
| years_active = 1917–1980
| spouse = {{Marriage|Fernando Ibáñez|1918|1923|reason=divorced}}
| children = [[w:es:María Fernanda Ibáñez|María Fernanda Ibáñez]]
}}
'''Sara García Hidalgo''' (8 September 1895<ref name="SaraGarcía">{{cite web|url=http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/entrada-de-opinion/colaboracion/mochilazo-en-el-tiempo/nacion/sociedad/2017/05/26/la-temperamental|title=La triste historia de la abuelita más famosa de México|author=Mauricio Mejía Castillo|date=27 May 2017|access-date=19 March 2018|language=es|work=[[El Universal (Mexico City)|El Universal]]}}</ref> – 21 November 1980) was a Mexican [[Actor|actress]] who made her biggest mark during the "[[Golden Age of Mexican cinema]]".<ref name="SaraGarcía2017">{{cite web|url=http://www.notimerica.com/sociedad/noticia-sara-garcia-37-anos-abuelita-cine-mexicano-20171121072940.html|title=Sara García, 37 años sin la 'abuelita' del cine mexicano|date=21 November 2017|access-date=25 March 2018|language=es|work=[[Europa Press (news agency)|Europa Press]]}}</ref> During the 1940s and 1950s, she often played the part of a no-nonsense but lovable grandmother in numerous Mexican films. In later years, she played parts in Mexican [[telenovelas]].
García is remembered by her nickname, ''La Abuelita de México'' ("Mexico's Grandmother").<ref name="SaraGarcíaBiografía">{{cite web|url=https://www.sensacine.com.mx/actores/actor-185653/biografia/|title=Sara García|access-date=3 March 2019|language=es|work=SensaCine}}</ref>
== Life and career ==
=== 1895–1917: Childhood ===
[[File:Casa donde nació Sara García en Orizaba, Ver..jpg|thumb|upright|The house where García was born at [[Orizaba, Veracruz]]]]
Sara García Hidalgo was born on 8 September 1895 at [[Orizaba]] [[Veracruz]].<ref name="SaraGarcíaEstrellasDelCineMexicano"/><ref name="SaraGarcíaHistory"/> Her parents were Spaniards from the [[Andalusia]] region in Spain, n, Isidoro García Ruiz, an architect, and his wife Felipa Hidalgo de Ruiz in 1895.<ref name="SaraGarcía"/> They moved from [[Havana]], [[Cuba]].<ref name="SaraGarcíaHistory">{{cite web|url=http://mexicolindoyquerido.com.mx/mexico2/science/90-medicine-2/1763-biografia-de-sara-garcia|title=Biografía de Sara García|date=25 April 2017|access-date=3 March 2019|language=es|work=México Lindo y Querido}}</ref> to [[Veracruz]]. Her father was hired for various jobs there. Sarita was the only survivor of their eleven children.<ref name="SaraGarcía2">{{cite web|url=http://www.aztecauno.com/vengalaalegria/notas/notas/los-controversiales-secretos-de-sara-garcia/27772|title=Los controversiales secretos de Sara García|date=5 November 2010|access-date=20 March 2018|language=es|work=[[Azteca Uno]]}}</ref>
In 1900, a storm caused the Santa Catarina river (which separated the family house from Sara's school) to overflow and knock down the bridge that crossed it. The children could not return to the other side of the river until the evening.<ref name="SaraGarcía"/> Don Isidoro believed that he had lost his only daughter. The anguish caused him to suffer a [[stroke]] days later. Doña Felipa decided to sell her business, a papier-mâché factory, and travel to Mexico City to intern her husband into the Sociedad de Beneficencia Española de México (Spanish Welfare Society of Mexico). He died shortly after arriving.<ref name="SaraGarcía"/><ref name="SaraGarcíaHistory"/> However her mother was contracted as the housekeeper there.<ref name="SaraGarcíaHistory"/>
At age 9, Sara entered the prestigious Las Vizcaínas school as an intern.<ref name="SaraGarcía"/><ref name="SaraGarcíaHistory"/> In 1905 a typhus epidemic invaded Mexico. Sara became infected and infected her mother Felipa, who died.<ref name="SaraGarcía"/><ref name="SaraGarcíaHistory"/> She remained in the charge of the director of the institution, Cecilia Mallet,.<ref name="SaraGarcía"/> Her good behavior and excellent grades allowed García to stay in school. The director of Las Vizcaínas noticed her great sensitivity and artistic inclination and directed her into painting.<ref name="SaraGarcíaHistory"/> She also became a teacher and she had her students perform plays.<ref name="SaraGarcía"/>
=== 1917: Film debut in silent films ===
Sara started her film career at age 22 when she was still a teacher.<ref name="SaraGarcía"/> One day she decided to stroll by the Alameda and discovered the newly founded Azteca Films studios.<ref name="SaraGarcíaHistory"/> She was curious, and came in. She was fascinated by everything she saw. From that moment she thought that she could also act, even if it was only in the theater.<ref name="SaraGarcíaHistory"/> One day, watching [[Mimi Derba]] filming, (the first Mexican film diva,) an actor and official of Azteca Films noticed her curiosity and invited her to participate in what would be her first film ''[[En defensa Propia]]'' "In self-defense" (1917).<ref name="SaraGarcíaHistory"/> After that she began auditioning in the theater where she started getting small roles.<ref name="SaraGarcíaHistory"/> Her diction and voice gave her prestige and she became part of the most outstanding companies of that time: Mercedes Navarro, Prudencia Grifell and the sisters Anita and Isabelita Blanch.<ref name="SaraGarcíaHistory"/> In one of her tours throughout the Mexican Republic, she met Fernando Ibáñez, whom she had seen during the filming of "La soñadora" (1917).<ref name="SaraGarcíaHistory"/>
=== 1918–1947: Golden Age of Mexican cinema and ''La Abuelita de México''===
In 1918, she married Fernando Ibáñez.<ref name="SaraGarcía"/> They toured throughout Mexico and Central America, until at a stop in Tepic, she gave birth to a girl, whom they named Fernanda Mercedes Ibáñez García.<ref name="SaraGarcíaHistory"/> Sara decided to take care of her daughter, and stopped touring. Her absence bothered Fernando, who began to get involved in several affairs, then became entangled with the head of the company.<ref name="SaraGarcíaHistory"/> Sara divorced her husband and left with her daughter.<ref name="SaraGarcíaHistory"/> Years later her ex-husband became sick, and returned home. Sara cared for him, even paying his expenses, until his death in 1932.<ref name="SaraGarcíaHistory"/> Established firmly in the theater, she began to be called to work in the cinema. Her daughter Fernanda also ventured into the cinema with the movie "La madrina del diablo" (1937) in which she played Jorge Negrete's girlfriend.<ref name="SaraGarcíaHistory"/> Outside the sets, Negrete courted her, though Sara disapproved. The romance ended abruptly and the following year (1938) Fernanda married the engineer Mariano Velasco Mújica, leaving to live in Ciudad Valles, Tamaulipas.<ref name="SaraGarcíaHistory"/> A little more than two years later Fernanda became ill with typhoid fever and died on October 17, 1940. Due to her strong personality Sara survived her daughter 40 years.<ref name="SaraGarcíaHistory"/>
[[File:Sara García in Los tres García (1947).jpg|thumb|left|upright|García in ''[[Los tres García]]'' (1947)]]
García would later continue her extensive career in film and sacrificed her beauty when she decided, at the age of 40, to have her teeth removed so that her mouth would look like that of an older woman. She thought that thus she would be able to star as self-sacrificing ladies and better personify the roles they gave her.<ref name="SaraGarcía2"/>
Film actress [[Emma Roldán]] suggested Sara García for the role of ''Doña Panchita'', an old woman, in the 1940 film ''[[Allá en el trópico]]'' ("There in the Tropics").<ref name="SaraGarcíaHistory"/> The film's director [[Fernando de Fuentes]] considered García too young for the part (indeed she was only in her mid 40s) but Roldán replied, saying "Sara is an actress, and actresses don't have an age".<ref name="SaraGarcíaHistory"/> For the screen test, Sara García had a wig made for her. At the time of the screen test, the director asked the crew of her whereabouts and when they answered that she was the woman in front of him, the director was shocked: Her wig, lack of teeth, and performance had touched him.<ref name="SaraGarcíaHistory"/> It is in Fernando de Fuentes' ''Allá en el trópico'' where Sara García won her title of '''''la Abuelita de México''''' (Mexico's Grandmother).<ref name="SaraGarcíaHistory"/>
[[File:Sara García in La abuelita (1942) 3.jpg|thumb|upright|García playing as her [[Grandparent|grandma]] persona in the film ''[[La abuelita]]'' (1942)]]
In 1942, Sara García co-starred with [[Joaquín Pardavé]] in ''[[El baisano Jalil]]'', a comedy film in which she portrayed the wife of a [[Lebanese people|Lebanese]]-immigrant family, one of the marginalized communities that settled in the La Lagunilla neighborhood of Mexico City.<ref name="SaraGarcíaBio">{{cite web|url=https://www.nacion.com/revista-dominical/pagina-negra-sara-garcia-la-mujer-que-nunca-fue/GWMNQ5QHBRG3LAQRLEAOQCZKF4/story/|author=Jorge Hernández|title=Página negra: Sara García, la mujer que nunca fue joven|date=10 August 2018|access-date=3 March 2019|language=es|work=La Nación}}</ref> She starred again with Pardavé in a similar comedy, ''[[El barchante Neguib]]'' (1945).<ref name="SaraGarcíaBio"/>
She then started a long series of films, co-starring with the brightest stars of the [[Mexico|Mexican]] cinema, such as [[Cantinflas]], [[Jorge Negrete]], [[Germán Valdés|Germán Valdés "Tin-Tan"]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.elsoldemexico.com.mx/cultura/cine/Recordando-a...-Sara-Garc%C3%ADa-229973.html|title=Recordando a... Sara García|date=22 November 2015|access-date=27 March 2018|first=Hernández|last=Ricardo|language=es|work=El Sol de México}}</ref>
She often starred as the grandmother of famous Mexican actor [[Pedro Infante]]. Her most remembered film with him is the 1947 ''[[Los tres García]]'' where she also starred alongside [[Abel Salazar (actor)|Abel Salazar]] and Víctor Manuel Mendoza, playing the role of their grandmother with a strong, naughty and authoritarian attitude.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.reforma.com/aplicacioneslibre/articulo/default.aspx?id=636939&md5=51c840186240f55f8fe2ffdb286b3450&ta=0dfdbac11765226904c16cb9ad1b2efe|title=Recuerda a Sara García|first=Arrieta|last=José|date=8 September 2015|access-date=25 March 2018|language=es|work=[[Reforma (newspaper)|Reforma]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mexicoescultura.com/actividad/182392/los-tres-garcia.html|title=Los tres García|date=21 November 2017|access-date=3 March 2019|language=es|work=México Es Cultura}}</ref>
=== 1947–1980: Multiple films, Telenovelas and final works ===
[[File:Sara García publicity photo.jpg|thumb|left|upright|Sara García in a publicity photo, {{circa|1950}}]]
García continued working with Pardave and appeared with him on El ropavejero "The junkman" (1947) and in [[Azahares para tu boda]] "Orange blossoms for your wedding" (1950), which were her last jobs with him.<ref name="Sarita">{{cite web|url=https://www.excelsior.com.mx/funcion/2015/09/08/1044479#view-1|title=Sara García, la abuelita de muchas caras|date=8 September 2015|access-date=3 March 2019|author=Salvador Franco Reyes|language=es|work=[[Excélsior]]}}</ref> Garcia's nature was also deeply irreverent, and she showed it in films like [[Doña Clarines]] (1951), in which she makes fun of her grandmother's character, something she repeated in [[Las señoritas Vivanco]] "The Misses Vivanco" (1959) and in [[El proceso de las señoritas Vivanco]] "The process of the Misses Vivanco" (1961), in both she acted with [[Prudencia Grifell]] and was directed by Mauricio de la Serna.<ref name="Sarita"/>
In that decade she worked in both film and television, appearing in multiple soap operas such as "A Face in the Past" (1960), "La gloria Quedo atrás" (1962), and "La Duchess" (1966), in which a lottery ticket seller wins the jackpot and uses that money to get her daughter back, whom she had given up to her millionaire in-laws in the past.
In that decade we also saw her in the pages of a comic-book adventure story entitled "Doña Sara, la mera mera", in which she was dressed as the character she had made famous in ''Los tres García'' and ''Vuelven los García''. In the 1970s, her grandmother character took part in films such as "Fin de fiesta" (1972), by Mauricio Walerstein, and Luis Alcoriza's "Mecánica Nacional" (1972), in which she utters some of the most famous insults of our cinematography. They were still charming, because they emanated from the mouth that had represented so much of Mexico's moral society.
In the 70s she appeared as Nana Tomasita, who looked after Cristina (Graciela Mauri) in the long-running telenovela Mundo de juguete (1974) and as a meticulous old woman from the "Caridad" segment, directed by Jorge Fons, in "Faith, Hope and Charity."
== Personal life ==
During her tenure with the College of Las Vizcaínas, she met Rosario González Cuenca, the daughter of a family that her parents had met on the ship from Cuba to Mexico. Years after their meeting, both of them reunited after García divorced Fernando Ibañez. At that time Rosario also was divorced. They began living together. Rosario acted as Fernanda's aunt. (Fernanda was Sara García's daughter.)<ref name="SaraGarcíaHistory"/> Ulisex said that Rosario became Sara's female lover, as well as her assistant and business manager. García lived the rest of her life with her.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ulisex.com/sara-garcia-la-vida-en-el-closet-de-la-abuelita-del-cine-mexicano/|title=Sara García: La vida en el clóset de la 'Abuelita del Cine Mexicano'|date=28 August 2017|access-date=20 March 2018|language=es|work=Ulisex!}}</ref>
Of her co-stars, she adored [[Pedro Infante]], but she couldn't stand [[Jorge Negrete]]. She hated Jorge because he had fallen in love with her daughter Fernanda.<ref name="SaraGarcía2"/> Many close friends affirm that she was a strict mother-in-law as well as not approving the relationship between Jorge and her daughter.<ref name="SaraGarcía2"/>
== Later years and death ==
[[File:Mausoleum of Sara García.jpg|thumb|upright|Mausoleum of Sara García and her daughter María Fernanda Ibáñez located in the Panteón Español in Mexico City]]
García had her own television show in 1951, ''Media hora con Abuelita'',<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0487536/|title=Media hora con Abuelita|access-date=27 March 2018|work=[[IMDb]]}}</ref> but it failed and was cancelled.<ref name="SaraGarcía2017"/> She returned to television in 1960 when she obtained a role in ''[[Un rostro en el pasado]]''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0368535/|title=Un rostro en el pasado|access-date=25 March 2018|work=[[IMDb]]}}</ref> which was her first of eight [[telenovela]]s. These included ''[[Mundo de juguete]]'' in 1974, which as of (early 2006) was the longest-running telenovela in history,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0213360/|title=Mundo de juguete|access-date=25 March 2018|work=[[IMDb]]}}</ref> and ''[[Viviana (TV series)|Viviana]]'' with [[Lucía Méndez]] in 1978.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0214380/|title=Viviana|access-date=25 March 2018|work=[[IMDb]]}}</ref>
On 21 November 1980, Sara died at the National Medical Center in [[Mexico City]] at the age of 85, due to a [[cardiac arrest]] that arose from [[pneumonia]]. Days before she had been hospitalized after being injured by falling down the stairs of her house.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mexicolindoyquerido.com.mx/mexico2/science/90-medicine-2/1763-biografia-de-sara-garcia|title=Biografía de Sara García|date=25 April 2017|access-date=24 March 2018|language=es|work=México Lindo y Querido}}</ref>
García was buried alongside her daughter in a mausoleum at the Panteón Español cemetery in Mexico City.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.timeoutmexico.mx/ciudad-de-mexico/que-hacer/cuidadores-del-panteon-espanyol|title=Cuidadores del Panteón Español|access-date=24 March 2018|language=es|work=[[Time Out (magazine)|Time Out]] (Ciudad de México)|date=3 October 2016 }}</ref> While she was being buried, the song "Mi Cariñito" ("My Little Darling/Beloved One") was played. This song was the one that Pedro Infante sang to Sara several times. In particular, he sang it drunk and tearfully, as a lament after Sara’s character died in the movie ''Vuelven Los Garcia'' (''The Garcias Return'').<ref>{{cite web|url=https://music.apple.com/au/album/mi-cari%C3%B1ito/2140805|title=Mi Cariñito|access-date=24 March 2018|work=[[iTunes]]|date=6 March 1995 }}</ref> It is said that the song was sung at her funeral by [[Lucha Villa]].<ref name="SaraGarcía"/>
== Legacy ==
In Mexico, García represented a grandmotherly figure due to her many roles as a grandmother in the movies she appeared in, and in 1973 she signed a commercial agreement to allow the chocolate company La Azteca use her image on Mexico's traditional [[Abuelita]] [[chocolate]]. La Azteca was later purchased by the [[Nestlé]] brand in 1995, who continued to use her image on the same brand.<ref>{{cite news |last=Mejía Castillo |first=Mauricio|title=La triste historia de la abuelita más famosa de México (The sad story of Mexico's most famous grandmother) |url=https://www.eluniversal.com.mx/entrada-de-opinion/colaboracion/mochilazo-en-el-tiempo/nacion/sociedad/2017/05/27/la-temperamental |work=El Universal |___location=Mexico City, Mexico |access-date=3 November 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Conoce la historia de Chocolate Abuelita en su 80 aniversario (Learn about the history of Chocolate Abuelita on its 80th anniversary) |url=https://www.telediario.mx/tendencias/conoce-la-historia-de-chocolate-abuelita-en-su-80-aniversario |work=Telediario |___location=Mexico City, Mexico |date=30 October 2019 |access-date=3 November 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.abuelita.com.mx/historia.html|title=Chocolate Abuelita Historia|language=es|access-date=3 March 2019|work=[[Nestlé]]}}</ref>
== Filmography ==
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=== Telenovelas ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Role
! class="unsortable" | Notes
|-
|1960
|''[[Un rostro en el pasado]]''
|
| 3 episodes
|-
|1962
|''[[La gloria quedó atrás]]''
|
| 3 episodes
|-
|1966
| La duquesa ([[Duke|Duchess]]), Raquel
| 3 episodes
|-
|1967
|''[[Anita de Montemar]]''
|
| 3 episodes
|-
|1968
|''[[El padre Guernica]]''
|
|
|-
|1968
|''[[Mi maestro]]''
|
|
|-
|1972
|''Telenovela mensual''
|
|
|-
|1973
|''[[Mi rival]]''
| Chayo
| 19 episodes
|-
|1974-1977
|''[[Mundo de juguete]]''
| Nana ([[Nanny]]) Tomasita
| 221 episodes
|-
|1978
|''[[Viviana (TV series)|Viviana]]''
| Doña Angustias Rubio Montesinos
| 3 episodes
|}
=== Television shows ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Role
! class="unsortable" | Notes
|-
|1951
|''Media hora con la abuelita''
|
|
|-
|1957, 1959
|''Secreto de familia ''
|
| 4 episodes
|}
=== Documentaries ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Role
! class="unsortable" | Notes
|-
|1940
|''Recordar es vivir''
|
|
|-
|1963
|''La vida de Pedro Infante''
|
|
|-
|1976
|''México de mis amores''
|
|
|}
=== Cinema of Mexico ===
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{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Role
! class="unsortable" | Notes
|-
|1917
|''[[En defensa Propia]]''
|
| [[Extra (acting)|Extra]]
|-
|1917
|''[[Alma de sacrificio]]''
|
| Extra
|-
|1917
|''[[La soñadora]]''
|
| Extra
|-
|1927
|''[[Yo soy tu padre]]''
|
| Extra
|-
|1934
|''[[El pulpo humano]]''
|
|
|-
|1934
|''[[El vuelo de la muerte]]''
| Doña Clara
|
|-
|1934
|''[[La sangre manda]]''
| Vecina (Neighbor)
|
|-
|1934
|''[[¡Viva México! (El grito de Dolores)]]''
| [[Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez]]
|
|-
|1936
|''[[Such Is Woman]] (Así es la mujer)''
| Viuda (Widow)
|
|-
|1936
|''[[Marihuana (El monstruo verde)]]''
| Petra
|
|-
|1936
|''[[Malditas sean las mujeres]]''
| Señora de Ambrosaliet
|
|-
|1936
|''[[No te engañes corazón]]''
| Doña Petro
|
|-
|1937
|''[[Las mujeres mandan]]''
| Marta
|
|-
|1937
|''[[La honradez es un estorbo]]''
| Doña Refugio
|
|-
|1937
|''[[No basta ser madre]]''
| Sebastiana del Puerto
|
|-
|1938
|''[[Por mis pistolas (1938 film)|Por mis pistolas]]''
|
|
|-
|1938
|''[[Pescadores de perlas]]''
| Juana
|
|-
|1938
|''[[Dos cadetes]]''
| Dolores
|
|-
|1938
|''[[Padre de más de cuatro]]''
| Doña Gertrudis
|
|-
|1938
|''[[Perjura]]''
| Doña Rosa
|
|-
|1938
|''[[Su adorable majadero]]''
| Mariquita
|
|-
|1939
|''[[El capitán aventurero]]''
| Catalina, corregidora
|
|-
|1939
| ''[[Father's Entanglements]]''
| Petra
|
|-
|1939
|''[[Calumnia]]''
| Eduviges
|
|-
|1939
|''[[Papacito lindo]]''
| Remedios
|
|-
|1939
| ''[[Three Peasants on a Donkey]]''
| Manuela
|
|-
|1940
|''[[Miente y serás feliz]]''
| Constancia
|
|-
|1940
|''[[Allá en el trópico]]''
| Doña Panchita
|
|-
|1940
|''[[Mi madrecita]]''
| Madre
|
|-
|1940
|''[[Here's the Point]]'''
| Clotilde Regalado, Leonardo del Paso's mistress
|
|-
|1940
|''[[Father Gets Untangled]] (Papá se desenreda)''
| Petra
|
|-
|-
|1941
|''[[Cuando los hijos se van (1941 film)|Cuando los hijos se van]]''
| Lupe de Rosales
|
|-
|1941
|''[[¿Quién te quiere a ti?]]''
| Seducer's mother
|
|-
|1941
|''[[La gallina clueca]]''
| Teresa de Treviño
|
|-
|1941
| ''[[To the Sound of the Marimba]]''
| Doña Cornelia Escobar
|
|-
|1942
|''[[Las tres viudas de papá]]''
| Petra
|
|-
|1942
|''[[Father Gets Entangled Again]]
| Petra
|
|-
| 1942
| ''[[Alejandra (1942 film)|Alejandra]]''
|Doña Elena
|
|-
|1942
|''[[Dos mexicanos en Sevilla]]''
| Gracia
|
|-
|1942
|''[[Regalo de Reyes]]''
| Doña Esperanza
|
|-
|1942
|''[[La abuelita]]''
| Doña Carmen
|
|-
|1942
|''[[Historia de un gran amor]]''
| Doña Josefa
|
|-
|1942
|''[[El baisano Jalil]]''
| Suad
|
|-
|1942
|''[[El verdugo de Sevilla]]''
| Doña Nieves
|
|-
|1943
|''[[Resurrection (1943 film)|Resurrection]] (Resurrección)''
| Genoveva
|
|-
|1943
|''[[No matarás]]''
| Aurora
|
|-
|1943
|''[[Caminito alegre]]''
| Antonia Goyena
|
|-
|1943
|''[[Toros, amor y gloria]]''
| Irene
|
|-
|1944
|''[[Mis hijos]]''
| María
|
|-
|1944
|''[[La trepadora]]''
| Doña Carmelita
|
|-
|1944
|''[[El secreto de la solterona]]''
| Marta
|
|-
|1944
|''[[El jagüey de las ruinas]]''
| Doña Teresa "[[Godparent|Mamanina]]"
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|-
|1944
|''[[Como yo te quería]]''
| Remedios Mantilla
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|-
|1945
|''Escuadrón 201''
| Doña Herlinda
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|-
|1945
|''[[La señora de enfrente]]''
| Lastenia Cortazano
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|-
|1945
|''[[Mamá Inés]]''
| Inés Valenzuela
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|-
|1946
|''[[El barchante Neguib]]''
| Sara
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|-
|1946
|''[[¡Ay qué rechula es Puebla!]]''
| Doña Severa
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|-
|1947
|''[[Sucedió en Jalisco (Los cristeros)]]''
| Doña Engracia, [[Grandparent|abuela]] (Grandma)
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|-
|1947
|''El ropavejero''
| María
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|-
|1947
| ''[[The Three Garcias]]''
| Doña Luisa García viuda de García
|
|-
|1947
| ''[[The Garcias Return]]''
| Doña Luisa García viuda de García
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|-
|1948
|''[[Los que volvieron]]''
| Marta Ortos
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|-
|1948
|''Mi madre adorada''
| Doña Lolita
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|-
|1948
|''[[Dueña y señora]]''
| Toña
|
|-
|1948
|''[[Tía Candela]]''
| Candelaria López y Polvorilla "Tía Candela"
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|-
|1949
|''[[Dicen que soy mujeriego]]''
| Doña Rosa
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|-
|1949
|''[[The Perez Family (1949 film)|The Perez Family]] (La familia Pérez)''
| Natalia Vivanco de Pérez
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|-
|1949
|''[[Eterna agonía]]''
| Doña Cholita
|
|-
|1949
|''[[Novia a la medida]]''
| Doña Socorro
|
|-
|1949
|''[[El diablo no es tan diablo]]''
| Doña Leonor
|
|-
|1949
|''[[Dos pesos dejada]]''
| Prudencia
|
|-
|1950
|''[[Yo quiero ser hombre]]''
| Tía Milagros / Doña Tanasia
|
|-
|1950
| ''[[My Favourite]]''
| Doña Sara
|
|-
|1950
|''[[Si me viera don Porfirio]]''
| Doña Martirio
|
|-
|1950
| ''[[Orange Blossom for Your Wedding]]''
| Eloísa
|
|-
|1950
|''[[Mi querido capitán]]''
| Pelancha
|
|-
|1950
|''[[Yo quiero ser tonta]]''
| Atilana
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|-
|1951
|''[[La reina del mambo]]''
| Tía ([[Aunt]])
|
|-
|1951
|''[[El papelerito]]''
| Doña Dominga
|
|-
|1951
|''[[Doña Clarines]]''
| Clara Urrutia 'Doña Clarines'
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|-
|1951
|''[[La duquesa del Tepetate]]''
| Chonita, Duquesa del Tepetate
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|-
|1951
| ''[[Get Your Sandwiches Here]]''
| Dolores
|
|-
|1952
|''[[La miel se fue de la luna]]''
| Doña Martirio
|
|-
|1953
|''[[Mercy (1953 film)|Misericordia]]''
| Benigna
|
|-
|1953
|''[[Por el mismo camino]]''
| Tía Justa
|
|-
|1953
|''[[El lunar de la familia]]''
| Doña Luisa Jiménez
|
|-
|1953
|''[[Genio y figura]]''
| Doña Luisa
|
|-
|1953
|''[[Los que no deben nacer]]''
| Clotilde
|
|-
|1954
|''[[Los Fernández de Peralvillo]]''
| Doña Conchita Fernández; doña Chita
|
|-
|1954
|''[[El hombre inquieto]]''
| Doña Fátima Sayeh
|
|-
|1955
|''[[Sólo para maridos]]''
| Concordia
|
|-
|1956
|''[[El crucifijo de piedra]]''
| Laura
|
|-
|1956
|''[[La tercera palabra]]''
| Matilde
|
|-
|1956
|''[[El inocente]]''
| Madre de Mané
|
|-
|1957
|''[[La ciudad de los niños]]''
| Doña Juliana
|
|-
|1957
|''[[Pobres millonarios]]''
| Doña Margarita del Valle
|
|-
|1958
|''[[El gran premio]]''
| Soledad Fuentes Lago (Doña Cholita)
|
|-
|1958
|''Con el dedo en el gatillo''
| La abuela
| Episode: ''El anónimo''
|-
|1959
|''[[Los Santos Reyes]]''
| La anciana
|
|-
|1959
|''[[Las señoritas Vivanco]]''
| Hortensia Vivanco y de la Vega
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|-
|1959
|''[[Yo pecador]]''
| Nana Pachita
|
|-
|1961
|''[[El proceso de las señoritas Vivanco]]''
| Doña Hortensia Vivanco y de la Vega (as Doña Sara Garcia)
|
|-
|1961
|''[[¡Mis abuelitas... nomás!]]''
| Doña Casilda
|
|-
|1961
|''[[El buena suerte]]''
| Doña Paz
|
|-
|1961
|''[[Paloma brava (film)|Paloma brava]]''
| Doña Popotita
|
|-
|1961
|''[[El analfabeto]]''
| Doña Epifanita
|
|-
|1962
|''[[El malvado Carabel (1962 film)|El malvado Carabel]]''
| Tía Elodia
|
|-
|1962
|''[[Las hijas del Amapolo]]''
| La abuela
|
|-
|1962
|''[[El caballo blanco (film)|El caballo blanco]]''
| Doña Refugio
|
|-
|1962
|''[[Ruletero a toda marcha]]''
| Doña Sarita
|
|-
|1964
|''[[Las Chivas Rayadas]]''
| Doña Pancha
|
|-
|1964
|''[[Los fenómenos del futbol]]''
| Doña Pancha
|
|-
|1964
|''[[Nos dicen las intocables]]''
| Doña Cucaracha
|
|-
|1964
|''[[Héroe a la fuerza]]''
| Doña Prudencia
|
|-
|1965
|''[[Canta mi corazón]]''
| Abuela
|
|-
|1965
|''[[Escuela para solteras]]''
| Doña Bernarda
|
|-
|1965
|''[[Nos lleva la tristeza]]''
| Doña Marina Guerra viuda de Batalla
|
|-
|1966
|''[[Los dos apóstoles]]''
| Doña Angustias
|
|-
|1966
|''[[Joselito vagabundo]]''
| Doña Guadalupe
|
|-
|1967
|''[[Seis días para morir]]''
| Doña Mercedes
|
|-
|1967
|''[[Un novio para dos hermanas]]''
| Seňora Cáceres
|
|-
|1967
|''[[Las amiguitas de los ricos]]''
| Viejecita
|
|-
|1968
|''[[Sor Ye Ye]]''
| Madre María de los Ángeles
| Co-produced with [[Spain]]
|-
|1969
|''[[No se mande, profe]]''
| Doña Claudia
|
|-
|1969
|''[[Flor marchita]]''
| Paula la nana
|
|-
|1969
|''[[El día de las madres]]''
| Doña Carmen
|
|-
|1970
|''[[¿Por qué nací mujer?]]''
| Doña Rosario
|
|-
|1971
|''[[La casa del farol rojo]]''
| Doña Sara Morales viuda de Mendoza
|
|-
|1970
|''[[La hermana dinamita]]''
| Madre Ana
|
|-
|1972
|''[[La inocente]]''
| La abuela
|
|-
|1972
|''Fin de fiesta''
| Doña Beatriz
|
|-
|1972
|''[[Nadie te querrá como yo]]''
| Abuela
|
|-
|1972
|''[[National Mechanics]] (Mecánica nacional)''
| Doña Lolita
|
|-
|1973
|''[[Entre Monjas Anda el Diablo]]''
| Sor Lucero
|
|-
|1973
|''[[Nosotros los feos]]''
| Doña Sara García viuda de García y García
|
|-
|1973
|''[[Valente Quintero (film)|Valente Quintero]]''
| Elvira Peña
|
|-
|1974
|''[[Los Leones del ring]]''
| Doña Refugio
|
|-
|1974
|''[[Los Leones del ring contra la Cosa Nostra]]''
| Doña Refugio
|
|-
|1974
|''[[Fé, Esperanza y Caridad]]''
| Anciana
| Segment: ''Caridad''
|-
|1974
|''[[El hijo del pueblo]]''
| Vicenta Aurelia Fernandez; Chenta
|
|-
|1977
|''[[Como gallos de pelea]]''
| Doña Altagracia
|
|-
|1977
|''[[Nobleza ranchera]]''
| Altagracia
|
|-
|1978
|''[[La comadrita]]''
| Doña Chonita
|
|-
|1979
|''[[La vida difícil de una mujer fácil]]''
| Doña Amalia
|
|-
|1979
|''[[Como México no hay dos]]''
|
|
|-
|1980
|''[[Sexo vs. sexo]]''
| Señora dueña del club de Can-Can (Lady Owner of Can-Can Club)
|
|}
=== Cinema of the United States ===
[[File:The Living Idol (1957).jpg|thumb|García along with [[Liliane Montevecchi]] in ''The Living Idol'' (1957)]]
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Role
! class="unsortable" | Notes
|-
|1957
|''[[The Living Idol]] (El ídolo viviente)''
| Elena
| Co-produced with [[Mexico]]
|}
=== Cinema of Italy ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Role
! class="unsortable" | Notes
|-
|1964
|''Los dinamiteros'' (''L'ultimo rififi'')
| Doña Pura
| Co-produced with Spain
|}
=== Cinema of Spain ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Role
! class="unsortable" | Notes
|-
|1961
|''[[Lovely Memory]]''
| Dona Sara
|
|}
== References ==
{{reflist}}
== External links ==
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* {{IMDb name|id=0306497|name=Sara García}}
* [http://cinemexicano.mty.itesm.mx/estrellas/sara_garcia.html Sara García] at the Cinema of Mexico site of the [[ITESM]] {{in lang|es}}
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[[Category:Mexican stage actresses]]
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