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Maruchi Fresno

Spanish actress (1916-2003)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ6003056
Source-derived summary

Maruchi Fresno (14 February 1916 – 19 July 2003) was a Spanish film actress. Fresno appeared in around sixty films and television series during her long career. In 1947 she played the role of Isabel of Aragon in the historical film The Holy Queen.

Partial filmography

References

Bibliography

Bentley, Bernard. A Companion to Spanish Cinema. Boydell & Brewer 2008.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Maruchi Fresno” is spanish actress (1916-2003). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Maruchi, Fresno and Spanish, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1916, 2003, 1947, 2008—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1916-02-14. For this dossier, Maruchi, Fresno and Spanish is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “spanish actress (1916-2003)” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 31, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6003056. VIAF identifies the subject as 51899112. The Library of Congress control number is no99034312. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1916, 2003, 1947 and 2008.

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This entry incorporates text from Maruchi Fresno” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.