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Isabel del Puerto (born Elisabeth von Hortenau;[1] August 7, 1921 in Vienna, Austria – March 13, 2014) was an Austrian-born noblewoman Mexican-American model, actress, dancer, writer, photojournalist, realtor and entrepreneur, and is the daughter of Charlotte Helene Beer[2] and Alfred Joseph von Hortenau,[3] a cavalry officer in the Austro-Hungarian Army and illegitimate son of the Archduke Otto Francis of Austria. Her parents divorced when she was two years old.
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| Born | Elisabeth von Hortenau August 7, 1921 |
| Died | March 13, 2014 (aged 92) |
| Nationality | Mexican, American |
| Occupation(s) | Model, actress, dancer, writer, photo-journalist, realtor and entrepreneur |
| Years active | 1925–1989 |
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At four she made her stage debut under the guidance of Isadora Duncan and her grandmother Maria Schleinzer[4] who was a vedette at the Vienna Court Opera. She attended the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome, Italy, with Alida Valli and other stars of the 1930s.
After a short career on Broadway, she went to Mexico, where she modeled for a department store and appeared in 17 films, becoming a star of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema of the 1940s and 1950s.
After retiring from films, she worked for Time Life magazines and in advertising and public relations in New York.
She owned and cooked for five gourmet restaurants, among them El Cuchitril, a famous bistro in the Zona Rosa Mexico City.
She was working on her fifth book (a novel set in the early 1900s). One of her oeuvres is a semi-fictitious biography called My Way, two are detective stories: "The Key" and "The Portrait" and one is a book for children, Sonia, which she hoped to have illustrated and published.
She had a real estate license, selling properties in Mexico and the United States.
In her last years, Isabel resided in San Antonio, Texas, with her three dogs that had been picked up as strays. She actively supported the Democratic Party and headed a charity that was trying to help homeless people and their pets.
On 13 March 2014, she died of an embolism at 6:30 p.m. after a brief hospitalization, surrounded by her son Joe, and daughter Kat.[5]
Del Puerto has taken part in the following films:
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