Mercedes Quintana

Quintana Saravia Haydée Mercedes, known as Mercedes Quintana (1910 – 1996 in Buenos Aires) was an Argentine classical dancer, choreographer, director and actress of stage, screen and television. She had a prominent stage career in Argentina in the 1930s. She appeared in films such as Yo quiero ser bataclana (1941), Ven... mi corazón te llama (1942) and Mujeres que bailan (1949).^[1]

Mercedes Quintana
Portrait of the artist belonging to the photographer Annemarie Heinrich .

Quintana was a director and choreographer of Teatro Colon's Ballet Estable.^[2] She also ran her own dance studio, which produced performers such as Susana Zimmermann.^[2][3]

Selected filmography

• I Want to Be a Chorus Girl (1941)