Ana María de Panamá

Ana María Lo Polito worked as singer and TV hostess in Panama, before relocating in the 1960s to Mexico where she appeared in films, theater and cabarets. She had a special flair for comedy, working with top Mexican stars as César Costa and Gaspar Henaine, better known as "Capulina". Her cousin, playwright Edgar Soberón Torchia, wrote a musical comedy based freely on her life, "¡Yo quiero ser artista!", which won the Panamanian national literary prize.