The opinion is from the noted critic David Thompson, of the New York Times in his “New biographical dictionary of cinema”
Film critic David Thompson (who for many years published her articles in the New York Times) says of her in his “New Biographical Dictionary of Cinema”: “You can call her a terrible actress, you can call her the diva of divas, but no one can deny that she was the biggest movie star in Mexico and the biggest of all the stars of Spanish-language cinema (…) she not only dominated the Mexican film industry and was a national idol, a celebrity of colossal proportions, She was a model for artists of the stature of Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco and already in the world in the fifties and sixties, of Jean Cocteau, Leonora Carrington, Leonor Fini, Remedios Varo, Pedro Friedeberg. (…) She was always received as a queen: Eva Perón considered her a great friend of hers.
Frida Kahlo asked her to marry her husband, Diego Rivera. King Farouk of Egypt offered her a million-dollar gift for a night of love inside the Cartier jewelry store.
Felix refused but asked if she could give him the gift if he accepted the night with his driver, which he did like; Farouk refused and so did she.
