2023-10-09 04:18:00
Beatriz Salomón would have turned 70 this Monday
On June 15, 2019, Beatriz Salomón died. La Turca, as she was affectionately known in her artistic circle, died at the age of 65 at the Fernández Hospital, where she had spent her last days fighting colon cancer. But she came from battling a life that had made her know all the good and also all the bad.
Beatriz was born in San Juan on October 9, 1953, into a family of Syrian descent. “In the house where we lived, Mom was in charge of planting tomatoes, lettuce, and spinach. We had a clay oven where she made everything handmade. At the end of the year, dad butchered a pig or a goat,” the actress used to remember.
Since there was not enough money at the Solomons’ house, the Turk dropped out of high school and started working as a girl. Her first job was in a bazaar and it was not easy at all. Her task was to clean the pots but in winter, with temperatures below zero, her hands were filled with chilblains and her soul was filled with helplessness. Tired got another job in a shoe store and, finally, in the Banco Agrario. She spent three years, became a cashier and even managed Treasury matters, which represented quite an achievement for a woman in a place where “making a career” was reserved only for men.
As she left adolescence, Beatriz’s beauty became more and more striking. At the bank, one of her clients was the manager of a large women’s clothing store who insisted she enter a contest. But she always received the same response: “Thank you, but no.” The thing is that she had a father who was very jealous of her, to the point that she refused to celebrate her 15th birthday so that the boys who wanted her wouldn’t get too close to her.
However, the manager’s insistence paid off. “One year she found me with a vague yes and I told her: ‘Okay, I’m going. Where should I go to try on the clothes?’” La Turca recalled. So she showed up and won not only the provincial crown, but also the chance to participate in the Miss Argentina contest, and travel to Buenos Aires for the first time. In the new pageant, the queen’s crown went to Silvana Suárez – who later became Miss World – and Beatriz was chosen princess, but she did not feel it as a defeat and much less as a failure. “I discovered that in Buenos Aires I would get some kind of job that wasn’t banking, so I suggested to my sister, who worked in a cooperative in San Juan, that she come. We raised money and moved,” she recalled.
Patricia Dal, Pata Villanueva, Noemí Alan, Silvia Peyrou, Mimí Pons, José María Muscari, Beatriz Salomón, Sandra Smith and Adriana Aguirre celebrated the revival of “Extinguidas” at the Teatro Palacio La Argentina
Like so many girls from the interior, the Solomons settled in a boarding house. They missed, but they were willing to stay in the Federal Capital. Beatriz remembered that at a fashion show in her province she had met a model who promised to help her, a certain… Susana Romero. And it was the brunette, who was already well known in the world of modeling, who gave him a hand.
Susana had several shows a day and, one followingnoon when she had two shows, she asked Beatriz to replace her. “When I arrived I said hello but no one answered me, they looked at me from top to bottom. I said I was Romero’s replacement and they started shouting: how come she wasn’t going, who was I, who knew me… They gave me a leotard to try on and it fit me perfectly. They accepted me and I started walking with top models. It was customary for them to come out serious, but I came out with my smile and they loved it. They applauded me once more and, from there, I began to make a place for myself in the middle,” said the Turk.
Beatriz modeled for several years not only in Argentina, but also in Paris, New York and Brazil. But in addition to shining on the catwalks, she participated in more than sixty advertisements. The most remembered of her was that of a cigarette brand where she appeared dressed in white, with a cape saying: “Oh la la, Paris.” However, she was still missing the big leap in popularity from her. And that would be given to them by television.
A producer, impressed with her demeanor, invited her to work on nothing more and nothing less than the Tato Bores program. “It was Extra Tato, he appeared with his tuxedo, his toupee and skates, and many girls chased him without saying any text. Among those girls were my sister and I,” Beatriz recalled.
Beatriz Salomón with her daughters (Teleshow)
When that cycle ended, Javier Portales summoned her for another one on Channel 9, with Luisa Albinoni and Georgina Barbarrosa. She lasted almost a year and then, finally, her voice was known, since she began to be given small shares.
Then, Beatriz found out that Alberto Olmedo and Hugo Sofovich were looking for the ‘new Olmedo girls’. “I went to an interview with the three, first they told me that Portales had spoken well of me, then they asked me my age and intentions. I said I just wanted to work and they assured me that in two or three days they would call me yes or no. When the phone rang at the pension where we still lived with Isabel, I thought it was just another job, I never took in the reality of what it was all regarding,” she confessed.
This is how Beatriz became part of Olmedo’s staff, a group that also included Susana Romero, Silvia Perez and Adriana Brodsky. And together with Black, came success and massiveness. With No Touch Button, where she did “El mano santa”, they achieved more than 45 rating points. And the magazines were fighting to have her on their cover.
At the same time, the Turk participated in films, acted in plays and toured throughout the country. “Her relationship with Olmedo was fantastic, it was the best thing that happened to me professionally. Everything went very well and I was very happy. I earned a lot of money at that time and rented an apartment in Barrio Norte,” Beatriz said.
A summer on the Argentine coast with his girls, then two and four years old. (Photo Atlántida Televisa Archive)
But in 1988, in full success, Olmedo met an absurd death. His departure was terrible for everyone who worked with him and Beatriz was no exception. For two or three months she was in a state of shock. When she was thinking regarding how to get ahead, she was invited by Jorge Porcel to make Las Gatitas y Mice de Porcel. She accepted and, once once more, her success followed her. She later continued working with other great comedians such as Jorge Guinzburg, Jorge Corona, Emilio Disi, Guillermo Francella and Berugo Carámbula.
On stage he shined, but finding love was more complicated for him. The woman who appeared on more than fifty magazine covers was very discreet and her relationships were barely revealed. It was learned that she had an affair with Hernán Di Natale, former coach of Nueva Chicago, but it ended on very bad terms. Until she announced her marriage to the plastic surgeon, Alberto Ferriols. And with him, it seemed that she already had it all: a successful career, popular recognition, a partner who loved her and a family project. But in 2004 they broke up abruptly.
At that time Beatriz was going through the process of adopting her daughters Noelia and Betina and for them, as she acknowledged on more than one occasion, she went out to fight. She complained to the court, asked for a job, fought for support, told her situation to anyone who wanted to listen and never gave up. Her girls were her support and strength.
“With Noelia and Betina we are very close friends. The three of us go everywhere together. Now they have blended in quite a bit with me; I notice it in their looks, in their clothing and makeup. I love that they are flirty! When I can I point out to them (perhaps it is wrong) that I am raising two princesses. It was difficult for me, and it is difficult for me, to raise them. I want them to be two divine women and find two wonderful husbands. Don’t let them make mistakes like me,” said the Turk.
Under the curious gaze of tourists, he posed in the pool at the Eleton Resort. (Photo Fabián Uset/PEOPLE)
But life had another blow in store for him, as unexpected as it was cruel. Her sister Isabel was diagnosed with a degenerative and terminal disease that ended her life when she had just turned 50 years old. Beatriz was by her side throughout the entire process and, when it was her turn to say goodbye, grief went through her.
“My mother died but she was 83 and one assumes that she lived a long time, but what happened to Isabel was very tremendous, very irreparable. She was younger than me, she left behind a 10-year-old son who needed her a lot. And she had a lot to do. I miss her. She was too young to die,” she said when she remembered her sister.
In the midst of the pain, a saving proposal appeared: José María Muscari offered her to star in the play Extinguidas and Beatriz once once more felt the best of pampering: the affection of the public. Surrounded by the unconditional love of her daughters, the affection of her friends and the people who did not forget her, it seemed that Beatriz’s life was finding a little peace once more.
But in June of last year she had to be urgently admitted to the Fernández hospital. Her first results were not encouraging: spots appeared on her liver. She once more prepared to fight. Thus she might be seen hopeful and feisty at the 15th birthday party of Betina, her youngest daughter. “We are going to try to exterminate the bug that I have with some new drugs that they are going to inject me with. For my daughters I am willing to fight it. They are very young and they need me. “I’m going to get out of this like I got out of so many,” she said then.
However, this last battle was too unequal and Beatriz might not win it. Since her childhood in San Juan, when she had to go out to fight the weight, but also when she reigned with her beauty, she understood that life comes with shortcomings and pain, with loves and heartbreaks. For some, Salomón was just an Olmedo girl. For others, she is a stunning woman. For her daughters it was the great madrasah. What no one doubts is that she was a brave and courageous woman.
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