[1][2] She had a small role in the classic film Casablanca as the woman playing the guitar while singing "Tango Delle Rose" and "La Marseillaise" at Rick's Café Américain.

Mura was born in San Antonio, Texas, in 1910.

She sang three times for President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

In 1944, Mura appeared in Cole Porter's hit Broadway musical Mexican Hayride, and can be heard in two numbers on the Decca original-cast album.

[3] She died in Mexico City on 1 August 1965, at 55 years of age, from cancer.