María Guerrero López

In 1927 she married, as his second wife, her first cousin, Fernando Díaz de Mendoza y Guerrero (1897-1942).

Her husband was heir to the family theatre company and by now also father, outside wedlock, of the (later famous actor-director) Fernando Fernán Gómez, although he never acknowledged his paternity.

[3] Shortly after their marriage the couples' parents (in Maria' case aunt and uncle) died, and they took over the family theatre company, concentrating on classics such as La Estrella de Sevilla and El Perro del Hortelano (The Dog in the Manger, 1931).

Fernando Díaz de Mendoza y Guerrero was killed in 1942 when the ship on which he was travelling was sunk by a German submarine.

There were notable box office successes in Madrid with productions such as La hidalga limosnera (1944) by José María Pemán, Doña María la Brava (1944) by Eduardo Marquina, Sangre negra (1963) by Guillermo Sautier Casaseca and Las de Caín (1982) by the Quintero brothers.