[4] In 2016, she received the Mexican Academy of Film Arts and Sciences' Golden Ariel Award for career achievement.

[1] Her parents enrolled her in the conservatory of brothers Emilio and José De Caro, where she studied singing and acting.

[6] She performed in a revue by Carlos A. Petit and Rodolfo Sciammarella at the Teatro Casino, and in 1946, she began a tour of Chile and Bolivia.

[7] She said: "I am surprised by the number of people I met, like Libertad Lamarque or Jorge Negrete, and I want all that to be in a book that I am trying to piece together little by little".

[4] Quintana died in Mexico City on 23 August 2021, after undergoing surgery to remove a tumor in her thyroid.