{{Infobox person | name = Emma Padilla | image = File:Emma Padilla - Jan 1922 Photoplay.JPG | image_size = 250px | caption = Padilla in January 1922 issue of ''Photoplay'' | birth_date = {{Birth date|1900|3|8|mf=y}} | birth_place = Mexico City, Mexico | death_date = {{Death date and age|1966|07|02|1900|3|8}} | death_place = Mexico City, Mexico | birth_name = | spouse = }}
'''Emma Padilla''' (March 8, 1900 – July 2, 1966) was Mexico's first film star.<ref name="Bean Horak Kapse 2014 p. 235">{{cite book | last1=Bean | first1=J.M. | last2=Horak | first2=L. | last3=Kapse | first3=A. | title=Silent Cinema and the Politics of Space | publisher=Indiana University Press | series=New Directions in National Cinemas | year=2014 | isbn=978-0-253-01507-5 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7poiAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA235 | page=235}}</ref>
She was noted for her resemblance to, and copying the mannerisms of, Italian film star Pina Menichelli, particularly in ''La luz'' (1917), which was essentially a copy of the successful Italian film ''Il Fuoco'' (1915) starring Menichelli.<ref name="Bean Horak Kapse 2014 p. 235"/><ref name="shohat">Shohat, Ella and Robert Stam (eds.) [https://books.google.com/books?id=qOADz1T4H4MC&pg=PA12 Multiculturalism, Postcoloniality, and Transnational Media], p. 12 (2003)</ref><ref name="photo1922">[https://archive.org/stream/phojun22chic#page/n57/mode/2up Picture Stars You've Never Seen], ''Photoplay'' (January 1922)</ref>
==Selected filmography== * ''La luz'' (1917) <ref name="Shohat Stam 2003 p. 121">{{cite book | last1=Shohat | first1=E. | last2=Stam | first2=R. | title=Multiculturalism, Postcoloniality, and Transnational Media | publisher=Rutgers University Press | series=Depth of Field Series | year=2003 | isbn=978-0-8135-3235-6 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qOADz1T4H4MC&pg=PA121 | page=121}}</ref> * ''Hasta después de la muerte'' (1920)
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==External links== *{{IMDb name|0655718}}
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