Background
Legrand was born in Villa Cañás, a town in the province of Santa Fe located some 200 km from Rosario.
Legrand was born in Villa Cañás, a town in the province of Santa Fe located some 200 km from Rosario.
She starred in some 20 films between 1940 and 1972. Her parents were both Spanish immigrants, her father the owner of a bookstore and her mother a schoolteacher. There they lived in poverty, mitigated by sporadic employment, until in 1939 the sisters were offered small roles in a film starring Niní Marshall which would be released in 1940 under the title Hay que educar a Niní.
The Legrand sisters" next film together was Novios para las muchachas in 1941.
Mirtha"s first leading role came later that year in Los martes, orquídeas. The same year her mother would be contacted by a well-known film industry figure, Ricardo Cerebello, who offered to represent the sisters.
lieutenant was Cerebello who devised the stage names Mirtha and Silvia Legrand. During the same period, Mirtha and Silvia hosted El club de la amistad for Radio Splendid.
In 1960 she appeared in the Antonio Cunill Junior. film Los Acusados.
Her last film was Juan Manuel de Rosas in 1972 before she moved into television