I am trying to find a beauty who started as an actress and then later in life switched to Directing and became famous for that. Latin beauty - can't remember her name at the moment.
Hmmm...Dolores Del Rio was one of the biggest Latin Actresses of her time and I understood her to have done a little under the direction of Orson Wells. There was Carmen Miranda, though I don't know if she did any directing in a large capacity.