María Blanca Estela Pavón Vasconcelos (February 21, 1926 – September 26, 1949) was a Mexican film actress of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. She appeared in many classic films of the 1940s as a young woman. Her career peaked between 1948 and 1949. On September 26, 1949 she died in a plane crash near the Popocatépetl volcano located between Mexico City and Puebla. She won an Ariel Award for Best Actress in the 1947 film Cuando lloran los valientes and was