Film actress Emma Roldán suggested Sara García for the role of "doña Panchita", an old woman, in the 1940 film "Allá en el trópico" ("There in the Tropics"). The film's director Fernando de Fuentes considered that García was too young for the part (indeed she was in her mid 40s) but Roldán replied him saying "Sara is an actress, and actresses don't have an age". For the screen test, Sara García had a wig made for her. At the time of the screen test, the director asked the crew of her whereabouts and they answered that she was the woman in front of him, the director was shocked: her wig, lack of teeth, and performance had touched him. It is in Fernando de Fuentes' "Allá en el trópico" where Sara García won her title of la Abuelita de México (Mexico's Grandmother).