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Póker de reinas (1960)
Character: N/A
A musical comedy about a group of pretty girls who meet in Mexico and decide to break into showbiz and make a pact and promise not to get involved with men. But they all are in love with different guys and that complicates things.
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Nosotros los rateros (1949)
Character: Madre de Ludovico
A young woman, a thief and a lawyer find themselves in the same hotel room without planning it. Mercedes, the thief, has a brother who, by mistake, kidnaps the lawyer Alberto, which will cause a mess.
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Felicidad (1957)
Character: N/A
A middle-aged professor, disillusioned with his life and struggling through a midlife crisis, becomes infatuated with a much younger woman named Emma.
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El casto Susano (1954)
Character: N/A
Father and son are sober, responsible pillars of the community in their home-town... but they make frequent trips to the city.
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El zarco (1959)
Character: N/A
Upperclass girl and notorious bandit leader fall in love. She agrees to "let him kidnap her" so they can be together, but she gets disillusioned when she sees the sordidness of his Camp Of Banditry. Also he keeps killing off members of her family.
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La venganza del resucitado (1962)
Character: N/A
Two families have made peace after generations of feuding... but some bad-hat strangers have come to town looking for the buried treasure that sparked the whole mess.
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El temerario (1966)
Character: N/A
Crooked dude schemes to deprive stepdaughter of her inheritance after her mother dies.
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El norteño (1963)
Character: N/A
Lawman on horseback cracks a case involving stolen gold bullion, the title to a mine, an evil twin and a plucky pre-adolescent boy. First in a series.
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Las figuras de arena (1970)
Character: N/A
Separated Mom, Dad and son all come into conflict with each other during a brief reunion visit. Everyone learns and grows.
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Una luz en mi camino (1939)
Character: N/A
A blind songwriter struggles to get his work published, and meanwhile a girl he's sweet on disappears from his life when her employer puts the moves on her.
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Cantaclaro (1946)
Character: N/A
A rootless wilderness-dude in the Venezuelan outback gets caught up in some human dramas despite himself.
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Enemigos (1956)
Character: N/A
One son takes after mom, one son takes after dad. They don't get along, and the family splits into two households.
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La casa de la zorra (1945)
Character: N/A
The owner of an illegal gambling casino witnesses all the problems in the life of her dissolute son and finally acts in a way that'll help him rehabilitate himself.
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La viuda celosa (1946)
Character: N/A
Young-ish widow forbids herself the pleasure of male company in deference to the deceased.
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Guardián, el perro salvador (1950)
Character: N/A
Poor woman and her daughter hire on to rich family as servants. Husband/Daddy comes back from his foreign travels and crazy stuff happens! Death! Jail sentences! Inheritances!
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No se mande, profe (1969)
Character: N/A
Strait-laced teacher at a girl's school unleashes his wild side when he debuts as a pop singer in his spare time.
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La emboscada mortal (1962)
Character: N/A
Third film of a trilogy -- all the secondary tasks have been completed and cowboy-justice-action-hero El Norteno settles the score with those cheating cheaters who deprived the young heiress of her inheritance.
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Pecado Mortal (1955)
Character: Flora
Juan Manuel intends his wife Clara, who is blind, sign the will in his favor, but she refuses. With them lives Soledad, goddaughter Clara. A day comes Carlos, nephew of Juan Manuel, who is interested in Soledad. Carlos is going to study medicine in the United States and maintains correspondence with Soledad. Juan Manuel shows interest in Soledad but prevents Clara meet her. She is the daughter of Clara, who hid that Juan Manuel had killed the father of Soledad and also caused her blindness.
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La mujer que yo amé (1950)
Character: N/A
A musician is injured and threatened for defending a girl and decides to go to the capital, where fame and success achieved. She is glad to know that he has succeeded, however, has become a street prostitute prone to paralysis. Finally one day he takes courage and decides to look for, since it has become invalid again ...
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Cielo Rojo (1962)
Character: N/A
Troubled young man meets his father for the first time.
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La risa de la ciudad (1963)
Character: N/A
The underside of Mexico City: street performers, factory workers, a drunk, an old man with civic pride, a pickpocket, and others live and interact in a shantytown near the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
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Maternidad imposible (1955)
Character: N/A
Mother and child are separated during the Spanish Civil War. Believing the mother to be dead, the child is sent to a refugee orphanage in Mexico, then adopted. Meanwhile, Mama recovers from her injuries, and...
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Mulata (1954)
Character: Doña Rosario
In the port of Havana, two biracial children, Mateo (Ricardo Román) and Caridad (Ninón Sevilla) grow up together. She is the daughter of a white man who died in a shipwreck and of a black laundress of African origin. Over the years, Mateo falls for Caridad, but she doesn't love him back because she has fallen for a Mexican captain, Martin (Pedro Armendáriz), who she happened to meet at the port. The captain also fell in love with Caridad and proposes that they live together and she accepts. Caridad works in a cabaret in the port and the owner, Guevara (René Cardona), feels an attraction for the girl, and in a moment of jealousy, tries to kill Martin. Martin falls into financial trouble and has to mortgage his boat to Guevara. When Martin returns to Veracruz, Mexico, Guevara feels that he's the new owner of Caridad.
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La loca (1952)
Character: Señora González de la Cueva
Mentally-ill woman went over the edge 15 years earlier, as a result of family traumas and the disappearance of her daughter. Now, present day, evil relatives are trying to take control of money she's inherited...
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Las engañadas (1955)
Character: Doña Carlota
Irresponsible playboy seduces a decent young lady with a fake wedding; he continues being a creep for the next 12 or 15 years.
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Locura pasional (1956)
Character: Doña Jacinta
Wife-killer narrates flashbacks about how his obsessive jealousy led him to tragedy.
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El gallero (1948)
Character: N/A
In Michoacan in the 1920s, Gabriel, a young farmer and champion cockfighter, finds himself in violent opposition to Roman, who not only wants to beat Gabriel's fighting cock, but to steal Gabriel's wife Rosa.
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La fuerza del deseo (1955)
Character: Doña Remedios
Wicked girl uses nude modeling as a way to seduce a wealthy painter into marriage, while still trying to keep an artschool stud piece on the side.
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La mujer desnuda (1953)
Character: Violeta Bello
A circus dancer marries a famous singer, but is threatened when a figure from her past blackmails her.
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Pervertida (1946)
Character: N/A
A country girl finds herself working as a prostitute, but her true love, a musician, comes looking for her. She must fight a cabaret dancer for his love.
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El regreso del monstruo (1958)
Character: La bruja / doña Rebeca
Mad scientist is trying to transplant the soul of an animated, talking skeleton into a living body. Also, there's a monster. Number three of three in Zorro Escarlata series.
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No te engañes corazón (1937)
Character: Refugio (uncredited)
No te engañes corazón (released in English as Don't Fool Yourself Dear) is the first full-feature film of Cantinflas after becoming a star of the carpa circuit (folk theater). It was also one of the earliest films of Sara García and Carlos Orellana and the first where they share the screen. Don Boni (Orellana) is diagnosed with a deadly disease and decides to spend his last days doing good deeds. He leaves his wife and decides to help people. He then gets drunk and wakes up with a winning lottery ticket and realizes that the doctor who diagnosed him has been sent to prison for fraud.
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Nosotras las sirvientas (1951)
Character: N/A
A peasant woman arrives in the capital and is run over by a young man, who, to compensate her, gives her a job as a maid.
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Valentín de la Sierra (1968)
Character: N/A
Based on the corrido of Valentín de la Sierra, one of the revolutionary leaders who forged the armed struggle in Mexican history. The abuses of the Porfirista government against the humble people lead Valentín to lead a large-scale armed uprising.
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El cachorro (1966)
Character: N/A
El Cachorro is falsely accused of two murders; right after he's arrested flor those crimes, another murder is committed and he has to clear himself of that accusation. We never find out what happened about the first two deaths.
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Crimen y castigo (1951)
Character: Mamá de Ramón
Adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novel about a student who plans a conceptual murder and then butts heads with a police detective.
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La hermana impura (1948)
Character: Cantinera
Outsider comes to visit a remote village as a representative of an oil company. Once there, he discovers that the man who owns the land he's interested in has a daughter who's identical to a bad, troubled woman from his bad, troubled past.
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Camelia (1954)
Character: Doncella de Camila (uncredited)
A sort of meta riff on Alexandre Dumas fils' novel The Lady of the Camellias (La Dame aux Camélias or Camille) here in Mexican melodrama form involving the doomed love of a bullfighter and a beautiful but ailing actress/courtesan.
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Rubí (1970)
Character: Nana
This is the story of Rubí, a young, selfish and hypocritical woman who, through ambition and deception, ruins the lives of those around her and her own.
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Flor de durazno (1945)
Character: Doña Encarnación
City slicker scams on young farmgirl while her fiance's in USA on a work permit.
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Fruto prohibido (1953)
Character: Señorita directora
A writer is given custody of his editor's daughter after she is orphaned. Once she grows up, they become romantically involved.
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Corazón salvaje (1956)
Character: Catalina de Molnar
On the Caribbean island of Martinique, two half-brothers are involved in the entanglements of a frivolous and calculating young woman.
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La dama de las camelias (1944)
Character: N/A
Marguerite Gautier is a courtesan in Paris. She falls deeply in love with a young man of promise, Armand Duval. When Armand's father begs her not to ruin his hope of a career and position by marrying Armand, she acquiesces and leaves her lover. However, when poverty and terminal illness overwhelm her, Marguerite discovers that Armand has not lost his love for her.
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Nosotros (1945)
Character: Doña Milagros Robledo
The tragic romance between a woman with a dubious past and a young thief who reforms his life for love.
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El Beisbolista Fenomeno (1952)
Character: Doña Justa Carmona
The soul of a dead baseball player finds a human host to occupy so it can achieve some career goals it hadn't accomplished during its lifetime. Riotous hijinks ensue.
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Escuela de verano (1959)
Character: N/A
Aging lecher struggles to launch an institution of higher learning for young ladies.
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Sor Ye-yé (1968)
Character: Madre de Juan
Maria is a young orphan who lives with her wealthy aunt. Maria sings in a cocktail bar with his friends, who form a rock band, and enjoy the night with them. One of his friends, Ernesto, is in love with her, though she does not seem to feel the same about him. In fact, multiple existential doubts and feel a strange emptiness in his life suddenly drive to enter a convent as a novice, breaking Ernestos' heart. However, with her cheerlul character, open and rebellious, not appear to conform to life in the cloister, and especially have problems with the novices director , who often punished for trying to take the right path. In the convent, which also functions as children's hospital, she meets a doctor with which it takes quite right for the contrast between his two characters, but his way with love and mutual respect.
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Una gringuita en México (1951)
Character: Tía Rosa
A USA girl decides to vacation in Mexico and experience first hand all the stereotypical scenes she's seen in movies. When she gets there, everything isn't all charros and bandidos, though -- surprise, surprise!
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El Zorro Escarlata (1959)
Character: Witch
Luis Aguilar dons the mask of The Scarlet Fox, a daring masked hero who fights injustice across the rugged Mexican frontier in this thrilling introduction to the Scarlet Fox series.
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Angélica (1952)
Character: Madre de Arturo
An italian woman scapes from de WWII to Mexico where her uncle lives. She gets trapped in a brothel threatened to be involved in a crime that she was innocent. Meanwhile, she finds her true love who ignores where she lived and worked.
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Opio (1949)
Character: N/A
A doctor becomes entangled in the world of opium, leading to a series of tragic events that affect his personal and professional life.
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Santa (1943)
Character: Elvira Gómez
Santa is a beautiful and very humble young girl living in Chimalistac, a small and quiet spot south of the 1930's Mexico City. After Santa is cheated by arrogant soldier Marcelino, she's rejected by her family and friends and expelled of Chimalistac. Santa finds shelter in a whorehouse and becomes a cinic and bitter woman, mistreated by bullfighter "Jarameno" and silently loved by blind pianist Hipolito.
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Alejandra (1942)
Character: Rita
There's a lot of confusion about who Alejandra's parents are, and until those questions are resolved, she may not be able to get married.
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Padre contra hijo (1955)
Character: Aunt Domitila
Eloisa works hard, sewing, to his son Juan de Dios. He learns that he is the bastard son of Cecilio, who owns almost a whole town named: San Juan de Dios, Durango.
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La negra Angustias (1950)
Character: Doña Chole
When her father dies, a young Afro-Mexican woman joins the Revolution, the way he was planning to do, and becomes the leader of a Zapatista battalion.
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Furia roja (1951)
Character: Señora Navarro Stevens
Mother and daughter return to Mexico to escape the US Civil War... and get caught up in the conflict between the French army and the fighters for independence.
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La infame (1954)
Character: Victoria
For love, the rules of society and justice are broken, leading to abduction, exposing life and freedom, facing everything to make a sick child a normal child.
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Herencia macabra (1939)
Character: Matilde
A plastic surgeon goes mad when he discovers that his wife have an affair. He fakes her death and disfigure her and locks her in the cellar.
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María Isabel (1967)
Character: Manuela
A woman jumping from the poverty of the countryside to the splendor of wealth in the city without losing its simplicity
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La barranca sangrienta (1962)
Character: Doña Blanca (as Fanny Shyler)
Alberto and Leonor have a son, they find out that one of the masked men who attacked them was her nephew, things get difficult for them when they find out about a testament left by her grandmother.
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La muerte es puntual (1967)
Character: Doña Carmela
Several lives intertwine: those of a group of vandals, a drug addict, and a girl who works as a waitress in a restaurant where her mother cooks.
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A media luz (1947)
Character: Fru-Fru
Tango singer exploits the women in his life. Learns a valuable life-lesson.
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El que murió de amor (1945)
Character: Tía Rita
Magicians transfers two peoples' souls (or whatever you want to call them) into each other's bodies.
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La corte de Faraón (1944)
Character: Widow
The wise men of the kingdom interpret a dream of Pharaoh and decide that Putifar, a victorious general, should marry Lota, a virginal slave.
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Los Jóvenes (1961)
Character: Carmelita, Madre de 'El Gato'
A gang member is attracted to a beautiful young woman, but approaching her only causes problems that will be difficult to solve.
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The Black Scorpion (1957)
Character: Florentina
Volcanic activity frees giant scorpions from the earth who wreak havoc in the rural countryside and eventually threaten Mexico City.
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La maestra inolvidable (1969)
Character: Teódula
Idealistic young teacher takes a post in a small, backwoods town and dedicates her life to schooling the village's children.
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Señora Tentación (1948)
Character: N/A
Famous singer hires a pianist/songwriter on the strength of his compositions, then seduces him away from his fiancee and from the paths of righteousness in general.
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Domingo salvaje (1967)
Character: N/A
Repressed middle-aged Catholic gets into a troublesome relationship with the prostitute next door and her little boy.
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Reportaje (1953)
Character: Party guest
Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve.
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Sombrero (1953)
Character: Doña Fela
Mexican love stories follow a dying man, a bullfighter's sister and lovers from feuding villages.
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Por ellas aunque mal paguen (1952)
Character: Doña Victoria
Don Anastacio, an aristocrat passing through a rough patch,He will make marry his daughter Isabel with wealthy rancher. Isabel and her family refuse to work, Jose Manuel takes them to the ranch, where they are forced to work for food.
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El tejedor de milagros (1962)
Character: Pueblerina
Arnulfo is a man weaving baskets. Remedios has given birth in front of the house of a woman and her aid, but the village is spread the word that the child born as a child God and an atheist would think exploit to their advantage the "miracle ".
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Cuidado con el amor (1954)
Character: Isabel
Salvador accompanied by two friends of his father whom he calls uncles, they arrive at a fair in the village, there he meets Ana. When he wins a bet he is paid with a mortgaged house, to his surprise upon entering the hom he realizes that Ana and her mother live in it, provoking a funny entanglement with an explosive final.
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Canaima (1945)
Character: Gallineta
College-educated emigre has to get macho when he returns home to the Venezuelan outback.
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El hacedor de miedo (1971)
Character: María
A world-famous stage performer returns home following her father's death, only to find greed and evil awaiting.
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Secreto entre mujeres (1949)
Character: N/A
A big ol' player has different stages of a thing happening with each of the five women in a household.
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Fury in Paradise (1955)
Character: N/A
In this western, the hero takes a Mexican vacation, gets caught up in a revolutionary plot with the powerful owner of a hacienda, and falls in love with the rancher's daughter all at the same time.
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A Woman's Devotion (1956)
Character: Señora Reidl
An artist suffering from mental problems from his experiences during the war goes to Acapulco on his honeymoon. Soon young women are turning up dead in the area, and the ex-GI comes to believe he might be responsible, as he has long stretches where he can't remember anything.
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Lluvia roja (1950)
Character: Elisa's aunt
Military leader is appointed to local government, becomes overly despotic in his leadership.
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Las abandonadas (1945)
Character: Ninón
A young woman, abandoned by her womanizing fiancé, is forced to provide for the upbringing of her son and combat the difficulties of being an unmarried mother during the strife of early 20-century Mexico.
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Pablo y Carolina (1957)
Character: N/A
Torn between three lovers and bored by her typewriting classes, Carolina (Dillian) writes a passionate love letter to fictional Pablo Garza from Monterrey. The letter is sent by mistake and received by real Pablo Garza's girlfriend. Pablo himself (Infante) flies to Mexico City looking for an explanation. Carolina is rehearsing a musical show for her school dressed as a man. When Pablo meets her, she pretends to be her brother Anibal, a shy and feminine sailor. Pablo likes Anibal and invites "him" to a cabaret. After that, Carolina falls inlove with Pablo but resists to unveil her real self. Meanwhile, Pablo feels himself confused, because young "Anibal" is cute as an angel and has "those blue eyes..."
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La monja alférez (1944)
Character: Doña Úrsula
A 17th century woman, imprisoned for fighting in a bar, recounts her past to a priest. She tells of her father teaching her how to fence, of being sent to a convent by her aunt when her father died, of escaping by dressing as a man, and of her life as a man following the escape.
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Escándalo de estrellas (1944)
Character: Paloma
The story of the adventures and entanglements of the son of a famous film producer who is forced to study law.
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Stronghold (1951)
Character: Mrs. Stevens
In 1850s Mexico, the beautiful owner of a silver mine is kidnapped by a bandit leader, who needs money to finance his revolt against the Emperor Maximilian.
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Que Dios me perdone (1948)
Character: Olga
Lena, a beautiful and mysteriously sinister refugee haunted by her past, is chased into the arms of a rich, unsuspecting industrialist not for love, but for information.
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Salón México (1949)
Character: Señorita prefecta
Mercedes works as a cabaret performer to pay for her sister's studies. Problems begin when Mercedes and Paco, her exploiter, win a dance contest, but he refuses to share the prize with her.
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