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Amor Prohibido (1945)
Character: Petra, sirvienta (uncredited)
Family life of a widowed father with four teenaged and young-adult children.
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Bodas trágicas (1946)
Character: Doña Engracia (uncredited)
Jalisco, 19th century. Diego, a wealthy landowner, secretly marries Amparo, defying her father Juan Manuel, who fiercely opposes the union. Juan Manuel still holds a grudge against Diego, having once been his employer when Diego was just a laborer. Their secret marriage stirs jealousy and resentment, particularly in Octavio, Diego’s servant, and his wife Laura, who harbors unspoken feelings for him. As Diego departs for a military mission in Guadalajara, Juan Manuel, unaware of the marriage, attempts to arrange a match between Amparo and the Spaniard José Luis.
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La perversa (1954)
Character: Carcelera (uncredited)
A single, hard-working, girl looks to improve her situation by becoming a "kept woman". In doing so, she turns away from church and family, thereby violating the mandates of both God and Man.
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Ángel o demonio (1947)
Character: Invitada a fiesta (uncredited)
Wealthy young gentleman falls in love with a cabaret girl of no breeding; he overcomes his prejudices and accepts her in spite of her past... will she live up to his expectations of her?
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Dios los cría (1953)
Character: Doña Carolina Montero de Campaña (uncredited)
Mrs. Nínive Cánovas Cannesi (Marshall) comes back from a long tour visiting Europe and not even realizes that her house is being inhabited by two jobless and homeless bandits (Tin Tán and Tun Tún) with master keys who had been living there worry free. They all share the house for a period of time, unknowingly to each other, in a series of well crafted and perfectly timed scenes where Catita and Tin Tán can be in the same room without seeing each other... When Tin Tán notices her presence, poses as the help, intercepting the real employees and sending to the north pole, literally. So now that Catita has them at her service, she can take time for her real goal, the foundation of a House for old people so they can live happy until the day they die, but Tin Tán and Tun Tún keep getting in her way and complicating everything...
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Arrabalera (1951)
Character: Invitada a boda (uncredited)
Working-class girl marries rich playboy, gets implicated in his criminal activities.
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Acuérdate de vivir (1953)
Character: Invitada fiesta
In Guanajuato, a piano teacher delays her marriage to an engineer not to let her younger sisters alone. As he is love with her voice, he is mistaken for a sister whom he marries. The teacher then goes to the capital. There she becomes part of a family of young students, who believe she is the mistress of his father, so she suffers the scorn and reproach. Over the years the parents die and she renounces to the inheritance they leave her.
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Pepita Jimenez (1946)
Character: Invitada a bienvenida de Luis (uncredited)
On March 22, four days after returning to his home in Andalusia, Luis de Vargas writes the first of his letters to his uncle and favorite professor at the seminary. He reports that his father intends to fatten him up during his vacation, to have him ready to return in the fall to finish his training for the priesthood. He mentions in passing that his father is courting a twenty-year-old, attractive widow, Pepita Jiménez; his father is fifty-five years old. Pepita had been married for only a short time to an eighty-year-old moneylender named Gumersindo. Luis is not eager to see his father marry again, but he promises his uncle not to judge Pepita before he knows her.
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Fruto prohibido (1953)
Character: Hortensia (sin créditos)
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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Ella y Yo (1951)
Character: Señorita Altagracia Escalera (uncredited)
Pedro Muñoz is a womanizer that does not escape one until Irene Garza arrives and makes him to see his luck, while the aunt of her tries to separate them.
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Confidencias de un ruletero (1949)
Character: Sra. de Montejo, clienta de Mimi (uncredited)
Taxi driver takes the wrong passenger at the wrong time and gets caught up in a murder investigation.
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El Portero (1950)
Character: Miembra del patronato (uncredited)
Cantinflas works as a porter, who writes letters and speeches in his old writing machine to earn an extra money, despite the fact that he still goes to school. The sentimental issues come when Cantinflas falls in love of his pretty neighborhood (Silvia Pinal), who is handicapped and unable to walk. The thing wont be easy, because a young military man also has feelings for the girl. But the porter wants to see her happy, and he will become a sort of Cyrano De Bergerac, writing love letters to her signed by the young soldier. His plan is simple: to win money in the horse races in order to pay the operation which will make her walk again.
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El Mago (1949)
Character: Señora del Moral, clienta de Krishnar (uncredited)
A slapstick fantasy of the amorous adventures of a magician a la Cantinflas.
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El socio (1946)
Character: Mujer con cuadro (uncredited)
A former singer, determined to succeed in business, comes up with a partner and just believing their existence. In the end, wake up ...
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Abajo el Telón (1955)
Character: Espectadora teatro (uncredited)
Cantinflas, who owns a cleaning business, cleans the windows of the house of a famous French actress. While carrying out his work he observes how a man steals one of the famous actress necklaces, but he can only see his back.
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¡Arriba las mujeres! (1943)
Character: Miembra camisas pintas (uncredited)
Movie in which funny situations based on the entanglements caused by a woman named Felicidad to her family because of her feminist ideology are presented, to the extent of bringing her daughters and herself to a divorce trial.
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Gran Casino (1947)
Character: Cantante abucheada (uncredited)
After the mysterious disappearance of an oil well owner, one of his workers, Gerardo assumes the business management. Soon, the owner's sister arrives from Argentina, and, believing that Gerardo killed her brother to keep the wells for himself, she starts working as a singer under a false name in the same casino her brother disappeared, in order to find out what exactly happened.
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Bugambilia (1945)
Character: Invitada sorda en fiesta (uncredited)
In mid-nineteenth century Guanajuato, the beauty and charm of the young heiress Amalia conquers the lowly foreman Ricardo with fatal results. Prevented from consummating their love, Ricardo is going to Guanajuato where again later become the rich owner of a mine. On his return, fate has prepared a tragic encounter with Amalia.
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Mi campeón (1952)
Character: Invitada a fiesta (uncredited)
Catita is a simple and poor woman who dreams of that her son stands out on something important to help her out of his humble. But she opposes to him being boxer, therefore constantly fighting with her husband.
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El hombre inquieto (1954)
Character: Invitada a boda (uncredited)
Adult street urchin passes himself off as rich man's long-lost son.
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¿Qué te ha dado esa mujer? (1951)
Character: Dueña restaurante (uncredited)
This musical comedy tells the story of two men whose friendship (whose beginning is told in "A toda máquina") is affected by assumptions love triangles and misunderstandings between the two, however, the value of that friendship overcomes all difficulties.
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Se solicitan modelos (1954)
Character: Cliente de agencia (uncredited)
In this Mexican comedy, Mr. Lazaro's fashion house is on the brink of bankruptcy and in desperate need of a new model to replace his current business partner's wife, whose appearance is driving customers away. Lazaro's son, Raul, realizes what a diffucult dilemma his father faces and sets out to restore the integrity of the family-owned business by teaming up with his lovely fiancée to put on a fashion show. Domingo Soler and Sara Montiel star.
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El rey del barrio (1950)
Character: Pepita
A poor man becomes a modern Robin Hood, robbing the rich to give to the poor.
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Canasta Uruguaya (1951)
Character: Señora Jiménez, jugadora de cartas (uncredited)
Screwball comedy about country girl who inherits a fortune.
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El gendarme desconocido (1941)
Character: Mujer mayor en restaurante de hotel (uncredited)
A gang of thieves has jeopardized the city and even the police, whose chief urges their forces to captured the band within 48 hours. Meanwhile, band members meet in a cafe run by a widow and her daughter and her suitor, Cantinflas, who maintains a scuffle with the robbers running all at the station. Since then, Cantinflas become a member of the police force for special missions.
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El revoltoso (1951)
Character: Singer (uncredited)
Well-intentioned Tin Tan who is always making trouble for other people, sometimes on purpose and sometimes by accident.
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Por la puerta falsa (1950)
Character: Modista
Bernardo is in love with Adela and although she does not belong, he has always helped her family although they only care about money and not the virtues of man.
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En la palma de tu mano (1951)
Character: Clienta salón de belleza (uncredited)
A con artist seduces the widow of a millionaire, only to learn she'd plotted with her lover to murder the late husband. A tense game of cat-and-mouse ensues—but who's the cat?
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El gran autor (1954)
Character: Actriz en obra (sin créditos)
A story of passion and deceit, where love overcomes the misfortunes and finally triumphs.
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Ustedes los ricos (1948)
Character: Mamá de Andrea (uncredited)
Pepe el Toro is married to Celia la Chorreada and they have two children.
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Mexicanos al Grito de Guerra (1943)
Character: Invitada a cena (uncredited)
In times of the French Intervention, a student of Nunó, author of the Mexican National Anthem, falls in love with the niece of the French Ambassador, which causes quite amusing complications.
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Escándalo de estrellas (1944)
Character: Amiga de Manolete (uncredited)
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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