Manuel Esperón

Birth : 1911-08-03, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico

Death : 2011-02-13

History

From Wikipedia Manuel Esperón González (August 3, 1911 – February 13, 2011) was a Mexican song writer and composer. He wrote many songs for Mexican films, including Ay, Jalisco, no te rajes! for the 1941 film of the same name, Cocula for El peñón de las ánimas (The Rock of Souls) (1943), and Amor con Amor Se Paga for Hay un niño en su futuro (1952). Other Esperón compositions have become Latin standards such as Yo Soy Mexicano, Noche Plateada and No Volveré which was used in the first episode of the 2001 soap opera El juego de la vida. Among other performers, Chavela Vargas, Pedro Infante, Los Panchos, and Jorge Negrete have made his songs well-known. His fame in the USA derives from when his song The Three Caballeros was used in the Disney film The Three Caballeros (1944). In 1989 Esperón was awarded the Premier National Prize of Mexico for Art and Traditional Culture (de Artes y Tradiciones Populares). In 2001, he was given a tribute at the Palace of Fine Arts in the historical center of Mexico City. Until his Death in 2011 he was the honorary President for life of the Society of Authors and Composers of Mexico. His songs continued to be used in filmmaking and television productions.

Movies

Mi querido viejo
Music
Luis Fuentes, a singer of Mexican music, comes to know a journalist by the name of Maria Luisa Cortéz and fall madly in love with each other. In time, the couple gets married and come to have a son, Rafael. However, they soon divorce because of Luis's many commitments as a singer. This strains the relationship between Luis and Maria, so much so that Maria, stung by bitterness, teaches her son to despise his father and manages to move from Mexico to the United States to keep Luis from contacting his son. Luis wants nothing more than to regain his lost relationship and affection with his beloved son. Therefore, time after time he visits Maria in hope of winning over his son's affection with little success. Over time, Rafael, now a young man, comes to have a passion for music just like his father despite having a hatred for him.
Por Tu Maldito Amor
Sound
One man must decide two women: one is mature, confident, and an owner of land while the other is young, beautiful, and impetuous. But there’s a problem, they’re both sisters.
Masacre en el Río Tula
Original Music Composer
Based on a real event, twelve dead bodies are found in the Tula River, we see the events that lead up to the massacre in a tale of crime, vice, corruption and sleaze.
Acorralado
Music
Revolutionary on the run from a government hit squad kidnaps a landowner's daughter for protection.
Cruz de olvido
Music
Ambitious, insensitive mother blocks daughter's marriage by telling her fiance a lie about her.
No vale nada la vida
Music Director
Mexican feature film
El regreso del carro rojo
Music
Mexican feature film
Mundo mágico
Music
Anthology movie that presents 3 stories about romance.
A Real Man
Original Music Composer
Unsympathetic portrait of a man who's too macho to display his feelings.
El sexo de los pobres
Music
Courtroom drama focused on the background of a man accused of rape.
Una gallina muy ponedora
Original Music Composer
El rey de los albures
Original Music Composer
357 Magnum
Original Music Composer
Two detectives infiltrate a smuggling gang to take revenge for the murder of their brother and his family.
Los Reyes del Palenque
Original Music Composer
Widow becomes professional singer to meet expenses. Love complications come along with the territory.
La sotana del reo
Music
Mexican feature film
Chanoc en la isla de los muertos
Music
Chanoc and Tzekub are stranded in an island after a storm wrecks their ship, and they must rescue a child from a local tribe.
Mariachi - Fiesta de sangre
Self
Mariachi - Fiesta de sangre
Story
Chin-Chin el Teporocho
Music
Rogelio’s story, a young man of humble origin in the neighborhood of Tepito, who falls in love with the daughter of a wealthy grocer, Michelle, but his marriage to her will be a failure and he will end up as a one more drunk.
Pink Zone
Music
In a whorehouse in Acapulco, lives Leonor, a young and beautiful woman who is awaiting to reunite with an old lover. Suddenly, the man reappears to take her away from her life of vice. But the debt owed by Leonor to the "Madame" of the house causes a series of conflicts.
Chanoc en el foso de las serpientes
Music
Chanoc and Tzekub are hired to hunt two black jaguars, but they've tasted human flesh and strange occurrences have been going on.
Las tarántulas
Original Music Composer
From the 'Chanoc' series of comic-book adaptations: Chanoc and his entourage face off against a jewel thief who has eyes on a shipwrecked treasure lying off the coast.
Chanoc vs. the Tiger and the Vampire
Original Music Composer
Chanoc must defeat an evil vampire known as Count Frankenhausen.
Chanoc en las garras de las fieras
Original Music Composer
Comic-book adaptation: Tarzan-type in the Mexican outback.
Santo vs. Capulina
Music
Calpuina is a night-watchman in a wharehouse, a perfect job for him. When some thieves break in and steal some crates, El Santo is after them because they are using the wharehouse for diamond smuggling. Capulina hinders their capture. Then he decides that he will put on a wrestler's mask and help El Santo to caputre the crooks.
El crepúsculo de un dios
Original Music Composer
The Sin of Adam and Eve
Music
Absurd retelling of the story of Adam and Eve, this was the first of several biblical movies by director Miguel Zacarías that were intended to inspire the faithful but only inspired laughter instead. This film gained much notoriety due to the abundant nudity of its stars and was released worldwide.
Requiem por un canalla
Music
Agente 00 Sexy
Original Music Composer
The beautiful Agent 00 is sent by the girlfriend of a mafia boss to catch his band of miscreants.
Báñame mi amor
Original Music Composer
A 1968 film.
Tres mil kilómetros de amor
Music
Romance, stolen jewels and sitcom humor on a bus-trip from Tijuana to Guadalajara.
La guerrillera de Villa
Music
Los dos rivales
Original Music Composer
Ranchera comedy -- the hero thinks his girlfriend has another suitor... but the suitor is really she herself in man-drag.
Juan Colorado
Original Music Composer
Silvia's father wants to marry her off to Rafael who, out of jealousy, wants to finish off Juan. Silvia dresses up as Juan to save his skin.
The Four Juanes
Music
Juan Sin Fiedo (Javier Solis), Juan Colorado (Antonio Aguilar), Juan Pistolas (Luis Aguilar) and Juan Charrasqueado join their destinies during the Mexican Revolution.
La cigüeña distraída
Original Music Composer
The Waltzes came from Vienna and the Children from Paris
Music
Unmarried opera singer has a baby, and her friends convince her to pass it off as the grandchild of a wealthy old lady.
Los reyes del volante
Music
Comedy film starring Viruta and Capulina.
Escuela para solteras
Music
All-star ranchera fest, rom-com style. Four charros, four eligible young ladies.
La edad de piedra
Music
Capulina chip and are transported back to prehistoric times with a time machine. There they live crazy adventures.
¡Buenas noches, año nuevo!
Pianista
Backstage comedy; singer-dancer and her songwriter husband pretend to have an open relationship, because it makes them look smart and modern.
¡Buenas noches, año nuevo!
Original Music Composer
Backstage comedy; singer-dancer and her songwriter husband pretend to have an open relationship, because it makes them look smart and modern.
Napoleoncito
Music
Así amaron nuestros padres
Original Music Composer
Elderly roue interferes in the love life of a young woman because she's secretly his daughter. Remake of En Tiempos De Don Porfirio.
Los amores de Marieta (los fabulosos 20s)
Original Music Composer
Young woman and her godfather make up a story about her past in order to trick a suitor into marrying her. Then she becomes a musical comedy star and Mexican Revolution.
El rey del tomate
Original Music Composer
El rey del tomate ("The Tomato King") is a 1964 Mexican comedy-drama film, directed by Miguel M. Delgado and starring Eulalio González, Luz Márquez, and Emma Roldán.
Yo, el mujeriego
Original Music Composer
Playboy bachelor poses as a woman's husband to protect her daughter's reputation at a private school. Remake of El Mil Amores (1955).
¡En peligro de muerte!
Original Music Composer
The White Horse
Music
Claimed by his grandmother, who lives in a Mexican village, Joselito begins the journey from Spain. Once there, while traveling in a stagecoach, is assaulted by bandits. Joselito manages to escape and, walking aimlessly, he meets Antoine, a rider who is ex officio of random player, and become close friends.
El analfabeto
Original Music Composer
Inocencio Prieto y Calvo receives a letter telling him he is the heir to his uncle's fortune of two million pesos. Not being able to read he has no idea of who sent the letter or its content. So he goes to the drugstore because the pharmacist can read the letter to him. But while waiting to be helped he sees that a young girl can read. He figures he has to be able to discover the letter's content by himself and decides he will save the letter and go to school, and wait to read the letter on his own.
Muchachas que trabajan
Original Music Composer
Working in a department store exposes young ladies to corrupting influences.
Juana Gallo
Music
Peasant woman leads a regiment during the final days of the Mexican Revolution. Also, romantic entanglements.
The Phantom of the Operetta
Original Music Composer
Aldo and his girlfriend Lucy reopen an abandoned opera house, but find out that the place is inhabited by a group of Phantoms wearing the Claude Rains 1943 Phantom of the Opera costume.
Amor en la sombra
Music
A daughter who idolizes her father discovers, just before he dies, that he was leading a double life and had a hidden lover.
Una estrella y dos estrellados
Original Music Composer
In his eagerness, to be movie extras, Tin Tan and his carnal Marcelo police get into trouble, among other entanglements.
The Woman and the Beast
Music
Dedicated, saintly nurse has a twin sister who is a Bad Girl.
El que con niños se acuesta...
Music
Chón is rejected by his girlfriend Rosario's parents, so they both escape to the capital in search of his friend Manny, a millionaire philanthropist, who helps him but makes him adopt four children from his orphanage.
Vivir del cuento
Music
X has to postpone his marriage for 3 months in order to collect a huge inheritance... so he hires Y to keep his fiancee and her father busy during the hiatus.
Flor de canela
Original Music Composer
Nightclub entertainer discovers the truth about her birth mother while making the right choice in her love life, choosing the good guy over the slimy, exploitative hoodlum.
La odalisca No. 13
Music
The Emir of Beirutistan gets the hots for a Mexican singer and arranges to have her kidnapped. Her costar and manager tag along to rescue her.
El gran espectáculo
Music
Plazos traicioneros
Music
A down in his luck film director falls in love with an attractive waitress and decides to launch her as a big singing star. Once the goal is reached, the girl runs away and becomes involved with a gangster who leads her into prostitution.
Refifí entre las mujeres
Original Music Composer
El farol de la ventana
Music
Sueños de oro
Music
Trip to the Moon
Original Music Composer
In this movie a couple of comedians try to disappear for a while and end up in an asylum, where confused as the mad, and try to escape, but one of them falls in love and that complicates things.
Pobres millonarios
Music
Squatter neighborhood finds a wealthy sponsor.
Cielito Lindo
Music
Revolutionist and Army General compete for a woman
El gato sin botas
Original Music Composer
Target of ridicule from fellow military academy, the cowardly Augustin did not want to return to their village for fear of confronting his grandfather, a revolutionary colonel. In love with the movie star Laura, Agustin flee to the capital but encounters the dangerous Humberto, another in love with the actress. Thanks to his "nine lives", he attains overcome perilous adventures and, incidentally, overcome their fears.
Comedians of the League
Original Music Composer
The guy that runs the concession stand at a vaudeville theatre gets tangled up with a gang of thieves.
Cada hijo, una cruz
Music
Empty nest syndrome, #1388.
Golden Wedding
Music
On their anniversary, a lomg-married couple reminisce about the history of their marriage
The Innocent
Original Music Composer
After a quarrel with her boyfriend on New Year's Eve, Mane drives her car from Mexico City to Cuernavaca to meet her parents in their country house. The car breaks down in the highway and Mane has to ask for help. Mechanic Cruci arrives and, after testing the car, offers Mane a ride on his motorcycle. Back in Mane's house, she invites him some drinks to celebrate New Year's Eve. They get drunk and, the morning after, Mane's parents arrive and find them sleeping together. Not knowing what happened, Mane and Cruci are forced to get married against their will.
Los hijos de Rancho Grande
Music
Sequel to Alla en el Rancho Grande, twenty years later -- sons and daughters of the original characters go through a courtship melodrama of their own.
Music School
Original Music Composer
Love in Four Parts
Music
Anthology film, four episodes.
La vida no vale nada
Original Music Composer
Pablo, a wandering laborer, has imprisoned himself in a hell of alcoholism. Cruz, a widow, reaches out to the troubled man, but even her compassion may not be enough to save him.
La mujer X
Music
A woman accused of murder refuses to defend herself in any way, in order to avoid tarnishing the family name and the reputation of her long-lost son.
The Doctor of the Crazy Women
Music
Los líos de Barba Azul
Original Music Composer
A news reporter falls in love with a millionaire's young daughter, but her father tells him he won't let them marry unless he earns one million Pesos first. Helped by a friend, he tries to earn the money by marrying - and murdering - four rich women.
School for Tramps
Original Music Composer
Alberto Medina is a very famous composer and is on a field trip when his car runs out of gas and goes downhill. While looking for help, he finds the Valverdes' house and is welcome by Emilia, the mother of the family, who is known for giving shelter to tramps. The rest of the family disagrees, because the last one disappointed her. In a story of family situations, funny moments and jealousy, Alberto ends up earning everyone's respect and has a special connection with the oldest daughter, the beautiful Susana, and they fall in love.
Beware of Love
Original Music Composer
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.
El hombre inquieto
Original Music Composer
Adult street urchin passes himself off as rich man's long-lost son.
El mil amores
Original Music Composer
Carmen has a daughter, Patricia, who attends a school for young ladies where they think Carmen is married to a sailor. Viviano is a friend of Carmen and when she needs it, he poses as the father of Patricia and she believes is her father. Actually, Viviano is engaged with Marilu
Prisionera del pasado
Music
Romance between a flamenco singer performing in Mexico and a gov't soldier during the Mexican Revolution.
Si volvieras a mi
Music
Mulata
Music
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.
Cuando me vaya
Music
Fictionalized version of the life of songwriter Maria Grever.
The Abduction
Original Music Composer
In a small Mexican village the news shock neighbors, Ricardo Alfaro, a wealthy local rancher has disappeared without a trace. Taking advantage of the circumstance, Aurora Campos, a strong woman with overwhelming beauty, convinces the authorities to sell her the property in exchange for twelve thousand dollars. Soon after, when Ricardo suddenly reappears, a real battle is about to begin.
Reto a la vida
Original Music Composer
Self-righteous young Social Services woman puts all her faith in the institutional answers to questions of the Public Good, and she destroys a couple of lives in the process.
Dos tipos de cuidado
Original Music Composer
Jorge Bueno and Pedro Malo are best friends who consider giving up their womanizing ways when they each fall in love. As fate would have it, Pedro Malo unexpectedly marries Jorge Bueno's girlfriend, and the conflict between the former buddies begins. A year later they find themselves in the same town and confront each other once and for all.
¡Yo soy gallo dondequiera!
Original Music Composer
Young man returns to his home town from USA to reclaim his inherited properties.
Nadie muere dos veces
Music
Big-league criminal escapes from jail, tracks down his ex-wife at a seaside resort. She kills him in self-defense, and then a guy who looks exactly like him comes along. Massive complications!
Pepe El Toro
Original Music Composer
The simple life and the values ​​of loyalty and solidarity of the poor people in the environment of professional boxing, is the plot of this film, where Pepe el Toro shows the effort and tragedies that are experienced in this profession.
El vagabundo
Original Music Composer
Homeless/unemployed dude has a spiritual awakening and rehabilitates himself working at a circus.
Me traes de un ala
Original Music Composer
To conquer the beautiful vedette Rosita, journalist Tin Tan is subject to her whims. Fired along with his friend Narciso from the newspaper they worked, Tin Tan trying to sell a movie plot. A woman looking to buy it and Tin Tan will visit her in a gloomy mansion where a mess is unleashed.
From the Village to TV
Original Music Composer
A young man goes to the capital to prove himself as an opera singer, after being rejected he must find other means to achieve fame
El enamorado
Music
Martin retired from his job as a hero because of his marriage to Rosario, a beautiful and ambitious girl who passed through the workshop where he works. However, Martin has to return in principle to help a friend from robbers.
A Place Close to Heaven
Original Music Composer
On reaching the capital, Pedro Gonzalez gets a lowly job and marries Margaret. After losing that job, get a new one as a bodyguard but is fired again. With so much poverty and despair Pedro believes that his only way out is suicide.
Por ellas aunque mal paguen
Music
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.
Los hijos de María Morales
Original Music Composer
Two brothers known in town for their womanizing, drinking and rowdiness meet their matches when two girls who like them decide to tame the two machos.
Meat in Prison
Music
Pedro is found guilty of murder after accidentally killing a friend's husband. His own family will face difficult times, as will he when he entrusts his freedom to the one he shouldn't.
Angélica
Music
Gangster-y club-owner vs. chorus girl. Blackmail, murder...
La loca
Music
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...
La miel se fue de la luna
Original Music Composer
Dr. Pablo, something womanizer, going to marry with Mini and cheats África, singer and his lover, telling her to wait while she is on tour in Cuba. With her, he poses as a friend industrial, Ricardo and his intention is not to see her again. While Africa is out he marries Mini, which proves to be terribly jealous. Complications ensue when Africa returns to Mexico and start searching for the fake Richard. By chance a friend of Mini will be in a beauty salon and this ensures she can take to "Ricardo" because is "a friend of her husband". A typical sitcom with a blistering pace.
La huella de unos labios
Music
Woman prostitutes herself to the man who murdered her fiance, to get evidence of his guilt and bring him to trial.
Far from Heaven
Original Music Composer
Pedro Gonzalez first gets into trouble as part of a criminal gang and then works honourably to become rich. Money is his undoing allowing him to become a womanizer and drinker, almost losing his wife. Finally he rejoins her, they have a son and he pays for his mistakes.
Cuatro noches contigo
Music
Traveling salesman meets a young woman who's running away from home, and helps her evade detectives who are tracking her.
Sandwiches Here!
Original Music Composer
College students, ready to start entering adult society, are ashamed of their working-class backgrounds.
Los enredos de una gallega
Music
Cándida is a Galician who lives in Mexico and has been selling lottery tickets. Her dream is to buy an inn, but doesn't have enough money. In her quest for trying to get it, she runs into a scammer. In a stroke of luck, she wins first prize in the lottery, but the misfortune is merciless with her ​​because she can't find the ticket.
Por querer a una mujer
Music
Ranch melodrama: romantic triangle leads to multiple murders.
Daughter of Deceit
Original Music Composer
In the drama, a father, firmly believing that the baby daughter in his arms is not his own, abandons her upon the doorstep of the town drunk. Many years pass, and the man finds himself continually wracked with guilt about deserting her.
My Outlaw Brother
Original Music Composer
Danny, a greenhorn from New York comes to the Mexican border in search for his older brother whom he has always looked up to. A Texas Ranger charged with bringing in, El Tigre and his gang of bandits, takes Danny under his wing.
Heart of beast
Music Director
Wanted criminal has plastic surgery, starts new life in a distant town. Old habits die hard.
Heart of beast
Music
Wanted criminal has plastic surgery, starts new life in a distant town. Old habits die hard.
Tierra baja
Original Music Composer
A poor shepherd is convinced to marry a beautiful woman. This is a Maquiavellian plan schemed by the woman's fiancé and her father.
El Siete Machos
Original Music Composer
Rosario, the niece of the rancher, returns to the ranch after ten years of absence. She takes in Margarito, a worker at the ranch, who is immediately smitten by her. Rosario is rescued from a runaway horse by the Seven Men, an outlaw a la Robin Hood that steals from the rich and gives to the poor. He also happens to be the twin brother of Margarito, unbeknownst to him. The confusion between Margarito and the Seven Men generates great comical situations in the film.
Inmaculada
Music
A single mother discovers her daughter getting ready to elope with an unworthy boyfriend, so she sits the girl down and tells her the whole entire story of her own very unhappy marriage.
Cuando acaba la noche
Original Music Composer
Newspaper reporter interests himself in contesting a manslaughter verdict on behalf of the son of a woman who saves his life.
The Devil Is a Woman
Original Music Composer
A woman, after committing a murder, flees into a church, confessing her life story to a priest.
Si fuera una cualquiera
Original Music Composer
Thou Shalt not Covet thy Son's Wife
Original Music Composer
An elderly man falls in love with a beautiful young woman, without knowing that she is in love with his son.
Red Rain
Music
Military leader is appointed to local government, becomes overly despotic in his leadership.
Entre tu amor y el cielo
Original Music Composer
Una gallega en México
Music
The Galician Candida has a bakery in front of the butcher Robustito, who constantly berates although children of both Aurora and Rodolfo are in love. In the neighborhood where they live, the neighbors prepared a joke to the galician girl. She gets angry Robustito hard time believing him guilty of what happened.
The Great Madcap
Original Music Composer
Buñuel's first "comeback" film since "L'Age d'Or" in 1930 (he made only a few musicals in the interim), "El Gran Calavera" concerns a family's attempts to change the patriarch's somewhat indulgent and hedonistic ways by fooling him into thinking his large fortune is gone. They assume a life of poverty in Mexico in an attempt to teach him a lesson. However, he discovers it's a ruse, but continues to perpetuate the facade of ignorance while sneaking off during the day to conduct his thriving business. Why? To teach his family a lesson - they are all lazy, worthless leeches!
La mujer del puerto
Original Music Composer
Orphaned, abandoned by her fiance, forced into prostitution by the absence of "respectable" alternatives.And the-e-en...
Las puertas del presidio
Original Music Composer
Unscrupulous boss frames an employee for a robbery so he can make time with the guy's sister.
Ángeles de arrabal
Music
Small-time crooks and bargirls, and also their mothers, get involved in a situation over some stolen jewels.
El embajador
Music
Perez Family
Music
Gumaro Pérez must fulfill all the whims of his wife, who is sworn lady of society even though the Pérez are not a wealthy family. In order not to look bad with his wife, Gumaro asks for a loan, but when he receives it, all his co-workers take it from him since he owes everyone money.
Midnight
Original Music Composer
A villain has his cronies kidnap a teacher and pretends to be him, teaching in a hidden town.
La vorágine: abismos de amor
Music
It narrates the adventures of the poet Arturo Cova and his lover Alicia, a story of passion and revenge framed in the plain lands and the Amazon jungle where the two lovers scape from society, and which exposes throughout its plot the harsh living conditions of settlers and Indians enslaved during the rubber rush.
Dicen que soy mujeriego
Original Music Composer
Pedro has had many lovers but he only loves one of them, but this romance stop going on for his flirts with other women.
Allá en el Rancho Grande
Music
Remake of famous 1936 ranchera musical.
You the Rich
Original Music Composer
Pepe el Toro is married to Celia la Chorreada and they have two children.
Algo flota sobre el agua
Original Music Composer
Labor disputes and love triangles among coastal-village fishermen.
Si Adelita se fuera con otro
Original Music Composer
Young couple run off to join the Mexican Revolution, in part because she has a crush on Francisco Villa.
May God Forgive Me
Original Music Composer
Concentration Camp survivor tries to start over with a new identity.
We the Poor
Original Music Composer
A poor neighborhood in Mexico City. Carpenter Pepe el Toro lives peacefully with his daughter Chachita while woos the pretty Celia, but tragedy knocks his door when he is falsely accused of having perpetrated a felony.
El canto de la sirena
Music
Mexican movie
Soledad
Music
Soledad, a maid born in Argentina, works at a Mexican farm. The son of her employer will deceive her, pretending to marry her and leaving her pregnant. When she finds out that she has been tricked, she runs away from the farm. During her flight she meets a group of artists that'll change her life.
Vuelven los García
Music Director
Ruled by a tough grandma, the Garcías are three charro cousins who fall in love with young American-born Lupita and fight for her love until grandma quiets them.
The Three Garcia
Original Music Composer
Ruled by a tough grandma, the Garcías are three charro cousins who fall in love with young American-born Lupita and fight for her love until grandma quiets them.
La barca de oro
Original Music Composer
Ranch-heiress chooses a husband.
La insaciable
Original Music Composer
Gran Casino
Original Music Composer
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.
La vida íntima de Marco Antonio y Cleopatra
Original Music Composer
El ahijado de la muerte
Music
Father of a newborn makes a deal with Death to protect his son.
Sol y sombra
Music
A drama film directed by Rafael E. Portas.
Bugambilia
Music
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.
Canaima
Music
College-educated emigre has to get macho when he returns home to the Venezuelan outback.
Adam, Eve and the Devil
Music
Me he de comer esa tuna
Music
In rural Mexico, a young man competes with his best school friend for the love of a girl whose marriage has been arranged by her parents.
Star Scandal
Original Music Composer
The story of the adventures and entanglements of the son of a famous film producer who is forced to study law.
Gran Hotel
Original Music Composer
Cantinflas is a vagrant being evicted for not paying rent, after wandering gets a job at the 'Grand Hotel' through a friend, that's confused by Count Zapatini, who is undercover in the hotel, stealing a gem making this funny movie more complicated.
La corte de faraón
Music
Remotely based on a famous Spanish zarzuela of 1910, this lavish, daring sex comedy was filmed on a gigantic art deco set that suggests ancient Egypt repurposed for an Astaire and Rogers musical. The Pharaoh, played here as a henpecked husband by the popular comedian Roberto Soto, seeks a virginal slave girl as a bride for his general Potiphar (Fernando Cortés), but Potiphar is impotent and the slave girl (played by Mapy Cortés in a swirl of high-spirited sexuality) has some ideas of her own.
Mexico of my Memories
Original Music Composer
After listening to the waltz "Carmelita", dedicated to his wife, President Diaz instructs Don Susanito seeking the composer Chucho Flores to give her a piano. Don Susanito located Chucho, a bohemian who lives drunk and surrounded by poets and artists. Don Susanito was named patron protector of artists and aspiring young stars of the stage, which leads to a series of adventures in the middle of songs, dances and loves.
La mujer sin cabeza
Music
Mexican Fu Manchu adaptation.
Viva Mi Desgracia
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After drinking a special concoction made of various types of alcohol, the once-timid Ramon (Pedro Infante) suddenly turns into a brawler and extroverted ladies' man. With his newfound confidence, Ramon attempts to win the heart of the woman (María Antonieta Pons) he loves. Full of enjoyable songs and funny scenes, this entertaining Mexican musical centers on a wealthy man who finally realizes that money can't buy him love.
Another Dawn
Music
The disaffected wife of a failed civil servant, is thrilled to re-encounter Octavio, a former lover who is now a union activist on the run from a corrupt politician. Hoping to help him, she descends into the Mexican underworld, where she finds a purpose-and a thrill-missing from her married life.
Romeo y Julieta
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Verona's peace is disturbed by the rivalry between noble families: the Montesco and the Capuleto, irreconcilable enemies. The two families have continued fighting to make life unbearable in the Italian town. The Prince of Verona informs the chiefs that the two families respond with their lives if there are new struggles. At a ball in honor of Juliet, the daughter of Capuleto, incidentally meets Romeo, son of Montesco. Both fall in love immediately, not knowing that their love is impossible.
Wild Flower
Sound
The film features Fernandez himself as a character named Rogellio Torres. The lion's share of the footage, however, is devoted to the romance between Esperanza, granddaughter of a common laborer, and Jose Luis Castro, the firebrand son of a landowner. Joining a revolutionary movements, Castro is disowned by his father, but Esperanza remains loyally by his side. Later on, Castro's father is killed by outlaws; in seeking vengeance, he sacrifices his own life, while Esperanza carries on his revolutionary work with their young son in tow.
María Eugenia
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Before marrying María Eugenia, landowner Carlos are away to visit her godmother to break the promise to marry his daughter. The godmother is dying, Carlos quiets and everything takes an unexpected course.
El Circo
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A cobbler gets a job in a Circus as a janitor, recommended by the beautiful girl rider of the show. But later, he gets in trouble when he involves in dangerous acts, such as the trapeze. Obviously, our friend will risk his life by the love of his new girlfriend.
The Spirit's Canyon
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The love between María Ángela and Fernando is impossible because there's an ancient history of hate between their families. His father killed hers, and other family members have killed each other for years. When María Ángela's grandfather finds she's in love with Fernando, he frames the young man and forces her to marry Manuel. Maria Ángela finds that Manuel doesn't love her and together plan her escape with Fernando. But things go wrong and the lovers find their destiny in The Spirit's Canyon.
Yo bailé con Don Porfirio
Original Music Composer
Light comedy in which Joaquin Cortes and Mapy Pardavé join their talents, written and directed by Gilberto Martinez Solares. It deals with the life of a pair of twins from a provincial family who emigrated to the city, then one begins to work in a music magazine and occasionally is confused with her sister, which causes problems with their respective boyfriends.
Story of a Great Love
Music
Manuel leaves town leaving Soledad in deep sadness. After several years of absence, the young man returns to find Soledad married to Antonio. However, the woman continues to be in love with him and both are determined to consummate their love.
The Three Musketeers
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Cantinflas and three friends return a stolen necklace to an actress who invites them to be extras at Clasa studios. While on the set, he falls asleep and dreams that he is d'Artagnan, fighting on behalf of Queen Anne.
Alejandra
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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.
Allá en el bajio
Original Music Composer
Ranchera/western; white hats vs. black hats.
¿Quién te quiere a tí?
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Neither he nor she are very handsome, not to say ugly, and how they would like to be good looking to give and receive compliments, and that someone loves them.
Lo que el viento trajo
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A 1941 film.
El jefe máximo
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A 1940 film directed by Fernando de Fuentes.
A Macabre Legacy
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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.
Canto a mi tierra
Vagabundo (as Los Cuatro Vagabundos)
Theatrical producers discover a new musical-theatre star in a small farming town.
Mientras México duerme
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Hombres del mar
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A 1938 film.