Carolina Barret
Birth : 1916-10-21,
Death : 2009-10-13
History
The beautiful actress Carolina Barret (October 20, 1916 - October 13, 2009) was an actress of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema as a supporting character with an extensive career and designated as an honorary member of the Mexican Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
In addition to dedicating her life to Mexican cinema, she participated in several U.S. productions. In his last years he made some telenovelas.
ARIEL AWARDS. - 1947 Actress Canaima (Winner). - 1956 Supporting actress Espaldas mojadas (Winner).
- 1974 Female co-actress Calzonzín inspector (Nominated).
Semi-employed street musician butts heads with his wife and grown(ish) children because of his irresponsible lifestyle. Then he lucks into a cushy government job.
Widowed,middle-aged sadsack has never known love in any of his marriages.
Mrs. Quijanito
While trying to save the famous Tivoli burlesque theater, the participants uncover a web of commercial corruption.
Doña Pomposa
Mexico's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1974
Clownish simpleton can't resist meddling in his neighbors' business. Pretty much a remake of El Reveltoso.
(segment "La insaciable")
Anthology film: three "sophisticated" rom-com scenarios.
Landru, a French businessman, arrives Mexico with the idea of promoting their fighters, what nobody knows is that besides Landru promoter and fighter is a mad scientist who seeks to alter human genetics mixing it with the animal to make stronger and fiercer to their gladiators.
Five criminals are arrested after a bank-robbery. One escapes, and the police officer in charge of transporting them arrests a new person at random to cover up for his negligence.
Enfermera en oficina
The love affairs of two couples, modern parents a couple of troubled teens.
Sonia's Mother
A man comes home after serving 18 years in jail for murder in this routine western. Although the man killed in self defense, rumors in town circulated that he murdered the victim in cold blood. The ex-con wants to get his life together, but the two sons of the slain man are gunning for the man who killed their father.
Two construction workers discover a stash of gold coins hidden in the walls of a building they're demolishing.
Clotilde
A cowboy and his sidekick meet a ranching family that is haunted by spirits and vampires.
La Gitana
Two doctors make a pact in which they swear that the first to die will return - if possible - to tell the other how to get a glimpse of the afterlife while still alive.
Consuelito, comadre
Kidnapping band has a system set up to transport infants and older children to black-market adoptive parents in the USA.
A couple of people cover up their own mishandling of other people's money by claiming to have been robbed by a masked bandit. When the law comes looking into the situation, it becomes necessary to find someone to impersonate that bandit. Remake of El Tigre De Jalisco (1947).
Mexican feature film
Leonor
Big-city songwriter and small-town music student conduct a romance by mail, then finally meet.
Margarita Frías
Mexican worker Rafael Améndola runs from the police and cross the Mexican-American border, helped by Frank Mendoza, a partner of an American called Mr. Sterling, who gives work to illegal migrants. Once in the United States, Rafael does not adapt to his new life.
Two poor children swear an oath: one will study, the other will work and support them both. The worker turns to crime...
Josefina
A humble provincial writer who wants to publish his first book offers it to a film producer who is looking for locations for a film at that time. The novelist's family then moves to the big city, where they will have to face many adversities that will make them wish they had never left their village.
Sad lonely spinster makes friends with a little boy in the park, ends up kidnapping him when she learns about how unloved and neglected he is at home. And then...
Newlywed couple move from small town to Mexico City. Their first night in the city, they get separated by accident, and it takes them 90 minutes and lots of incidents before they find each other again.
Luisa
Tourist gets bonked on the head, suffers an amnesiac fugue, wanders away from her husband and children, becomes an evil prostitute-y thief-y saloon gal.
Decent, hard-working young woman gradually finds her way toward love and happiness. With occasional spasms of Afro-Cuban dancing.
Young woman loses her secretarial job, so she tries to become a bill-collector.
Mercedes
Convicted on flimsy evidence of complicity in a jewel robbery, there's nothing he can do afterward to put his life in order. Downward spiral.
Wicked old lady arranges to sell the virginity of a young neighbor. Her boyfriend gets upset over this.
Rural-community gal is being courted by a peon and by a land-owner.
Mexican movie
Margarita
Cantinflas is a private in the military, who doesn't know anything about discipline or following rules. He only wants to think about his girlfriend, the maid in an opulent hacienda. The owner of the hacienda has an ugly and shy daughter, who is in love with Cantinflas. The problems arrive when the family arranges a wedding between the ugly girl and Cantinflas, who in order to avoid the commitment gets himself arrested. During his punishment, Cantinflas learns to fly with a silly and poorly trained flight instructor.
Ana
An unmarried lawyer defends his ward's boyfriend, accused of murder. One of only a handful of films produced by RKO’s short lived Latin American production arm Ramex.
Rosita
"The great love of his life" happened five times; one of those women just wrote him a letter. Which one will it be?
Flora
All of Mexico asks the same question, who has won the lottery jackpot of five million pesos? If the lucky person who won them does not show up soon to collect the prize, it will have to be raffled again.
Romantic triangles, rural/hacienda setting.
Rosita
Two charros from Hacienda A come a-courtin' to hacienda B, owned by a friend of their father's. Also a horse-race.
Juanifacia
College-educated emigre has to get macho when he returns home to the Venezuelan outback.
Romantic comedy/drama.
Lola Gutiérrez
The story of the adventures and entanglements of the son of a famous film producer who is forced to study law.
Vecina (uncredited)
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.
Gracia
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.
Julia
When her father dies, a young woman must go to Michoacán to take charge of her lands, where she meets a young man and they both fall in love.
Tacha
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.
Flora
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
Romantic comedy.
Mulata
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.
Conchita
Amable is the drinking buddy of Paquito, a former medical student who plays Fanny's love, a cabaret singer and also with Conchita, a showgirl. One day, Paquito receives a telegram that his uncle Pancho vayaa asked to see his wife and other medical eminence to heal him his kidney ailment. Among all a hoax to mount Paquino not lose the inheritance from his uncle.
La amiga de la novia
A 1942 film.
Sirvienta de Lulú (uncredited)
Bedroom farce, with three men claiming the same woman as their mistress.
Cabaretera
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.
A 1940 film directed by Enrique Herrera.
Pueblerina (uncredited)
Theatrical producers discover a new musical-theatre star in a small farming town.
Carolina (uncredited)
With revolutionary Mexico as a backdrop, a successful local rancher returns triumphant from the war to the praise of townsfolk, and "El General" is ready to take a wife. However the senorita of choice already has fallen for a secret admirer, and a boyhood rival who is threatened by the General's popularity in turn plots against his life.
