Anita Blanch

Anita Blanch

Birth : 1910-07-26, Valencia, Spain

Death : 1983-04-23

History

Anita Blanch (July 26, 1910 – April 23, 1983) was a Spanish-born, Mexican actress, who worked in the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. She was nominated for an Ariel Award from the Mexican Academy of Film three times and won the Best Supporting Actress Award from Diosa de Plata (Silver Goddess Award) in 1963.

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Anita Blanch
Anita Blanch

Movies

El testamento
Señorita Pilar Suárez Aragones
After the death of her husband the industrialist, unprepared trophy-wife takes over the management of his business concerns.
Pubertinaje
Three episodes: 1) "A Christmas dinner" where the family members fantasize about being somewhere else. The fetishist father wants to put on feminine clothes. The son longs for another transvestite adventure. The daughter yearns to be a singer and destroy the saints of the church with her voice. The youngest son wants to stab everyone dead. 2) "Game of mirrors". Two young classmates kiss on a picnic, but the girl's brother accuses the couple of being immoral. Bizarre things develop. 3) "Tetrahedron". A very fat man faces his girlfriend's longing for love.
Balún Canán
La maestra
Based on Rosario Castellanos' novel, Balún Canán is about the turmoil created by the Cardenas’ land reforms. Events occur in Chiapas on the border with Guatemala, mainly in a town called Comitán. Zoraida struggles and fights to keep her properties, inheritance for her only son. For her actions, the sorcerers of Chacjatal cast a death spell over her son.
El hombre del puente
A man without identity/citizenship papers is stuck in the no-man's-land between two countries.
Omen
Mamá Santos
While attending the birth of Isabel, the wife of foreigner Felipe, Mama Santos predicts that "something terrible is going to happen in the town." From this omen, calamities will torment the locals.
Los perros de Dios
Fantasy-life of an upper-class girl overwhelmed with spiritual questions.
Faith, Hope and Charity
Doña Lolita (segment "Esperanza")
Three episodes. Faith: a woman is attacked. Hope: a fakir is crucified. Charity: a woman faces bureaucracy.
Mujercitas
Extremely loose adaptation of Little Women, set in 1970s; three teenaged girls and a younger sister live alone after the death of their parents.
Renzo el gitano
Rodolfo wants to marry the aristocrat Adriana who rejects him. Humberto, her brother, kills a man for her. Rodolfo attributes the crime to the gypsy Renzo so that Adriana will gratefully marry him. Renzo is sent to the island of the condemned, where he is left for dead.
Mi mesera
Tlayucan
Señorita Prisca
Desperate because of his son's illness, the peasant Eufemio steals a pearl from the image of Santa Lucía in the village church.
Ellas también son rebeldes
Cristina Elizondo
The discovery of a young woman murdered in her car triggers unrelated problems among a diverse group of people.
The Man and the Monster
A failed pianist sells his soul to the devil in return for his becoming the greatest musician in the world. The catch: every time he plays he turns into a horrible monster.
Yo pecador
Biopic of a 1930s operatic tenor who ended up becoming a Franciscan monk and joining the priesthood.
La torre de marfil
Philandering husband drives wife to the brink of suicide.
Los salvajes
doña Ana
Pedro, a wealthy Mexican landowner, is convinced he can get everything he wants with money and arrogance.
La mujer que no tuvo infancia
Borderline mentally-ill woman with neurotic compulsion to behave like a child and the psychiatrist who looooves her.
La faraona
Jesusita
Pastora Heredia is a beautiful gypsy with great character who always tries to help the needy. One day she gots the notice of the death of his grandfather, a millionaire who lived in Mexico and that since his father was angry, she knew nothing of him. However, as Pastora was his only granddaughter and sole heir of all his property, it does not hesitate to cross the pond to claim his inheritance. But once there is that Don Guillermo, grandfather, not dead.
El mil amores
Señorita Directora
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
Magdalena
Family melodrama; one sister runs away with the other one's fiance. Twenty-odd years later, her daughter tries to make peace with the rest of the family. Plus accidental deaths and unwed motherhood and miraculous cures for blindness and near death experiences.
Damned City!
Mrs. María
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.
El gran mentiroso
A respectable, married gent has made up a passel of stories to cover for his fifteen years of frequent pleasure trips to the city. One weekend, one of his city friends meets his daughter in her home town and all his lies and cover stories start unraveling.
Adventure in Rio
Julia Galván
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.
Lullaby
A group of nuns raise an abandoned baby as their own inside a convent.
Misericordia
Faded rich family has a housekeeper who struggles to keep them fed and comfortable after their fortune disappears; she also sacrifices herself on behalf of sick and disabled friends. Is there no end to her nobility of spirit?
Sor Alegría
Night Falls
Sara
The arrogant Arizmendi, pelota champion, lives intoxicated by his success and disdain for women who love him. Arizmendi commits blackmail to lose a game. Convinced to get away with it, Arizmendi does not meet the covenant and must face the villainous revenge Marcial Gomez.
Mujeres sacrificadas
Ana, madre de Graciela
Nightclub dancer comes unglued after killing a man.
The Barracks
Teresa
The film chronicles the adventures of a peasant family of the late nineteenth century to push through his work with the opposition and hatred of the rest of the villagers.
El abanico de Lady Windermere
A woman with a dubious reputation causes problems in an aristocratic marriage.
La pequeña madrecita
Little girl develops her maternal instincts with dolls and with an infant cousin while family tragedies erupt over and over again around her.
Tres hermanos
The three sons of a Mexican family emigrated to USA end up fighting in WWII.
Alejandra
Irene
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.
El conde de Montecristo
Condesa Eloisa de Villefort
Adaptation of Dumas' swashbuckler classic.
¿Quién te quiere a tí?
Milagros
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.
Simón Bolívar
Fanny du Villars
Biopic of the revolutionary Simón Bolívar who fought to end Spanish rule over much of Latin America.
La casa del rencor
Martina
A 1941 film directed by Gilberto Martínez Solares.
Those Were The Days, Senor Don Simon!
Beatriz de Alpuche
A not very grief stricken young widow flutters her hand fan between a dashing young soldier and an elderly politician in this Belle Epoque era musical comedy.
Luponini (El terror de Chicago)
Luisa Benítez