Elvira Quintana
Birth : 1935-11-07, Montijo, Spain
Death : 1968-08-08
History
Spanish-born Mexican actress, singer, and poet. her family migrated to Mexico when she was 5 years old. She began her career working in theatre and later participated in films as an extra. Her first important role was as Carmen Ochoa in "Una solución inesperada", a segment of the drama film Canasta de cuentos mexicanos (1956). She then enrolled in the National Association of Actors' theatre and film institute (Instituto Teatral y Cinematográfico). She was given her first starring role in El buen ladrón (1957) before her breakthrough in Bolero inmortal (1958), in which she debuted as a singer; the film's soundtrack album, for which she recorded songs, was a commercial success throughout Hispanic America. She starred opposite Pedro Armendáriz, her favorite actor, in Dos hijos desobedientes (1960). Greatly admired by audiences for her beauty and talent, she became one of the most popular Mexican performers of the 1960s.
Campesino with leadership qualities is indecisive about whether he should join the Revolution or concentrate on improving conditions at his farm, also about whether he cares about the nice girl he grew up with or the fancy woman who runs the local brothel. Most of his plot points don't come to a head until after the revolution's over, and then after General Huerta's coup.
Tin Tan is marooned on an island full of colorful natives.
Griselda Rios
An heiress and some friends pose as gypsies to fight back against some bad-hats who are squatting on her new estate.
Amparo
The story of the ruthless female boss of a hacienda who meets her match in the city-educated Santos Luzardo.
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.
Elvira
Divorced Dad's planning to remarry, so Daughter #1 notifies Mom and Daughters #2&3. Then parents, daughters and boyfriends act out for 80 minutes.
Controlling papa won't let his daughters have boyfriends.
Film of 1963 directed by Humberto Gómez Landero, starring Elvira Quintana, Manuel Capetillo and Joaquín García Vargas.
Millionaire goes slumming, meets a girl...
An American priest is hired as coach at a Mexican university; he trains his students in the ways of American football and moral rectitude. You ain't gonna sire no babies out of wedlock on Father Lambert's watch, no siree!
Rita
Female CEO hires a man to pass as her husband and act as figurehead of her business concerns.
Chabela
Hired gunman tries and fails to kill The Sheriff. Then the gunman's kid brother coms to town, thinking The Sheriff is to blame for the gunman's death.
Marisela
A cabal of bad-hats is conspiring to dispossess the local Indians of their hereditary lands, but Pancho fights to defend them... while a messenger is securing copies of some needed legal documents. Etc. Second film of four in the series "Pancho Pistolas."
Karina
Four men are cursed by a voodoo priest for stealing a sacred idol from his temple. Soon a band of murderous "doll men" are after the men and their families.
Unscrupulous landowner and his family are trying to deny water rights to the townsfolk. Particular beef with the guy that runs the mill. Ultimately the Revolution rolls through town and helps put everything right.
Fancy shooting-iron awarded as a prize in a marksmanship competition, passes from hand to hand.
Film clips of songs by performers from around the world.
Each of the boys and girls at the coffee shop has something snarled in their love life.
Professional gambler finds metaphysical meanings in the way he manages the workings of chance.
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.
Crooked promoter has a secret weapon who goes around beating fighters to death after their matches if they aren't in line with his rigging schedule. Part one of two.
Rosa
Timid, browbeaten salaryman becomes famous author overnight.
Minha
Family builds a houseboat and sets sail down the Amazon. Based on a novel by Jules Verne.
Rebeca Ponce
A young professional hires a sex-worker to pass as his wife in a situation that requires him to seem married. Later they think about getting married for reals... but mostly they just recite monologues to each other.
Young singer becomes famous, has an affair with a married man.
Bad-hat townsfolk want to dispossess local Indians of their tribal lands; priestess and white ally fight back. One of four in a series.
Rosa
Empty nest syndrome, #1388.
Myriam
Comedic retelling of the events around the biblical character: Samson.
Two married couples' lives are disrupted when the husbands disappear while on vacation. When the men are reported dead, the two women start a dance band... And then...
Cabaretera
Unscrupulous rich guy owns all the businesses in border towns, is challenged by town's new priest.
A man sells his wife, and takes care of street women turning them into ladies to sell to rich men.
Police detective and his plucky girl-reporter fiancée go after the gang that committed a train robbery.
