Maria Antonieta Pons

Maria Antonieta Pons

Birth : 1922-06-12, La Habana, Cuba

Death : 2004-08-20

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From Wikipedia Maria Antonieta Pons (July 11, 1922 in Havana, Cuba – August 20, 2004 in Mexico City) was a Cuban-born Mexican film actress and dancer. She was the first actress in the Rumberas films in the 1940s and 1950s, in the Golden Age of Mexican cinema.

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Maria Antonieta Pons

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Caña brava
Carmen
A sailor decides to marry his girlfriend, but her boss is in love with her and orders a beating for her boyfriend. Once the sailor regains consciousness, he is accused of murder and must flee. Once he gets to the port, however, he is beaten again, losing his memory as a consequence.
Romance in Puerto Rico
Rosina
Rosina is frustrated by her engagement to millionaire John Johnson III, a fussy, domineering, control freak. The night before her wedding, she goes out dancing with her maid María, María's husband Tomás, and their friend Gordillo. When Rosina learns Gordillo is a sailor on the yacht owned by Mexican film star José María Beltrán, she decides to stow away and sail to Mexico to be with her grandmother.
El centauro del norte
A Villista girl and a Huertista boy -- can their love cross ideological lines and heal a trembling nation?
Viva Jalisco que es mi tierra
Rosita
Mom doesn't approve of her son's fiancée, so she schemes a scheme to throw him together with a woman she likes better. It involves him leaving town to become a bullfighter, and...
Vámonos para la feria
Father insists that one of his sons get married... because with no woman in the house, they can't get a good meal. The rest of the movie is devoted to pairing off everybody in sight.
Una estrella y dos estrellados
Lolita
In his eagerness, to be movie extras, Tin Tan and his carnal Marcelo police get into trouble, among other entanglements.
Las cuatro milpas
Ferias de México
Itinerant card-shark with pre-teen daughter adopts an orphan boy; the children grow up and fall in love. Once they decide to get married, complications arise.
Acapulcan
Gloria
Gloria sells dolls in benefit of UNICEF and is interested in putting on an international show. In a hotel in Acapulco the ranchero Javier, the Muslims Mustafa and Ali, the Brazilian Mr. Carioca and the charro José Lorenzo meet to carry out the project. Among the men there will be a series of entanglements to dispute the love of the young woman.
Flor de canela
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
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.
Las mil y una noches
Professional story-teller falls afoul of a sultan, but saves himself from execution using the tricks of his trade.
Sucedió en México
Woman has plastic surgery and reevaluates her relationships with husband and lover while pretending to be a different person.
Los legionarios
AWOL from French Foreign Legion and hiding in a Prince's harem, clowns get mixed up in palace intrigues
Nunca me hagan eso
Blowhard's mouth runs away with him and he's trapped into having to prove that he knows Maria Antonieta Pons, the big movie star and stuff.
Teatro del crimen
Rosa Montejo
In a music hall has committed a murder, the police will also find the murderer.
La culpa de los hombres
Alicia Morales
A factory worker gets pregnant by the son of her boss, who forces his son to marry a rich girl he doesn't love.
¡Qué bravas son las costeñas!
Mexican-American playboy anchors his yacht offshore of a Veracruz fishing village and chases skirts in town.
La gaviota
Local gal in a fishing/seaport resort has to decide between a local fisherman and a doctor who comes for vacations.
Necesito un marido
After being stood up at the altar, a young heiress hires a burglar to pose as her husband to help her save face.
La engañadora
La niña popoff
Malicious gossip drives a wedge between a rising star in musical comedy and her songwriter boyfriend.
Carnaval Atlântida
Lolita
Movie producer Cecílio B. de Milho is intent on filming an epic about Helen of Troy, while some of the crew would rather turn it into a musical comedy.
María Cristina
Decent, hard-working young woman gradually finds her way toward love and happiness. With occasional spasms of Afro-Cuban dancing.
La reina del mambo
Nightclub performer escapes from her abusive manager and starts life over in a new city.
Piña madura
Bad woman plays men off each other to her advantage; she ends up with about 8 guys she's leading around by the nose. How long can this last?
Nuestras vidas
Frivolous woman falls in reallytruly love for the first time, but her past catches up with her and her fiancé kicks her to the curb. Then joining a convent and amnesia and stuff.
La hija del penal
A young woman who was born and grew up on an island prison-colony decides to move to the island and try life in the real world. Romance, bad luck and astonishing coincidences wait in her path.
La mujer del puerto
Rosario / Carolina Méndez
Orphaned, abandoned by her fiance, forced into prostitution by the absence of "respectable" alternatives.And the-e-en...
Flor de caña
Rural-community gal is being courted by a peon and by a land-owner.
La bien pagada
Carola Rute / Piedad la de los Diamantes
Melodrama about marital infidelity.
La sin ventura
Mexican movie
La insaciable
Velma
Ángel o demonio
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?
La vida íntima de Marco Antonio y Cleopatra
Cleopatra
La reina del trópico
María Antonia
Pasiones tormentosas
Fabiola
In a small tropical town, two sisters fight over the love of a young man named José. Fabiola is a noble woman but Sandra will do anything to get him, including witchcraft.
Embrujo antillano
Power struggles among the owners of a cigar factory;meanwhile, a society babe and a factory girl compete over the youngest of the executives.
Rosalinda
Two adventurers visit a small coastal village in 1850 in hopes of getting access to a shipwreck that took place 100 years earlier. Also, local girlfriends.
Los misterios del hampa
Man on death row narrates the story of his life from childhood up through the criminal activities he's being executed for.
Balajú
Margarita
Cruel destino
Two children grow up together and when the girl gets married, the young man realizes that he has always been in love with her.
Toros, amor y gloria
Farmhand moves to the city to be with his mother. He falls in love with the daughter of the rich family for whom she works as housekeeper, and decides to take advantage of his skill as a bullfighter to earn money and status enough to be able to court her.
Mi reino por un torero
Alicia
Professional bullfighter pretends to his girlfriend that he's a doctor, because her father hates bullfighters and would never let her marry one. Meanwhile...
Viva Mi Desgracia
Carolina Montero
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.
Konga Roja
Rosa
Heroic adventures in the banana industry.
Noches de ronda
Homeless singer-songwriter-piano-player gets a career boost with the support of a crippled waitress, and romance blossoms. Once he starts up the ladder of success, she starts feeling insecure about all the beautiful non-deformed women he's surrounded with.
Siboney
Siboney
In 1868, while the Cuban War of Independence develops, Gaston de Montero, a noble Spanish knight, rescues a young girl named Siboney and he helps her to become a successful dancer. Over time, she discovers that she is the daughter of a prominent aristocrat.