Maruja Grifell

Birth : 1907-02-07, Mexico City, Mexico

Death : 1968-05-26

Movies

El jinete justiciero en retando a la muerte
Guy gets mugged on horseback and left for dead; farmgal nurses him back to health and when he's on his feet again, he puts a domino on and swings into J J action.
Aquella Rosita Alvírez
Traveling cowboy gets involved in political issues in a town he passes through. Also a romance.
Rogaciano el huapanguero
Itinerant folk-singer returns to his home town, gets caught in two intersecting love triangles. It ends badly.
Good Love
Mother and son conspire against his sister when she marries against their wishes.
Pancho López
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).
The Innocent
Madre de Alberto
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.
Ladies Club
Esposa de Susanito
Lonelyhearts advisor on a tv show becomes feminist icon and movement-leader.
..Y mañana serán mujeres
Grad student takes a summer gig acting as house mother/chaperone to a group of teenaged girls vacationing at a country villa.
Beware of Love
(uncredited)
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.
La visita que no tocó el timbre
Two underachieving brothers take responsibility for an abandoned baby.
¿Por qué ya no me quieres?
Tía Elena
El casto Susano
Father and son are sober, responsible pillars of the community in their home-town... but they make frequent trips to the city.
Camelia
Actriz (uncredited)
A woman of low estate is beloved of a promising young man, but sacrifices her love for him in order to protect his future and reputation.
Reportaje
Party guest
Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve.
Dos tipos de cuidado
Matilde (uncredited)
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.
No te ofendas, Beatriz
Young couple looks for a way to wiggle out of the marriage their parents have arranged for them.
El mensaje de la muerte
Mujeres que trabajan
Espectadora desfile de modas
Women connected with a female-run employment agency and a women-only boarding house bond together in mutual support.
Me traes de un ala
Eulalia
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.
Siete mujeres
Mexican feature film
El mar y tu
"La Fragata"
Acapulco
Enriqueta
Young lady goes shopping for a millionaire husband.
From Can-Can to Mambo
Mrs. Perfecta
Young man convinces his conservative uncle that trendy modern stuff is fun.
Sandwiches Here!
Carlota
College students, ready to start entering adult society, are ashamed of their working-class backgrounds.
In the Flesh
Mamá de Arturo
A beautiful cabaret dancer falls in love with a sailor who promises to return and marry her. Trouble ensues.
Si usted no puede, yo sí
Out-of-work actor and his burglar pal get jobs at an agency that pledges to do things the client doesn't want to deal with. Meanwhile, their boss is being stalked by seven Italian brothers who want revenge for something that happened to their great great grandfather.
Manos de seda
Marquesa del Valle
The Adventuress
Consuelo Tejero, Elena's mother
Left alone after her mother runs off with another man and her father kills himself, Elena attempts to make a new life for herself in a new city. Believing he's a friend, Elena goes to dinner with "Pretty Boy" Lucio, but he drugs her champagne and sells her to Rosaura, who runs a brothel out of her nightclub. Elena becomes a sensation as a dancer, but all the while she nurtures plans of revenge against those who have conspired against her.
Una mujer decente
Attracted by Armando, Rosa, comes to him in love. Armando travels to Paris and his return contract an advantageous marriage to Margaret. Rosa gets pregnant and is fired from her job. He goes to work as a dancer in a theater, where he acquired fame under the name Alma Rosa. Meanwhile, Armando's marriage is not going well. One night cabaret where acts Alma Rosa and then become lovers.
Inmaculada
Madame
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.
Esposa o amante
Perdida
La Turca
Her stepfather rapes her and she runs away to home. After that, she's exploited by a series of men, and...
La vida en broma
Invited to party
Many many mistaken identities and impostures overlapping among a group of husbands, wives and others.
The Great Madcap
Milagros
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!
Confidencias de un ruletero
Madame Mimi
Taxi driver takes the wrong passenger at the wrong time and gets caught up in a murder investigation.
Felipe de Jesús
Madre de Felipe
Biography of the first Catholic Saint to be born in Mexico.
El pecado de Laura
La güera
Young woman breaks her engagement to be married when an opportunity for stardom comes her way.
A Family Like Many Others
Madre de Roberto (uncredited)
The dynamics of a typical middle-class family are shaken up after the introduction of an enthusiastic door-to-door vacuum salesman.
Salon Mexico
Profesora (uncredited)
Mercedes (Marga Lopez) dances for money with the clients of Salon Mexico, a famous cabaret in Mexico City. Her younger sister Beatriz (Derbez) studies in an expensive private school, paid by Mercedes. Obviously, young Beatriz doesn't know about her sister's job. Troubles begin when Mercedes wins a danzon contest with Paco (Acosta), her pimp. Paco refuses to share the prize with Mercedes, so she steals the money when he's sleeping.
Flor de caña
Rural-community gal is being courted by a peon and by a land-owner.
El gallo giro
Mom and Pop want him to settle down , but the youngun's convinced he could be a big star singing rancheras; he convinces his folks to give him six months in the big city to launch a career and prove himself.
Una aventura en la noche
Esposa de Alfonso
Film version of the 'hitchhiking ghost' urban legend.
Músico, poeta y loco
An underaged heiress is sent to a reformatory by her unscrupulous guardians to prevent her from fulfilling the conditions of her father's will. Meanwhile, a street-vendor gets mistaken for an eminent psychologist and is hired to teach at that reformatory.
¡A volar, joven!
Doña Encarna
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.
The Other
Sirvienta (uncredited)
A mousy, poor manicurist seeks to switch places with her more glamorous, wealthy twin sister.
Cantaclaro
A rootless wilderness-dude in the Venezuelan outback gets caught up in some human dramas despite himself.
La mujer de todos
Portera
A beautiful woman of affairs falls in love with a handsome young man of great promise. Fearing for his future, the man's father begs her to leave his son so that her reputation will not hold him back.
Bugambilia
Matilde
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.
Las abandonadas
Francesa
A young woman, abandoned by her womanizing fiancé, is forced to provide for the upbringing of her son and combat the difficulties of being an unmarried mother during the strife of early 20-century Mexico.
Adulterio
Man commits suicide over his wife's infidelity. His father spends the rest of his life trying to figure out which of son's two children is illegitimate.
La monja alférez
Reverenda madre
A 17th century woman, imprisoned for fighting in a bar, recounts her past to a priest. She tells of her father teaching her how to fence, of being sent to a convent by her aunt when her father died, of escaping by dressing as a man, and of her life as a man following the escape.
Another Dawn
Ruiz wife
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.