Blanca de Castejón

Blanca de Castejón

Birth : 1907-04-28, Orocovis, Puerto Rico

Death : 1969-12-26

History

María Blanca Josefina Regalado Castejón y Otero (May 13, 1906 – December 26, 1969), better known as Blanca de Castejón, was a Puerto Rican actress who is best remembered for her work in the Golden Age of Mexican cinema, especially her award-winning supporting role in Escuela de vagabundos (School for tramps, 1953).

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Blanca de Castejón
Blanca de Castejón

Movies

Zodiac Signs
Lola Casarini
A group of young people makes a plan to escape from the problems of their neighborhood.
Vagabundo y Millonario
María de Aguilar
Tin Tan stands in as the double of a kidnapped millionaire.
3 Lessons of Love
Doña Angustias
The rigid professor Germán, president of the League of Honor and Modesty, hates statues of naked women, but the spirit of his ancestor Casanova leads him to episodes of debauchery and conquest. Married to the rigid Severa, he becomes a corrupt mayor. Only the moralistic Rosa will be able to free him from these strange influences to improve his life and that of the town.
Mientras el cuerpo aguante
Housekeeper inherits her employer's fortune, tries to enter into society and make a good match for her God-daughter.
School for Mothers-in-Law
Dizzy society matron plucks a hobo out of the gutter to rehabilitate him.
El gallo colorado
A young street vendor who is a cockfighting aficionado, attracted by the image of one of them, settles on the ranch of its owner where he falls in love with the foreman's daughter. All the problems happen and some that afflicted the ranch in the past are solved by him.
School for Tramps
Emilia de Valverde
Alberto Medina is a very famous composer and is on a field trip when his car runs out of gas and goes downhill. While looking for help, he finds the Valverdes' house and is welcome by Emilia, the mother of the family, who is known for giving shelter to tramps. The rest of the family disagrees, because the last one disappointed her. In a story of family situations, funny moments and jealousy, Alberto ends up earning everyone's respect and has a special connection with the oldest daughter, the beautiful Susana, and they fall in love.
Prefiero a tu papá
Theatre director macks on his sons' girlfriends.
Mamá nos quita los novios
Amanda, a widow, is a beautiful woman that finds comfort seducing every man in her path, including her daughters' boyfriends.
Los apuros de mi ahijada
Irresponsible playboy-type needs to cut down on his nightclubbing and his expensive women-friends and buckle down to his Uni studies. Meanwhile, his godfather...
Todos son mis hijos!...
Good son takes the blame for father's peculations and goes off to work in the rain forest to pay off Pops' debt. Meanwhile, daughter and bad son neglect their aging parents, whose fortunes decline precipitously.
Nosotras, las taquígrafas
Blanquita López
Young women in the steno-pool have to balance work, romance, and touchy-feely bosses.
Yo también soy de Jalisco
A dizzy rich woman buys their horse, and three rubes get involved in the problems and intrigues brewing in her household.
Cuide a su marido
High-society comedy in the screwball vein.
Yo soy tu padre
Doña Carmen
La barca de oro
Costume Design
Ranch-heiress chooses a husband.
Los maridos engañan de 7 a 9
Focuses on the emotional life of two women, whose husbands, with labor excuses, make "outings" from 7 to 9 at night.
Divorciadas
Three newly unmarried women room together, start a business, share the ups and downs of their love lives
Ave sin nido
Husband, sterile wife, fertile mistress, daughter.
La razón de la culpa
Romantic comedy.
Qué hombre tan simpático
Doña Blanca
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.
Los hijos mandan
Based on the Spanish play "El caudal de los hijos" by José López Pinillos. Francisca, the daughter of a provincial gentleman in Valencia, falls in love with Miguel, a young sculptor. When Miguel leaves for Paris to complete his studies, the lovers promise to wait for each other. During Miguel's absence, however, the Duke of Montesino calls on Francisca's father and asks for her hand in marriage. Her father, pressed for money because of gambling debts, agrees to the match.
Los hijos mandan
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Based on the Spanish play "El caudal de los hijos" by José López Pinillos. Francisca, the daughter of a provincial gentleman in Valencia, falls in love with Miguel, a young sculptor. When Miguel leaves for Paris to complete his studies, the lovers promise to wait for each other. During Miguel's absence, however, the Duke of Montesino calls on Francisca's father and asks for her hand in marriage. Her father, pressed for money because of gambling debts, agrees to the match.
Mis dos amores
Rita Santiago
Rita Santiago's father, Don Antonio, stubbornly refuses to give permission for her to marry Julio Bertolin, a struggling medical student, because he wants his daughter to marry a rich Brazilian. Because of this, Julio leaves medical school and determines to gain wealth and position for himself by becoming a singer.
El carnaval del diablo
Crimen a las 3
A famous singer in love with a woman takes the blame for a crime to save her.
There Were Thirteen
Peggy Minchin
This is the Spanish-language version, with a different cast and crew, of the Charlie Chan film Charlie Chan Carries On, in which Charlie sets out to discover the killer of an American found dead in a London hotel room.
Slaves of Fashion
Dora Durke
A woman owning a small dressmaker's shop decides to reopen it in Broadway in luxury at all expenses, trusting merely on the cards'premonitions. She wants her little children to pair with the richest boys. Her husband, who discouraged her, dies and the business soon takes flight.
Resurrection
Simultaneously shot Spanish version of Tolstoy adaptation: After a woman he has formerly mistreated is sentenced for a crime a man who was part of her jury joins her on the trip to Siberia to expatiate his guilt.