Delia Magaña

Delia Magaña

Birth : 1903-02-02, Mexico City, Mexico

Death : 1996-03-31

History

Delia Magaña was a Mexican film and television actress, singer, and dancer. Although she started as a silent film actress, Magaña became best known for her comic supporting roles in her later years. For her 60 years in the film industry, as well as for contributing to the American cinema, Magaña's name and hand print are preserved in the sidewalk outside Mann's Chinese Theater in Hollywood, California.

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Delia Magaña

Movies

Y tú... ¿quién eres?
Nosotros los pelados
Slice-of-life comedy/melodrama aout life in a working-class neighborhood.
Terror en los barrios
Rita's Aunt
Traumatized child grows up to commit serial murders, targeting men and women who look like his mom and her boyfriends.
La golfa del barrio
Left grief-stricken when his bride dies unexpectedly on their wedding night, desperate newlywed Juan Pablo jumps into a relationship with a sexy pickpocket in this romantic Mexican drama. At first, Juan Pablo desires only the touch of a woman, but things change when he begins to have strong feelings for Rosa. Sasha Montenegro, Susana Cabrera, Roberto Montiel, Eduardo de la Peña, Anaís de Melo and Delia Magaña star.
El ánima de Sayula
Lagunilla 2
El fantasma del lago
Minerva Ruiz
Picardia mexicana 2
Three truckdriving pals drink a lot and raise hell.
Call Me Mike
Mike's Mother
After being unjustly accused of corruption and seriously injured in prison, Miguel's personality will merge with the characters he reads in his police novels.
¡Esa mi raza!
A greedy man gets a job in politics thanks to his connections - and abandons one of his two children to pursue his fortune. Many years later, his abandoned son impersonates his twin brother, who has fled the country.
Picardía mexicana
An academic tags along among a crew of rowdy delivery-truck drivers, taking notes on their colorful and idiomatic use of language.
Guerra de sexos
A soccer coach gets caught in the middle of the conflict between a millionaire and his wife.
The Nights of Paloma
While being shuttled from her convent/boarding school to her wedding, a young lady of the upper classes is kidnapped by bandits. She gets to see the world and meet interesting people.
Don Herculano enamorado
Doddering old man makes a play for a married woman. Her husband gets practical joke-y in revenge.
Satanic Pandemonium
Mother Superior
Sister Maria is known in the convent for her good works and charity, but, in the secret depths of her sexual fantasies, she is tormented by visions of another world - a world where her forbidden passions are allowed to run free. In this world Satan is her master. As her acts of violence and blasphemy mount, Maria realizes that she has been chosen by the Devil to destroy the convent and lead her sister nuns into hell!
Tu camino y el mio
She rejects him, but he's there for her, even after she gets married and then is abandoned by her babydaddy. Remake of Bajo El Cielo De Mexico (1958) (and also 1937?).
El Quelite
Pecosa
Agapito, leader of the revolutionary movement of his state, comes to a town, kills all the federales, and gets a girl who was promised to him for his heroic deeds.
Mi padrino
Bumbling oaf takes custody of his god-daughter and helps her advance her singing career.
The Prodigal Son
Sofia
Suffering mother is reunited with her son after a long absence... and he turns out to be a real rotter.
Sor Ye-yé
Monja sorda
Maria is a young orphan who lives with her wealthy aunt. Maria sings in a cocktail bar with his friends, who form a rock band, and enjoy the night with them. One of his friends, Ernesto, is in love with her, though she does not seem to feel the same about him. In fact, multiple existential doubts and feel a strange emptiness in his life suddenly drive to enter a convent as a novice, breaking Ernestos' heart. However, with her cheerlul character, open and rebellious, not appear to conform to life in the cloister, and especially have problems with the novices director , who often punished for trying to take the right path. In the convent, which also functions as children's hospital, she meets a doctor with which it takes quite right for the contrast between his two characters, but his way with love and mutual respect.
Alazán y enamorado
Delia Varela, nana
Rom-com about two horses. And some humans.
Los Malditos
White-hat cowboy takes down a Western gang-leader and his hired guns.
El hijo de Gabino Barrera
Gabino's son tries to find out why his father was murdered.
El corrido de María Pistolas
Sequel to Maria Pistolas. Comic-tomgirl member of Villa's army has boy trouble.
María Pistolas
Tomboyish gal becomes a player in the Mexican Revolution. Then: boyfriends.
El norteño
Lawman on horseback cracks a case involving stolen gold bullion, the title to a mine, an evil twin and a plucky pre-adolescent boy. First in a series.
Vuelven los Argumedo
The Argumedo cousins have their clothes stolen while taking a shower, and they must find it at all costs, because there's a winning lottery ticket in their pockets.
Los amigos Maravilla en el mundo de la aventura
Little cowboy-fella, believed to be an orphan, helps his sheriff buddy to stamp out crime. Second of two in series.
Vuelven los cinco halcones
Cowboy justice, Five-avenger team up. #2 in series of two.
Ahí vienen los Argumedo
La máscara roja
Young heiress discovers irregularities in the handling of her late father's mine and goes into action-hero mode to correct them.
Los valientes no mueren
Charro-dude wants his sister to marry into professional city-folk and move into the upper classes... but she's in love with somebody from their own social stratum.
Póker de reinas
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.
Isla para dos
Middle-aged painter and young musician fall hard for each other while on vacation. Then she discovers he's married.
La feria de San Marcos
Two men and two women meet and pair off (m/w x 2) during the town Festival in San Marcos. Later, weddings.
Comedians of the League
Doña Fredonia
The guy that runs the concession stand at a vaudeville theatre gets tangled up with a gang of thieves.
Los tres bohemios
Three struggling musicians share an apartment.
La pantera negra
Fed agent goes undercover as roving cowboy to solve rural crimes. "Mauricio Rosales" Series.
Los chiflados del rock and roll
Pensión de artistas
Between-engagements troupers at a theatrical boarding-house con a rich acquaintance into financing a show.
La sierra del terror
Federal police agent goes undercover to bust rural crime ring. Series western.
Pueblo quieto
Son of a first family returns to his home town, reconciles with his pops, pitches woo at the young lady from another First Family and gets rampy with his rival for her affections.
El secreto de una mujer
Artist has affair with his favorite model. She reveals to him that his wife had a baby before they married. And the-e-en...
La sobrina del señor cura
A pregnant parishioner can't get her boyfriend to marry her and the home office thinks that foundling girl the priest took in is too old now to live under the same roof with him. It's always something, ain't it?
El valor de vivir
Concert pianist unjustly convicted of espionage. On release, he hooks up with a terminally-ill ballerina.
Sandunga para tres
Three boys and three girls. First all the boys are fighting over one of the girls, then all the boys are fighting over another of the girls and yadda yadda yadda.
Se le pasó la mano
Prefiero a tu papá
Theatre director macks on his sons' girlfriends.
El ruiseñor del barrio
Ten or twelve years ago, a young man wrecked his car and his wife was killed in the accident. Today, his wealthy mother-in-law is still full of hatred and bitterness toward him, and she prefers not to acknowledge her granddaughter. Will love and tenderness find their way into the crusty old bitch's heart?
Those Green Eyes
Orphan girl under the protection of a benefactor begins to suspect that her mother had an affair with him and that he's her father.
La niña popoff
Malicious gossip drives a wedge between a rising star in musical comedy and her songwriter boyfriend.
Loving Was His Sin
Two sisters fall in love with the same man. Plus fatal illness.
Vivillo desde chiquillo
A freeloader goes through a case of mistaken identity after a man tries to blackmail a married woman and he's caught in the middle of everything.
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...
¡… Y murío por nosotros!
Chepina
El Siete Machos
Chole
Rosario, the niece of the rancher, returns to the ranch after ten years of absence. She takes in Margarito, a worker at the ranch, who is immediately smitten by her. Rosario is rescued from a runaway horse by the Seven Men, an outlaw a la Robin Hood that steals from the rich and gives to the poor. He also happens to be the twin brother of Margarito, unbeknownst to him. The confusion between Margarito and the Seven Men generates great comical situations in the film.
Inmaculada
Severina
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.
Un corazón en el ruedo
Famous bullfighter rises from humble beginnings, finds himself enmeshed in an emotionally-draining romantic triangle.
Yo quiero ser hombre
Cuando los hijos odian
Woman and her daughter try to get on with their lives and run their family bakery while dealing with abusive alcoholic husband/father and other family problems.
Dos tenorios de barrio
Two small-town hustlers are mistaken for government officials.
The Seminarian
Pita
Returning to his home town, seminarist Miguel is forced to trade the robes for a charro costume in order to solve several problems that appear in his way, including the female kind.
Rondalla
Romantic triangle on the hacienda.
Hay lugar para... dos
Union-organizing and labor/management conflicts among Mexico City bus-drivers. Sequel to "Esquina, Bajan!"
Café de chinos
Naive Chinese immigrant has feelings for a young woman of loose morals whom he hires at his restaurant.
You the Rich
La Tostada
Pepe el Toro is married to Celia la Chorreada and they have two children.
Charro a la fuerza
Mistaken identity farce; heiress has to marry to receive an inheritance.
Dos de la vida airada
Comical misadventures of two goofballs looking for work.
El nieto del Zorro
Two strolling players are mistaken for locally-famous bandit. Also, a young lady's inheritance is at stake.
We the Poor
La Tostada
A poor neighborhood in Mexico City. Carpenter Pepe el Toro lives peacefully with his daughter Chachita while woos the pretty Celia, but tragedy knocks his door when he is falsely accused of having perpetrated a felony.
¡Esquina bajan...!
La Bicha (Waitress)
El tigre de Jalisco
A very ordinary little mook is manipulated into posing as a notorious bandit.
The Naughty Son
Socorro
A poor young man is mistaken for a millionaire when he travels to the city to fulfill his dream of being a singer.
Bésame mucho
A cluster of young performers will do just about anything to get their show produced.
El Gran Makakikus
Uncultured nouveau- riche wants to be received in high society. Loose adaptation of Moliere.
La monja alférez
Elvira
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.
La Guerra de los Pasteles
Musical comedy about a pastry chef and his daughter in the 1830s
Divorciadas
Three newly unmarried women room together, start a business, share the ups and downs of their love lives
Mi viuda alegre
A 1942 film directed by Miguel M. Delgado.
Cascarrabias
An irascible retired old lawyer exposes a diamond thief.
Así es la vida
A British ex-Grenadier Guards officer moves to America, but struggles to find work. After he is employed as a chauffeur to a wealthy family, he falls in love with his employer's daughter.
Charros, gauchos y manolas
The magazine "Paintings of the People" initiates a contest to select the best watercolor painting of ethnic peoples and customs. A hungry bohemian painter invokes his muse to help him to produce the winning painting, and when he experiments with scenes set in Mexico, Argentina and Spain, his paintings come to life. In Xochimilco, Mexico, a young bachelor has a drunken dream that his girl friend is performing Josephine Baker's famous banana dance in a Parisian nightclub. In Buenos Aires, an Italian and a Galician are rivals for the affections of a Creole girl. At the other side of the Hispanic world, a Sevillian girl tells of her tragic romance with a matador, who obstinately continues to appear in the ring despite having been injured.