Mona Maris
Nacimiento : 1903-11-05, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Muerte : 1991-03-23
Historia
Rosa Emma Mona María Marta Capdevielle, artistically known as Mona Maris (November 7, 1903, Buenos Aires - ibid., March 23, 1991), was an Argentine film actress who acted in Europe and the USA during the first period of cinema. She became known in Argentina as The Pride of the Pampas.
La Perichona
Un filme basado en hechos reales que narra la historia de amor que mantuvieron, en el siglo XIX, la aristócrata Camila O'Gorman y el sacerdote Ladislao Gutiérrez. Una relación que provocó el escándalo entre la iglesia y la sociedad de la época.
Margarita, a French courtesan, experiences genuine love for first time in the arms of much-younger Armand.
Yvonne
The attractive Argentine Don Careless is an adventurer and an excellent swordsman. Don is in love with Maria Moreno, since he had to emerge her jewels and had thereby to kill a shark. Don tries to prevent the forced marriage of Mary with the ruthless revolutionary Colonel Luis Corral. An armed clash between Don and Luis seems inevitable.
Marquisa Velasquez (uncredited)
Un torpe barbero se ve envuelto en una intriga política en la corte del rey Luis XV cuando se hace pasar por un apuesto noble prometido a la princesa de España...
Ambassador's Wife
Arlette Lafron, una joven delincuente que se escapa de un reformatorio, entra a formar parte de una banda de carteristas de París, cuyo jefe, un famoso ladrón, la convierte en la mejor de su promoción. Inexplicablemente, es sorprendida in fraganti en su primer hurto por un aristócrata que, a cambio de no denunciarla, le exige que ejecute un robo para él.
Raquel
La nueva intriga implica un reciente cuadro con la firma de un artista muerto 15 años atras, y el misterioso asesinato del dueño de una galería de arte, Tom termina con sus huesos en México en compañía de la bella Barbara (Martha Vickers), la hija del artista que busca respuestas acerca de la pintura y de su padre.
Princess Azala
Evil Hassan slips back into his native land of Ahad and plots to overthrow his twin bother, Kasim, who has just been crowned the Caliph. Hassan enlists the aid of the chief Chamberlain, Faud and they send several henchmen into the royal palace, who then knock Kasim unconscious. Faud and Hassan dispatch a couple of different hirelings to take Kasim into another part of the town and murder him.Kasin comes to and gets away, but has been wounded. Omar, a beggar, takes Kasim to his home and nurses him back to health. But, it takes a few weeks for Kasin to get healthy and, by that time, Hassan has a firm grip on the duties of a Caliph. In a storeroom, Kasim finds a coat of mail with a great hawk emblazoned across the chest and promptly decides this is the costume he will wear while fighting to get his old job back. Meanwhile, the Emir of Telif shows up with his daughter, Princess Azala, with the intent of marrying her off to the local Caliph.
Dolores Garcia
A story of of the captain of an oil tanker during World War II, Captain Bart Manson, who rescues Katherine Hall when her ship is sunk by a German U-boat.
Carla
Dana Andrews plays Bill Roberts, an American radio commentator station in Berlin in the months before Pearl Harbor. Having witnessed Nazi brutalities first hand, Roberts hopes to alert his listeners of impending dangers, and does so by sending out coded messages during his broadcasts. The Gestapo begins to suspect something and assigns glamorous secret agent Karen Hauen (Virginia Gilmore) to spy on Roberts. When she discovers that her own father (Erwin Kaiser) is supplying Roberts with vital secrets, she turns her back on the Nazis and joins our hero in his efforts.
Marika
Anna ha sido secretaria durante 6 años en el banco del Conde Willie Palaffi, un conocido playboy de la ciudad. Ella todos los días le deja unas flores en su mesa, pero él no sabe que existe. "Whiskers" se da cuenta de que ella sería la perfecta esposa para Willie y la invita a la fiesta de cumpleaños de disfraces del jefe. La secretaria personal de Willie celosa, pues lo quiere para ella, le ayuda a conseguir un disfraz de ángel. Pero cuando llega a la fiesta disfrazada todos se ríen de ella.
Olivia Kerlov
A code expert working for Naval Intelligence is assigned to decode enemy messages despite his desire for active duty.
Countess Mariana Rossini
Película biográfica que relata los primeros años de vida del compositor gay de la era de los noventa Paul Dresser mientras deja atrás su trabajo como animador de carnaval y asciende a la sociedad de Nueva York, escribiendo una canción de éxito tras otra. A pesar de su comportamiento egoísta, logra cortejar y conquistar a Sally Elliott, una de las cantantes más populares del momento.
Rita Mara
En esta ocasión Gay se dedica a Helen Reed (Wendy Barrie), una mujer valiente que conoció en la 1ª entrega en The Gay Falcon (El intrépido Halcón). Gay y Helen se supone que deben partir de la ciudad para encontrarse con su familia, pero surge un nuevo caso en el que se entrelazan un asesinato y una fórmula para fabricar diamantes falsos. No hace falta deciros, que los planes de Helen con Gay se verán frustrados, ya que nuestro héroe no puede resistirse a resolver el crimen.
Rita Marshall
Jim Conway, who works on a South American rubber plantation, leaves to meet a girl from the United States whom he is to marry. But he receives a telegram from her telling him she has married someone else. He goes to a waterfront café where he meets a singer, Joan Madison, and tells her his troubles. He asks her to marry him and return to the plantation with him using the name of the girl he was to marry. This strikes her as a great idea as she is a wanted fugitive.
Ms. Gessner
Un joven se siente especialmente atraído por la parafernalia exhibida por el Partido Nazi, siendo un ferviente admirador de las políticas expansionistas de Hitler. Sin embargo, cuando sus amigos comienzan a ser asesinados por la Gestapo, el muchacho cambia de parecer y decide ayudar a la resistencia alemana a acabar con la tiranía del Führer.
Ketti Moret
After his doctor informs him he will die in six months, Professor Henry Todhunter decides to spend his last days killing someone who contributes nothing but harm to society. When Henry learns that his friend Betty's husband, Michael, has been painting forgeries of ancient paintings for gallery owner Ketti Moret, he investigates the fraudulent dealer's life. Judging that Ketti is truly evil, Henry prepares to murder her.
Herself (archive footage)
Repugnante documental antisemita que alterna imágenes rodadas en la Polonia ocupada con diagramas animados y fotografía de personalidades judías del mundo de los negocios y la cultura, mostrando a los hebreos como una raza degenerada y diabólica, empeñada en dominar el mundo.
Combina imágenes de archivo (foto fija, noticiarios, secuencias de películas de ficción) con tomas realizadas en la Polonia ocupada. En conjunto, se trata de un documento absolutamente revelador sobre el proyecto antisemita nazi, en el que unas espeluznantes imágenes del sacrificio de animales según la ley Kosher (mientras la voz en off denuncia que la crueldad sobre los animales es incompatible con la sensibilidad del pueblo alemán) dan paso a la brutal secuencia final, en la que se anuncia la destrucción de la raza judía en Europa.
A blacksmith's son from Naples rises to become a celebrated opera singer, performing at La Scala in Milan.
Leilani
In this melodrama filmed on location in Hawaii, a sugar plantation manager finds himself falling in love with a native girl, but instead of committing to her, he marries a socially prominent young woman from San Francisco. The spoiled girl does not easily adapt to the rigors of plantation life and she gets terribly bored. She is just about to give in to the romantic overtures of a persistent native when her former lover shows up. The husband gets jealous and is about to attack him when the wife sets fire to the cane field. The husband's native lover saves him from death. Afterward, his wife leaves to be with her old flame, and the manager is free to be with the woman he's loved all along.
Raquel
Carlos Acosta (Carlos Gardel), tied to a flirty wife and in love with another girl, watches fate work out a solution that allows him to return to his real love after trips to Paris and New York City.
Countess Rita
El doctor Maurice Lamar, experto en cirugía plástica femenina, siente especial atracción por una de sus clientas, y acaba casándose con ella. Pero enseguida se da cuenta de que es una egocéntrica que solo está con él por su profesión.
Señora Lolita Martinez
In the 1860s, Mary Marlowe defies her father's wishes to marry a British lord and runs away with clerk John Carlton as he heads West to make his fortune. Mary and John endure the difficult journey and settle into a small cabin, then face the hostilities of a cattle rustling gang, as well as the tragic loss of their only son. With Mary's help, John defeats the gang, which propels him to political power that, over the years, gradually erodes the once-happy marriage.
Mexican Señorita
Poor Walter Catlett messes up the wedding of Joyce Compton and, after botching his suicide attempt, rides along on her honeymoon at Aguas Caliente. Can he get for himself some CALIENTE LOVE at the Casino, or will someone give him the sound thrashing he needs?
Mrs. Agnes Avery
Mientras interpreta la escena final de "El beso de la muerte", el protagonista muere asesinado. Los sospechosos son muchos, pues ha flirteado, actuado o contraido matrimonio con casi todas las mujeres del estudio. Cuando la protagonista es detenida, un guionista del estudio empieza a investigar el asesinato para demostrar su inocencia. (FILMAFFINIT)
Phyllis Fontaine (uncredited)
La historia de un estudio de Hollywood durante la transición del silente al sonoro.
Lilaya
Fresh from his success with the moody melodrama Murders in the Rue Morgue, director Robert Florey dashed off The Man Called Back at bargain-basement Tiffany Studios. The film is set in the tropics; Conrad Nagel tops the cast as a dissipated, derelict doctor, hopelessly in love with married socialite Doris Kenyon. Doris' insane husband John Halliday commits suicide, but arranges the evidence so that his wife will be charged with murder.
Consuela Delgado
Sergeant Carlos Olivarez (Buck Jones) becomes entangled in the machinations of an oil baron, havoc-wreaking bandits, and the femme fatale who ruined his brother.
Nina Estrados
Paris plumber Elmer Tuttle is enlisted by socialite Patricia Alden to help make her lover Tony Lagorce jealous. With the help of his friend Julius J. McCracken and through the high society contacts he has made through Patricia, Elmer hopes to find financing for his latest invention, a pistol with a range-finding light. Comic complications ensue when Elmer's effort to interest a military leader is misconstrued as an assassination attempt.
Fraulein Lolita
En los últimos días de la Primera Guerra Mundial, el estadounidense "Mistery Ship" zarpa de la costa de España. Su misión es encontrar y hundir un submarino que ha sido especialmente eficaz en atacar buques aliados. Haciéndose pasar por una goleta inofensiva, el "Mistery Ship" está equipado con un cañón formidable capaz de hundir submarinos.
José Mojica plays a singing vacquero who stops off in la cantina to have muchas cervezas with los muchachos. While José is all beered up, he boasts that he can tame the wild mare -- a horse no man can ride -- owned by local ranchero Don Alvarado (a stolid performance by Carlos Villarias). While he's in the neighbourhood, José also boasts that he can tame the Don's daughter, a Mexican spitfire played by Mona Maris.
Rosita Fernandez
Jerry Maxton, un mercenario de una república bananera de América Central, es contratado para que acabe con Morloff, un bandido. Tom Standish, sobrino del hombre más poderoso de la ciudad, le persigue y acosa por diversión, mientras Maxton intenta hacer su trabajo.
A maid with a checkered past falls in love with the son in the posh household where she works, and gives him a baby.
Rosario
Estrada, the chief government official of the region, has put a price on the head of José Savedra for causing the local people to rebel against his tax collectors. Dancer Rosario Montes also thinks that the tax levied against her "Fandango Café" is excessive and is not inclined to pay.
Lolita Roberto
Un vaquero llega a un pueblo y acaba intentando ayudar a un ranchero y acabar con una banda de ladrones de ganado, mientras flirtea con una hermosa muchacha.
Lorita
The Arizona Kid (Warner Baxter) carries out his mission as a Robin Hood-type bandit while posing as a wealthy and carefree miner. He falls for an eastern girl, Virginia Hoyt (Carole Lombard), accompanied by presumably her brother, Dick Hoyt (Theodore von Eltz), actually her husband. The Kid's mine is raided and two of his friends are killed and he learns that Dick and Virginia are the culprits...
Manuelita
Fox's immediate follow-up to its successful early-talkie western In Old Arizona was 1929's Romance of the Rio Grande. The story focuses on the Alvarez family of Mexico, specifically fabulously wealthy Don Fernando. Intending to bequeath his vast fortune and estate to his long-estranged grandson Pancho, Don Fernando must contend with his ne'er-do-well nephew Juan.
Mona Bermond
Princess Antoinette
Because she has fallen in love with an unknown man, young princess Antoinette has fled to Berlin before her planned marriage with a prince. Incognito, she works for the fashion house Pappenheim, where salesman Egon Fürst falls for the young girl. Antoinette′s rigid uncle is sent to bring the royal runaway home, but he mistakes another mannequin for his niece, therefore taking the wrong girl to his castle in Baden-Baden. The whole Pappenheim company, including the princess, also goes to Baden-Baden for a fashion show, which means even more excitement and confusion.
Lucia Morelli
Lisette Blanchard
In Paris an Apache dancer weds his ex-fiancée's sister for revenge but learns to love.