Mimí Derba
Nacimiento : 1893-01-01, Mexico City, Mexico
Muerte : 1953-07-14
Historia
Mimí Derba (1893–1953) was a Mexican actress and the first female director in Mexico. Derba founded one of the very first Mexican production companies, Azteca Films. She had a successful career in Vaudeville before entering films.
Doña Josefa
Dos amigos rancheros están enamorados de dos jovencitas del pueblo. Pedro ama a María, hermana de Jorge, quien está enamorado de Rosario, la hija de un abonero árabe. Jorge tiene que irse del pueblo y al regresar un año después encuentra a Pedro casado con Rosario. Despechado, Jorge trata de arruinar a su ex-amigo y rival sin sospechar que todo el embrollo es producto de la nobleza de Pedro.
Doña Elena, madre de Isabel
Un hombre discute con su esposa. Ésta sale de la casa corriendo en el auto y fallece en un extraño accidente.
Slumlord and his daughter interfere in the lives of the proletariat for personal gratification.
Abuela de Ricardo
Young lady goes shopping for a millionaire husband.
Doña Beatriz
Tin Tan es un repartidor de pan que vive en una vecindad. Un día tiene un accidente de bicicleta con la hija de un millonario y ella se enamora en secreto, pero cree que Tin Tan está enamorado de su sirvienta.
Bachelor pretends that he got married, thinking that will stop his aunt from trying to play matchmaker.
Doña Emilia
Singer's-rise-to-stardom plot combined with long-lost-son plot.
Mamá de Bertha
Un grupo de mujeres trabajan en una oficina, una de ellas está enamorada de su jefe y otra de un abogado que es casado.
Madre superiora
Novice nun returns to her parent's home to save the family fortune by marrying a creditor.
Madre de Luis Angel
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.
Doña Eugenia
Many many mistaken identities and impostures overlapping among a group of husbands, wives and others.
Doña Margarita
La muerte de Cardoza, candidato a presidente municipal de un pueblo y enemigo del cacique Rosauro Castro, lleva al licenciado García Mata a emprender una investigación. Al llegar se da cuenta de que el pueblo entero, incluyendo al presidente municipal, vive atemorizado por el cacique y que solo la venganza logrará poner fin a las injusticias cometidas por Rosauro Castro
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.
Nun
Miguel es seminarista junto con su amigo Toño, van a visitar al tío de Toño quien es un mujeriego y parrandero, el cual reta a Miguel de ser poco hombre. Miguel consigue trabajo enseñando en una escuela de señoritas donde es muy asediado. Finalmente, después de muchas tentaciones, Miguel deja el sacerdocio para casarse y Toño se vuelve sacerdote.
Romantic triangle on the hacienda.
Dona Mercedes
Acacia, hija de la hacendada Raimunda, odia a Esteban, segundo marido de su madre. Con tal de huir de su hogar, Acacia acepta casarse con Faustino, a pesar de no estar enamorada. Esteban, enamorado de Acacia, manda a asesinar a Faustino. Acacia termina enamorándose de Esteban y enfrentando a su madre. (FILMAFFINITY)
Based on a popular song. An unhappy love affair becomes an excuse for heavy drinking and all-round debauchery.
Señora directora
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.
La Millonaria
Pepe se encuentra con Manuel, el verdadero padre de Chachita, el cual la atrae hacia su casa con dinero y amenazando a Pepe. El Tuerto escapa de prisión y, en venganza con Pepe, causa una explosión en donde muere El Torito, hijo de Pepe, y Manuel, al salvar a Chachita de las llamas. (FILMAFFINITY)
Young composer in a small town where everyone is very nurturing of his talent finishes his first opera and goes to Mexico City to get it produced. Over half the movie is taken up with a performance of his masterpiece.
Mamá de Cristina
A farmer is in love during revolutionary times.
Madre de Antonieta
Convict breaks out of jail to undo aristocratic crimes involving a fortune in jewels, a servant wrongfully accused of theft, and a dispossessed young heiress.
The owner of an illegal gambling casino witnesses all the problems in the life of her dissolute son and finally acts in a way that'll help him rehabilitate himself.
Misogynist military asshole is laid up for a month with a broken leg and during his convalescence he learns all the needed life-lessons.
In rural Mexico, a young man competes with his best school friend for the love of a girl whose marriage has been arranged by her parents.
Doña Engracia
Mamá de Teresa
Teresa (María Félix) es una joven de clase media que tras asistir a un baile de gente aristocrática, y de confirmar su belleza y encanto, decide salir de la pobreza a base de su belleza, convirtiéndose en una "trepadora social". Sus principales víctimas serán Don Alfredo Velasco (Fernando Soler) y su sobrino político Enrique Ferrer (Antonio Badú). La desgracia de toda una familia no será obstáculo para la ambición de Teresa.
Triángulos románticos entre la gente de la ciudad y la gente del campo, con nuevos problemas de dinero que complican la historia.
Doña Lupe
Mexican movie
British-born David T. Bamberg was a magician who went by the stage name of Fu Manchu. He was so popular in Mexico and South America that he was given the opportunity to star in a series of crime / horror / mystery films between 1943 and 1949. This is one of them.
Doña Clara
The film features Fernandez himself as a character named Rogellio Torres. The lion's share of the footage, however, is devoted to the romance between Esperanza, granddaughter of a common laborer, and Jose Luis Castro, the firebrand son of a landowner. Joining a revolutionary movements, Castro is disowned by his father, but Esperanza remains loyally by his side. Later on, Castro's father is killed by outlaws; in seeking vengeance, he sacrifices his own life, while Esperanza carries on his revolutionary work with their young son in tow.
Romantic comedy.
Virginia
Antes de casarse con María Eugenia, el hacendado Carlos se ausenta a visitar a su madrina para romper la promesa de casarse con su hija. La madrina está muriendo, Carlos calla y todo toma un rumbo inesperado.
Aristocráticos pero sin dinero, los Veradada tienen que recurrir a los préstamos del comerciante libanés Jalil, cuyo hijo Selim, sufre los desprecios de Marta, la despilfarradora hija de los Veradada. Al ser invitados a la hacienda de don Guillermo, Jalil, su esposa Suan y Selim son objeto de burlas y desprecios. Finalmente, la trabajadora familia libanesa pone en su lugar a los ridículos familiares de don Guillermo.
Doña Panchita
During the early XX Century, a lovely woman dancer has an amazing success in a place called "Cafe Concordia". She is courting by many men, buts he is in love with Ernesto, a young man whose parents are against their relationship. Ernesto invites Raquel to a party at his home but she is snubbed by his mother and offended by a slighted pretender. Ernesto faces this man in a duel in which he is about to be killed by his rival, but Raquel protects his body and receives the bullet. She dies in Ernesto's arms.
La marquesa
A 1938 film.
The story narrates the idyllic and tragic love between María and her cousin Efraín, both natives of Valle del Cauca. In the middle of a romantic and bucolic landscape, the young characters fall in love with each other but circumstances prevent the full realization of their love.
Sixteenth-century swashbuckler helps a young woman claim a rightful inheritance in the face of opposition from her father's widow and co-conspirators.
Doña Elvira
Santa is a beautiful and very humble young girl living in Chimalistac, a small and quiet spot south of the 1930's Mexico City. After Santa is cheated by arrogant soldier Marcelino, she's rejected by her family and friends and expelled of Chimalistac. Santa finds shelter in a whorehouse and becomes a cinic and bitter woman, mistreated by bullfighter "Jarameno" and silently loved by blind pianist Hipólito.
La soñadora ("The Dreamer") is a 1917 Mexican silent film. It features Sara García as an extra.
Producer
The attractive and rapturous Eva is ready to do anything to be the protagonist of a cruel and painful romance. Determined, the young woman falls in love with the humble craftsman Bruno, whom she later abandons to marry the millionaire Ernesto. Bruno goes mad with pain and is admitted to a madhouse. In delirium, Bruno imagines a tigress with Eva's face attacking her in her delusions.
Director
The attractive and rapturous Eva is ready to do anything to be the protagonist of a cruel and painful romance. Determined, the young woman falls in love with the humble craftsman Bruno, whom she later abandons to marry the millionaire Ernesto. Bruno goes mad with pain and is admitted to a madhouse. In delirium, Bruno imagines a tigress with Eva's face attacking her in her delusions.
Producer
Soul Sacrifice is a 1917 Mexican silent film. It features Sara García as an extra.
Soul Sacrifice is a 1917 Mexican silent film. It features Sara García as an extra.
Writer
The recently orphaned Enriqueta has to work to earn a living; She finds a job with the widower Julio Mancera, for whom she works as governess for her little daughter. After a while, the two fall in love and get married. But then, Julio's cousin Eva returns from Europe and tries to separate the couple. She is almost successful, but her plans are thwarted at a party she throws for Julio and his friends, where she is surprised by Julio, Enriqueta, and the other guests in a compromising situation with Julio's best friend, Mauricio.
The recently orphaned Enriqueta has to work to earn a living; She finds a job with the widower Julio Mancera, for whom she works as governess for her little daughter. After a while, the two fall in love and get married. But then, Julio's cousin Eva returns from Europe and tries to separate the couple. She is almost successful, but her plans are thwarted at a party she throws for Julio and his friends, where she is surprised by Julio, Enriqueta, and the other guests in a compromising situation with Julio's best friend, Mauricio.
Director
Producer