Sofía Álvarez
Nacimiento : 1913-05-23, Bogotá, Colombia
Muerte : 1985-04-30
Historia
Carmen Sofía Álvarez Caicedo, better known as Sofía Álvarez (Bogotá, Colombia May 23, 1913 - Mexico City, Mexico April 30, 1985) was a Mexican film actress and singer of Colombian origin.
Born and raised in Colombia, she moved with her family to Mexico in 1928. Her film debut was a small part, in the role of a prostitute in Santa (1930), the first talkie of Mexican cinema. Popularly known as the lady of the long braids, she enjoyed popularity during the 1930s and 1940s as an actress and singer. Subsequently she performed with Mario Moreno Cantinflasin the popular film Ahí está el detalle (1940). In the 1940s, Álvarez is characterized by her interpretation of elegant ladies in films like El sombrero de tres picos and México de mis recuerdos (1943). She performed with the popular Pedro Infante in three films: Si me han de matar mañana (1946), La barca de oro (1947) and Soy charro de Rancho Grande (1947). One of her most celebrated films was La Reina de la Opereta (1945). In 1950 she left the cinema to continue as a radio singer. She returned to the cinema between 1957 and 1966, when she retired from the scenes. Her last film was El Gángster (1965), with Arturo de Córdova. She was noted for her excellent voice also that delicate features that printed her characters.
Julieta
Eric es un periodista que tras una amenaza deja de publicar. Nicolasa lo convence de investigar acerca de un pueblo despojado de sus tierras y recursos. Eric emprende entonces una búsqueda de justicia que lo lleva a encontrarse con su destino y con un ser mitológico que cuida de la niñez abandonada.
Betsy Rocola / Viuda Negra / Plañidera 1 / Plañidera 3
Ana, una niña de nueve años, llega con su madre a una playa aislada con la intención de descansar y conocer el mar. Allí, descubre que están bajo una terrible amenaza, por lo tanto, está obligada a buscar ayuda con su padre para salvar a su madre.
Associate Producer
A view of the end-of-the-century Mexican family. A father who comes back home after a long absence, but who would rather be somewhere else. A daughter suffering from a trapped pain. A son full of guilt and recriminations. A little kid who soaks up all the tension in the house, like a sponge, and a self-effacing mother who would like to go away and leave everything behind.
Paralítica II
Una joven sordomuda que vive y tiene relaciones carnales con un ciego mucho mayor que ella, atrae irremisiblemente a un timido instructor de manejo a un submundo extraño, alucinante, poblado por todos aquellos seres cuyas mutilaciones, impedimentos o diferencias fisicas, los han convertido en rechazados de la sociedad
Two wandering cowboys are falsely accused of murder.
Margot / Maggie la verde
Trata la historia de un antiguo Gángster "Tony Wall" que cansado de vivir fuera de la ley, de la lucha de pandillas en el Chicago de La Prohibición y quien después de haber saldado sus cuentas con la justicia norteaméricana decide rescatar la familia de su hermano, un científico ya fallecido, para vivir la tranquilidad del hogar al lado de la viuda "Isabel" y de sus dos "pequeños" sobrinos: "Carito" y "Pedro".
doña Lupe
Divorced Dad's planning to remarry, so Daughter #1 notifies Mom and Daughters #2&3. Then parents, daughters and boyfriends act out for 80 minutes.
Los miembros de una pandilla se matan entre sí por diferencias de opinión.
Young gunslinger gets his hero on. #2 in a series ("El Puma.")
Son of a ranching family returns home after studying in the city for a law degree. He sides with the peons in a labor dispute and his father disowns him; he sets up a law office in another town. First of three movies in a masked-avenger series.
Raquel de Alba
Famous bullfighter rises from humble beginnings, finds himself enmeshed in an emotionally-draining romantic triangle.
Lupe, La Tapatía
Un ladrón comete varias fechorías, sin embargo están a punto de tirarle el guante. Para despistar a la policía guarda las joyas en casa de su novia, a quien seduce para evitar que ésta se percate del atraco.
Outsider comes to visit a remote village as a representative of an oil company. Once there, he discovers that the man who owns the land he's interested in has a daughter who's identical to a bad, troubled woman from his bad, troubled past.
Cristina
Paco es un charro de rancho grande que se despide de su novia Cristina y de su padrino Florencio pués se vá a la capital para competir en la charreada nacional. Cristina y Florencio se enteran del triunfo de Paco por la radio y tras ganar decide regresar al pueblo encontrándose con una gran sorpresa. (FILMAFFINITY)
Chabela (Sofía Alvarez) es una ranchera muy poco femenina a la cual su padre quiere casar con un Ingeniero que llega al rancho a promover nuevas tecnologías, sin embargo Pedro (Pedro Infante) siempre ha estado enamorado de ella y al oír falsos rumores sobre el supuesto matrimonio de su amada con Carlos el Ingeniero se desilusiona. En el festival Chabela se viste como toda una dama siendo la sensación. Luego de una pelea entre Chabela y Pedro se besan, luego se casan y tienen una niña que sale igual que su madre. (FILMAFFINITY)
Romantic triangle during the Mexican Revolution.
Fernando y Paloma se enamoran, pero él debe partir. Cuando regresa, se entera de que Paloma ha muerto. Lo que no sabe es que estaba embarazada.
Blanca, una famosa cantante y bailarina...
Rosario Medina
After listening to the waltz "Carmelita", dedicated to his wife, President Diaz instructs Don Susanito seeking the composer Chucho Flores to give her a piano. Don Susanito located Chucho, a bohemian who lives drunk and surrounded by poets and artists. Don Susanito was named patron protector of artists and aspiring young stars of the stage, which leads to a series of adventures in the middle of songs, dances and loves.
Wicked man seduces virtuous young woman; she leaves home in disgrace. Etc.
Dolores del Paso de Lastre
La confusión entre el perro "Bobby" y un gángster del mismo nombre desencadena una serie de enredos entre un celoso marido, su nerviosa esposa, una pícara criada, una esposa abandonada con ocho hijos y el singular Cantinflas.
Sixteenth-century swashbuckler helps a young woman claim a rightful inheritance in the face of opposition from her father's widow and co-conspirators.
Valentina
A 1933 film.
Prostitute 1
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.
