Esther Fernández
Nacimiento : 1917-08-23, Mascota, Jalisco, Mexico
Muerte : 1999-10-21
Historia
From Wikipedia
María Esther Fernández González, better known as Esther Fernández (August 23, 1917 in Mascota, Jalisco Mexico – October 21, 1999 in Mexico City, Mexico), was a Mexican film and television actress. She was one of the first female major stars of the "Golden Age of Mexican cinema" in the 1930s and 1940s.
Fernández began her career as an extra in the film La Mujer del Puerto (1934). Her beauty and charisma drew the attention of film director Fernando de Fuentes, who gave her the female lead role of Allá en el Rancho Grande (1936), opposite Tito Guizar. The film is regarded as marking the start of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema.
During the rest of the 1930s, Fernández acted in hit movies including Amapola del Camino (1937), with Andrea Palma and Tito Guizar; Mi Candidato (1938), with Joaquín Pardavé and Pedro Armendàriz; and Los de Abajo, with Isabela Corona and Emilio Fernández. Her popularity caught the attention of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, which promoted her films in Latin America and invited her to work in Hollywood.
In 1943 she starred in the second sound version of the classic Mexican film Santa, directed by Norman Foster, opposite Ricardo Montalban. In 1946 she acted in the Hollywood film Two Years Before the Mast, with Brian Donlevy and Alan Ladd.
Her last appearance was in the film Reclusorio II (1997).
Elderly woman bonds with other senior citizens for emotional support.
Lupita
Empty nest syndrome, #1388.
Three men in a mining community end up competing for the same woman.
Cruz
Sequel to Alla en el Rancho Grande, twenty years later -- sons and daughters of the original characters go through a courtship melodrama of their own.
Laura Ocampo
Hubby latches onto a series of side-pieces and wifey finds it increasingly hard to put up with his behavior.
Nurse
En la víspera de fin de año, Bernardo, dueño de un periódico, discute con Gámez Rivera, su director. Como resultado de la discusión Bernardo ofrece un premio de diez mil pesos al reportero que traiga la mejor noticia de esa noche. Los reporteros salen a la calle para encontrarse con distintas historias, interpretadas por una multitud de estrellas del cine mexicano
El parrandero Luis llega con su amigo Antonio a San Miguel para reunirse con su abuela, doña Luisa, y su hermana, Esther. Sin que ellos lo sepan, ha sido su compañera de tren Rosita, ahijada de doña Luisa. Esta recibe con bofetadas y bastonazos a Luis y Antonio, pues se ha enterado que antes de llegar han estado armando escándalos en las cantinas del pueblo. Viendo próxima su muerte, la abuela hace jurar a Luis ante la virgen de Guadalupe que abandonará su vida licenciosa hasta no casar a Esther, que es muy tímida. Muere doña Luisa; Luis y Antonio buscan un marido para Esther en un carnicero bonachón y en un adolescente ingenuo. Ninguno es del agrado de Esther, que se ha enamorado de Antonio.
Cuando la embarazada Esther recibe malas noticias de su doctor, el la aconseja visitar una clínica en Ciudad de Mexico, asique ella consigue que su marido Antonio la lleve hasta alli en seguida, con su hermano Luis. Tan pronto como los hombres la dejan en el hospital, llegan a un club nocturno y se vienen arriba y ellos estan dejando el club en compañia de una sexy bailarina ellos son robados: los criminlaes hasta han robado la ropa de sus pobres víctimas.
Slum child, abandoned almost since birth, is reunited with his father.
The 'other woman' tricks her fella into filing to divorce his wife.
Slumlord and his daughter interfere in the lives of the proletariat for personal gratification.
Rosario
Liberal farmer Pepe has arrived in Santa Fe to visit his aunt, Dona Perfecta. While he's there, Pepe is eager to teach the traditional-minded townspeople a new way of living. Unfortunately for Pepe the people of Santa Fe aren't eager to embrace change, and when the citizens begin to voice resentment Pepe is forced to seek refuge with his sympathetic aunt. Dona Perfecta is just as traditional as any of the other townspeople though, and only suffers Pepe due to the fact that he is family. When Pepe and his cousin Rosario fall deeply in love, the situation quickly comes to a head.
Ellos forman una peculiar pareja. Su vida transcurre entre abandonos de amantes, huidas picarescas de hoteles y espectáculos en cabarets. Ella no sabe quién es su padre ni ha pisado nunca una escuela. Su gran curiosidad la lleva a ser una autodidacta y con tan sólo nueve años se ha convertido en la “manager” y protectora de su madre. Pero ella pierde la custodia de su hija: todo su mundo de sueños, emociones y glamour se desmorona y empieza un descenso a los infiernos.
Teresa Mota
It's 1913, and noble Mexican General Pancho Villa leads his troops against the assassins of President Madero.
Isabel
Basda en la novela de Hermann Sudermann, “La dama gris”. Melodrama que cuenta la tragedia de una familia campesina venida a menos y que desea recuperar el dominio perdido.
Two romantic rivals join the Mexican Revolution on opposing sides. The movie's more interested in the love triangle than in the war.
Romantic melodrama with murderous rivalries, set on a newly-cultivated wilderness plantation in Guatemala.
Wicked old lady arranges to sell the virginity of a young neighbor. Her boyfriend gets upset over this.
Claudia
Two brothers "out on the ranch" fight over girls and stuff.
Película de enredos amorosos ambientada en un rancho mexicano.
Childhood friends move up the economic ladder from slumrat to middle class comfort, but the marriage between two of them is threatened by a bad woman from a nightclub.
This post-World War II drama, (released to a world-wide audience on July 9, 1949), is definitively unique for the caliber of each of its contributing writers, who are clearly better-known for their cinematic talents in black and white . For instance, the film's Director Chano Urueta ( who became an acclaimed actor in his own right), actually co-wrote the script along with one of its principal actresses, namely Esther Fernandez, as well as adding in the literary abilities of a well-known movie-producer of the era named Luis Marique.
Orphan girl grows up, meets the wrong man and falls into disgrace.
Maria Dominguez
Adaptación del diario homónimo de Richard Henry Dana Jr., un estudiante de Harvard que relata las durísimas experiencias vividas durante una travesía en barco como marinero desde el Cabo de Hornos hasta California.
Graciela Hernández
All of Mexico asks the same question, who has won the lottery jackpot of five million pesos? If the lucky person who won them does not show up soon to collect the prize, it will have to be raffled again.
A rootless wilderness-dude in the Venezuelan outback gets caught up in some human dramas despite himself.
Rina
City slicker scams on young farmgirl while her fiance's in USA on a work permit.
Maria Ines Flores
A stagecoach full of conflictive passengers makes its dangerours way from Mexico to Veracruz during the days of the French Intervention.
Santa
Tras quedar embarazada del militar Marcelino, la joven Santa pierde a su hijo y llega al prostíbulo de doña Elvira. Allí se encuentra a gusto entre las mujeres que le enseñan buenos modales y el pianista ciego Hipólito, su enamorado incondicional. Convertida en amante del torero Jarameño, Santa está a punto de irse con él a España cuando Marcelino vuelve a aparecer en su vida.
Combines airplane trips and fashion. Heavy on the fashion.
Camila
Liderados por el capitán Anastasio Montañez, el recién formado ejército de campesinos -hartos de las injusticias de los federales-, toma como código de honor saquear las casas para repartir las riquezas.
Marina
A 1938 film.
Un financiero amenaza con ejecutar la hipoteca de una fábrica de cigarros, pero un benefactor secreto paga la deuda del propietario y salva el día.
Lucha
Mexican feature film
Beautiful peasant girl runs afoul of her landlord's horny son and he poisons the well between her and her fiance, so she runs away and joins the Revolution.
Young silversmith runs for office, butts heads with political machine that's sucking the town dry.
Cruz
La amistad entre el hacendado Felipe y su caporal Martín se ve amenazada por una serie de enredos y malentendidos alrededor de la virginidad de Crucita, una joven campesina de la que Martín está enamorado. Las equivocaciones se van resolviendo entre coplas, bailes y canciones.
Alicia Monroy
A crazed scientist tries to keep his terminally ill wife alive by transfusing into her the blood of young women he murders.
Mujer de cabaret
Rosario, una joven campesina, se entrega por amor a su novio sin sospechar que él la engaña con otra. La decepción y el dolor por la muerte de su padre hacen que la joven huya a Veracruz y se convierta en prostituta. Una noche, Rosario conoce a Alberto, un marino del cual queda prendada. Tras pasar una noche de amor juntos, el destino les depara una cruel sorpresa.
