Alfredo Varela
Nascimento : 1912-11-30, Mexico City, Mexico
Morte : 1986-05-01
História
Alfredo Varela was born on November 30, 1912 in Mexico City, Mexico as Alfredo Varela Catalá. He was an actor and writer, known for El infierno verde (1952), Duro pero seguro(1978) and El extra (1962). He was married to Yuyú. He died on May 1, 1986 in Mexico City.
His parents were the actors Alfredo Varela Sr. and Adela Catalá.
Semi-employed street musician butts heads with his wife and grown(ish) children because of his irresponsible lifestyle. Then he lucks into a cushy government job.
Don Gaspar
Young rural-gentry dude sows wild oats, settles down to raise a family, and fights in the Revolution, all at the same time.
Screenplay
Screenplay
Nicolasa sells tacos near a movie studio and her popularity threatens the restaurant's own studies. She drops the food when seeing actor Armando performing and the director expels her out.
Story
Nicolasa sells tacos near a movie studio and her popularity threatens the restaurant's own studies. She drops the food when seeing actor Armando performing and the director expels her out.
Director Alejandro Ramírez
Nicolasa sells tacos near a movie studio and her popularity threatens the restaurant's own studies. She drops the food when seeing actor Armando performing and the director expels her out.
Adaptation
La India Maria becomes the municipal president due to a ballot typo.
Zubieta (segment "Esperanza")
Three episodes. Faith: a woman is attacked. Hope: a fakir is crucified. Charity: a woman faces bureaucracy.
Bureaucrat
Tizoc wishes to eat a chicken by himself and have his own piñata. At Christmas his father Carmelo grants his wish.
Writer
Two Air force pilots are best friends in that competitive, always picking fights with each other way.
Writer
Boy/girl stuff at a health spa that's famous for aphrodisiac waters.
Screenplay
Upon hearing the news of Madero's death, Porfirio Alcalá and his four cousins interrupt their peaceful lives as farmers to again join the Mexican Revolution.
Story
Upon hearing the news of Madero's death, Porfirio Alcalá and his four cousins interrupt their peaceful lives as farmers to again join the Mexican Revolution.
Upon hearing the news of Madero's death, Porfirio Alcalá and his four cousins interrupt their peaceful lives as farmers to again join the Mexican Revolution.
Screenplay
A whore house is transformed into a decent household by a respectable man.
Ramirito
A whore house is transformed into a decent household by a respectable man.
Screenplay
Señor Frégoli 'Fregolini'
Story
Writer
Writer
Jewel-thief and his girlfriend try to go straight.
Writer
Writer
Three-episode sex farce.
Roberto is tired of his life as an office worker in Mexico City, so he moves to Acapulco to try his luck as a "Latin lover".
Writer
Roberto is tired of his life as an office worker in Mexico City, so he moves to Acapulco to try his luck as a "Latin lover".
Story
Blended family comedy/drama -- the narrative hook is that the two original families are fans of opposing soccer teams.
Writer
Manuel, the manager of the (real-life) Hotel Condado Beach in San Juan, and his assistant Paquito decide to promote their establishment by offering free "honeymoons in Puerto Rico" to newlywed couples.
Screenstory
Chilo
Aurelio is a shark fisherman who works very hard to send money to his family in the city and keep Manela, his young lover on the coast. One day, he decides to move to the big city.
Adaptation
Cowboy justice, Five-avenger team up. #2 in series of two.
Story
Cantinflas is a man who hangs around the studios and helps anyone who needs his advice while at the same time envisioning his own versions of how certain scenes should be shot. Both angles provide ample opportunities for very witty, subtle barbs at the foibles of the industry.
Adaptation
Gritty-western (B&W/1962 style) about bounty hunters.
Screenplay
Three newlywed couples and the priest who married them face problems imposed on them by unquestioning adherence to patriarchal values.
Adaptation
Honeymooner has trouble adapting to the idea of consummating her marriage.
Honeymooner has trouble adapting to the idea of consummating her marriage.
Adaptation
Five cowboy avengers avenging. Cowboyishly.
Adaptation
Female CEO hires a man to pass as her husband and act as figurehead of her business concerns.
Adaptation
Paloma is bound and determined to kill the heck out of the guy that dishonored her sister, but mistaken identities and stuff.
Adaptation
Mad scientist brings his dead mad scientist grandfather back to life and makes a Frankenstein-type monster out of him.
Adaptation
A busfull of tourists arrives in Acapulco; each passenger has his/her little chunk of drama or comedy.
Comical crises in the household of a newlywed couple.
Writer
Called to the home of a scientist to deal with a simple electrical problem, bumbling electrician Bartolo finds himself aboard a rocket headed for the moon!
Writer
Trophy wife of a crooked industrialist meets a philanthropic doctor and develops a social conscience. Mexican remake of Born Yesterday.
Writer
Nun tries to heal the relationship between a six-year-old boy and his estranged father.
Mad scientist gives Atomic Powers to a 98 pound weakling.
Writer
Rom-com set during Mexican Revolution.
Struggling musician finally reaches the big time, then a scheming gold-digger gets her hooks into him.
Heaven Can Wait scenario; a young woman dies forty years ahead of schedule because her guardian angel made a mistake... so the divine powers that be put her back on earth in a new body.
Revolutionist and Army General compete for a woman
Adaptation
The story of a famous singer who reaches the highest position in the world of varieties, but is forced to cede her throne to the young star of the moment, repeating the same situation that she starred in in her youth.
Writer
The story of a famous singer who reaches the highest position in the world of varieties, but is forced to cede her throne to the young star of the moment, repeating the same situation that she starred in in her youth.
A couple of people cover up their own mishandling of other people's money by claiming to have been robbed by a masked bandit. When the law comes looking into the situation, it becomes necessary to find someone to impersonate that bandit. Remake of El Tigre De Jalisco (1947).
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.
Small-town elects a female mayor. She suppresses all the time-honored masculine pastimes, and the men rebel.
Chinelas
A useless and bloody vendetta has been going on for ages between two families in this Mexican village. Men, sons, have killed each other for generations, for a so-called conception of honor in a revenge that never ends since it is also triggered by people of the village. Now, today, there are only two sons left, one in each family. One has become a doctor in the big city and his culture is modern. The other last one - of the other family - hasn't left the village and is waiting for the doctor to come "home" as he plans to kill him, to settle this war on this matter of honor once and for all. And the people of the village want blood.
Comical misadventures of a film crew trying to get their damn musical filmed.
Dead man's will reveals he had three wives.
Writer
Two young sweethearts get married, and then are made to believe that she's his illegitimate half-sister.
Two young sweethearts get married, and then are made to believe that she's his illegitimate half-sister.
Novel
The Peralta brothers work in the countryside the Alto Paraná. There they will meet subhuman working conditions. Finally, the workers rise and harshly punish their exploiters.
Screenplay
The Peralta brothers work in the countryside the Alto Paraná. There they will meet subhuman working conditions. Finally, the workers rise and harshly punish their exploiters.
Rom-com in charro hats.
A humble bartender falls into a world of gambling and vices, losing everything.
Adaptation
The soul of a dead baseball player finds a human host to occupy so it can achieve some career goals it hadn't accomplished during its lifetime. Riotous hijinks ensue.
Nicanor Buenavista
The soul of a dead baseball player finds a human host to occupy so it can achieve some career goals it hadn't accomplished during its lifetime. Riotous hijinks ensue.
Romantic comedy: housemaid and her employer's oldest son.
Bachelor pretends that he got married, thinking that will stop his aunt from trying to play matchmaker.
González
An exhausted stranger arrives at a farm and starts to help the owner with the legal status of her land.
Chipo
A beautiful cabaret dancer falls in love with a sailor who promises to return and marry her. Trouble ensues.
Pascasio
Dreamer father wants son to become a bullfighter, and daughter to become a singer, so they become instant millionares, although their talent is not apparently there.
Novio de Luisa
The movie starts with Braulio Peláez (Pedro Infante), a schoolteacher, having just fallen off his horse, representing the situation he and his family are in. The next scenes introduce the viewer to his family and their poor financial and social situation. As Braulio stumbles around looking for his glasses, he causes a famous film star, Alfonso de Madrazo (Rafael Alcaide) to crash his car. Braulio offers him to eat at his house as an apology. Braulio's sister and mother, big film fans, immediately recognise Alfonso and attempt to get him to bring the girl, Luisa Peláez (Irma Dolores) to Mexico City to become a film star. Alfonso agrees and tells them to come to the capital.
Nicomedes
Many many mistaken identities and impostures overlapping among a group of husbands, wives and others.
Pre-Revolutionary setting; class conflicts and a romance across class-boundaries.
Bratty rich girl plays practical jokes on the man that she'll obviously end up marrying.
Salivas
Rom-com scheming; wealthy landowner wants to seduce one of his tenants, but she wants the other guy...
Pepe Montes
A ambiciosa família Montes tem em sua casa o cientista Archimedes Monteagudo e seu assistente Cantinflas, que cuida do bem-estar de ambos. O professor está prestes a fazer uma grande descoberta: extrair da água do mar os componentes de um combustível que substituiria a gasolina carburex. A Cantinflas, por sua vez, quer descobrir um composto que permita prolongar a longevidade das rosas.
Mistaken identity farce; heiress has to marry to receive an inheritance.
Venice Film Festival 1948
Dark romantic melodrama, played out with high-stakes card games and cockfights.
Enrique
Bernabé
Brilliant young doctor discovers his wife doesn't want to bear children, so he finds someone else to exxperience fatherhood with.
Arteaguita
College-educated emigre has to get macho when he returns home to the Venezuelan outback.
Headmistress of a girl's school and one of her pupils get into romantic-comedy trouble trying to keep their lies straight.
Socialist librarian gets mixed up in the family life of a spoiled rich girl and her screwball family.
Uncultured nouveau- riche wants to be received in high society. Loose adaptation of Moliere.
Spanish immigrant wants his sons to join him in running his business, but they all have other ambitions.
Casto José
Remotely based on a famous Spanish zarzuela of 1910, this lavish, daring sex comedy was filmed on a gigantic art deco set that suggests ancient Egypt repurposed for an Astaire and Rogers musical. The Pharaoh, played here as a henpecked husband by the popular comedian Roberto Soto, seeks a virginal slave girl as a bride for his general Potiphar (Fernando Cortés), but Potiphar is impotent and the slave girl (played by Mapy Cortés in a swirl of high-spirited sexuality) has some ideas of her own.
Musical comedy about a pastry chef and his daughter in the 1830s
Pipo Ramírez
After drinking a special concoction made of various types of alcohol, the once-timid Ramon (Pedro Infante) suddenly turns into a brawler and extroverted ladies' man. With his newfound confidence, Ramon attempts to win the heart of the woman (María Antonieta Pons) he loves. Full of enjoyable songs and funny scenes, this entertaining Mexican musical centers on a wealthy man who finally realizes that money can't buy him love.
Nostalgic comedy about medical students circa 1905.
Pascualito
Peasant farmer and landowner are rivals for a woman. Sequel to Ay Jalisco No Te Rajes.
Martín (as Alfredo Varela Jr.)
Before marrying María Eugenia, landowner Carlos are away to visit her godmother to break the promise to marry his daughter. The godmother is dying, Carlos quiets and everything takes an unexpected course.
Young couple are trapped in an isolated mansion while members of a criminal gang are killing each other off on the premises.
Band of outlaws stumble across an espionage ring of Axis agents embedded in an out-of-the-way hacienda.
Globe-hopping playboy bachelor is getting on in years, so he invites his five international children to come live with him.
Every single student at Uni flips over the young woman that lives in the building across the street from the Commons. She's a professor's daughter... Hijinks ensue.
Cacho, adulto
Divorced mother struggles to raise her large family.
Bermúdez
Cantinflas captura uma gangue que havia assaltado um banco na noite anterior. Considerado um herói, torna-se membro da força de missões especiais por causa de sua capacidade de se disfarçar de muitas formas diferentes.
Tomás Rosales (as Alfredo Varela Jr.)
Unjustly accused of theft, the noble Raimundo is forced to leave his paternal home. A new incident, caused by the ambition of his brother José, causes Raimundo to be disowned by his girlfriend María and by his father, the just and strict Don Pepe. The only one who believes in Raimundo is his mother, Dona Lupita, a woman who suffers deeply because of the wrong decisions of her children.
Escribiente
Cantinflas, the boyfriend of the servant of a rich industrial man, gets into the house in order to kill a mad dog. Suddenly this man appears so the servant tells him that Cantinflas is his wife's brother (Leonardo), who had been lost for years. The rich man then remembers that his father in law's testament could only be paid when all brothers get together, so treats Cantinflas, a real bum, as a king.
Shabby-genteel big city family tries to marry their daughter off to a wealthy landowner from the southern provinces.
