Compositor
Producer, director and projectionist watch an assortment of musical numbers and brainstorm about framing narrative that could contain them all.
Cantante
Journalist meets an unforgettable woman, tracks her down and discovers all her tragic past.
Cándida is a Galician who lives in Mexico and has been selling lottery tickets. Her dream is to buy an inn, but doesn't have enough money. In her quest for trying to get it, she runs into a scammer. In a stroke of luck, she wins first prize in the lottery, but the misfortune is merciless with her because she can't find the ticket.
Handicapped songwriter falls for bad girl. Again.
Ladylike widow hires a roughneck neighbor to help her marry off her daughter and collect an inheritance by impersonating her husband.
Cantante (as Toña La Negra)
Mercé
A beautiful cabaret dancer falls in love with a sailor who promises to return and marry her. Trouble ensues.
Cantante (as Toña La Negra)
Mexican romantic musical.
Struggling songwriter "adopts" a teenaged girl to protect her from her abusive father.
Toña
A man steals to buy medicine for his sick mother but when she dies he gets into drug trafficking at a local cabaret.
Young woman breaks up with her fiance to shack up with her sister's husband.
Heated rivalry over a bar-girl in a dive-y waterfront saloon.
Marta la mulata
Heroic adventures in the banana industry.
Cantante (as Toña La Negra)
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.
Singer
Abandonados ao nascer em um asilo de freiras, Polito Sol e os irmãos Adriana e Carmelo Águila, crescem juntos, até tornarem-se o trio "Águila o Sol". Don Ippolito, o pai Polito, tornou-se um homem rico e agora, decide reencontrar seu filho abandonado. Os destinos dos quatro se cruzarão, em meio a números musicais, embriaguez e situações cômicas...