María Gentil Arcos

María Gentil Arcos

Nascimento : 1905-04-12, València, València, Comunitat Valenciana, Spain

Morte : 1965-07-18

História

María Gentil Arcos was an actress, known for Demonio y carne (1951), Campeón sin corona (1946) and Un divorcio (1953). She died on July 18, 1965 in Mexico City, Mexico.

Perfil

María Gentil Arcos

Filmes

El gran espectáculo
El gran premio
Anciana en asilo (as Ma. Gentil Arcos)
Elderly home is struggling for funds; one of the residents competes on a game show to win a jackpot she can donate.
Hay ángeles con espuelas
Two brothers butt heads: one's a gadabout charro playboy and the other's a priest.
Primavera en el corazón
Don Juan-type manipulates his roommate into helping him mount ridiculous schemes to get next to a girl he has his eye on.
Enemigos
One son takes after mom, one son takes after dad. They don't get along, and the family splits into two households.
Los margaritos
Doña Queta
Two brothers named Margarito butt heads courting the same woman.
Padre contra hijo
Eloisa Ruiz, madre de Juan de Dios
Eloisa works hard, sewing, to his son Juan de Dios. He learns that he is the bastard son of Cecilio, who owns almost a whole town named: San Juan de Dios, Durango.
..Y mañana serán mujeres
Grad student takes a summer gig acting as house mother/chaperone to a group of teenaged girls vacationing at a country villa.
Isso é Que é Homem!
Father and adult sons give help to an orphaned teenage girl.
Guanajuato Road
The romantic entanglements of three singers: two boys and a girl who fail in a radio contest and formed a trio.
Chucho el Roto
Humble craftsman runs afoul of a rich girl's father and ends up in prison; the ill-fated romance has repercussions over the course of twenty-odd years and ultimately drives him to a life of crime.
Los Fernández de Peralvillo
Doña Gracia; madre de Raquel
A young man fails as a seller of household goods and his sister, tired of poverty, elopes with a criminal.
Romance de fieras
Newly-graduated lawyer gets caught up in the personal drama surrounding a rich industrialist and his sociopathic son.
Cuando me vaya
Fictionalized version of the life of songwriter Maria Grever.
Las tres Elenas
A woman married to a renowned doctor confesses to her mother that she has fallen in love with her daughter's young boyfriend.
Lo que no se puede perdonar!..
Hermana religiosa
Hortensia is almost ready to take her vows at the convent... but she gets distracted by her stepmother's boyfriend. Things do not go well.
Frontera norte
Madre Lolita
Two brothers: one's a cop, one's a gangster.
Cuarto de hotel
Newlywed couple move from small town to Mexico City. Their first night in the city, they get separated by accident, and it takes them 90 minutes and lots of incidents before they find each other again.
Un divorcio
Divorced woman has to deal with blowback from the fact that her second marriage is only a civil union and not a church wedding. Meanwhile, her young-adult son is falling in love with a divorcee of his own, and faing severe opposition from his father over his choice of partners..
O Alucinado
Sirvienta en cena (uncredited)
Francisco is rich, rather strict on principles, and still a bachelor. After meeting Gloria by accident, he is suddenly intent on her becoming his wife and courts her until she agrees to marry him. Francisco is a dedicated husband, but little by little his passion starts to exhibit disturbing traits. Nevertheless, Gloria meets with scepticism as she expresses her worries to their acquaintances.
O Bombeiro Atómico
Doña Cleofas (uncredited)
Cantinflas, um entregador de jornal, decide ser bombeiro para cobrir despesas, já que seu melhor amigo morreu e ele deve sustentar sua filha. mas o que ela não sabe é que a menina é a herdeira de uma grande fortuna e que os malfeitores querem sequestrá-la. Em um dos incêndios ele salva seu antigo chefe, que lhe pede para voltar ao seu antigo emprego e assumir um bairro muito perigoso.
A Place Close to Heaven
Empleada despedida (uncredited)
On reaching the capital, Pedro Gonzalez gets a lowly job and marries Margaret. After losing that job, get a new one as a bodyguard but is fired again. With so much poverty and despair Pedro believes that his only way out is suicide.
La loca
Señora de Angostura
Mentally-ill woman went over the edge 15 years earlier, as a result of family traumas and the disappearance of her daughter. Now, present day, evil relatives are trying to take control of money she's inherited...
Far from Heaven
Trabajadora (uncredited)
Pedro é um homem pobre que está prestes a ter um bebê. O filho de Pedro morre porque não tem dinheiro para sustentá-lo. Um homem chamado Tony oferece um emprego a Pedro e ele aceita, mas ele se torna uma pessoa interessada.
Paco, el elegante
Tia Consuelo
Paco's ordered by a higher-up in his gang to beat up a journalist who wants to write exposes about Mexico City drug traffic, and that ends up opening a whole can of worms.
Doña Perfecta
Librada
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.
Cárcere de Mulheres
Guardia
Um homem é assassinado por uma misteriosa mulher. A polícia prende duas suspeitas: a amante do morto (Sara Montiel, em um de seus primeiros sucessos) e uma respeitável mulher casada (Miroslava Stern), que teve com a vítima um caso antes do casamento. Na prisão, a primeira faz da vida da segunda um verdadeiro inferno.
Nunca debieron amarse
Ranchera romance; two young lovers whose families are hostile to each other.
Por querer a una mujer
Ranch melodrama: romantic triangle leads to multiple murders.
Monte de piedad
Doña Lupita, madre de María
Anthology-movie, series of anecdotes about the personal tragedies that lead people to take their values posessions to the state-run pawnshop.
White hair
Lucía
Singer's-rise-to-stardom plot combined with long-lost-son plot.
Fierecilla
After discovering his wife in flagrante with another man, a gold prospector kills them both, then takes his daughter to live in the countryside, removed from corrupting influences. Fifteen years later...
Susana, Mulher Diabólica
Felisa
The story of a girl of questionable mental stability who escapes from incarceration and ends up at a plantation where she disrupts a working family's daily routines and chemistry.
Slum
Reworking of City Lights -- poor schmoe busts his hump to restore a blind woman's sight...
Huellas del pasado
Authoritarian husband dumps his wife and keeps their son. Twenty years later...
The Adventuress
Petra, Rosaura's maid
Left alone after her mother runs off with another man and her father kills himself, Elena attempts to make a new life for herself in a new city. Believing he's a friend, Elena goes to dinner with "Pretty Boy" Lucio, but he drugs her champagne and sells her to Rosaura, who runs a brothel out of her nightclub. Elena becomes a sensation as a dancer, but all the while she nurtures plans of revenge against those who have conspired against her.
Las dos huerfanitas
Two young girls escape from an orphanage to go look for their mommies.
El Portero
Vecina chismosa (uncredited)
Cantinflas works as a porter, who writes letters and speeches in his old writing machine to earn an extra money, despite the fact that he still goes to school. The sentimental issues come when Cantinflas falls in love of his pretty neighborhood (Silvia Pinal), who is handicapped and unable to walk. The thing wont be easy, because a young military man also has feelings for the girl. But the porter wants to see her happy, and he will become a sort of Cyrano De Bergerac, writing love letters to her signed by the young soldier. His plan is simple: to win money in the horse races in order to pay the operation which will make her walk again.
También de dolor se canta
Asistente de Facundo (uncredited)
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.
Otra primavera
His wife dies and now he's free to marry his mistress and adopt their children officially. How will this play out?
Guardián, el perro salvador
Poor woman and her daughter hire on to rich family as servants. Husband/Daddy comes back from his foreign travels and crazy stuff happens! Death! Jail sentences! Inheritances!
La vida en broma
Invited to party
Many many mistaken identities and impostures overlapping among a group of husbands, wives and others.
Love Pays for Love
Pre-Revolutionary setting; class conflicts and a romance across class-boundaries.
La dama del velo
Asistente de Andrea
Andrea loves Esteban. Esteban murders his wife and goes go jail. Andrea marries Esteban's lawyer. Twenty years later...
O Grande Mágico
Clienta de Krishnar (uncredited)
Cantinflas, um "teso" mexicano que ganha a vida como ele pode, aceita um trabalho como um mágico, como um adivinho do passado, o presente e o futuro dos outros... mas é incapaz de adivinhar as dificuldades que o aguardam quando aceita substituir um príncipe oriental, posando como seu duplo. Muitos e poderosos inimigos tentarão matar o suposto príncipe. Dardos envenenados, punhais, pistolas, sequestros, todos os meios são bons para destruir o duplo infeliz do príncipe.
A Family Like Many Others
Invitada a fiesta (uncredited)
The dynamics of a typical middle-class family are shaken up after the introduction of an enthusiastic door-to-door vacuum salesman.
Comisario en turno
Night shift at police headquarters; criminals and victims of all sorts pass through to get their cases sorted out.
We the Poor
La Paralítica
A poor neighborhood in Mexico City. Carpenter Pepe el Toro lives peacefully with his daughter Chachita while woos the pretty Celia, but tragedy knocks his door when he is falsely accused of having perpetrated a felony.
Los Cristeros
When the government places restrictions on the Catholic church's autonomy, an armed uprising takes place. Disagreements over the new laws create conflict within the protagonist's family.
La reina del trópico
Doña Trini (as Ma. Gentil Arcos)
Champion Without Crown
Doña Gracia, Madre de Roberto (as Ma. Gentil Arcos)
A young ice cream vendor, Roberto Terranova, witnesses a child being beaten and comes to his aid by physically overpowering the aggressor. His strength and natural ability catches the eye of a well-known boxing trainer. Considering him a diamond in the rough, he aims to put Roberto in the professional ring. But Roberto finds that his personal challenges must be overcome before he can achieve professional greatness.
Caminos de sangre
A crooked lawyer frustrates attempts to clear bandits from the local highways.
La mujer sin alma
Mamá de Rosita
Ambitious young woman climbs the social ladder. A bit too fast.