Mimí Derba

Mimí Derba

Nascimento : 1893-01-01, Mexico City, Mexico

Morte : 1953-07-14

História

Mimí Derba (1893–1953) was a Mexican actress and the first female director in Mexico. Derba founded one of the very first Mexican production companies, Azteca Films. She had a successful career in Vaudeville before entering films.

Perfil

Mimí Derba

Filmes

Dos tipos de cuidado
Doña Josefa
Jorge Bueno and Pedro Malo are best friends who consider giving up their womanizing ways when they each fall in love. As fate would have it, Pedro Malo unexpectedly marries Jorge Bueno's girlfriend, and the conflict between the former buddies begins. A year later they find themselves in the same town and confront each other once and for all.
Cuatro horas antes de morir
The Absentee
Doña Elena, madre de Isabel
After arguing with her husband, a woman runs out of the house in the car and dies in a mysterious accident
Sangre en el barrio
Slumlord and his daughter interfere in the lives of the proletariat for personal gratification.
Acapulco
Abuela de Ricardo
Young lady goes shopping for a millionaire husband.
Oh, Love… How Have You Put Me!
Doña Beatriz
A low-class baker accidentally gets to know an attractive but bitter fiancée. By getting her snobby, dead-pan family to spend some time with his scumbag friends, he changes their lives, while at the time stealing the girl's heart.
Mi mujer no es mía
Bachelor pretends that he got married, thinking that will stop his aunt from trying to play matchmaker.
White hair
Doña Emilia
Singer's-rise-to-stardom plot combined with long-lost-son plot.
Nosotras, las taquígrafas
Mamá de Bertha
Young women in the steno-pool have to balance work, romance, and touchy-feely bosses.
La loca de la casa
Madre superiora
Novice nun returns to her parent's home to save the family fortune by marrying a creditor.
Inmaculada
Madre de Luis Angel
A single mother discovers her daughter getting ready to elope with an unworthy boyfriend, so she sits the girl down and tells her the whole entire story of her own very unhappy marriage.
La vida en broma
Doña Eugenia
Many many mistaken identities and impostures overlapping among a group of husbands, wives and others.
Rosauro Castro
Doña Margarita
Cardoza's death, a candidate for mayor of a village chief enemy and Rosauro Castro, leads to Mr. Garcia Mata to undertake an investigation. Upon arriving realizes that even the whole town, including the mayor, lives in fear by the chief and only achieved revenge end the injustices committed by Rosauro Castro.
La hija del penal
A young woman who was born and grew up on an island prison-colony decides to move to the island and try life in the real world. Romance, bad luck and astonishing coincidences wait in her path.
The Seminarian
Nun
Returning to his home town, seminarist Miguel is forced to trade the robes for a charro costume in order to solve several problems that appear in his way, including the female kind.
Prisión de sueños
Rondalla
Romantic triangle on the hacienda.
La malquerida
Dona Mercedes
Emilio Fernandez directs Dolores Del Rio and Pedro Armendariz in a classic tale of family and obsession. Raimunda's daughter Acacia hates her stepfather Esteban, and in order to escape her suffocating home life she's accepted a marriage proposal from a man she doesn't even love. But Esteban has become obsessed with Acacia, and in order to ensure that she doesn't leave he's plotting to murder the girl's unsuspecting fiancée. As Esteban's true nature emerges, mother and daughter must band together to support one another and make sure that their family bond remains strong even in the darkest of times.
El abandonado
Based on a popular song. An unhappy love affair becomes an excuse for heavy drinking and all-round debauchery.
Santa Entre Demônios
Señora directora
Mercedes (Marga Lopez) dances for money with the clients of Salon Mexico, a famous cabaret in Mexico City. Her younger sister Beatriz (Derbez) studies in an expensive private school, paid by Mercedes. Obviously, young Beatriz doesn't know about her sister's job. Troubles begin when Mercedes wins a danzon contest with Paco (Acosta), her pimp. Paco refuses to share the prize with Mercedes, so she steals the money when he's sleeping.
You the Rich
La Millonaria
Pepe el Toro is married to Celia la Chorreada and they have two children.
Fantasía ranchera
Young composer in a small town where everyone is very nurturing of his talent finishes his first opera and goes to Mexico City to get it produced. Over half the movie is taken up with a performance of his masterpiece.
When the Brave Cry
Mamá de Cristina
A farmer is in love during revolutionary times.
Rocambole
Madre de Antonieta
Convict breaks out of jail to undo aristocratic crimes involving a fortune in jewels, a servant wrongfully accused of theft, and a dispossessed young heiress.
La casa de la zorra
The owner of an illegal gambling casino witnesses all the problems in the life of her dissolute son and finally acts in a way that'll help him rehabilitate himself.
El capitán Malacara
Misogynist military asshole is laid up for a month with a broken leg and during his convalescence he learns all the needed life-lessons.
Me he de comer esa tuna
In rural Mexico, a young man competes with his best school friend for the love of a girl whose marriage has been arranged by her parents.
Una gitana en México
Doña Engracia
La mujer sin alma
Mamá de Teresa
Ambitious young woman climbs the social ladder. A bit too fast.
La trepadora
Romantic triangles between city folk and country folk, with new money/old money issues complicating the story.
Balajú
Doña Lupe
Felipe Derblay, el herrero
Porfirio Díaz
Mexican movie
El espectro de la novia
British-born David T. Bamberg was a magician who went by the stage name of Fu Manchu. He was so popular in Mexico and South America that he was given the opportunity to star in a series of crime / horror / mystery films between 1943 and 1949. This is one of them.
Wild Flower
Doña Clara
The film features Fernandez himself as a character named Rogellio Torres. The lion's share of the footage, however, is devoted to the romance between Esperanza, granddaughter of a common laborer, and Jose Luis Castro, the firebrand son of a landowner. Joining a revolutionary movements, Castro is disowned by his father, but Esperanza remains loyally by his side. Later on, Castro's father is killed by outlaws; in seeking vengeance, he sacrifices his own life, while Esperanza carries on his revolutionary work with their young son in tow.
La razón de la culpa
Romantic comedy.
María Eugenia
Virginia
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.
El baisano Jalil
Aristocratic but penniless, the Veradada have to resort to loans Lebanese businessman Jalil, whose son Selim, suffers the scorn of Martha, the daughter of the Veradada wasteful. Being invited to the house of Don Guillermom, Jalil and his wife Suan and Selim are teased and contempt. Finally, the Lebanese family worker puts in place the family of Don Guillermo ridiculous.
Adios mi chaparrita
Doña Panchita
Café Concordia
During the early XX Century, a lovely woman dancer has an amazing success in a place called "Cafe Concordia". She is courting by many men, buts he is in love with Ernesto, a young man whose parents are against their relationship. Ernesto invites Raquel to a party at his home but she is snubbed by his mother and offended by a slighted pretender. Ernesto faces this man in a duel in which he is about to be killed by his rival, but Raquel protects his body and receives the bullet. She dies in Ernesto's arms.
Refugiados en Madrid
La marquesa
A 1938 film.
María
The story narrates the idyllic and tragic love between María and her cousin Efraín, both natives of Valle del Cauca. In the middle of a romantic and bucolic landscape, the young characters fall in love with each other but circumstances prevent the full realization of their love.
Martín Garatuza
Sixteenth-century swashbuckler helps a young woman claim a rightful inheritance in the face of opposition from her father's widow and co-conspirators.
Santa
Doña Elvira
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.
La soñadora
La soñadora ("The Dreamer") is a 1917 Mexican silent film. It features Sara García as an extra.
The Tigress
Producer
The attractive and rapturous Eva is ready to do anything to be the protagonist of a cruel and painful romance. Determined, the young woman falls in love with the humble craftsman Bruno, whom she later abandons to marry the millionaire Ernesto. Bruno goes mad with pain and is admitted to a madhouse. In delirium, Bruno imagines a tigress with Eva's face attacking her in her delusions.
The Tigress
Director
The attractive and rapturous Eva is ready to do anything to be the protagonist of a cruel and painful romance. Determined, the young woman falls in love with the humble craftsman Bruno, whom she later abandons to marry the millionaire Ernesto. Bruno goes mad with pain and is admitted to a madhouse. In delirium, Bruno imagines a tigress with Eva's face attacking her in her delusions.
Soul Sacrifice
Producer
Soul Sacrifice is a 1917 Mexican silent film. It features Sara García as an extra.
Soul Sacrifice
Soul Sacrifice is a 1917 Mexican silent film. It features Sara García as an extra.
In Self Defense
Writer
The recently orphaned Enriqueta has to work to earn a living; She finds a job with the widower Julio Mancera, for whom she works as governess for her little daughter. After a while, the two fall in love and get married. But then, Julio's cousin Eva returns from Europe and tries to separate the couple. She is almost successful, but her plans are thwarted at a party she throws for Julio and his friends, where she is surprised by Julio, Enriqueta, and the other guests in a compromising situation with Julio's best friend, Mauricio.
In Self Defense
The recently orphaned Enriqueta has to work to earn a living; She finds a job with the widower Julio Mancera, for whom she works as governess for her little daughter. After a while, the two fall in love and get married. But then, Julio's cousin Eva returns from Europe and tries to separate the couple. She is almost successful, but her plans are thwarted at a party she throws for Julio and his friends, where she is surprised by Julio, Enriqueta, and the other guests in a compromising situation with Julio's best friend, Mauricio.
In the Shadow
Director
In the Shadow
Producer
In the Shadow