Mapy Cortés

Mapy Cortés

Рождение : 1910-03-01, Santurce, Puerto Rico

Смерть : 1998-08-02

Профиль

Mapy Cortés

Фильмы

Reflejo de un deseo
Los tres pecados
Luna de miel en Puerto Rico
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.
Mr. Dólar
Perla
A Puerto Rican goes to New York to seek his fortune.
Los expatriados
Perla
The film, which is an ode to Rafael Hernández's song "Lamento borincano", is a social commentary of the political and social policies of the 40's and 50's which led to the abandonment of what was seen by many as the "pure", "virtuous" life of the finca (farm) for the "corrupting" influence of urban centers like San Juan and New York City.
Dormitorio para señoritas
Young lawyer is mistaken for music professor and goes to live at a boarding school for young women.
Recién casados... no molestar
Newly-married woman discovers that her husband's a virgin and not the notorious Don Juan that she'd heard rumors about, and their marriage almost collapses because he's faithful and monogamous and good.
El sexo fuerte
Las tandas del principal
Frivolous young dandy is trying to score with an operetta singer, but she ends up with his uncle. For awhile. And then...
Al marido hay que seguirlo
A doctor must pretend to be single and his wife follows him to the field causing a series of incidents.
Los maridos engañan de 7 a 9
Focuses on the emotional life of two women, whose husbands, with labor excuses, make "outings" from 7 to 9 at night.
El amor las vuelve locas
Uni professor is voted "Hunkiest teacher of the year." Madcap complications.
La pícara Susana
Socialist librarian gets mixed up in the family life of a spoiled rich girl and her screwball family.
Un beso en la noche
The strange behavior of a woman leads her loved one to consult with a psychiatrist.
La hija del regimiento
In Fuente Clara over ten years since any man born. The population, mostly female, are desperate and resorts to the reigning prince.
El globo de Cantolla
Three boys and three girls in the 1890s.
La corte de faraón
La Lota
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.
La Guerra de los Pasteles
Musical comedy about a pastry chef and his daughter in the 1830s
Internado para señoritas
1940s-style teen comedy set in a private school for girls.
Seven Days' Leave
Mapy (as Mapy Cortes)
Soldier Johnny Grey is engaged to marry singer Mapy Cortes, but his plans go awry when he learns that he is the heir to $100,000 from his great-grandfather -- a bequest that comes with a catch: before claiming the money, Johnny must marry a descendant of his great-grandfather's Civil War enemy, General Havelock-Allen. Not wanting to disrupt his planned marriage to Mapy, Johnny must figure out how to concoct a temporary marriage-of-convenience with the descendant -- who turns out to be the beautiful Terry Havelock-Allen.
Yo bailé con Don Porfirio
Rosa / Violeta
Light comedy in which Joaquin Cortes and Mapy Pardavé join their talents, written and directed by Gilberto Martinez Solares. It deals with the life of a pair of twins from a provincial family who emigrated to the city, then one begins to work in a music magazine and occasionally is confused with her sister, which causes problems with their respective boyfriends.
El conde de Montecristo
Haydée
Adaptation of Dumas' swashbuckler classic.
Las 5 noches de Adán
Globe-hopping playboy bachelor is getting on in years, so he invites his five international children to come live with him.
Cinco minutos de amor
Lulú
Bedroom farce, with three men claiming the same woman as their mistress.
El gendarme desconocido
La criollita
A gang of thieves has jeopardized the city and even the police, whose chief urges their forces to captured the band within 48 hours. Meanwhile, band members meet in a cafe run by a widow and her daughter and her suitor, Cantinflas, who maintains a scuffle with the robbers running all at the station. Since then, Cantinflas become a member of the police force for special missions.
Those Were The Days, Senor Don Simon!
Inés
A not very grief stricken young widow flutters her hand fan between a dashing young soldier and an elderly politician in this Belle Epoque era musical comedy.
La liga de las canciones
International committee mounts a revue to promote Pan-American unity. Showbiz hotel rom-com hilarity ensues.
Ahora seremos felices
Alma
Alma falls in love with Julio, a famous singer, but her parents oppose the idea thinking that it's just one more of her rich girl whims.
Guard! Alert!
Vedette
The young Candelas, seduced and abandoned by Arturo, an unscrupulous womanizer, meets two soldiers, Tiburcio and Angelillo, who, in order to help the girl out of her predicament, organize a musical recital to raise money.