Mapy Cortés
Рождение : 1910-03-01, Santurce, Puerto Rico
Смерть : 1998-08-02
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.
Perla
A Puerto Rican goes to New York to seek his fortune.
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.
Young lawyer is mistaken for music professor and goes to live at a boarding school for young women.
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.
Frivolous young dandy is trying to score with an operetta singer, but she ends up with his uncle. For awhile. And then...
A doctor must pretend to be single and his wife follows him to the field causing a series of incidents.
Focuses on the emotional life of two women, whose husbands, with labor excuses, make "outings" from 7 to 9 at night.
Uni professor is voted "Hunkiest teacher of the year." Madcap complications.
Socialist librarian gets mixed up in the family life of a spoiled rich girl and her screwball family.
The strange behavior of a woman leads her loved one to consult with a psychiatrist.
In Fuente Clara over ten years since any man born. The population, mostly female, are desperate and resorts to the reigning prince.
Three boys and three girls in the 1890s.
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.
Musical comedy about a pastry chef and his daughter in the 1830s
1940s-style teen comedy set in a private school for girls.
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.
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.
Haydée
Adaptation of Dumas' swashbuckler classic.
Globe-hopping playboy bachelor is getting on in years, so he invites his five international children to come live with him.
Lulú
Bedroom farce, with three men claiming the same woman as their mistress.
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.
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.
International committee mounts a revue to promote Pan-American unity. Showbiz hotel rom-com hilarity ensues.
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.
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.