Niní Marshall
Also Known As: Marina Esther Traverso, Niní Marshall 'Catita', Catita, Nini Marshall, Marina Esther Traveso, Cándida, Niní Marshall 'Cándida'
Biography: Niní Marshall, born Marina Esther Traveso, was an Argentine actress, screenwriter and comedian. She is well known for creating two emblematic satirical characters, Cándida and Catita, two archetypes of 20th century European immigration, with whom she participated in a large part of her films.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Adult: No
Birthday: May 31, 1903
Age: 121 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: March 18, 1996
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Luna de miel en Río
Overview: Catita goes with her husband to spend the honeymoon in Rio de Janeiro and on the trip they fall into the hands of a player who will try to use them to achieve their ends.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1940-10-09
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The novel of a poor young man
Overview: A young man is forced for economic reasons to work as a ranch in the south of Argentina and there he tries to conquer a rich heiress.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1968-04-11
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Santa Cándida
Overview: A woman of high society dies, leaving a large part of her assets to her domestic worker, who must deal with the envy and jealousy of her relatives.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1945-05-10
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Buenos Aires canta
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-06-03
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La película de Niní
Overview: A portrait of the life of Niní Marshall, one of the greatest Argentine actresses and comedians. The film includes an enormous amount of excerpts from her films, interviews, documents, radio appearances and live shows.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2005-11-03
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Una gallega en México
Overview: The Galician Candida has a bakery in front of the butcher Robustito, who constantly berates although children of both Aurora and Rodolfo are in love. In the neighborhood where they live, the neighbors prepared a joke to the galician girl. She gets angry Robustito hard time believing him guilty of what happened.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-12-31
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Catita is a lady
Overview: Catita patterns are separated and, momentarily, decide to leave the house in charge of it, dismissing the rest of the household staff. Furthermore, Catita accidentally causes a fire, leaving many people homeless and living temporarily offered together in the mansion, she pretended to be the owner to the outsiders.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1956-06-07
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Escándalo en la familia
Overview: A veteran popular singer comes to town with her daughter in order to achieve success in television. She introduces her daughter to a contest winning one of the top prizes. At the same time, a veteran politician is campaigning to scale the governor's office.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1967-04-13
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Mi campeón
Overview: Catita is a simple and poor woman who dreams of that her son stands out on something important to help her out of his humble. But she opposes to him being boxer, therefore constantly fighting with her husband.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-06-20
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Los enredos de una gallega
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-10-11
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Una gallega baila mambo
Overview: Ladylike widow hires a roughneck neighbor to help her marry off her daughter and collect an inheritance by impersonating her husband.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-05-18
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Hay que educar a Niní
Overview: A young woman pretends to be the daughter of a financier and enters a rich girls' college, where she commits a thousand mischiefs.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1940-07-17
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La alegre casada
Overview: Housewife gets ticked off at her philandering hubby, falls under the influence of a cougarish rich widow and decides to start partying the way her husband does.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-10-16
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Crazy Love
Overview: Slapstick/musical comedy parody of historical dramas, send-up of "Locura de amor," about Queen Juana 'la loca' of Spain.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-02-19
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Una gallega en La Habana
Overview: Cándida's boyfriend left her in Spain to go to work to Havana. After twenty years without news, she decides to go look for him, although the only thing she knows of him is his name. In the port of Havana, she is confused with a jewel smuggler, which kicks off a series of comical events.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-01-01
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Navidad de los pobres
Overview: A woman finds herself in trouble from a single mother whose father has stolen her child and decides to protect her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-08-12
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Dios los cría
Overview: Mrs. Nínive Cánovas Cannesi (Marshall) comes back from a long tour visiting Europe and not even realizes that her house is being inhabited by two jobless and homeless bandits (Tin Tán and Tun Tún) with master keys who had been living there worry free. They all share the house for a period of time, unknowingly to each other, in a series of well crafted and perfectly timed scenes where Catita and Tin Tán can be in the same room without seeing each other... When Tin Tán notices her presence, poses as the help, intercepting the real employees and sending to the north pole, literally. So now that Catita has them at her service, she can take time for her real goal, the foundation of a House for old people so they can live happy until the day they die, but Tin Tán and Tun Tún keep getting in her way and complicating everything...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-09-15
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Marriage in Buenos Aires
Overview: When her boyfriends are tempted by attractive women who are only interested in their money, two friends decide to join forces to make them give up such love affairs.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1940-01-01
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Vamos a soñar por el amor
Overview: Two women are River Plate Club fans, while their husbands are Boca Juniors fans. The males go out on their own, causing some trouble, until they are discovered.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1971-04-22
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Mujeres que trabajan
Overview: A rich lady is suddenly in the street after her father's suicide and moves to a pension with many working women from different origins whom she had previously humiliated.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1938-07-05
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Cándida
Overview: Cándida Villar is a clumsy Galician maid who speaks improperly, get a lot of troubles in all the conversations with her bosses, simple and straightforward who from night to morning becomes the most lucky woman of the word because she mets a hilarious gallery of character in an art gallery.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1939-11-10
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Mujeres que bailan
Overview: A woman dreams of being a great classical dancer and that the public cheers her on, which gives rise to the most absurd situations.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-05-12
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Yo quiero ser bataclana
Overview: Catita intercedes when a producer courts a chorus girl who is director's girlfriend.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1941-04-30
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Carmen
Overview: A woman faints during an opera performance and dreams that she is the protagonist and when she is about to die, she wakes up.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1943-10-26
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The Headless Woman
Overview: A gypsy performer and friend flee the circus troop they work for and find an old house to take refuge. Little do they realize that the house is haunted when they encounter strange men, frightening apparitions, and secret passages.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-04-04
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Cándida millonaria
Overview: Servant in a wealthy household and her employer unexpectedly get all romantical together. His daughter isn't so keen on the marriage when it happens.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1941-09-17
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Cándida, la mujer del año
Overview: After being decorated for a meritorious act, Cándida finds herself involved in the activities of some scammers who try to use her fame.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1943-02-23
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Porteña de corazón
Overview: Young doctor falls in love with a nurse, but his parents insist he marry someone from his own economic class.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1948-04-09
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The Little Liar
Overview: Dizzy secretary with a knack for embroidering the truth is identified as the heiress of a big mystery estate.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1942-06-12
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Los celos de Cándida
Overview: Cándida and Jesús decide to purchase a Bed and Breakfast in Buenos Aires. But in the hostel already lived an Italian opera singer that provokes the jealousy of Cándida.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1940-06-05
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Madame Sans-Gêne
Overview: In Napoleonic times, a passionate Parisian washerwoman becomes Duchess of Dantzig and almost Queen of Westphalia.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1945-03-15
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¡Qué linda es mi familia!
Overview: A rebel son decides not to follow his father steps to follow his dreams of fame and popularity.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1980-07-17
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Ya tiene comisario el pueblo
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1967-07-13
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Yo no soy la Mata-Hari
Overview: After the execution of the spy Mata-Hari, the secret service takes the opportunity to arrest some of her collaborators. To arrest one of the ringleaders, they use his girlfriend Niní, a naive dancer. The girl, tired of being manipulated by everyone, decides to become agent X25.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-08-21
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Orquesta de señoritas
Overview: A young woman, member of an orchestra of young ladies, is mistaken for the eccentric conductor and causes a series of problems.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1941-05-21
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Mosquita muerta
Overview: In an all-girls boarding school, one of the students resists the will of her uncles to marry her off because she does not know her future husband. Which is why she pretends to be a prude for whom marriage is a dirty word.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1946-04-23
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Divorce in Montevideo
Overview: In order to get rid of his exgirlfriend, a rich boy marries a manicurist, agreeing to divorce months later. The deal is carried out, but the young man sincerely falls in love with her and desperately seeks her out to remarry.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1939-01-10
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Cleopatra era Cándida
Overview: Cándida marries a widowed millionaire. She is in full exercise of being the housewife, when her husband's daughter arrives, with the company of Amelita Vargas with 2 purposes: to find out what her father is hiding and that she marry him..
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1964-04-23
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