Prudencia Grifell
Also Known As: Doña Prudencia Grifell, Prudencia María Victoria Grifell Masip
Biography: Prudencia Grifell (December 27, 1879 – June 7, 1970), born Prudencia Grifell Masipon, was a prolific actress of the Golden Era of the Cinema of Mexico. Grifell was born to Spanish stage actors and started her acting career herself at the age of ten in theater in Venezuela and touring Spain and Latin America. By the 1900s she had become very popular and moved to Mexico to continue her career in stage, after the Spanish Civil War she decided not to go back to that country but instead to relocate in Mexico permanently after 1940. Three years later, already at the age of 61, she appeared in her first film Internado para señoritas ("Girls Boarding School") with the stars Mapy Cortés, Emilio Tuero and Katy Jurado. Just as Sara García, her co-star as the Vivanco sisters in two films, she mostly played feisty but lovable granny roles.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Lugo, Galicia, Spain
Birthday: December 27, 1879
Deathday: June 07, 1970
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Over the Waves
Overview: The life of the musician Juventino Rosas, who despite his talent lived an existence of misfortune and poverty.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-09-13
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La sexta carrera
Overview: Mexican feature film
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-01-01
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Why Was I Born a Woman?
Overview: A family gathers to celebrate Mother's Day, that day a woman discuss many problems about her woman condition; husband, children and grandchildren will hear she tired and overwhelmed silenced by submission and obedience. Analysis of the family and gender roles.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1970-08-20
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Apartment house
Overview: Personal dramas among the residents of an apartment house.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-02-08
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El amor abrió los ojos
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-07-24
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Soledad
Overview: Soledad, a maid born in Argentina, works at a Mexican farm. The son of her employer will deceive her, pretending to marry her and leaving her pregnant. When she finds out that she has been tricked, she runs away from the farm. During her flight she meets a group of artists that'll change her life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-11-28
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Nosotros los rateros
Overview: A young woman, a thief and a lawyer find themselves in the same hotel room without planning it. Mercedes, the thief, has a brother who, by mistake, kidnaps the lawyer Alberto, which will cause a mess.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-09-07
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Pepito and the Monster
Overview: The boy Pepito, is looking for work to help his grandmother, who is not receiving her pension. He wants to be a magician's assistant, and thus begin his problems because a crime happens and a monster appears.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1957-09-30
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Los nietos de Don Venancio
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1946-06-13
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Historia de un corazón
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-01-01
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Internado para señoritas
Overview: 1940s-style teen comedy set in a private school for girls.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1943-11-11
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X Murderer
Overview: A murderer turns himself to the police, but claims amnesia and insists he's unable to tell them anything about his crime.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-03-18
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Caperucita y sus tres amigos
Overview: Villagers think the Big Bad Wolf has returned to his fierce, wild-animal ways. Also gypsies.
Genres: Mystery Fantasy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1961-04-20
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Angel Face
Overview: Mischievous little girl pulls a variety of pranks for the purpose of preventing her parents from divorcing.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-03-01
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Those Green Eyes
Overview: Orphan girl under the protection of a benefactor begins to suspect that her mother had an affair with him and that he's her father.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-04-22
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El monstruo en la sombra
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Genres: Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-03-10
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The Third Word
Overview: The English-language title of this Mexican musical was The Third Word. Singer Pedro Infante stars as a pampered young man who is sheltered by his doting aunts. Deciding that their darling boy needs an education, the ladies hire pretty schoolteacher Marga Lopez. Upon discovering that her pupil is 28 years old, Marga is momentarily nonplused, but then settles into her duties. Inevitably, romance blossoms between Pedro and Marga, much to the aunts' dismay.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1956-07-03
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El genial Detective Peter Pérez
Overview: Bumbling detective solves a murder on board a train.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-09-03
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Cuando me vaya
Overview: Fictionalized version of the life of songwriter Maria Grever.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-06-04
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La ladrona
Overview: Twin sisters butt heads over a feller. One goes into a convent, the other becomes a professional thiefstress.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-03-18
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Two Faces Have the Destiny
Overview: Ruined alcoholic doctor escapes a tropical plague and begins a new life back in civilization, taking over the identity of a dead man.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-03-21
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To Hell with Women
Overview: Small-town elects a female mayor. She suppresses all the time-honored masculine pastimes, and the men rebel.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-02-17
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El plagiario
Overview: Gangster's daughter learns about her dad's illegalist lifestyle.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-04-28
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The Case of the Wee Murdered Woman
Overview: Ghosts and premonitions; a married woman discovers the true love of her life while being plagued with supernatural phenomena relating to her imminent murder. It's a comedy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-05-27
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Una mujer en la calle
Overview: An implausible accident causes a street prostitute to become close friends with an aristocratic old lady.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-02-03
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The Vivanco Ladies
Overview: Two women of lesser descent are dedicated to stealing to support their brother's daughter.
Genres: Comedy Crime Family
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-04-09
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Mi desconocida esposa
Overview: After moving from Guadalajara to Mexico City, a young woman gets embroiled in a series of puzzling mistaken-identity misadventures.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-01-22
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Senda prohibida
Overview: The story of Nora, a poor but ambitious young woman, who uses her beauty to seduce a rich and married lawyer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1961-04-06
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Una sombra en mi destino
Overview: Mexican movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1946-01-01
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Pensión de artistas
Overview: Between-engagements troupers at a theatrical boarding-house con a rich acquaintance into financing a show.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-08-24
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Préstame tu cuerpo
Overview: Heaven Can Wait scenario; a young woman dies forty years ahead of schedule because her guardian angel made a mistake... so the divine powers that be put her back on earth in a new body.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-04-01
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El señor doctor
Overview: It's about a country doctor that comes to the city while a clinic is built in his home town... he rubs off his care and compassion on others at the hospital with his humor and wit.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1965-10-07
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Póker de ases
Overview: Four brothers try to manage their careers and love-lives under the close supervision of a domineering mother.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-12-25
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The Shadow of the Tyrant
Overview: In 1920s Mexico, the candidates being chosen to succeed the current president, El Caudillo, find themselves at his mercy as he will resort to anything to accomplish his will, including kidnapping, betrayal, and murder.
Genres: History Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1960-08-22
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Las infieles
Overview: Governess falls in love with the uncle of the children she's teaching. Then complications.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-07-09
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La hermana blanca
Overview: A young woman believes her fiance has died, and she enters a convent.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1960-07-19
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The Trial of the Vivanco Ladies
Overview: After being arrested the two adorable grannies spend some time in jail and then stand trial for the robberies they've committed.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1961-01-18
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School for Mothers-in-Law
Overview: Dizzy society matron plucks a hobo out of the gutter to rehabilitate him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-12-01
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Después de la tormenta
Overview: This Mexican melodrama may have been released above the border as After the Storm. The principal characters are a pair of twin lighthouse keepers. They try their best to live together with their wives under the same roof, but the delicate balance is shattered when one of the brothers falls in love with his sister-in-law. When one twin is lost during a storm, the other assumes his identity, with the expected romantic complications. If Despues de la Termenta sounds familiar, it is because the screenplay was inspired by the 1946 Bette Davis vehicle A Stolen Life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-01-21
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Mis abuelitas... no más!
Overview: Bush-league actor allows two adorable grannies to believe he's their long-lost grandson. Then: complications!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1961-03-30
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El globo de Cantolla
Overview: Three boys and three girls in the 1890s.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1944-07-07
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The Force of Desire
Overview: Wicked girl uses nude modeling as a way to seduce a wealthy painter into marriage, while still trying to keep an artschool stud piece on the side.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-07-22
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La dama del alba
Overview: Family rescues a woman from the river nearby where their daughter committed suicide years before. Unresolved mysteries. And meanwhile, there's a mysterious woman in black who shows up at the hacienda just before somebody dies.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-02-25
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El hombre que me gusta
Overview: A man facing bankruptcy and ruin rehearses a couple of scenarios relating to suicide, until his family convinces him he's worth more alive than dead.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-11-13
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The Waltzes came from Vienna and the Children from Paris
Overview: Unmarried opera singer has a baby, and her friends convince her to pass it off as the grandchild of a wealthy old lady.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1966-01-13
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Horas de agonía
Overview: Nubile young woman seems to be quite free with her affections... but she has a deep, dark secret. Deep. Dark.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-01-08
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Adulterio
Overview: Man commits suicide over his wife's infidelity. His father spends the rest of his life trying to figure out which of son's two children is illegitimate.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1945-03-01
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Ladronzuela
Overview: Homeless girl placed in a court-appointed foster home under the care of a social worker.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-12-28
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María Cristina
Overview: Decent, hard-working young woman gradually finds her way toward love and happiness. With occasional spasms of Afro-Cuban dancing.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-11-15
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México nunca duerme
Overview: Fretful granny is upset when her granddaughter isn't home by 9 PM on Saturday night, so she teams up with a gangster to tour Mexico City nightclubs looking for her.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-03-26
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Mi adorado salvaje
Overview: The old folks back home in Spain have arranged a marriage for their niece living in Mexico. To side-step their demands, she pretends to be already married, with a male acquaintance who agrees to pose as her husband while her relatives are visiting.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-03-21
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El ruiseñor del barrio
Overview: Ten or twelve years ago, a young man wrecked his car and his wife was killed in the accident. Today, his wealthy mother-in-law is still full of hatred and bitterness toward him, and she prefers not to acknowledge her granddaughter. Will love and tenderness find their way into the crusty old bitch's heart?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-08-15
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Nuestras vidas
Overview: Frivolous woman falls in reallytruly love for the first time, but her past catches up with her and her fiancé kicks her to the curb. Then joining a convent and amnesia and stuff.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-05-24
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Little Red Riding Hood
Overview: The classic story of the Red Riding Hood spiced up by a couple of funny characters like the dog Duke, companion to the girl in her adventures, and the stinky Skunk, henchman to the Wolf.
Genres: Family Adventure Fantasy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-05-05
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Prisionera del pasado
Overview: Romance between a flamenco singer performing in Mexico and a gov't soldier during the Mexican Revolution.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-10-28
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Recién casados... no molestar
Overview: 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.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-08-09
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Mujeres que trabajan
Overview: Women connected with a female-run employment agency and a women-only boarding house bond together in mutual support.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-04-22
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Sublime melodía
Overview: Young widow with kindergarten-age daughter butts heads with her mother-in-law.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1956-11-01
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The Smile of the Virgin
Overview: Marita, a charming little girl, lives in the country with her grandmother. Her best friend is a modest servant, Anselmo, who almost everyday takes the girl to visit the church known as "Guadalupe's Basilica", an important cathedral in Mexico City, where she discovers Virgin Guadalupe and the legend about her apparitions in that place. Marita doesn't behave properly in school, and her teacher always has a punishment for the girl. She doesn't like school, and she doesn't want to return to school anymore. Besides, Marita's worried about her animals, like a cow who doesn't produce milk. The girl asks many miracles of Virgin Guadalupe, one of them is to not have to go to school. During a visit to the Basilica, Marita hears the Virgin's voice, and this could be the beginning of a responsible life for the girl, like to study and to be a good child.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-12-04
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Lodo y armiño
Overview: Wealthy libertine tries to seduce another man's mistress by threatening to send him to jail if she doesn't put out. Blowback from his sleazy behavior affects five other people; everybody suffers. Enormously.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-11-30
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Inmaculada
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-09-15
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Entre tu amor y el cielo
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Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-11-30
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The Devil's Money
Overview: Los dineros del diablo (The Devil's Money) is a Mexican drama film directed by Alejandro Galindo. It was released in 1953 and starring Amalia Aguilar and Roberto Cañedo.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-09-11
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La culpable
Overview: Mexican movie
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1946-01-01
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Esposa o amante
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-06-21
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Raffles
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Genres: Drama Adventure Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-01-01
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Siete mujeres
Overview: Mexican feature film
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-01-01
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Melodías de amor
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Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-11-16
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